Mobile phone and apps

[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?