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New Message7" touch screen (800x480 widescreen), 30/40GB HD Linux powered GPS appliance (modified 0 times) Tom61
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Appearently Canadian Tire is selling something called "Macvision MN2607" GPS unit for $399CAN. I heard about it here: http://www.linuxdevices.com/cgi-bin/board/UltraBoard.pl?Action=ShowPost&Board=linuxpda&Post=367&Idle=0&Sort=0&Order=Descend&Page=0&Session=

Review (complete with dis-assembly pics):
http://s88713911.onlinehome.us/macvision_gps/

Online site (currently Out-of-Stock):
http://www.canadiantire.ca/assortments/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCT%3C%3Eprd_id=845524443283087&FOLDER%3C%3EbrowsePath=2534374303517494&FOLDER%3C%3EbrowsePath=2534374303517528&FOLDER%3C%3EbrowsePath=1408474396670223&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=1408474396670223&ASSORTMENT%3C%3East_id=1408474396670271&bmUID=1127623545501

Appearently the built-in software is horrible, but the specs are pretty good! (below copied from the linuxdevices thread)
7" touch screen (800x480 widescreen)
30 or 40 GB HD
2x Hynix 521U RAM chips(desity was not listed)
Samsung ARMT920
runs a modified version of KLinux http://www.klinux.org/

Only thing it lacks is a battery of it's own, as it's designed to be plugged into a cigerate lighter.

09-24-2005 22:45:34

New MessageRE:7 (modified 0 times) m_bed
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Does anybody know what it's using for a mapping program?

I've got some Stylistic 1200s that I'm turning into "car PCs", and roadmap is one of those examples of "It's amazing how much one guy can do at home alone, but not as amazing as what 10 developers with a $5 million budget can do". The big drawback is that there's no automatic routing at all, and the manual route setup is kinda clunky.

The Stylistics are all licensed for Win95, so I guess I could bundle them with some winapp, but I'm much rather convert them to a real OS.

Ran

09-25-2005 14:29:40

New MessageRE:7 (modified 0 times) Bronson006
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If I read this correctly...

The mapping system for the GPS is done By Navteq(r)
http://www.navteq.com/

10-07-2005 03:27:47

New MessageRE:7 (modified 0 times) Ydef
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$399?!?

Waaay to much inho. You could build one with those specs for far less than the sticker price.

10-09-2005 17:06:35

New MessageRE:7 (modified 0 times) Tom61
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$399?!?

Waaay to much inho. You could build one with those specs for far less than the sticker price.


OK, site your sources. Where can one pick up, in single unit quantities, a 800x480 (wide screen) color TFT touchscreen, ARMT920 board with the needed cables, GPS unit, and 30GB notebook HD for less than $400?

10-10-2005 14:42:17

New MessageRE:7 (modified 0 times) frob
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I couldn't agree more.

I've actually picked up one of these myself, and am looking to mod it. Going is slow so far, I'm trying to find a way to make basic updates (adding an rc script that writes output to a file), and test them, without having to remote the drive to read it every time. After all, the more times the macvision is taken apart, the more likely a ribbon cable is to snap.

Simply reading the drive is easy via USB, however it's currently being mounted in ro mode. Without an easy to read fstab, I'm not sure where it's defining that the "mp3" drive should
be mounted rw, and the rootdisk ro.

First impressions: http://www.icewave.biz/macvision

I'd really like to have some form of a USB console or something, but I'm not there yet. For now, I'm picking up a new HDD this week so I can do a complete mirror of the drive should I blow it away. I'll keep trying to pour over the filesystem as time permits.

I've also been trying to get several ARM emulators up and running. Simply having a chrooted ARM environment of the filesystem would help a lot, especially when tools such as ldd become available.

Anyone else working on this? I'd love to collaborate with someone...

10-12-2005 17:53:42

New MessageRE:7 (modified 0 times) D2tw4all
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Also, he mentions that it's $399 CANADIAN, which is what, like $339 US, that's pretty decent for what it's listing as having.
Tom
11-02-2005 12:55:07

New MessageRE:7 (modified 0 times) ChocoNutDancer
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it's available today (June 7, 2007) at woot.com for $249.99 and $5 shipping.
06-07-2007 05:55:42

New MessageRE:7 (modified 0 times) joymonkey
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Hopefully the couple of hundred new users that the Woot sale brings in will see interest in hacking this thing rise. I've yet to see anyone really do anything with it. Fingers crossed!
06-07-2007 09:03:22

New MessageRE:7 (modified 0 times) bobpaul
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A wiki has been formed for discussing and documenting hack efforts:
http://hacvision.wickedretarded.com/index.php?title=Main_Page
06-08-2007 12:34:08

New MessageRE:7 (modified 0 times) dantose
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POIs seem to be broken on the unit. http://hacvision.wickedretarded.com/index.php?title=Fixing_Points_of_Interest_%28POI%29
06-14-2007 14:00:45

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