Navionics app for Android...

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JamesTXSD

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Just got the e-mail that the Navionics app for the Android is now available. Out in the boonies, so the download will have to wait until I go to town next week. I am excited about this.

As a side note: wireless broadband with Verizon is slow here in the Tetons... non-existent for AT&T. Everyone with an iPhone here looks dazed. :roll:

Best wishes,
Jim B.
 
Downloading US Central as we speak. I will let you know how it works. It costs abt 12.08 US. BTW took a jaunt up the ICW today. Nice trip to clear the mully grubs. Not as effective as a Motorcycle ride, but still works. We tell our motorcycle riding friends to keep it between the ditches.....guess we boaters should say keep it in the ditch. I know bad pun.
 
Walldog":3bud5kyb said:
Downloading US Central as we speak. I will let you know how it works. It costs abt 12.08 US. BTW took a jaunt up the ICW today. Nice trip to clear the mully grubs. Not as effective as a Motorcycle ride, but still works. We tell our motorcycle riding friends to keep it between the ditches.....guess we boaters should say keep it in the ditch. I know bad pun.
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Hi Herb,

It took nearly an hour and a half to download the western lakes app. Whew! Of course, that's because of our current location. I was going to wait, but... just like a little kid at Christmas. I haven't had a chance to play with it, yet. After one of us (not mentioning any names here) got impatient with some on-line stuff, I was ordered to get one of the Wilson Sleek boosters... ASAP, so I was working on that.

We get rather spoiled with our technology when we're in civilization. :wink: I plan to try out the Droid on the boat tomorrow. I do know I get a decent phone signal when we're out on Elk Island (where the breakfast and dinner cruises go for the meals).

The "ditch" here is the deep part of the lake: 454 feet.

Best wishes,
Jim

On edit: just checked out the western states Navionics download - :thup :thup Pulled up Jackson Lake; not the detail of my Platinum charts on the E-80, but good shoreline, island details, and depth contours. All for $12 and change. This was the one thing the iPhone had over the Droid from my perspective... and now, Droid does. :wink:
 
Yeah Jim, it took about 30 or minutes here on 3G to get it downloaded and decompressed. But so far it looks great. I will try it out on the boat tomorrow and let you know. Great thing is we have all the chart data on the phone, so all we need is GPS to make it work.
 
what name did you search for to find it? and where did you down load it from. I looked in the driod shopping icon on the phone. 10,000 app and I only like 4 of them.
 
I've been waiting for my Verizon upgrade to become available in August and was undecided about the Droid or going to I-Phone. This is definately a deal maker for me. How detailed are the charts? Do they show Marinas? I got the e-mail from Navionics last night and figured Jim would be reporting.
 
For those living in Puget Sound - the Marine: British Columbia Navionics covers S Sound and BC coast

Make sure you aren't multi tasking when downloading this - had to do hard reset because it hung up.

Have fun
Jim
 
ok I give up? I have a motorala back flip with the android programing. I have loaded lots of apps before staright from the phone. I typed in a search for the navionics program and got nothing. :evil: Do i have to do a net search?/
 
Marine: British Columbia with a space after ":"

Marine: US West

Two step process -it loads the application into ram and loads maps onto the SD card. It guided me thru the process.

Shut down all other stuff so you have enough memory to move the data

I use it all the time on iphone but ATT doesn't work well in S Sound.

Looking forward to testing it w android tomorrow

make sure you are on a fast connection

hope that helps
Jim
 
Paper today said that the iPhone is definitely going to other carriers besides AT&T soon -- forget the date but the first carrier will be T-Mobile.

Warren
 
Doryman":18mmm2w3 said:
Paper today said that the iPhone is definitely going to other carriers besides AT&T soon -- forget the date but the first carrier will be T-Mobile.

Warren
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Too late, they have given Andoid system too much of head start. As for me when and if they ever make it to Verizon, I am sure it will be a non issue. Especially now that Navionics is here. We downloaded it a couple of days ago and it really works great.
 
The iPhone 4G will come out June 24. Verizon Android or AT&T iPhone 4g? We will have a choice to make. The one choice that is already made is that the BlackBerry Storm is goin' out the door! Not holding our breath for the iPhone to make it to some other carrier.
 
I've been reading those "definitely going to another carrier" articles for well over a year. When the big push for the Droid came out and Verizon was hammering AT&T and the iPhone, I figured there was a lot of "bridge burning" going on there. I bought the Droid on the first day they were available. About 6 months ago, I read the "scoop" about the iPhone being made for GSM and CDMA so Verizon would have it. It has become a non-issue for me. Besides a guitar tuner, a bar code scanner, 4 or 5 weather apps, and the snow blower attachment, the only other thing I've been waiting for on the Droid was the Navionics apps. I like it. Droid does. And it doesn't matter much to me anymore which carrier has what. I'm on Verizon. And here in the boonies, the options are: Verizon or nothing.

Best wishes,
Jim B.
 
I have the iPhone and used to have Verizon. Yes, in big metro areas, the AT&T coverage is faster, BUT it stops at the outskirts of most towns and skips almost all of Kansas.

My youngest son, now in Great American Canoe Race" across Texas and Loisianna has an iPhone with the Navionics, but, anywhere around here you'd run out of AT&T at the city limits.

My middle son is active in modern media. He feels that iPhone's refusal to support Flash and it's limiting programmers to those who follow it's guidelines and then, only to a few for each area, will severely limit it's growth, innovation and service.

I used the Navigon (iPhone gps like application) for one weekend, and they labeled me a "Data Hog", even though I pay for UNLIMITED DATA SERVICE, and cut off my data service for a month!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We went 'round and 'round about what "unlimited" really means. To AT&T it seems you get 4 minutes of out of area data coverage for each 6 minutes of in area data usage, but if you use more than they think you deserve (they have to pay Verizon an others for using their towers), they cut you off and say you have to pay for unlimited data per your contract even after they have cut off all data service!!!!!!!!!!

Anyway, Google, the force behind Droid, is providing an open source code for all the world's programmers, so he feels Droid will surpass Apple soon.

I also used to have Verizon and it was the only phone service working in Glacier National Park and out on the Gulf of Mexico. The AT&t ads are very misleading - yes, it is faster in the middle of a huge city, but you'll get little or no service at the edges or out of town.

And, yes, I had plenty of problems with Verizon contracts over the years, but the geographic range of service was amazingly complete.

And Warren, as to your paper saying iPhone coming to other carriers soon, most tech ppl noted that Jobs' recent unveiling made it clear that no tangible progress has been made on that front to date.

John
 
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