English society Digital Yacht just announced on his blog the imminent arrival of its application NavLink, present for some time on Apple devices under iOS. I give you the translation here :
Navigate with a French smartphone
Crosscall is a French mobile brand created and run by the company Tech&Me SAS whose headquarters is in Châteauneuf-les-Martigues near Marseille. It develops a series of mobile telephone devices intended mainly for outdoor leisure activities and professionals in restrictive environments..
3 models are offered under Android (4.0.4) : Wild, Element and Odyssey, whose prices range respectively from 149 up to 315 € approximately at resellers. Dust and waterproof, equipped like most smartphones with a GPS receiver associated with a cellular location service, they can be used perfectly with maritime navigation applications. Read more …
Navionics Boating sur Android [Update]
How to do something new with something old ? Navionics knows it ! After publishing geographic areas including a navigation application, here is now an application, but without cartography. These Italians are too strong !
Navionics Boating completes, since January 2014, la collection d’applications Marine (smartphone) and Marine HD (tablets). Also available in standard version for smartphones and HD for tablets (7″ and +), Navionics Boating has version number 3.0.0 while the others have the number 2.9.8. Navionics précise, on the dedicated page from its website, that Navionics “Boating” does not replace Navionics “Marine” which will continue to be kept up to date. However, it is permissible to ask for how long, because this new application has a very unpleasant surprise in store. Read more …
The GRIB race will take place
It’s an interesting match-racing game that’s emerging on Android in the field of marine weather applications.. Indeed, since Olivier Bouyssou ported his software to Android Weather4D, the friendly Henri Laurent, who I had the pleasure of meeting at the Nautic, has worked hard to bring new features and improvements to its application SailGrib/WR. In this “digital regatta” he thus marks a formidable opponent, although it has not yet carried the advanced functions of the iOS version to Android. This tactic, which aims to maintain a lead by placing yourself resolutely in front of your opponent, is often used by the best sailors.. Read more …
Happy holidays in the storms
End of year celebrations taking place under a nice train of depressions, no less than four from Christmas Eve to the beginning 2014. Happy New Year holidays to all and my best wishes for great sailing in 2014.
Nexus 5 connects to 3 GPS networks
Google's new smartphone will bring, in addition to the numerous improvements to its general characteristics, unrivaled location accuracy on Android. Read more …
SailGrib WR weather and routing on Android
After the publication of my previous article on navigation applications, Henri Laurent contacted me to correct the omission of his SailGrib WR application, unfortunately slipped through the meshes of my first research. SailGrib and SailGrib WR have been on Google Play since the beginning 2013.
These two applications are based on queries and the display of GRIB files, the WR version adds a routing module. Read more …
Notice to mariners !
The blog dedicated to navigation apps on Android and associated equipment lis coming up on the net. A little patience…