I saw it at the Cycle Show. I didn't look too closely since I have a Mac. It is really quite small. Much smaller than the Sat Map, smaller than an iPhone, smaller, I think that the Garmin.
I am waiting for one that will navigate footpaths and bridleways the way my car sat nav navigates roads now. I don't see that navigating by a small section of a map on a small screen gives much of an advantage over the single line as seen on the cheapest models.
It means that it can track up to 50 satellites at once. However, given that GPS consists of a constellation of only 24 active satellites, there's not a lot of point... Allow a few more channels for SBAS (WAAS/EGNOS) signals.
It may be that the receiver design is sufficiently versatile that the hope it will be able to use Galileo, GLONASS and Chinese GNSS systems at some point in the future.
I'll have a bit of a look around and see if I can guess what chipset it's using, or even what generic receiver design has been badged at MM (I'm guessing they didn't do the development; I could be wrong on that, though).
mm doing the development? i doubt it if they want it to work.
lol! yep, the thought of being up a mountain in bad weather and relying on any piece of software that memory-map wrote is truly scary. It's bad enough being regularly driven into an apoplectic fit by their software in the comfort of ones own home .. taking the clunky stuff up a mountain could only possibly appeal to those who enjoy being truly demented.
Well, a quick google doesn't reveal an obvious OEM design, but does come up with a number of candidate 50-channel receiver designs, from u-blox, JAVAD, Topcom, etc.
The u-blox one especially looks interesting, since it claims to be 'Galileo-ready'; the Topcon TPSCON and JAVAD JNScore only seem to be GPS/GLONASS compatible.
I also found a 50-channel solar powered Bluetooth GPS receiver on ebay for £12... (MediaTek MT3).
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