New version 11.0 features include:

● Live address and location search!

Enter an address, location, or Lat/Lon and save the search result as a waypoint. Then initiate navigation to this point with one click. Location entry may include the name of a landmark (”Mount Everest”), a park (”Yosemite”), or a point of interest (”Golden Gate Bridge”), for example.

Go to the Waypoints page and select New Waypoint > Enter Address to access this great new feature.

● Track Recorder Auto-swipe.

Set up the Track Recorder stats, speed, and altitude graphs to auto-swipe between views. Go to Settings > Track Recorder to set up your preferences.

As always, the version 11.0 update is free! Thank you for your continued feedback!

MotionX Delivers New User Experience and Top Feature Wishes
From Millions of MotionX Users

SANTA CRUZ, CA – Fullpower Technologies, the global leader for mobile sensing solutions, announces MotionX-GPS 10.0, further improving the iPhone’s leading outdoor activity navigation solution.

MotionX-GPS embeds the functionality of an advanced handheld GPS unit into a simple and intuitive iPhone application that is ideal for outdoor activities such as hiking, cycling, running, sailing, skiing, kayaking, motorcycling, and flying. MotionX-GPS 10.0 features a new and improved user experience and a host of new features drawn from the feedback of millions of MotionX customers, including:

• Live speed and altitude graphs: view your real-time progress when you record tracks.
• Ascent, decent, and gradient information: monitor your climb and descent.
• New sharing interface: sharing your tracks, waypoints, and current position is easier and more intuitive than ever before.
• Advanced on-board maps: only access the wireless network when you want to.

"MotionX-GPS 10 is a breakthrough with live elevation, velocity graphs, on-board maps and new user experience – all based on feedback gathered from 5 million MotionX users, " said Philippe Kahn, CEO of Fullpower." MotionX users have taken MotionX-GPS around the world to every continent in an endless variety of outdoor sports and pursuits, from climbing volcanoes, tracking lava flows, capturing hot air balloon flights, to navigating the Pacific and much more."

MotionX: The leader for navigation on the App Store with over 5 million users
Embraced by millions of iPhone enthusiasts, MotionX-GPS 10.0 for the iPhone 3G and 3GS is available for $2.99 for a limited time through the Apple App Store. The update is free to current MotionX-GPS customers. MotionX offers 24 x 7 support.

About Fullpower/MotionX
Founded in 2003 by Sonia Lee and Philippe Kahn, Fullpower’s mission is to be to motion what Dolby Labs is to sound. With over 5 million MotionX users, as the leader in mobile sensing Fullpower is building on its expertise in wireless sensor technology to deliver unique, interactive motion-sensing applications. MotionX solutions are designed and developed in Santa Cruz, California, for the iPhone and the iPad.

Important Links:
MotionX-GPS 10.0 in the iTunes Store:
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=299949744&mt=8

MotionX-GPS Website:
http://gps.motionx.com

Follow MotionX on Twitter:
http://www.twitter.com/motionx

USA Triathlon Life, the official magazine of the USAT, featured MotionX-GPS in their Winter 2010 iPhone app roundup titled “Ten Terrific iPhone Apps for Triathletes”.

Want to know where you’re going on a run or a ride? MotionX-GPS allows you to track your position on your choice of a street, terrain or satellite map. You have the ability to email your trip statistics, and you can save up to 303 “waypoints” for your favorite locations. Utilize the compass and interactive stopwatch, and feel free to use this outside, as the developers recently added a skin for easy daylight viewing. –USA Triathlon Life

New version 9.3 features:

• New Activity Mode selector includes 16 activities, for improved filtering of location data based on activity type.
• Quick access to preferred units (km, miles, knots) and speed display format (pace vs. speed) from the Track Recorder.

As always, the update is free!

New version 9.1 features:

• New activity modes: select from Auto, Run, Bike, Car, Sail and Fly mode on the Track Recorder page for even more accurate speed and location data.
• Faster & easier track & waypoint sharing: set up one-click sharing to Facebook, Twitter, and/or up to five email addresses at once.
• A new button was added to the Status page to enable sharing your current location with a single click.
• By popular request, automatically share your location at user-defined time-based intervals — sends out a convenient bread-crumb trail or “location beacon”.

The auto-share function is ideally suited for viewing your waypoints in the MotionX-GPS Facebook application. Quickly view all of your waypoints together on one map. Waypoints will appear farther apart when you’re moving faster. Your friends and family can also track your position directly from the Facebook app interface.

As always, the update is free!

MotionX track recorded using the new auto-share feature; sharing frequency set to 5 minutes.



Auto-share waypoint trail displayed in the MotionX-GPS facebook application.

New Map Storage Lets Users Take MotionX Maps Anywhere Worldwide

SANTA CRUZ, CA – Fullpower Technologies, the global leader for mobile sensing solutions, today launched an updated version of MotionX-GPS featuring MotionX Map Storage allowing users to take up-to-date MotionX maps well beyond the coverage range of cellular connections.

MotionX-GPS 9.0 embeds the functionality of an advanced handheld GPS unit into a simple and intuitive iPhone application that is ideal for outdoor activities such as hiking, cycling, running, sailing, skiing, kayaking, motorcycling, and flying. Embraced by more than 2 million outdoor enthusiasts, MotionX-GPS 9.0 for the iPhone 3G and 3GS is available for $2.99 for a limited time through the Apple App Store.

Now with MotionX Map Storage, users can easily download the latest up-to-date MotionX O-Road and O-Terrain maps for any region of the world before setting out on their adventure. MotionX O-Road and O-Terrain maps are worldwide road and terrain (topographic) maps based on the OpenStreetMap project. MotionX users have taken MotionX-GPS well beyond the coverage of cellular connections to track activities such as sailing across the Pacific Ocean, biking across the deserts of Abu Dhabi, hot air ballooning above the Rocky Mountains and even racing up volcanoes in Guatemala.

MotionX User Profile: MotionX-GPS Tracks the GVI Volcano Challenge
MotionX-GPS recently tracked the 2009 GVI Volcano Charity Challenge in Guatemala. Seventeen “challengers” and three guides from Old Town Outfitters set off on the six day volcano climbing challenge to raise money for the Phoenix Project in Guatemala.

Pacaya volcano, with its river of lava was first up, a great hike across hardened lava. Santa María was next, followed by Tajumulco, the highest volcano in Central America at over 13,700 feet, and finally to Lake Atitlán’s San Pedro for the fourth and final summit.

Daniel Ponce-Taylor, one of the challengers in the event, brought MotionX-GPS loaded on his iPhone to track the climbs. “I have been using MotionX to its full potential. It’s been a great tool, and really accurate,” said Taylor.

The new Map Storage functionality in MotionX-GPS 9.0 is ideally suited for this type of “off-the-grid” activity, where the closest cell tower may be many miles away. Users can easily select and download maps of an area before they leave on a journey away from cellular signals or WiFi connections.

About Fullpower/MotionX
Founded in 2003 by Sonia Lee and Philippe Kahn, Fullpower’s mission is to put motion-sensing in every mobile device. As the leader in mobile sensing, Fullpower is building on its expertise in wireless sensor technology to deliver unique, interactive motion-sensing applications. MotionX solutions are designed and developed in Santa Cruz, California.

Important Links:
MotionX-GPS 9.0 in the iTunes Store:
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=299949744&mt=8

MotionX-GPS Website:
http://gps.motionx.com

Follow MotionX on Twitter:
http://www.twitter.com/motionx

Contact:
Tami Casey
Kulesa Faul for Fullpower/MotionX
650.340.1984
Email Contact

Featuring an optional new high-contrast skin for easy viewing in daylight.
Of course at MotionX all of our updates are free!

Download from the App Store: MotionX-GPS 8.0

 

Del Olson has been flying a 1949 Cessna C-140A airplane and using MotionX-GPS in a very unique way. He has been skywriting with the GPS track! Here are a few pictures, his track details and an account of his most recent flight.

“Del Olson” written in the sky using MotionX-GPS

John T and Del Olson (on the right) 1949 Cessna C-140A

 

Click on this link to display the track in Google Maps.

I felt empowered when writing my name across the large area as if the space above the earth was my new media to create my message. During this flight, I thought of the large ancient symbols on earth that some think are meant as for viewing from space and wondered if anyone watching on radar, or other means to monitor flight might be thinking. I decided to write my name as my first designed art form. My name has always been important to me as I live on a street that was named after me by my Mother in 1946 when I was two years old. It was a family property and now has turned into one of the most popular streets in the City of Turlock and the main entrance to California State University Stanislaus.

On the GPS track, it was difficult to make the small letter ‘o’ look correct and it kind of looks like the letter ‘e’, however, I have planned on how I can make it better next time. A neat feature you provide when reviewing the track, is what I call the “odometer” distance feature. My flight was 104 miles which included some flying before I went GPS Skywriting. I couldn’t believe that I had that much fun flying 104 miles and staying close to home. That would be difficult to calculate any other way other than looking at the large smile on my face during the flight and after when I saw the results. Thank you MotionX!

The John Muir Trail is a world-famous trail stretching from majestic Yosemite Valley to Mount Whitney, the highest point in the continental United States. Along the way, the trail passes through some of most breathtaking scenery in the high Sierra. Last week, Tom used MotionX-GPS to track his hike and take pictures along the John Muir Trail on the way to Half Dome in Yosemite National Park.

Google Earth Track View

Click on this link to display the MotionX-GPS track in Google Maps.

Emerald Pool Liberty Cap

Half Dome – Cables leading to the top View from top of Half Dome

Half Dome through the trees

Now MotionX Users Can Import Tracks and
Waypoints Wirelessly Anytime, Anywhere

User Case Study 2: MotionX-GPS Users Share Cycling Tracks

David Bernstein of the FredCast Cycling Podcast recently recorded a track with MotionX-GPS of the Glenwild Loop near Park City, Utah. He shared the track via email with a fellow biker visiting from Texas who wanted to ride the loop. Using GPX import, Bernstein’s friend can import the track and follow it directly with MotionX-GPS.

"I wanted to be able to record the Glenwild loop because I have a friend who comes and visits Park City once a year, and he’s always looking for new trails to ride. I unloaded my bike and the first thing I did was load Motion-GPS and let it acquire a satellite signal. I hopped on my bike, pressed the start button on the Track Recorder, slipped my phone in my jersey pocket and didn’t give it another thought until I returned back to the trailhead. After finishing, I saved the track and sent it to my friend as an email. When he comes here next, he’ll be able to upload it into his device. It’s a great app, something you should check out, and best of all, you don’t need that handheld unit anymore."

MotionX-GPS Top Navigation Solution on the iPhone

Embraced by more than 2 million outdoor enthusiasts, MotionX-GPS 7.1 for the iPhone 3G and 3GS is available for $2.99 for a limited time through the Apple App Store.
Fullpower’s MotionX technology platform is the leader for mobile sensing solutions. MotionX solutions span navigation, imaging, life-sciences and energy management. Today the iPhone is the premier showcase for MotionX solutions, with more than 3 million App Store downloads.

About Fullpower/MotionX

Founded in 2003 by Sonia Lee and Philippe Kahn, Fullpower’s mission is to put motion-sensing in every mobile device. As the leader in mobile sensing solutions, Fullpower is building on its expertise in wireless sensor technology to deliver unique, interactive motion-sensing applications. MotionX solutions are designed and developed in Santa Cruz, Calif.

Important Links:

MotionX-GPS V7.1 in the iTunes Store:
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=299949744&mt=8

MotionX Website:
www.motionx.com

Contact:
Tami Casey
Kulesa Faul for MotionX
650.340.1984