To answer that, look at the GISteq/Infinity speaker mic. They presumably sunk a lot more money into development of that thing than I can muster, and the result looks like a 15-year old Garmin, only less reliable.
Basically I'm stuck waiting for Garmin to add the hooks I need to add my stuff to theirs. Would be nice if they had a more open software philosophy. Scott Ronny Julian wrote: > > > Not that I would blame Scott for giving us a "no comment" but is he in > negotiations to build a combined full screen GPS/T2 unit? Hey Scott, If > you do make it a 9" screen. My eyes are not as good as they used to > be! And let me be an Alpha tester! Thanks! > > Ronny K4RJJ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* Dan Zubey <[email protected]> > *To:* [email protected] > *Sent:* Thursday, October 15, 2009 5:09:45 AM > *Subject:* Re: [tracker2] Garmin Colorado & Oregon APRS Support > > Ohhh, I'll bet they plan to... > > The classical marketing thing to do would be to release the new shiny > features in the most expensive units, then as time goes on, drop the > price in the expensive units. > > I bought my eTrex for $99 a long time ago. Now I have a Nuvi for $99. > > I think this is their test to see how big a market there is for > "aprs-equipped" smart GPS display devices. Seems they've been listening > to Scott's Garmin rep :) > > My 2 cents... > > -Dan N7NMD > > > On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 20:37 -0700, Ronny Julian wrote: > > Yea if they could only get this basic functionality into a sub-$500 > handheld GPS it would be a winner for them. Nice plug for Tracker2 > there! Cool! > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > From: Edward <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > > To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 11:15:40 PM > > Subject: [tracker2] Garmin Colorado & Oregon APRS Support > > > > > > > > I saw this recently on the Garmin website and don't know quite what > to make of it. They seem to say they have APRS compatible units. I > searched the forum but didn't see any mention of it. > > >> http://garmin.blogs.com/softwareupdates/2009/06/index.html > <http://garmin.blogs.com/softwareupdates/2009/06/index.html> > > > > Ed > > KE7MWY > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > (Yahoo! ID required) > > mailto:[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > > >
