RT-9

Does anyone know if this thing will be sold by the end of this season? I like the idea of the gps sonar combo on a big screen.

They missed the window for a release this season…I doubt you’ll ever see it, my guess is they will include GPS in future versions of the LX7+ lineup next year…

It would definitely be nice to know that moving forward when the time comes to upgrade electronics.

JoeMX1825 wrote:

They missed the window for a release this season…I doubt you’ll ever see it, my guess is they will include GPS in future versions of the LX7+ lineup next year…

Does that mean if you have a “regular” lx7, you can upgrade online for GPS functionality?

I would think the market for that is small now with Navionics on your phone/tablet and so many people mounting units from their boat to atv/snowmobile.

I agree with Tim, with a Navionics mobile app on phones, having GPS on a non-humminbird unit is kind of redundant…Now if Johnson Outdoors released Lakemaster chips for non-Humminbird units, that would be a different story. I have seen numerous lakes where Lakemaster chips are much more accurate in contours than Navionics and vice-versa. That is the reason I use both for ice fishing.

Josh Bothum wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>JoeMX1825 wrote:</div>
They missed the window for a release this season…I doubt you’ll ever see it, my guess is they will include GPS in future versions of the LX7+ lineup next year…

Does that mean if you have a “regular” lx7, you can upgrade online for GPS functionality?

Doubt it. You’d need to add on a GPS antenna.

GPS requires an onboard chip, so other than Marcum making some sort of dongle that connects via the USB port (which they could easily do) a software update is not possible.

I agree with phone GPS (That’s what I use) but I suspect onboard GPS/mapping is really the only major void they have left with the platform…it should also be very easy for them to incorporate as well as others (Humminbird/Lowrance) have been including it for years…

JoeMX1825 wrote:

but I suspect onboard GPS/mapping is really the only major void they have left with the platform

I’d like for them to show a little focus and get the performance of the current digital platform units on par with many other cheaper systems.

______________ wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>JoeMX1825 wrote:</div>
but I suspect onboard GPS/mapping is really the only major void they have left with the platform

I’d like for them to show a little focus and get the performance of the current digital platform units on par with many other cheaper systems.

I suspect they will be doing that too, nothing kills the future sales of products more than bad word of mouth on existing product lines…it’s nice the platform allows future fixes…