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screetch82
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Posted 19/07/2010 11:07:39
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on the weekend I have finally been able to use the GPS inflight on a crosscountry flight.
Costs: £80
- GPS
- sunshade
- protection sleeve
- car and power socket
- also contains
-the device runs on WinCe 6.0 and has 128MB RAM (important for TTS Voices for Car navigation)
- SIRF Atlas Ⅳ AT840 500 MHZ
- 4.8 inch TFT touch panel with 480x272 pixel, LED backlighting (found it is not as bright as I was hoping for)
- 900 mAH
The device comes with a preinstalled interface. You can select the device to boot into the WinCE screen.
Which ever option you select will be remembered after a reset and boot.
--> this is good as I made several icons on the desktop for Igo8, Skydemon and a Calculator (for fuel calc etc)
The GPS receiver is super fast getting a signal. It can receive upto 20satellites
but normally has 7-9. It aquires a signal faster than my smartphone.
The resolution and screen has a big size although I need to have the DPI XML trick from Tim for it to scale all the buttons
properly.
It accepts my 16GB Micro SD card so there is plenty of space for music, videos, maps etc.
During flight there were no problems, no crashes . Skydemon logged the complete flight (unfortunatly it also showed me every tiny deviation from my track  . You can view all buttons of sky demon very well and always have quick look
at your current position compared to your planned track. I havent planned to replane my route during flight as I ment to fly and look outside. I enjoyed the readable of warnings warnings (visually you can see them, but the audio was not loud enough for me to hear it). Funny it did remind me I was off track by 0.1 mile
The flight was almost 2 hrs long and the device still had a little juice left. I will plan to have a powermonkey just in case, but 2 hrs is more than enough for me anyway.
Overall this is a cheap working system. however it will be good to see what devices Tim can find and if those have a better
sunreadable screen.
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Using 4.8" WinCe6.0 GPS Touchscreen, NavsGo GO7100 as of March11
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