Mark. I have had one for about 4 years (I think). Have a matt screen protector on. Impossible to read with the green terrain, but if you get rid of the contour stuff and have a light colored background, then it works great. Bear in mind, these things retailed for $1200 when they first came out, so I thought a spare for $200 was great. A mate of mine warned me not to use the fingerprint id bizzo, coz it will lock you out for sure if you work with your hands (as I did at the time). Simon -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Fisher Sent: Tuesday, 7 August 2007 4:09 PM To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] IPaq Look-alike with inbuilt GPS. $379 Simon, How does it look in full sunlight?? Mark _____
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of simon holding Sent: Tuesday, 7 August 2007 4:31 PM To: 'Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.' Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] IPaq Look-alike with inbuilt GPS. $379 I got 5500 too. Nice guy. Simon Holding -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ross McLean Sent: Tuesday, 7 August 2007 3:25 PM To: 'Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.' Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] IPaq Look-alike with inbuilt GPS. $379 Dave wrote: It would be nice if a way of extracting the altitude/airspeed/total energy data from older varios and mixing it with the GPS NMEA data sentences in the correct format could be found, (As modern varios such as 302/B50/vega etc do) anyone got any ideas guys? I agree, I have been talking to the guys at WinPilot to see if they can do it to support WinPilot Pro from a Cambridge S-Nav but no luck so far. Also emailed Cambridge on the same point but they have failed to respond at all. They probably think we will all upgrade to the 302, (hah). Also bought one of the iPAQ 5550's from the guys advertising on eBAY for $199 yesterday (Pocketronics (02) 9114 9224). It was delivered this morning, brand new in the box. Good service! ROSS -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Sent: Wednesday, 8 August 2007 1:16 PM To: 'Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.' Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] IPaq Look-alike with inbuilt GPS. $379 Hi all, Alan W: Yep, I have seen those AIRIS PDA and they are fine, but as I will use either FLARM or a logger as GPS source, another GPS would be redundant. Road nav would be nice too. They also don't seem to have serial i/o connector, USB only so would be unable to connect to FLARM, Vario or logger without using a serial to Bluetooth adaptor, which may or may not work! At least FLARM and Loggers have a baro pressure sensor, so one isn't relying on just GPS altitude for final glide and thermalling data! It would be nice if a way of extracting the altitude/airspeed/total energy data from older varios and mixing it with the GPS NMEA data sentences in the correct format could be found, (As modern varios such as 302/B50/vega etc do) anyone got any ideas guys? An IGC compatible FLARM/Logger would be great too. Peter B: Geez I didn't realise that guy had more 5500's, he must have got LOTS of them! Wouldn't be a bad option for equipping a club fleet at that price! Does anyone know of somewhere in Aust that sells anti-reflective screen protectors, yes I know that Craggy aero have them, but $15 for a small piece of clear plastic seems a lot! Now using XC soar 5.1.1beta4 and its is great! The developers respond really quickly to bug reports and most feature requests. The excellent efforts of the developers, particularly Scott Penrose and John Wharrington are most appreciated-And they are based in Aus as well! Cheers Dave -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Wilson Sent: Monday, 6 August 2007 3:17 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] IPaq Look-alike with inbuilt GPS. $379 I suggest http://www.dealsdirect.com.au/p/airis-t620-pda-wi-fi-bluetooth-gps-funct iona lity/ PDA $379 or so. A PDA with GPS inbuilt, Australian road navigation data base as well. But it will load GPS_LOG. XCSOAR etc Alan Wilson Canberra _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
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