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January 27th 10, 07:34 PM
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On Jan 27, 11:10*am, Mario wrote:
http://www.macworld.com/article/1458...ent.html?lsrc=.... Now if only SeeYou, flyWithCE, Glide Navigator II, or someone (Dave) would make an app for this. Beat me to the punch. 10 hrs of battery life they say. Plus a nice 9", seemingly bright screen, USB, bluetooth for GPS connectivity (don't think it has one on board), SD slot (I think) lightweight. $499 entry price. You could just strap it to your leg instead of taking up panel space. Get to work porting soaring software guys! First one there gets my money. 9B 
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January 27th 10, 10:10 PM
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On Jan 28, 8:34*am, Andy wrote:
On Jan 27, 11:10*am, Mario wrote: http://www.macworld.com/article/1458...ent.html?lsrc=.... Now if only SeeYou, flyWithCE, Glide Navigator II, or someone (Dave) would make an app for this. Beat me to the punch. 10 hrs of battery life they say. Plus a nice 9", seemingly bright screen, USB, bluetooth for GPS connectivity (don't think it has one on board), SD slot (I think) lightweight. $499 entry price. You could just strap it to your leg instead of taking up panel space. Get to work porting soaring software guys! *First one there gets my money. How much would you pay?
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January 27th 10, 10:16 PM
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On Jan 27, 2:10*pm, Bruce Hoult wrote:
On Jan 28, 8:34*am, Andy wrote: On Jan 27, 11:10*am, Mario wrote: http://www.macworld.com/article/1458...ent.html?lsrc=... Now if only SeeYou, flyWithCE, Glide Navigator II, or someone (Dave) would make an app for this. Beat me to the punch. 10 hrs of battery life they say. Plus a nice 9", seemingly bright screen, USB, bluetooth for GPS connectivity (don't think it has one on board), SD slot (I think) lightweight. $499 entry price. You could just strap it to your leg instead of taking up panel space. Get to work porting soaring software guys! *First one there gets my money. How much would you pay? $499 is the entry-level price. SeeYou Mobile is, what, $250 per copy? Add another hundred or two for a bluetooth GPS and it looks pretty good compared to a ClearNav or Ultimate - but we'll see. 9B
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January 28th 10, 05:24 AM
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$499 is the entry-level price. SeeYou Mobile is, what, $250 per copy? Add another hundred or two for a bluetooth GPS and it looks pretty good compared to a ClearNav or Ultimate - but we'll see. 9B- Hide quoted text - Hmm Add another 900 for the igc logger you'll need for contest/badge/ olc, add another 200 for mounting hardware, another hundred or so for extras you didn't think you needed, and ClearNav sounds to look cheap! To say nothing of instant hardware support from the manufacturer, no more hard reboots at the start gate or on the ridge and so forth. John Cochrane
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January 28th 10, 05:36 AM
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On Jan 27, 9:24*pm, John Cochrane
wrote: $499 is the entry-level price. SeeYou Mobile is, what, $250 per copy? Add another hundred or two for a bluetooth GPS and it looks pretty good compared to a ClearNav or Ultimate - but we'll see. 9B- Hide quoted text - Hmm Add another 900 for the igc logger you'll need for contest/badge/ olc, add another 200 for mounting hardware, another hundred or so for extras you didn't think you needed, and ClearNav sounds to look cheap! To say nothing of instant hardware support from the manufacturer, no more hard reboots at the start gate or on the ridge and so forth. John Cochrane Okay - you caught me being overly enthusiastic. I live a couple of miles from Steve Jobs and the reality distortion field is strong that close in. 9B
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January 28th 10, 07:01 AM
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On Jan 27, 9:36*pm, Andy wrote:
On Jan 27, 9:24*pm, John Cochrane wrote: $499 is the entry-level price. SeeYou Mobile is, what, $250 per copy? Add another hundred or two for a bluetooth GPS and it looks pretty good compared to a ClearNav or Ultimate - but we'll see. 9B- Hide quoted text - Hmm Add another 900 for the igc logger you'll need for contest/badge/ olc, add another 200 for mounting hardware, another hundred or so for extras you didn't think you needed, and ClearNav sounds to look cheap! To say nothing of instant hardware support from the manufacturer, no more hard reboots at the start gate or on the ridge and so forth. John Cochrane Okay - you caught me being overly enthusiastic. *I live a couple of miles from Steve Jobs and the reality distortion field is strong that close in. 9B Forget all that expensive ****.... Check this out... 4.3" display, integrated GPS, runs CE6. less than $100 plus you can add a copy of XCSOAR for free. http://www.tootoomart.com/product-3069387-4.3 I know what I will be testing this summer.
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January 29th 10, 03:46 AM
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Or a 7" version
http://www.tootoomart.com/product-2995168-LF70B++7/'/'portable+GPS+navigation+/ Forget all that expensive ****.... Check this out... 4.3" display, integrated GPS, runs CE6. less than $100 plus you can add a copy of XCSOAR for free. http://www.tootoomart.com/product-3069387-4.3 I know what I will be testing this summer.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -
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#9
January 28th 10, 02:14 AM
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On Jan 27, 11:34*am, Andy wrote:
On Jan 27, 11:10*am, Mario wrote: http://www.macworld.com/article/1458...ent.html?lsrc=.... Now if only SeeYou, flyWithCE, Glide Navigator II, or someone (Dave) would make an app for this. Beat me to the punch. 10 hrs of battery life they say. Plus a nice 9", seemingly bright screen, USB, bluetooth for GPS connectivity (don't think it has one on board), SD slot (I think) lightweight. $499 entry price. You could just strap it to your leg instead of taking up panel space. Get to work porting soaring software guys! *First one there gets my money. 9B You sure about that Bluetooth? iPhones do not (so far) support Bluetooth serial profiles. The solutions that do external GPS to an iPhone are all hardwired AFAIK. And to be officially supported you need to go via the dock port API which involves work, you can't just plug in any random serial port device. The internal iPhone location service API sucks for what you really want for a real aviation application, so for anything serious, it's NMEA from an external hardwired GPS. That of course assumes the iPad SDK will behave like the current iPhone SDK. So it's all doable with a few hoop jumps. So besides size (likely too big), daylight readability remains the big question. It's apparently just a LED backlit IPS screen, without any other information my startting point would be to assume daylight readability to be no better than say a current LED backlit IPS glossy Macbook screen. It would be nice if it was better, we'll have to see. Darryl
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January 28th 10, 04:16 AM
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On Jan 27, 6:14*pm, Darryl Ramm wrote:
On Jan 27, 11:34*am, Andy wrote: On Jan 27, 11:10*am, Mario wrote: http://www.macworld.com/article/1458...ent.html?lsrc=... Now if only SeeYou, flyWithCE, Glide Navigator II, or someone (Dave) would make an app for this. Beat me to the punch. 10 hrs of battery life they say. Plus a nice 9", seemingly bright screen, USB, bluetooth for GPS connectivity (don't think it has one on board), SD slot (I think) lightweight. $499 entry price. You could just strap it to your leg instead of taking up panel space. Get to work porting soaring software guys! *First one there gets my money. 9B You sure about that Bluetooth? iPhones do not (so far) support Bluetooth serial profiles. The solutions that do external GPS to an iPhone are all hardwired AFAIK. And to be officially supported you need to go via the dock port API which involves work, you can't just plug in any random serial port device. The internal iPhone location service API sucks for what you really want for a real aviation application, so for anything serious, it's NMEA from an external hardwired GPS. That of course assumes the iPad SDK will behave like the current iPhone SDK. So it's all doable with a few hoop jumps. So besides size (likely too big), daylight readability remains the big question. It's apparently just a LED backlit IPS screen, without any other information my startting point would be to assume daylight readability to be no better than say a current LED backlit IPS glossy Macbook screen. It would be nice if it was better, we'll have to see. Darryl Yeah, good points. I think the screen is decent, but not ideal - good res, but who knows about brightness/contrast. There was hope that it would be LED or OLED, but alas, no. There is likely little reason for Apple to open up much except possibly for fact that they no longer have the phone app to absolutely protect from rogue programs. 9B
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