- Feb 4, 2007
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Ipad 3G goes on sale today. Pics to follow tonight. I'll see how well all my boating stuff runs on it. Take it for a trial run this weekend.
iPad - Thoughts
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StevenA
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- Aug 27, 2007
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I must admit I was not a fan of apple early on. That was a mistake, even though all my pc's "currently" are windows based, I can see that may change at some point.
I am not a "fanboy" but I can see after owning several ipod's and itouch's and now iphone 3g's for the past couple years, the market like's apple. The market likes apple alot. I like apple alot and everyone I know "pretty much" that has tried apple loves their goods.
The jury is still out for me on the ipad, I feel it may be the next generation model before I pickup one, or at least after a price drop.
I will leave it at what you pointed out, "The market will decide".
Cheers, Steve.
- Feb 4, 2007
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Inavx came out with an iPad update today.
Kameroo
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Sweet! Can't wait to see it in action. I don't have it on the iPhone, but then again I'm on a river and don't need it. I couldn't see spending the money to try it when I'd have to squint to read nav details on the phone.
Having just gotten an iPad for the Admiral, I can say that it has some distinct advantages over the iPhone. Mainly, that would be its size and battery life. With the iPhone, I forced things to work, like viewing .pdfs, longing for the day they'd have a bigger screen. The iPad is great for viewing material.
If you want a bigger iPod Touch, you won't be disappointed. On my wishlist is a camera--once I can use Skype for travel and video calls, the laptop is history!
Tonka Boater
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Do you have the wi-fi or 3G iPad?
- Feb 4, 2007
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I've got the 3G.
Tonka Boater
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My iPhone makes a great companion on the boat -- let us know how the iPad performs for you.
Ryan
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Rob - Does your app work on the ipad?
Tonka Boater
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It could technically but I can't say it would look good scaled up. I would like to have a specific iPad version to take advantage of the extra real estate. I have a million updates on deck for the iPhone version so the iPad might be a few months out.
Two Peas
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Has anyone found a bluetooth GPS receiver that will work with the iPad? I haven't found much through Google yet...
- Feb 4, 2007
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The app works on the iPad but it looks like doodoo scaled up. To tell you the truth, I think it's more suited to the iPhone IMO. I take pics and do my shopping lists etc and I always have the phone with me, so I find it more useful as a phone app right now.
- Feb 4, 2007
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You could get a NMEA to wifi box and it will transmit gps via wifi in inavx, I think. I believe I remember reading that.
Tonka Boater
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I'm getting the iPad soon but that's good to know.
- Feb 4, 2007
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All of the scaled apps don't look good, so it's just not your app.
Two Peas
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Ah, of course. I actually have NMEA wired from my C80 to a serial-to-ethernet converter on board, which then plugs in to my 12V wifi 3G router. I've used this with Coastal Explorer and it works well (basically the serial-to-ethernet converter has an IP address, and the nav app just looks at that IP address to find the NMEA data).
Boat gets splashed on Friday, I'll get to play soon enough!
What product did you use?
Two Peas
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I used the Net232 device from gridconnect dot com. Here's a link: http://www.gridconnect.com/net232.html
The ONLY thing I don't like about it is that in order to make certain applications "see" the data over a COM port, you have to use a little app that comes with the device to redirect the data from the IP address to a virtual COM port.
But, the darn thing works.
Thanks... I've been looking to add something like that on my nifty new boat network. Panbo.com has some write ups... The current way I have the NMEA stuff getting to my bridge PC is through a USB connection and a mux... and then I have to run a serial port splitter app to get the data on multiple COM ports so multiple apps on the PC can see it (WxWorx, Coastal Explorer, etc).. So it seems you have to do something similar with the IP based stuff with having an app run on the device.
Wonder how all this stuff works on a Mac....
Wonder how all this stuff works on a Mac....
Chris R
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Got one with the 3G option. So far, it does everything I want. No complaints so far. I do like the size and portability.
I put your app on my iPad... it looks fine scaled up.
