XC Skies - on mobile phones?

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Sep 22, 2009, 4:37:17 PM9/22/09
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Apologies if this has been discussed previously. I did a search on
"mobile" in the forum and didn't find anything.

I'm a big fan of XC Skies, but find that it's limited to my PC. I have
web access on my cell phone (an older Blackberry), but the browser is
limited and just doesn't work with complex web sites. There are
several weather sites that have specific pages designed for mobile
devices, and these work well on my cell phone, so technically it can
be done. These are generally a sub-set of what's avaiable in the full
site.

Is there any plan to provide a section of XC Skies designed for mobile
devices?

This would be a huge boost to those of us who fly at locations where
PC internet access is not available. And likely increase the number of
people who'd use the service.

- Frank

Iain Frew

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Sep 22, 2009, 4:41:04 PM9/22/09
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Chris says there isan iPhone version coming. Not got an eta for that
yet but that will be pretty cool as the interface on iPhone is pretty
unusable at the moment

Cheers

Iain

John Horel

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Sep 23, 2009, 10:05:24 AM9/23/09
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All-

As someone interested in feedback on a related product, we now have a
work in progress to display current and archived weather obs on mobile
devices. Iphone/Android devices have some extra options (will display
map in your present vicinity).

Try out http:/mesowest.utah.edu from a mobile device. Feedback greatly
appreciated (we're working on "hide/show the menu options at the top"
for the map at the moment and getting the font smaller when you switch
from portrait to landscape mode).

John
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