Turn Your Pocket Pc Into A Sophisticated Navigation Device With Navio!

By Author: Iren Birken
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Positioning System (GPS) functionality has been brought to Pocket PCs to add advanced navigation capabilities and eliminate the need for compasses and heaps of paper maps. But a GPS receiver alone is not enough to turn your Pocket PC into a full-fledged portable navigation device. You will also need reliable software to utilize all the data provided by a GPS receiver and bring it to your fingertips – something like Navio.
Navio is the award-winning software to provide Pocket PC users with full access to all the information from the GPS receiver. The full-featured tool, Navio allows pinpointing your current position, tracing a route, checking heading, speed and altitude, and calculating the distance between any two points on a digitized map, thus providing indispensable aid to navigation.
With its ability to set up to 3 reference points for map calibration, Navio ensures location awareness. The smart app also informs a user of the number of satellites being used for the current fix as well as of signal strength and margin of error.

What’s more, not only can you plan a route, you can also visualize ...
... share your favorite routes and share them with others! The advantageous software enables saving

GPS tracks and replaying them later or showing the route on the map. It also stores info on waypoints/POIs, including with distance and direction4 the number of waypoints is not limited. Besides, this feature allows a user to view the time and average speed, and check the distance and altitude of the track quickly and easily. All the data can be exported to spreadsheet programs for further analysis.

One more benefit offered by Navio is the support for the geo-location search engine A2B. The smooth integration enables a user to search A2B from the map or POI windows directly. This means that now you won't have to waste time desperately looking for something to visit in a new place: A2B will immediately provide you with the list of websites related to any particular place on Earth, and all you will have to do is to choose something to your liking.

Navio comes with a Today plugin for Pocket PCs allowing you to see you position, speed and course while you are performing other tasks.

Perfect for traveling, hiking, geocaching, golfing, sailing and much more, Navio will give you the full power of navigation!