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Old September 30th 11, 03:57 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Paul Remde
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Hi Aaron,

I'm sorry, but I must respectfully disagree with your statements below about
the Naviter Oudie. I find it to be fast and significantly brighter in
sunlight than any iPAQ. The only devices that are brighter are the much
more expensive LX8000, LX8080, LX98000, ClearNav, Ultimate, and LX Mini Map.

Please mention the bugs in SeeYou Mobile that have not been fixed. I think
it works great and is very well supported.

I think the new devices do look interesting, but the Oudie has been and
continues to be hugely popular. I've sold 336 so far. Customers seem to
like them very much - and tell their friends about them.

Best Regards,

Paul Remde
Cumulus Soaring, Inc.

"akiley" wrote in message
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Hi Paul,

I don't own a glider, only club and rental. I own SeeYou mobile and
PC with several iPaqs. SeeYou has several bug$ that never get fixed.
And the iPaq hardware is horribly old and slow. So I tried XCSoar on
my Droid X Android phone. It's so much faster, larger and more
readable screen. I do not have an external GPS for the Droid, so it's
sort of my backup GPS for now. I ran them both and got some IGC file
discrepancies that may be from lack of external antenna for the Droid
X.

Anyway, I think XCSoar is amazing. The shaded circle around your
glider showing wind aware landout point based on polar, safety
altitude etc is very nice.

XCSoar has improved dramatically recently. Porting to Android and
great features. I still occasionally get kicked out of the app and
have to restart it, but it happens less with each upgrade. That said,
this type of thing happens with SeeYou and iPaq too.

Hoping for more refinements from XCSoar namely some kind of color
coded nav boxes like SeeYou so you can quickly id data.

Sean Fiddler is right. People keep begging for these commercial apps
to port to modern hardware. I've seen the Oudie but I think it
terrible in full sun. The iPaqs are better because the screen sort of
uses the sun to light the image. Oudie is much better in the shade
though.

Anyway, but thumbs up for XCSoar! ... Aaron