Z1.
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I think there may be a way to get Garmin's navigation software to run on the XLR radio. Google's Android OS (low CPU demand and compact flavor of Linux) is free (the Google compiler is almost free) and a stripped down version compiled for the SH-3e chip might fit in the XLR radio's smallish 8Mb SRAM. Erasing the identity EPROM, so the radio will accept Android, might be a problem. I did something similar to a damaged SRX radio, it now happily accepts any XLR, SRX, Seville .KWI I give it. If I had a Toyota .KWI, I bet it would accept it. Anyway a .KWI file is just a binary file with some extra crap wrapped around it.
Garmin has this great perpetually updated navigation app for Android. You could also have Pandora, Bluetooth?, IPod mirroring, an Internet browser... If cheap Chinese navigation radios can use Android, so can we.
The biggest challenge would be porting the radio's core functions into Android (any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated). It's all Linux-ish code. If we were dealing with the Death-star twins, Microsoft or Apple, then there would be no hope.
FYI. I also found a video and stereo audio hookup for maybe a backup cam on the XLR's CD Changer (what a stupid place for it).
Garmin has this great perpetually updated navigation app for Android. You could also have Pandora, Bluetooth?, IPod mirroring, an Internet browser... If cheap Chinese navigation radios can use Android, so can we.
The biggest challenge would be porting the radio's core functions into Android (any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated). It's all Linux-ish code. If we were dealing with the Death-star twins, Microsoft or Apple, then there would be no hope.
FYI. I also found a video and stereo audio hookup for maybe a backup cam on the XLR's CD Changer (what a stupid place for it).
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