New Gee-Whiz Apps For Wireless Devices

[Ed Hansberry]

<a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/news/yhoo/story.asp?source=blq/yhoo&amp;siteid=yhoo&amp;dist=yhoo&amp;guid=%7BA5F91260%2DC485%2D4538%2DA65C%2D265E9D6F0251%7D">http://www.marketwatch.com/news/yhoo/story.asp?source=blq/yhoo&amp;siteid=yhoo&amp;dist=yhoo&amp;guid=%7BA5F91260%2DC485%2D4538%2DA65C%2D265E9D6F0251%7D</a><br /><br />"Mike Smith believes everyone should have the latest weather information in the palm of his hand. Smith is chief executive of WeatherData, a company that develops weather-information systems and products. One of its newest applications is Storm Hawk, a mobile weather-tracking and navigation system that can run on Microsoft PocketPC-based personal digital assistants."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.storm-hawk.com"><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/hansberry/2004/20040426-stormhawk.jpg" /></a><br /><br />The key in the PDA market is not any one particular application as it was when the PDA came out. "Using a PDA purely as a digital dayplanner has become passé." In the early days, PIM was the killer application for the PDA. Actually, it was virtually the only application. For an ever increasing number of us each year, PIM is secondary to buying the device and wireless applications like Storm Hawk are going to keep the PDA market healthy and growing for years to come.

[Jonathan1]

**drools** I want but.....

Not at the price and not at that size. Hopefully both will decrease over the next few years. That and I wish they had a laptop version of this. On the go this type of tool is great but nothing beats having a broad view of an active storm.
Over the last few years I've craved detailed live weather maps in my area. I want to know where the storm is NOW not some low res picture on the front page of one of my local new station's web site but street level detail from my computer. The kind of thing they show on news stations when they interrupt your fav show for info on that tornado warning.

[Don't Panic!]

Well you don't have to use that GPS unit or PPC but the software alone costs $549. 8O

Don't Panic!
Bobby

[OSUKid7]

**drools** I want but.....

Not at the price and not at that size.
What's the price? I didn't see it listed at the source.

[Pony99CA]

"Mike Smith believes everyone should have the latest weather information in the palm of his hand. Smith is chief executive of WeatherData, a company that develops weather-information systems and products. One of its newest applications is Storm Hawk, a mobile weather-tracking and navigation system that can run on Microsoft PocketPC-based personal digital assistants."
I was searching the forums looking for this thread, and guess what I found? It turns out that this isn't as new as I thought. See the "Tracking Storms in the Palm of Your Hand" thread (http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=8974).

Maybe it also works with the iPAQ 5550 now, so you can have WiFi. :-D

Steve