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[Jeffrey Siegel]

> This is the first iPhone app which does this,
> from the 35,000 listed today.  I expect competition
> soon.

There are currently at least 3 iPhone nautical navigation products:

1. iNavX:
http://www.inavx.net/

2. Navionics Mobile:
http://www.navionics.com/mobile_Marine.asp
http://www.navionics.com/Mobile_UserGuide_(1).htm

3. Navimatics Charts & Tides:
http://navimatics.com/nav4iphone.aspx


If you have an iPhone, you're crazy-out-of-your-mind if you don't try  
the Navionics product.  It is the full Navionics Gold charts with the  
application, tides, etc. all together for a total price of $4.99 per  
region (the entire East coast is a region).  I think it could use some  
additional features and I'd assume that Navionics will continue to  
update it.  They are promising that the price will increase in the  
future.

iNavX is OK.  I don't think it does enough yet to warrant the price.   
Rich Ray is pretty good about continuing development on it and I'd  
expect the features to keep expanding as time goes on.

The Navimatics product needs a little more time in the oven in my  
opinion.

I would certainly expect other applications to appear in the future.   
Right now the applications are mostly about displaying nautical charts  
with a GPS cursor display.  After building apps like this on mobile  
devices for the last 7 years, I think there's more needed than that.   
Time will tell...


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Jeffrey Siegel
M/V aCappella
DeFever 53RPH
W1ACA/WDB4350
Castine, Maine

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