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Old 12th January 2010 | 13:19
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IO540
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From: EuroGA.org
I reckon this whole scene will change in 1-2 years' time, with devices such as this with a hopefully much improved display re-writing speed, enabling a moving map GPS to be implemented.

Current e-book readers such as this (I have one of those) cannot do that because screen rewrite is extremely slow (or so it seems; there may be a way to re-write just a small piece of the screen, but Irex won't talk about it).

The e-book readers are so much lighter, thinner, less power hungry, that they will pull the rug out from all the current aviation GPS products, IMHO.
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