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Unmatched accuracy meets the convenience of wireless connectivity. Now, the most up-to-date and only sub-meter precision course maps in the game are available instantly and easily with the new Wi-Fi enabled SkyCaddie® SGXw.
Highlights of the SkyCaddie SGXw:
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Dynamic RangeVue
Designed for smarter and easier club selections, RangeVue's preset yardage arcs adjust dynamically over fairway landing areas and greens to allow golfers to select the best club for every shot much more quickly. RangeVue provides more information, faster and more reliably than any laser rangefinder without aiming or requiring line of sight.
PinPoint Technology with IntelliGreen
Makes lasers obsolete. No more aiming and missing with lasers trying to get hole positions. PinPoint Technology allows golfers to measure to the hole by adding pin positions. Combined with SkyCaddie's patented IntelliGreen® feature, golfers have yardages they need to the front carry, back, center and hole location, automatically from any line of approach. PinPoint eliminates the need for line of sight and the frustration golfers have with aiming and keeping a laser steady. The powerful combination of PinPoint and Intelligreen will help golfers avoid greenside bunkers, hit more greens and have more puts for birdie even if they don't have line of sight. (Available January 2012)
New Wireless Convenience Makes Preloads Obsolete
Preloaded courses are out of date before the device is sold and can be risky and unreliable. The SkyCaddie SGXw connects wirelessly to SkyGolf's vast library of precision courses via Wi-Fi at home, the office, the golf course or hotspot for fast, easy course downloads of the same complete and reliable course information. For wireless access on the go, most cell phone carriers now offer wireless tethering to access the smartphone's Internet access as a personal hotspot.
Free 30-Day Courses Map Evaluation
Your complimentary 30-day trial period begins from date of purchase so that you can start playing with the SGXw out of the box. Download up to 10 advanced feature course maps for 30 days before you register.
Key Proprietary Technology
Interactive HoleVue with Patented Auto Zoom - with an eagle's view of the entire hole, golfers get the distances they need to avoid hazards and play smart golf from tee to green. Using the precision of the new Optical Trackpad, golfers can measure to any point on the hole whether they can see what's ahead or not.
IntelliGreen® Pro
Designed save strokes and reduce three putts, IntelliGreen Pro adds distances to major green contours and false fronts, plus any other point on the green from a golfer's angle of attack.
Components:
- Display: Large 3-inch, high-resolution, transflective TFT-LCD screen for brilliant images in the brightest sunlight
- Antenna: Omni-Directional, High Performance GPS Antenna - stays locked to optimize performance and accuracy in all terrains, even under tree foliage
- GPS Receiver: TruePoint GPS Precision Positioning Technology is a proprietary high-performance GPS engine for ultra-fast satellite acquisition, unmatched accuracy, and proven reliability
- Optical Trackpad: providing quick and easy navigation without touching, scratching or getting your display dirty
- AutoView: Change between the SkyCaddie's most popular screens HoleVue, IntelliGreen®, and the Scorecard with a simple turn of the wrist
- Club SG: At the end of a round, thanks to Wi-Fi connectivity, golfers can quickly and easily transfer with the click of button scores and stats to ClubSGBETA, the fastest growing community in the game for passionate golfers, for post-game analysis and game tracking
- Guarantee SkyGolf has a 30-day satisfaction guarantee
What's in the Box?
- SkyCaddie® SGXw GPS Rangefinder
- Wi-Fi Ready
- Optical Trackpad
- Rechargeable lithium-ion polymer battery
- A/C power adapter
- USB cable
- Heavy-duty belt clip and belt clip cradle
- LCD screen protectors
- Quick Start Guide
Specifications:
- Dimensions: 4.80 by 2.48 by 0.75 inches
- Weight: 5.6 ounces
- Display: 3-inch, high-resolution, transflective TFT-LCE screen
- Battery: Rechargeable Lithium-ion Polymer (up to 10 hours continuous use)
Product Description
Limited Time Offer! FREE 1 Year Birdie Membership! Plus Free Accessories* *Register a new SkyCaddie SGX or SGXW between 5/1/2012 - 7/31/2012 and receive a FREE 1-year Birdie Membership or special promotional pricing on any higher-level SkyCaddie Membership Plan. Offer includes FREE car charger and carry case, which will be shipped from SkyGolf after product registration (a total value of $75). Shipping and handling $9.95. FREE AutoView Software Upgrade! Utilizing buttonlessand touchless technology, AutoView enables golfers to change between their most popular screens with just a simple turn of the wrist. AutoView Technology is controlled by the SGXs built-in accelerometer to provide three viewing positions one portrait position and two additional landscape positions. Combined with Auto-Course Select, Auto-Hole Advance and Auto-Zoom, AutoView technology eliminates the need to push buttons or touch points on an LCD Screen. By simply rotating the SGX device to the right, youll go from the brilliant Interactive HoleVue screen to IntelliGreen for a detailed view of the green. Turn the SGX to the left, and youll instantly see the New Digital Scorecard so you can enter your score. SGX customers may sync their SkyCaddie to receive the update. SkyCaddie SGX Wi-Fi Wireless GPS...Stay Connected On The Course! Now, the most up-to-date and ONLY precision course maps (accuracy under one-yard) in the game are available instantly and easily with the new Wi-Fi enabled SkyCaddie SGXW. Simply connect to a compatible wireless network at your home, office, golf course or through a public Wi-Fi hotspot for fast, easy downloads of the most reliable course maps in golf. After your round, upload your scores instantly to ClubSG for analysis without cables or computers. Skygolf SGX Wi-Fi Wireless GPS Skycaddie features: 1st Place Winner - Golf Digest Hot List - SkyCaddie received the only Gold rating among six GPS rangefinders tested by Golf Digest magazine for the 2011 Hot List. Rated #1 in
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52 of 59 people found the following review helpful
The SGX-W is the newest SkyCaddie from SkyGolf. However, newer isn't necessarily better, and in this case, the SGX would be a better choice for most golfers. The WiFi feature of the SGX-W won't help you to play better golf, and while it is a nice feature, as long as you have WiFi available on your laptop, you already have WiFi access on the SGX, using the USB cable connection. You cannot delete courses through the SGX-W WiFi feature---you can only add courses up to your 50 course limit.
Unfortunately, SkyGolf is using the same battery in the SGX-W as in the SGX. That's good for the SGX and bad for the SGX-W, as the SGX-W uses a faster processor which cuts the bootup time in half, but also drains the battery almost twice as fast, even with WiFi turned off. SkyGolf rates the SGX-W at up to 10 hours of battery life, while the SGX is rated at up to 14 hours of battery life. Both of these ratings are based upon a 0% Backlight setting which no one will ever be able to play golf with. The SGX-W ships with a 60% Backlight setting, while the SGX ships with a 100% Backlight setting, because they look prettier and are more readable with a substantial Backlight setting, if there is no direct sunlight to help backlight the transreflective screen. In practice, both will get you through one round of golf and need to be recharged thereafter, but you might get two rounds out of the SGX, while it is highly unlikely you'll ever get two rounds out of the SGX-W
Now for the biggest drawback of the SGX-W: the interface. SkyGolf chose to change the wonderful Joystick control on the SGX to an Optical Trackpad on the SGX-W, which cannot be used to make any selections on the SGX-W, unlike the Joystick on the SGX, which can be pressed to make a selection at any time of the highlighted menu option, just like a regular mouse. On the SGX-W, you must make selections with separate keys, as pressing on the Optical Trackpad does nothing. The intuitive movement of the cursor on the SGX screens to move the pin or the target in the fairway with the Joystick is now gone. To use the Optical Trackpad to move the cursor in these situations, you first have to unlock it, then move it with the Optical Trackpad, and then relock it to do anything else. The alleged reason for changing to the Optical Trackpad was that one or two SGX users had difficulty using the Joystick with a glove on. Why they are wearing a glove on the hand they don't play golf with is beyond me, but, be that as it may, early reports from golfers using the Optical Trackpad with a glove on are that they still needed to remove the glove to operate the Optical Trackpad! Greater precision was also touted as another reason for changing to the Optical Trackpad. However, in use, the Optical Trackpad is so sensitive that it flies all over the screen with much less precision than the Joystick on the SGX, which is a bit more sluggish, but that is what gives you more precision in its movement. So, both reasons for switching to an Optical Trackpad that can't even make selections are moot, and simply don't work to accomplish their purported purpose. SkyGolf should have stuck with the original Joystick from the SGX, as the SGX Joystick can, in fact, be used with a gloved hand, and it is, in fact, more precise than the Optical Trackpad on the new SGX-W.
That leaves us with RangeVue as a new feature on the SGX-W. While it sounds like it might be helpful in theory, in practice, it just clutters up the screens and makes them unreadable. You can get the same information on the SGX by simply moving the cursor to any point visible in the screen to measure the distance from your present position to that selected point, which is all RangeVue does with a series of arcs like topo map lines on the screen, that you will quickly decide you would rather not see. Fortunately, you can turn them off, and indeed, you must turn them off, to reposition the pin on the green using the measurements to the edges of the green from the pin, which cannot be seen, until you turn off the RangeView.
RangeView also gives up the functionality of the Info button on the SGX which allows quick access to the scorecard without using the buggy AutoVue, where you rotate the SGX to Landscape View either left or right, one of which displays the Intelligreen screen and the other the Scorecard. However, you have to enter the score from Portrait view, so you might as well stay there, because every time you change the orientation, there is a 2 to 3 second lag, while the accelerometer recognizes the change and rotates the view. However, the Landscape View should not be used for precise movement of the flag on the green to a known distance, because while in a horizontal position, the GPS antenna is horizontal and the least accurate, according to SkyGolf.
SmartPins, originally promised for the SGX, will supposedly be available on the SGX-W in January 2012. SmartPins are useless, unless your golf course supplies a daily pin sheet showing the exact location of the pin on every hole. If you play in tournaments where they supply them, this might be useful, but most SkyCaddie owners carry a laser measuring device to properly position the pin on the greens without needing someone else to tell them where they are. SkyGolf owes the implementation of SmartPins to all SGX owners, based upon previous promises, so it should be available on the SGX, too, although SkyGolf refuses to comment on this, and refuses to comment on the availability of SmartTags, which were also promised for the SGX over two years ago, and have never been released. Unless an advertised feature already exists on any unit when you buy it from SkyGolf, don't count on their ever delivering on it. They have a history of not following through.
Between the SGX-W and the SGX, you will spend about 10 more minutes during every round fiddling with all the buttons on the SGX-W, which you won't need to do on the SGX, because the Joystick allows effortless selections, without fiddling with several other keys that you have to read above, and to figure out which one needs to be pressed, to make the correct selection with another key. Also, you cannot lean on the Optical Trackpad, like you can on the Joystick, to keep scrolling down in a lengthy menu, like all the courses that match your first letter selection of the name of a golf course within your state, which can be well over a thousand, because you can't select the letter---you can only select a two letter grouping like A-B, C-D, or E-F, of the first letter of your course. If the course you are looking for is in the middle of that two letter grouping, you will have to swipe on the SGX-W some 125 times, as you can only swipe 4 courses with one swipe, whereas on the SGX, you just lean up or down on the Joystick until it gets to the right course, without any carpal tunnel stress on your thumb from 125 swipes, just to get to the advanced course you want to download via WiFi, or choose as a Preloaded Course to play, on either unit. There is a "Nearby courses" option which helps, but it is useless if you are at home and want to check out any course that is more than 10 miles away, or if you cannot get a GPS signal indoors for it to locate your location.
Several other gotcha's during the free 30 day trial. You cannot delete any courses via WiFi and you must download the free 10 courses via WiFi, so choose them carefully. Any course with three sets of 9 holes counts as THREE of your 10 courses. Also, the scoring features before activation during the free 30 day trial only keep your score until you power off the unit. You cannot save any scores on the unit during the free trial. SkyGolf really wants you to activate the unit and not use the free trial, and activating requires signing up for a minimum 1 year subscription, which is NOT refundable if you return the unit within the 30 day free trial.
Club SG BETA is just that: a Beta product which has been in Beta now for over two years and can be shut down at any time by SkyGolf without notice or obiligation, according to the fine print disclosures in the box. Their Forum prohibits any postings that are even the slightest bit negative about any SkyGolf product, or even hint of any criticism of SkyGolf, or any of its policies or its censorship of user postings, which are summarily deleted for any reason they want, rarely with any notice. Posts just mysteriously disappear. Any thread without a new post within the last 30 days is always deleted along with all the relevant content within it. Bumping threads to keep them alive is prohibited. Most threads are immediately locked by SkyGolf, if SkyGolf responds, however incompletely, preventing any further follow up questions, and any further discussion. Support through the Forum is at SkyGolf's whim. Requests for help regarding the SGX-W and the SGX often go for days or even weeks without any response from SkyGolf, if they aren't summarily immediately deleted.
SkyGolf has also been known to put out multiple buggy Optional Updates without disclosing that they are Optional and encouraging users to download the buggy Optional Updates for weeks after they have been informed of their buggy nature, pouring gasoline on a burning fire. Earlier this year, it took several months for known issues causing scores to be corrupted to get fixed, while SkyGolf pretended that the problem was isolated to only a few users, and yet every user who had been duped into downloading the Buggy Optional Update had the problem. Read more ›
Unfortunately, SkyGolf is using the same battery in the SGX-W as in the SGX. That's good for the SGX and bad for the SGX-W, as the SGX-W uses a faster processor which cuts the bootup time in half, but also drains the battery almost twice as fast, even with WiFi turned off. SkyGolf rates the SGX-W at up to 10 hours of battery life, while the SGX is rated at up to 14 hours of battery life. Both of these ratings are based upon a 0% Backlight setting which no one will ever be able to play golf with. The SGX-W ships with a 60% Backlight setting, while the SGX ships with a 100% Backlight setting, because they look prettier and are more readable with a substantial Backlight setting, if there is no direct sunlight to help backlight the transreflective screen. In practice, both will get you through one round of golf and need to be recharged thereafter, but you might get two rounds out of the SGX, while it is highly unlikely you'll ever get two rounds out of the SGX-W
Now for the biggest drawback of the SGX-W: the interface. SkyGolf chose to change the wonderful Joystick control on the SGX to an Optical Trackpad on the SGX-W, which cannot be used to make any selections on the SGX-W, unlike the Joystick on the SGX, which can be pressed to make a selection at any time of the highlighted menu option, just like a regular mouse. On the SGX-W, you must make selections with separate keys, as pressing on the Optical Trackpad does nothing. The intuitive movement of the cursor on the SGX screens to move the pin or the target in the fairway with the Joystick is now gone. To use the Optical Trackpad to move the cursor in these situations, you first have to unlock it, then move it with the Optical Trackpad, and then relock it to do anything else. The alleged reason for changing to the Optical Trackpad was that one or two SGX users had difficulty using the Joystick with a glove on. Why they are wearing a glove on the hand they don't play golf with is beyond me, but, be that as it may, early reports from golfers using the Optical Trackpad with a glove on are that they still needed to remove the glove to operate the Optical Trackpad! Greater precision was also touted as another reason for changing to the Optical Trackpad. However, in use, the Optical Trackpad is so sensitive that it flies all over the screen with much less precision than the Joystick on the SGX, which is a bit more sluggish, but that is what gives you more precision in its movement. So, both reasons for switching to an Optical Trackpad that can't even make selections are moot, and simply don't work to accomplish their purported purpose. SkyGolf should have stuck with the original Joystick from the SGX, as the SGX Joystick can, in fact, be used with a gloved hand, and it is, in fact, more precise than the Optical Trackpad on the new SGX-W.
That leaves us with RangeVue as a new feature on the SGX-W. While it sounds like it might be helpful in theory, in practice, it just clutters up the screens and makes them unreadable. You can get the same information on the SGX by simply moving the cursor to any point visible in the screen to measure the distance from your present position to that selected point, which is all RangeVue does with a series of arcs like topo map lines on the screen, that you will quickly decide you would rather not see. Fortunately, you can turn them off, and indeed, you must turn them off, to reposition the pin on the green using the measurements to the edges of the green from the pin, which cannot be seen, until you turn off the RangeView.
RangeView also gives up the functionality of the Info button on the SGX which allows quick access to the scorecard without using the buggy AutoVue, where you rotate the SGX to Landscape View either left or right, one of which displays the Intelligreen screen and the other the Scorecard. However, you have to enter the score from Portrait view, so you might as well stay there, because every time you change the orientation, there is a 2 to 3 second lag, while the accelerometer recognizes the change and rotates the view. However, the Landscape View should not be used for precise movement of the flag on the green to a known distance, because while in a horizontal position, the GPS antenna is horizontal and the least accurate, according to SkyGolf.
SmartPins, originally promised for the SGX, will supposedly be available on the SGX-W in January 2012. SmartPins are useless, unless your golf course supplies a daily pin sheet showing the exact location of the pin on every hole. If you play in tournaments where they supply them, this might be useful, but most SkyCaddie owners carry a laser measuring device to properly position the pin on the greens without needing someone else to tell them where they are. SkyGolf owes the implementation of SmartPins to all SGX owners, based upon previous promises, so it should be available on the SGX, too, although SkyGolf refuses to comment on this, and refuses to comment on the availability of SmartTags, which were also promised for the SGX over two years ago, and have never been released. Unless an advertised feature already exists on any unit when you buy it from SkyGolf, don't count on their ever delivering on it. They have a history of not following through.
Between the SGX-W and the SGX, you will spend about 10 more minutes during every round fiddling with all the buttons on the SGX-W, which you won't need to do on the SGX, because the Joystick allows effortless selections, without fiddling with several other keys that you have to read above, and to figure out which one needs to be pressed, to make the correct selection with another key. Also, you cannot lean on the Optical Trackpad, like you can on the Joystick, to keep scrolling down in a lengthy menu, like all the courses that match your first letter selection of the name of a golf course within your state, which can be well over a thousand, because you can't select the letter---you can only select a two letter grouping like A-B, C-D, or E-F, of the first letter of your course. If the course you are looking for is in the middle of that two letter grouping, you will have to swipe on the SGX-W some 125 times, as you can only swipe 4 courses with one swipe, whereas on the SGX, you just lean up or down on the Joystick until it gets to the right course, without any carpal tunnel stress on your thumb from 125 swipes, just to get to the advanced course you want to download via WiFi, or choose as a Preloaded Course to play, on either unit. There is a "Nearby courses" option which helps, but it is useless if you are at home and want to check out any course that is more than 10 miles away, or if you cannot get a GPS signal indoors for it to locate your location.
Several other gotcha's during the free 30 day trial. You cannot delete any courses via WiFi and you must download the free 10 courses via WiFi, so choose them carefully. Any course with three sets of 9 holes counts as THREE of your 10 courses. Also, the scoring features before activation during the free 30 day trial only keep your score until you power off the unit. You cannot save any scores on the unit during the free trial. SkyGolf really wants you to activate the unit and not use the free trial, and activating requires signing up for a minimum 1 year subscription, which is NOT refundable if you return the unit within the 30 day free trial.
Club SG BETA is just that: a Beta product which has been in Beta now for over two years and can be shut down at any time by SkyGolf without notice or obiligation, according to the fine print disclosures in the box. Their Forum prohibits any postings that are even the slightest bit negative about any SkyGolf product, or even hint of any criticism of SkyGolf, or any of its policies or its censorship of user postings, which are summarily deleted for any reason they want, rarely with any notice. Posts just mysteriously disappear. Any thread without a new post within the last 30 days is always deleted along with all the relevant content within it. Bumping threads to keep them alive is prohibited. Most threads are immediately locked by SkyGolf, if SkyGolf responds, however incompletely, preventing any further follow up questions, and any further discussion. Support through the Forum is at SkyGolf's whim. Requests for help regarding the SGX-W and the SGX often go for days or even weeks without any response from SkyGolf, if they aren't summarily immediately deleted.
SkyGolf has also been known to put out multiple buggy Optional Updates without disclosing that they are Optional and encouraging users to download the buggy Optional Updates for weeks after they have been informed of their buggy nature, pouring gasoline on a burning fire. Earlier this year, it took several months for known issues causing scores to be corrupted to get fixed, while SkyGolf pretended that the problem was isolated to only a few users, and yet every user who had been duped into downloading the Buggy Optional Update had the problem. Read more ›
23 of 29 people found the following review helpful
This Sky Caddie has all the bells & whistles that any golfer loves...but there is one BIG detail that isn't mentioned in the ads or instruction manual! You have to use a non-password protected Wi-Fi source. In other words, if you have secure Wi-Fi at home that requires a password to log on...this Sky Caddie won't connect. You'll need to go to the nearest free Wi-Fi, such as Starbucks or Barnes & Noble to load your courses. Not very convenient! I bought this as an eary Christmas gift for my husband and he was so frustrated he called the Sky Caddie help line. They told him he'd have to remove the password-required security step from our home wireless network in order to use this newest version...that's not happening. (Another issue, you can't charge this Sky Caddie on your computer, has to be done with a plug into a wall socket.) We're returning this Sky Caddie. Very frustrating and disappointing. I'm sure Sky Caddie rushed this version to get it out before Christmas and they will get a lot of angry feedback, so maybe they'll address this issue in the future. Too late for us!
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
If you own a laptop with wifi, then you do not need to throw away $100+. Buy an SGX instead.
Wifi on the device is useful for those people that do not have a laptop and one day drive up to a course and say "Hey, let's play here."
The SGXw has faster screens but consumes battery considerably faster. The screens are fast on the SGX if you turn off that silly Autoview. This is the "feature" that gives you different views if you turn it sideways.
The SGX has fewer button pushes in the course of a round. RangeVue arcs get in the way, are not helpful and results in more button pushes and add clutter to the screen.
This is NOT an upgrade, get an SGX.
Wifi on the device is useful for those people that do not have a laptop and one day drive up to a course and say "Hey, let's play here."
The SGXw has faster screens but consumes battery considerably faster. The screens are fast on the SGX if you turn off that silly Autoview. This is the "feature" that gives you different views if you turn it sideways.
The SGX has fewer button pushes in the course of a round. RangeVue arcs get in the way, are not helpful and results in more button pushes and add clutter to the screen.
This is NOT an upgrade, get an SGX.
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