DishPointer Augmented Reality

I have this vesion and the pro version. (Note the pictures which are showing currently are from the old version, this new version blows it away!)

Please ignore the reviews for the earlier version, particularly my own harsh review which, I hope, will be gone by now. This version 2 is actually a completely new application with nothing in common with the original. The developer apparently only submitted this new app in the slot for the earlier app as a way to give it to those of us who had bought the original. The earlier effort was worthy of the one or two stars it got. The new app is a revolution.

It dose not work at all.

Not like the ad. Improvements that need to be done. Scale moves to fast to pin point sat. Needs to have a way input the location of the sat you want to find. Pic and elevation does not show together like ad shows. bottom line: don't purchase until improvement are fixed.

This should be part of the DP azimuth app. The camera should display the cross hairs and elevation over a live image. Clever idea. Needs work.

This app is not worth the money. It needs to upgrade to the ability to select which satellite you wish to locate in an options menu and then locate it with the camera. The camera would be beneficial if it was live when searching for the satellite in question but the ability to take a picture and locate the satellite you wish to find is acceptable. Still it needs to be updated to inform you where the satellite is located.

This particular app is an inclinometer only. You must first figure out the compass direction of the satellite using an intelligent compass, such as DP Technologies Ltd’s DishPointer Compass (for compass-equipped devices like the iPhone 3G S only) or your ordinary compass with a direction computed using a separate application like iSatFinder. Because Apple still forbids augmented-reality apps, the operation is a bit clumsy, with the user first having to tilt the phone to the elevation, then invoke the camera, then look at the resulting picture. The developer has told me he intends to add live-view as soon as it is permitted. Augmented reality is said to be coming in 3.1, due quite soon, so this app should become much easier to use at that time. What this app already does over a simple inclinometer is to compute how high in the sky each satellite actually is, given your current position on the earth (based on your GPS coordinates). The whole picture thing is not a necessity, either: Except in very difficult circumstance, like trying to hit a very narrow “window” amongst trees, just noting the angle of the phone when your satellite comes up in the number windows can give you an “all clear.”