On Mon, 09 Dec 2013 15:38:08 -0800, Richard wrote:

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.

Quite possible: But my main point remains: all the PNAs using these small
Windows OSen, be they WM or CE, all new stock seems to have vanished from
retail outlets in the UK and anywhere else that my UK-based browser was
bringing up: Binatone, Navigon, Mio - simply not around apart from small
numbers of new Mio in Germany ans some used or refurbished items on Ebay.


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martin@ | Martin Gregorie
gregorie. | Essex, UK
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