Aviation+Street GPS

You'll have to get over your Microsoft phobia. I've had both platforms.
Palm is a horrible operating system for these types of operations.




Justin Gombos wrote:

On 2007-05-22, Paul Tomblin wrote:

FlightMaster+CoPilot. See http://aeropda.com/ for details.


Excellent! Looks like a good product for the money. It also seems
this is the "reasonably priced" nav system the OP is looking for.


(I'm a slightly biased observer here - if you buy it through
aeropda.com instead of downloading and registering the two
applications separately, I get a small cut.)


No problem.. thanks for pointing it out. Do you use the tool as your
*primary* nav system, or is it a backup?

It seems the Palm cradle would have to have a hood to shade the
screen. I could see the sun making a PDA LCD impossible to see.

Palm is a horrible operating system for these types of operations.

What is it about "these types of operations" that makes Palm horrible
for them (presumably without making it horrible for other stuff?)

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Lack of processor speed, lack of memory and a near total lack of decent
software.

Jose wrote:

Palm is a horrible operating system for these types of operations.


What is it about "these types of operations" that makes Palm horrible
for them (presumably without making it horrible for other stuff?)

Jose

On 2007-05-22, Newps wrote:

Lack of processor speed, lack of memory

Neither of those could possibly be limitations of PalmOS - or any
other portable OS for that matter. Furthermore, PalmOS is *leaner*;
Palm apps get a larger portion of the resources.

BTW - you can expect GPS s/w for street navigation to demand
substantially more processor speed due to significantly more complex
algorithms, and a 312 MHz Arm processor (at least 2 years old now) can
run TomTom 6 quite fine - and TT6 is a fairly bloated app.

and a near total lack of decent software.

I only need one good nav app. Having more keeps the price down, but
$170 is reasonable. I would like to get the app for less, but
certainly not at the cost of creating a dependancy on the Fisher-Price
of unreliable and bloated operating systems.

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In a previous article, Jose said:
Palm is a horrible operating system for these types of operations.

What is it about "these types of operations" that makes Palm horrible
for them (presumably without making it horrible for other stuff?)

The biggest problem with Palm OS is that it's single tasking - it can't be
doing much of anything in the background. They are in the process of
converting Palm OS into a shell running on a Linux kernel that will fix
that problem, and personally I can't wait.

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Paul Tomblin wrote:

In a previous article, Jose said:

Palm is a horrible operating system for these types of operations.

What is it about "these types of operations" that makes Palm horrible
for them (presumably without making it horrible for other stuff?)


The biggest problem with Palm OS is that it's single tasking - it can't be
doing much of anything in the background. They are in the process of
converting Palm OS into a shell running on a Linux kernel that will fix
that problem, and personally I can't wait.

It's too late. I've had Palm. I've had three versions of Microsoft
Mobile including the latest on my Motorola Q. Palm was OK on the Treo
when I had it but is far surpassed by Win Mobile 5. Hard to see how
Palm is going to get me back.

(Paul Tomblin) writes:

Palm is a horrible operating system for these types of operations.
What is it about "these types of operations" that makes Palm horrible
for them (presumably without making it horrible for other stuff?)
The biggest problem with Palm OS is that it's single tasking - it can't be
doing much of anything in the background. [...]

That's true as far as that goes, and yet my Garmin iQue 3600a has no
problem keeping the GPS mapping software going, MP3's playing, and yet
work on some ordinary palm app.

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