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