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Old November 11th 10, 06:43 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Andy[_1_]
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On Nov 10, 6:00*pm, Darryl Ramm wrote:
Given the effort required to change any packaging I'd not wait for
anything beyond the current announced portable or brick packaging.


Given the new information that the external display/controller is just
the same as the front of the protable unit it would not be much of a
stretch to have the undefined brick mate with it to form an integrated
unit when needed.

I'd even suggest a battery module could optionally be part of the
stack.

Andy
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Old November 11th 10, 07:06 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Darryl Ramm
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On Nov 11, 10:43*am, Andy wrote:
On Nov 10, 6:00*pm, Darryl Ramm wrote:

Given the effort required to change any packaging I'd not wait for
anything beyond the current announced portable or brick packaging.


Given the new information that the external display/controller is just
the same as the front of the protable unit it would not be much of a
stretch to have the undefined brick mate with it to form an integrated
unit when needed.

I'd even suggest a battery module could optionally be part of the
stack.

Andy


My understanding (from Urs @ Flarm) is the brick will use a generic
looking metal package. The reason for that is undoubtedly production
costs and the ability to use relatively low cost off the shelf
housing. There are significant design and tooling costs in injection
moulding and significant effort needed to develop and debug this to
get good production grade plastics (something I've unfortunately had
to deal with for computer products). So again I would not hold my
breath for lots of packaging variants or changes. And personally for a
headless unit I would much prefer a metal case.

Of course it may be possible to duck taping together the external
rectangular display, metal brick and a home made battery pack and
putting it on their glareshield :-)


Darryl
 




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