April 7, 2010 06:14
Any indication whether Navionics will hold their pricing for the iPad? Or... will the existing charts show 'full screen' on the ipad with the updated iNavX?
Broke down and got an ipad, and am finding it will be an incredibly useful device on the boat, even without gps. As a low-power entertainment and ereader (for all my manuals among other things) alone it is worth the price. Even the smaller iphone sized Navionics charts are a very useful backup for paper charts. I'd probably use that long before pulling out the paper... The ipad is incredibly easy to use and the lack of multitasking is not as annoying as I had imagined. Only real gripe is the screen is still hard to see in sunlight, though I haven't tried one of the non-glare overlays to see if that would help.
Scot
Broke down and got an ipad, and am finding it will be an incredibly useful device on the boat, even without gps. As a low-power entertainment and ereader (for all my manuals among other things) alone it is worth the price. Even the smaller iphone sized Navionics charts are a very useful backup for paper charts. I'd probably use that long before pulling out the paper... The ipad is incredibly easy to use and the lack of multitasking is not as annoying as I had imagined. Only real gripe is the screen is still hard to see in sunlight, though I haven't tried one of the non-glare overlays to see if that would help.
Scot