Boating with your iPhone

I was at the Miami Boat show at the Navionics booth, and they now have the app for the iphone, with a free version for the south florida area (lucky me), as well as the full version for $49.00. Great charts, very cool tracking with your iphone....
 
I was just reading that the new iphone update 3.0 coming out sometime in June will have some cool new features. One will be the azimuth. Apparently there is an azimuth sensor in the phone that will be turned on with the new update that will know your orientation as well as position.

there will also be an overlay feature added to maps that will allow weather overlay.
 
barryg said:
I was at the Miami Boat show at the Navionics booth, and they now have the app for the iphone, with a free version for the south florida area (lucky me), as well as the full version for $49.00. Great charts, very cool tracking with your iphone....
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maybe I read it on another forum but the price has gone to $5 for a short period of time...
 
I am thinking that you need new hardware to take advantage of the compass I think its a new chip? Could be way off.

Yes navionics is $4.99 a BARGAIN well worth it.

As for real time radar I use My Weather which I think was/is also $4.99. It has awesome weather radar that is usually only about 5 minutes old. I paid $14.99 for it when it came out and its been falling in price....
 
I'm seeing navionics at $9.99 Is anyone using it? What do you think?
 
It's great. I use it all of the time.
 
while I think the iPhone is a great piece of hardware. I cannot tell you how many times associates have asked to use my Verizon phone in the NE especially. AT&T just plain sucks it seems, according to users I know. their calls drop out or simply cannot connect. I have heard they have stopped selling iphones in NYC rather than fixing the problem. Not confirmed.

I am impressed that NE boaters are using this with good performance given the bad rap on AT&T in the NE area.

Not to trying to Hijack, but this is just funny and also true at the same time in my experience.

http://www.jorymon.com/apples-products/iphone-useful-app-the-payphone-finder/

the App looks good though, perhaps it can be used from a pay phone as well ???:smt043

theres an App for that...
 
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BC Canada and the West coast Navionics app work great up here in the great NW. Can take photos enroute and email with float plan and can even set up live follow (a little lag) if you want... Can email your planned route... even figure your fuel consumption for planning...

BC has same stuff as West Coast but does not go as far south which is fine for us Salish Sea sailors (Formerly Puget Sound and Georgia Straits)... It is w/i .5 kts of my RayMarine GPS...
 
Uplate said:
while I think the iPhone is a great piece of hardware. I cannot tell you how many times associates have asked to use my Verizon phone in the NE especially. AT&T just plain sucks it seems, according to users I know. their calls drop out or simply cannot connect. I have heard they have stopped selling iphones in NYC rather than fixing the problem. Not confirmed.

I am impressed that NE boaters are using this with good performance given the bad rap on AT&T in the NE area.

Not to trying to Hijack, but this is just funny and also true at the same time in my experience.

http://www.jorymon.com/apples-products/iphone-useful-app-the-payphone-finder/

the App looks good though, perhaps it can be used from a pay phone as well ???:smt043

theres an App for that...
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And what does this have to do with the question asked? oh that's right, nothing.
 
Dive Girl said:
I'm seeing navionics at $9.99 Is anyone using it? What do you think?
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Ditto. I used the Navionics software all last season and it performed flawlessly. Highly recommend it at a $10 back up it is unbeatable.

I have, like Turtle, an iPhone mount up on the dash and it get gps signal really well.

I also have the iNav product too, but always use the Navionics software as I like how it plots a course better..
 
iNavx is getting a little better, but it's pricey compared to Navionics. Navionics made a HUGE leap last year in usability, I like it alot.

If I install NMEA wifi on the boat, then iNavx will have some advantages over Navionics. But right now Navionics is what I use most.
 
TurtleTone said:
And what does this have to do with the question asked? oh that's right, nothing.
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I did not quote any specific question asked, I am responding to the root thread (iPhone Boating...which equates to ATT). The end user might want to evaluate their service provider and its reliability for trusting the navigation of their boat, regardless of the app or provider used.

That was my point, with a
humorous video link inserted for , oh that's right...FUN!
 
Uplate said:
I did not quote any specific question asked, I am responding to the root thread (iPhone Boating...which equates to ATT). The end user might want to evaluate their service provider and its reliability for trusting the navigation of their boat, regardless of the app or provider used.

That was my point, with a
humorous video link inserted for , oh that's right...FUN!
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As long as you preface your iphone posts as humorous and not factual, so readers don't get confused. The service provider has nothing to do with navigation on the iphone. In fact you don't even need service. Just like your chartplotter on your boat.

Also, AT&T stopped selling iPhones "online" during Christmas because they ran out of them, not because there was an issue with NYC service. You could still go to an AT&T store and buy one, if there was any left in stock.

So before you hit "submit reply" think for a second if you are really sure you know what you are talking about.
 
I love my I phone. i am using a generic free GPS app from apple and it works great. I just enter a launching ramp as a waypoint and go. The only app I paid for is the boat ramp finder for .99.

As for dropped calls. DW and i had Sprint for almost 7 years and never had as many dropped calls as we do with At&t
 
I downloaded flytomap and local charts and works great ... I will let you know how when I get some more use out of it. $7.99 .. great price.
 
I have it but dont seem to have any course up fuction so I found it pretty hard to use almost useless
 
stephane said:
I have it but dont seem to have any course up fuction so I found it pretty hard to use almost useless
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Same here about the FlytoMaps.

My 2nd favorite boating app is MotionX GPS. It allows you to create/save/export tracks and waypoints and you can use it as a light-weight chartplotter. The downside is that it doesn't have the detail that Navionics has but it does have course up, track up, north up, etc and its cheap. I'm on a lake that I know well so the depth and buoy detail is not a huge deal to me. Now if you could get MotionX with Navionics maps on the iPad -- that would be a killer app.
 
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