With iPad 3, Apple dropped the A-GPS chipsets from Broadcom BCM475x series that equipped the iPad 1 and 2 and iPhone 4. Since the iPhone 4S and iPad 3, 'New iPad (¹), is now Qualcomm Apple devices that provides a modem integrates all communication functions, Gobi ™ Series modems (²).
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Two years after the GNS 5870 MFI (¹), Global Navigation Systems distributes since 1 June 2012 its new Bluetooth GPS, GNS 1000. Certified compatible with Apple products by Apple label "Made For iPhone / iPod / iPad", it addresses, like its predecessor, primarily for devices that do not have GPS : iPod Touch (from 2G), iPad WiFi all version, old iPhone 3G with GPS chipset was [...]
Digital Yacht society continues to offer new products for pleasure (¹). One, iNAVConnect, allows to connect by WiFi iPad or iPhone, featured iNavX, Navionics Marine, or any other compatible application, to Raymarine MFDs C and E series. This allows transfer waypoints and routes from Raymarine systems to applications on iPhone or iPad, and vice versa.
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iFixit et Chipworks, the two major U.S. websites about dismantling of electronic devices of all kinds, have both recently shelled iPhone 4S not to mention its GPS chipset.
Yet, in a new page of its website concerning the technical specifications of the iPhone 4S, on its website, Apple announces October 19 th location based on assisted GPS and GLONASS. Damned !
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The application Jeppesen Marine Plan2Nav arrived on iTunes AppStore during September for iPhone and iPad.
As I detailed in a previous post (¹), the Italian company C-Map has been owned 2007 by the US Jeppesen, leader in aerial mapping, depending on the Boeing group. We knew that Jeppesen was preparing an application for smartphone, Panbo had seen a draft in March at the Miami Boat Show, is now done, but…
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You've probably heard the song Helmut Fritz "It annoys me" ? She will dance to many vacationers this summer campsites and beaches. Well me, what irritates me, is the disbelief of a number, still, about iPhone GPS accuracy. Isn't it stupid, no ?
I have performed a few days ago a small experiment, in a [...]
My Fischer 37 "Lady Jane" is equipped at the base of a conventional antenna Raymarine GPS, the trio wind, depth, speed instruments, and a multi chartplotter / Radar C70 :
In November 2010, Reading this blog has strongly urged me get a multiplexer. Control its navigation and see instruments displayed with iPhone is really a challenging project. The navigation software is very iNavX [...]
Transas has updated the list of new maps available for iSailor, include coasts of France :
∙ Germany ∙ Australia ∙ Bermuda ∙ Canada ∙ Denmark ∙ Egypt ∙ Spain ∙ Estonia ∙ Finland ∙ France ∙ Greece ∙ Italy ∙ Ireland ∙ Latvia ∙ New Zealand ∙ Norway ∙ Papua New Guinea ∙ Netherlands ∙ Portugal ∙ United Kingdom ∙ Sweden ∙ USA : Atlantic Coast, Gulf Coast, Pacific [...]
In France, mariners are few, or not at all, the original company Transas Russian. The Transas Group is nevertheless one of the world's leading navigation software professional. Founded in 1990 in Southampton, application developer for marine training simulators and aviation, leading ECDIS certified designer, AIS system installer, the company has provided its electronic charting systems to prestigious clients, as the Russian space station [...]
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