Mobile phone and apps

[dsafety]

Thanks for the post. I look forward to giving these apps a try. Where is the drycase available to purchase?

Next trip out, I was planning on checking out how well the iPhone can track your location while on the water. The thought was that if it was really foggy, Google Maps or some similar application might help point the way home. Has anyone tried this?

Bob

[old_rookie]

Originally Posted by dsafety

Thanks for the post. I look forward to giving these apps a try. Where is the drycase available to purchase?

Next trip out, I was planning on checking out how well the iPhone can track your location while on the water. The thought was that if it was really foggy, Google Maps or some similar application might help point the way home. Has anyone tried this?

Bob

Amazon has the drycase.
I plan to head out Friday morning with gps in a dry bag for cameras. Useable but will take some flighty fuzzy pics.

[steveooo]

I have the Navionics App on my droid. It was ten bucks, and it rocks. Seriously, it is the same maps and info that I spent $200 on a blue chart card for my Garmin. It has depth contour lines, tides, gps, hidden structure, and lots of other goodies.

[BTF_David]

Originally Posted by steveooo

I have the Navionics App on my droid. It was ten bucks, and it rocks. Seriously, it is the same maps and info that I spent $200 on a blue chart card for my Garmin. It has depth contour lines, tides, gps, hidden structure, and lots of other goodies.

With the screen on the droids, iphones been so high res, viewable under sunlight and having the ability to touch the interface and built in GPS and battery powered. I can't wait till the fish finder companies start selling software that interface via bluetooth with the transponder, much like the GPS navigation companies such as Navigon and Tom Tom. Would make for a lowcost and superior fishfinder for us kayaking folks given that much of the cost is already rolled into the mobile device that we own.

Companies like Navigon have stopped selling hardware and make their money via software. I see that as a welcome future for sure.

I believe Navionics for iPhone is also $10 like the Droid version. Makes you wonder how they can charge $200 for the versions installed to chartplotters. Perhaps if they make it more reasonably priced, they can make up the profit by selling via quantity?

[sandydiego]

I like my tricorder app. Let's me know where Josh is fishing. Has proved to be the best app yet.

[cowboybill]

Neat stuff for sure.....I am milking my older phone for now, so the best I can do is email a client from the water! (WOW)..

Now to my point. Last friday am it was foggy. visibility approx 4-500 yards.

I took off , turned on my GPS with the intention of marking a few points, and my GPS would not sync up....Poor satellite reception! DARN!

So I took out my handy compass, and used it and the depth on my fish finder to navigate....I did a fair job of getting out...It is wierd travelling with out land marks, etc!

But a working GPS with maps, or at least points would be faster and easier...but a compass is more reliable..

Note: at home I did a reset of my GPS, and it worked fine...

Go figure

cowboybill

[newguy01]

i think your gps signal could not go thrugh the dense fog i have similar problem but once the sky clears out mine works fine just my .2$

[kareem korn]

Originally Posted by BTF_David

I believe Navionics for iPhone is also $10 like the Droid version.

Great now it's $13.90. I'm installing it right now for the Droid.


Any more apps for the droid I can use for fishing and navagation plotting?