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On Sep 10, 6:05 pm, David Kinsell wrote:
wrote: On Sep 8, 7:13 am, David Kinsell wrote: Phil Collin wrote: wrote: On Sep 6, 4:14 pm, "Kloudy via AviationKB.com" u33403@uwe wrote: Is it just me or does the potential of using an iPhone also as a Glide Comp seem like a cool idea. I don't have one, nor do I plan to in the near future (maybe when the price comes down another $200). But I was just thinking about the devices I do use on occasion, PDA, mobile phone, internet desktop, flight computer, all combined into one critter would be kinda neat. Whattya think? -- Message posted via AviationKB.comhttp://www.aviationkb.com/Uwe/Forums.aspx/soaring/200709/1 I use an iPAQ 6315, does all of the above. Gary, what software do you run on your IPAQ , do you use a remote GPS receiver and how have you mounted it and powered it in the cockpit. I ask as I wish to install one in my PIK but am unsure what to get etc. Thanks Phil You might want to read the reviews on the 6315 carefully before making a decision. It was their first (and worst) attempt to crack the cell phone market, and had so many issues that T-Mobile dropped it early. Even if you ignore the poor cell performance, you're left with a terribly unimpressive PDA. Hardware issues aside, having a cell phone combined with a flight computer really doesn't make sense. If you have to bail out, wouldn't you rather the cell went with you, rather than going down with the ship? This is particularly important if you've got a PLB or ELT, in that you may be able to communicate the seriousness of the emergency to rescuers. For now, I'll stick with a nice, small, reliable cell phone and go for a big, high-res screen PDA thingie if I want moving maps, a media player, and a web-surfing appliance. The hw4700 looks like a decent choice, if running the common soaring software is required. -Dave Maybe my standards are low but the ipaq 6315 has done everything I like from audio to ebooks to mapping software to gps programs, to phone Well, glad you're happy with it, but there's a lot of people who weren't. If you're like a lot of us, who cut our teeth on Win95 running on a 100 MHz processor with 16 megs of RAM (crashing five times a day), this probably seems like a real joy. For a typical iPhone buyer, who wants a slick gizmo that just works, I think they'd be a little less happy with it. Particularly the phone part. Dave- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Wow! 16 Megs! Win95! How about DOS 3.1, 64K, 4.47 MHZ. Oh yeah, and a 1200 baud modem was bleeding edge technology. Jim "Push Play on Tape" Wynhoff |
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On Sep 12, 6:29 pm, David Kinsell wrote:
wrote: On Sep 10, 6:05 pm, David Kinsell wrote: wrote: On Sep 8, 7:13 am, David Kinsell wrote: Phil Collin wrote: wrote: On Sep 6, 4:14 pm, "Kloudy via AviationKB.com" u33403@uwe wrote: Is it just me or does the potential of using an iPhone also as a Glide Comp seem like a cool idea. I don't have one, nor do I plan to in the near future (maybe when the price comes down another $200). But I was just thinking about the devices I do use on occasion, PDA, mobile phone, internet desktop, flight computer, all combined into one critter would be kinda neat. Whattya think? -- Message posted via AviationKB.comhttp://www.aviationkb.com/Uwe/Forums.aspx/soaring/200709/1 I use an iPAQ 6315, does all of the above. Gary, what software do you run on your IPAQ , do you use a remote GPS receiver and how have you mounted it and powered it in the cockpit. I ask as I wish to install one in my PIK but am unsure what to get etc. Thanks Phil You might want to read the reviews on the 6315 carefully before making a decision. It was their first (and worst) attempt to crack the cell phone market, and had so many issues that T-Mobile dropped it early. Even if you ignore the poor cell performance, you're left with a terribly unimpressive PDA. Hardware issues aside, having a cell phone combined with a flight computer really doesn't make sense. If you have to bail out, wouldn't you rather the cell went with you, rather than going down with the ship? This is particularly important if you've got a PLB or ELT, in that you may be able to communicate the seriousness of the emergency to rescuers. For now, I'll stick with a nice, small, reliable cell phone and go for a big, high-res screen PDA thingie if I want moving maps, a media player, and a web-surfing appliance. The hw4700 looks like a decent choice, if running the common soaring software is required. -Dave Maybe my standards are low but the ipaq 6315 has done everything I like from audio to ebooks to mapping software to gps programs, to phone Well, glad you're happy with it, but there's a lot of people who weren't. If you're like a lot of us, who cut our teeth on Win95 running on a 100 MHz processor with 16 megs of RAM (crashing five times a day), this probably seems like a real joy. For a typical iPhone buyer, who wants a slick gizmo that just works, I think they'd be a little less happy with it. Particularly the phone part. Dave- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Wow! 16 Megs! Win95! How about DOS 3.1, 64K, 4.47 MHZ. Oh yeah, and a 1200 baud modem was bleeding edge technology. Jim "Push Play on Tape" Wynhoff OK I lied. Actually wrote a monitor program for the Intel 4004 when it first came out, hand assembled on a piece of paper, and loaded into 1702A's. Probably 4K of RAM, and couldn't begin to fill it up. So much better today, we've got massive 64 meg RAMs (usually chewed up with permanent program storage), 166 Mhz processors, and stunning quarter VGA displays, all running on what can charitably be described as a chopped down version of Windoze ME. It's what a lot of people are flying around with, made attractive because they actually have RS-232 to interface to some equally obsolescent flight recorders. Tack on a crummy cell phone, and you have Mr Kemp's dream machine. We're up to 10 year old technology, just squeezed into a smaller package. Well I agree that what we were using 25 plus years ago make these things really cool. I like all that the ipaq does and haven't had any problems with the phone, if you could recommend what you think is the best phone, pda, screen size combination, I would appreciate that. |
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