On Monday, December 9, 2013 2:39:33 PM UTC-8, Martin Gregorie wrote:
On Sun, 08 Dec 2013 11:52:24 -0700, Dan Marotta wrote: Some day I may buy an Oudie, but for now, my $100 Streak and FREE software kinda beats the snot out of it. IIRC the Oudie runs under Windows Mobile 6: the Vertica V2 and GliderGuider certainly do, as does the Mio S3747, which uses a transreflective display. Since M$ has discontinued all support for WM 5 and 6, almost every PNA using it has vanished from the market as the last units in the last production batch been sold. AFAICT there are none available in the UK except on eBay and similar sites. They are still advertised in some places, but these ads are all marked 'out of stock' with no indication of when new stock might appear. Some sites let you ask to be notified if/ when it does. The Binatone series of satnavs are no longer even mentioned on the Binatone website. I suspect the same applies to other makes as well. IOW, any WM 5/6 device and the software that runs on it is now in the zombie zone. As nobody has announced ot released anything that uses the Win 7 or 8 equivalents of WM6, I guess that M$ either don't support satnavs or have priced their software too high for this market. I haven't so far heard of or seen any Android based replacements, so it could be that we've seen the end of commodity PNAs and will be expected to run our navigation systems on Android-based smartphones or tablets. Consequently, sooner or later XCSoar, LK8000, Oudie and equivalents will no longer be supported on devices running WM 6. XCSoar already runs under Android and I hear that an Android version of LK8000 will be out next year. SYM? I don't know what they're doing. Can anybody enlighten us? -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org |

Martin,

I may be wrong but I think the PNAs run windows CE 5, CE 6 or CE 7 not the mobile operating system.

My Ultimate Le uses CE 6.0 or CE 7.0. They are supported and run SeeYou PNA.

Richard
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