I-Pad

On Jan 27, 9:24*pm, John Cochrane
wrote:
$499 is the entry-level price. SeeYou Mobile is, what, $250 per copy?
Add another hundred or two for a bluetooth GPS and it looks pretty
good compared to a ClearNav or Ultimate - but we'll see.

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Hmm Add another 900 for the igc logger you'll need for contest/badge/
olc, add another 200 for mounting hardware, another hundred or so for
extras you didn't think you needed, and ClearNav sounds to look cheap!
To say nothing of instant hardware support from the manufacturer, no
more hard reboots at the start gate or on the ridge and so forth.

John Cochrane

Okay - you caught me being overly enthusiastic. I live a couple of
miles from Steve Jobs and the reality distortion field is strong that
close in.

9B

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

On Jan 27, 6:14*pm, Darryl Ramm wrote:
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

Yeah, good points. I think the screen is decent, but not ideal - good
res, but who knows about brightness/contrast. There was hope that it
would be LED or OLED, but alas, no. There is likely little reason for
Apple to open up much except possibly for fact that they no longer
have the phone app to absolutely protect from rogue programs.

9B

On Jan 27, 12:10*pm, 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.

I would guess we will see a 6.5" to 7" model in the future, between an
iPhone and current iPad. Great new technology coming in the next few
years.

I heard the next version was going to be a bit larger, called the
Maxi Pad.
Jim

On Jan 27, 12:44*pm, Gliderphud wrote:

I would guess we will see a 6.5" to 7" model in the future, between an
iPhone and current iPad. *Great new technology coming in the next few
years.

On Jan 27, 4:48*pm, JS wrote:
* I heard the next version was going to be a bit larger, called the
Maxi Pad.
Jim



Really? I heard that to0, but also that it would come with wings....

aerodyne

On Jan 27, 7:10*pm, 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.

It would have to get past Apple's GUI enforcement police
first. They are *very* particular that *all* apps should follow
the Apple UI guidelines, without exception. So if those apps
are already available as Apple GUI compliant apps, then
fine - if not then they will have to change their GUI.

Potentially Google Android apps won't have that hurdle
to surmount, but that's to be proven one way or the other.