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I'm a new "smart" phone user and looking to put Navionics on my iphone.   I mostly fish Simcoe and Haliburton lakes and looking for good contour lines.  Is the Boating USA & Canada app the one I should put on the phone?  Thanks. 

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the app will notify you on an annual basis. It can be a bit misleading...ask you for the update...you may not notice that its charging your account the 17 bucks. 

I copied this from their app page....   Navionics+ is a one-year subscription. Download detailed maps by zooming in or from Menu>Download Map: 

Once mine expired I could see the maps but none of the contour details 

 

 

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I had downloaded the maps to my phone last year....did not get any notification to re-new though ....tried it this weekend and the maps are still on but it does NOT locate me on the maps...it also had  "Navionics + Expired " at the top of my map...still don't know how to re-new ??????????

 

ROOK

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It's a cool App.  I recently purchased it for $21 for my iPhone.  I loaded it with the lakes in the central Ontario area where I live/fish and it only took approx 100meg of space on the phone (not much).  It looks like just the Navionics on my Helix 7 and I think there may be a way to share info between the phone and Helix or Navionics SD card in the Helix ... but I'm not sure on that.

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Yes, my particular phone is an iPhone 6, and I have in the past run with my humminbird mounted to the bars on my bike.  I've looked at the phone for consistency and it's pretty close.  A lot would have to do with how accurate the GPS is in your phone and or sonar.  I can say on Simcoe at least, it's pretty accurate as far as depth and location goes, But I've found a few areas that it's off. I'll say the phone app is certainly more detailed than the old hotmaps chip in my portable sonar!! I also have had the navionics app for a long time, never been charged for it.  Maybe I won't do another update?

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16 hours ago, captpierre said:

Does anybody know how accurate the GPS is on an iPhone with the app?  Would it be as good as a sonar/GPS unit?

havent personally had too much of an issue...I have had problems with it knowing my bearing at times, I also have had a couple of experiences where i tracked off of course...but it quickly corrected...if you are driving new water that fast that a quick correction wont save you...The person driving like that probably deserves to lose the leg of their boat anyways.

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