By Russ, on March 31st, 2008
We are used to seeing a number of dedicated handheld chartplotter units like the Garmin 76CS and Raymarine RC400 both of which I have been using for the past 4 years. You may also know that Raymarine have now ducked out of the market for some reason. But getting reliable marine chartplotter software for the Windows mobile platform is rather more difficult.
MuskokaTech is a company that creates software applications for mobile devices – in particular GPS and plotting software.
The Pathaway software from Muskoka is quite an exception . The “Standard”
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By Russ, on March 31st, 2008
Further to the post on the arrival of solid state computers in particular the HTC 7501 I see that HTC have got 2 new models…
The top of the range HTC 7510 now runs Windows Mobile 6, has a 16Gb flash drive for storage – more than enough for charts, tracks and waypoints – and as a mobile phone it will support :
o HSDPA/WCDMA: 2100 MHz for Europe
o 850/1900 MHz for USA,
o with up to 384 kbps upload and 1.8 Mbps download speeds
o GSM/GPRS/EDGE: Quad-band 850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz (The device will operate on any frequencies
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By Russ, on March 25th, 2008
Mobiletide is a Java program designed to run on your phone without need to connect to the phone network (GSM) or the internet (GPRS) – just as well !
It has a database of worldwide locations and can display a tidal curve for any location without you having to reference tide tables or do any standard port calculations.
The makers list a broad range of mobile phones that are supported, but basically any phone that runs a Symbian or Windows Mobile should suffice since they will then support internet connections and also Java software.
Mobiletide
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