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It appears that touchscreen navigation will soon become a part of all consumer electronics, and that includes marine electronics and fishfinders. However, when I had the opportunity to test the newly released Lowrance Gen2 Touch, it was clear to me that Lowrance didn’t just add a touchscreen on top of their Gen2 chartplotter. Instead, the entire user interface was cleverly redesigned to take full advantage of touch screen capability, and the result is an intuitive, easy-to-use system that will have you spending more time fishing and less time navigating menus.
Taking its cues from the app menus of smartphones, the “home page” of the HDS Gen2 Touch is a simple suite of icons that allows the user to quickly move between chart, sonar, structure and radar screens. Bringing up a splitscreen view is easy, and users have the option to create an array of custom screens for specific situations by dragging panels into a page with the flick of a fingertip.
The interface is so simple that it’s posible at times to forget the power of the technology you are wielding with each swipe of your finger—each unit includes built-in StructureScan HD sonar imaging, Broadband Sounder with DownScan Overlay and TrackBack, Insight mapping and optional Navionics charts, plus Struc- tureMap, Broadband Radar and SIRIUS weather overlay capability. Available in 7-, 9- and 12-inch screen sizes.
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