BeBack - A GPS tracking and voice navigation utility economizing the battery charge for Windows Mobile 5 or newer.
Suitable for hunters, fishers or other adventure finders: allows to walk straight to the target point with free hands according to the voice pointers, having your PDA in a pocket with the switched off screen and saving the battery charge on the way.
Stupid looking in the display on the way is not really needed anymore. A navigation is provided not by GPS's course info that needs to run rather quickly to understand the actual course, but via calculation of the course from your current point to the target point just by the GPS coordinates.
There are lots of free simple navigation utilities like this, but ... how many voice navigation software with the special battery's economy do you know ?
GPS connection is realized via the built-in operating system software driver that is available starting MS® Windows Mobile 5 version (and higher: WM6, 6.1). This allows to use this program at the same time with other GPS navigation software that may require GPS connect via GPS module’''s serial port.
Functions:
* Saving the target point (the voice navigation will lead to it)
* Navigation to the selected point with voice directions, with the switched off display
* GPS connection may be chosen in ECONOM mode: 20 seconds per each 2 minutes. Slow walk allows such rare connection. NOTE: switch the display off only by program's menu, not by PDA's hardware button that makes PDA fully sleeping.
* Indication of battery charge % and satellites number online
* Voice alert about the lost GPS signal and low battery ( less than 25%)
* STOP button if non-pressed locks the program exit: locking PDA from occasional hardware OK-button (if your PDA has it) pressing in a pocket when the display is off
* Option: speed in miles per hour, distance in yards (meters are by default)
Shareware with no time limit: without registration only one point with navigation around 300 m is allowed
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