Paul,

Using Droid X and recently Droid bionic. Use the internal phone GPS currently but would love to use a cable from the lx5000 or bluetooth from LX Nano.. Have Oudie...but also like learning about other popular units that people are using.

Just like Google Maps and their Navigaton product has dominated Garmin out of existence in consumer GPS, so has XC soar begun to crush other flight computers. Partially because of cost but mostly because of the convenience of an all in one device. People don't want to carry 5 hardware units around.

With Garmin, their business model holds the basic limitation and requirement to purchase their hardware (crappy, requires second piece of hardware vs already being onboard ones phone) & most importantly expensive software (maps) upgrades or being faced with out of date maps. Google Nav/Maps is up to date automatically just as XC soar is automatically updated with Google market.

The other soaring product/software companies do not get it. They should have been out in front on this trend. Instead they are ignorant and way behind. They are stuck on stupid and ignoring this clear success of integrating software into smartphones or (most likely) are completely unable to respond to what XC Soar had done. A vast majority of their customers want to use their smart phones the many advantages they offer in hardware currency... And they are not reorganizing the transformation in the marketplace. They cannot compete any longer with garbage hardware. Why are so many who own expensive Oudies even trying XC Soar? The current providers offer cheap Chinese hardware vs. allowing their customers to use rapidly improving and vastly superior screen quality in mobile devices which most relevant pilots own already. Why they are still doing this is obvious, $$$. The customers are onto them now.

Also, the more recent generation Android smartphones feature increasingly large screens which can get extremely bright. Far brighter than, for example, my Oudie. All if these companies should be offering software on all major mobile platforms. The first ones to do so will dominate and likely kill the rest...