Humminbird 898c & 998c Owners ...New Software Feature Update

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Humminbird 898c & 998c Owners ...New Software Feature Update

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Humminbird 2012 Software Update for the 898c and 998c...

You will have the ability to remove the readout boxes on the Left side of your Side Imaging View and now have the depth and the temp displayed at the bottom of the screen. Now you can maximize your viewing area for Side Imaging. This software will be released in January for the 898 and the 998.

This is similar to the 798c Currently offers and the 1198c already has Bottom Readout Display. This will maximize the Screen Display for Side Imaging View giving you more Square Inches for Viewing the Data.

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SI View Square Inches of Viewing Now Increased:
798c: 12.234 Square Inches
898c: 22.203 Square Inches - Upgrade Increases 6.172 Square Inches
998c: 29.218 Square Inches - Upgrade Increases 7.906 Square Inches
1198c: 48.15 Square Inches
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What about us poor legacy 997 SI owners? Don't you still love us, too?
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There has been no announcement for legacy models for this update if it compatible with the operating systems on those units. We will have to wait and see when the updates come out if they are compatible.
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Thanks.
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898c and 998c use a new (I think its Linux Operating System) and it allows for more functionality and the 997c was an older Operating System. I'm not a computer programmer expert at all but bet it takes different code to make changes so it would require it's own programming. Which would take away from other projects already in the system. Like I mentioned we will have to wait and see for the 997c units it was never announced that it would or would not be an updateable change.Only announcement was the 898c and 998c at this time is the announcement. But you never know what's in work at Humminbird it could become a reality.
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Thanks for the update.
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