New Trimble R12i

Great unit, now make that giant DC small and light.?ÿ

Moe, you don't like the TDC600? I prefer the full keyboard from TSC7.

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I have an R12 less than a week and it's already outdated. Will this be a software upgrade on exisiting R12?

@totalsurv

To me this looks like a hardware change. Looks like they finally got an IMU into the system (no small feat).

I'd contact your dealer. Sometimes when this happens the manufacturer will have a program for customers to pay the difference and update their equipment if you purchased it within a curtain timeline.?ÿ

@totalsurv

No software upgrade possible, trade in as sugested by Kara may work.

1. letƒ??s see what it will cost

2. And compare with Leicaƒ??s new GS18I with camera.

Iƒ??ve been waiting for2 yrs for this feature!

@mightymoe curious as to whether you've tried the TSC7 or if you're just going off photos.

@lee-d

Yeah, I've tried it, I like the little android, but I still want a hard keyboard, not that I'm hard to please or anything.

The TSC7 is too big for my kinda work.

I don't wander around very often on foot, unless it's in difficult terrain, brushy, creek crossings, steep, so then you want as little to carry as possible.?ÿ

For now I'm not buying anyway, no matter how good it is, I'm doing fine with what I have.?ÿ

@lee-d

Of the two I would give up the hard keyboard for the compact android, no question everyone in the office would also, I don't even have to ask to speak for them about that.

@christ-lambrecht

I want the keyboard and compact and light.?ÿ

@christ-lambrecht

Trade in after a week!

@mightymoe

That thing on the pole is a DC? Cripes, itƒ??s bigger than some laptops. ?????ÿ

BTW, FWIW, I can tell by the accent that the main guy in the OP video is a NZ'er.

@flga

exactly!!

@mightymoe I can't imagine using a phone with a GNSS receiver for locations, unless I was just out locating water valves for a city where I only need to push 1 button and never change a code or see a map. So a GIS use it might be fine.?ÿ Once you have to be typing codes an on-screen "keyboard" is near a joke.?ÿ Trimble's Recon wasn't popular because of no physical keyboard.

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@flga no, not even close. 7" screen. Where do they sell laptops that size?

@mightymoe Depends on what you're doing. The SX10 needs a wide screen controller to display video from the instrument. A GNSS only controller could use a smaller screen, but why??ÿ ?ÿEven using the SX10 I often have the map on the screen so I can see which code I was using on a line, and see if my line coding has an error so I can fix codes right away, leading to nearly "finished" mapping upon field work completion because no lines are out of place. All that needs to be done at times is connect lines from different JOB files. With a TSC3 screen size, there's no room to show map and rod/code data fields. Some people don't like change, I embrace it.

More info on whatƒ??s inside and the evolution from R10 - R10-2 - R12 to R12i and a price indication of price of an R12+5%

First impressions on R12i in Geospatial World by G. Schrok.

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@robertusa

I don't mind change in any way. Since I've moved from T2's and chains that speaks for itself. Not wanting a bulky DC attached to my rod hardly counts as being against change.?ÿ

Would you want a desk, keyboard, mouse, PC towers, monitor sitting next to the SX10 for each shot? I do know some surveyors who did just that, they had a mini office set up in a van, drove to every job that way.?ÿ

That kinda change isn't for me. I want small and light, a hard keyboard is nice but I would rather have the cell phone DC than the laptop one.?ÿ

As far as coding and field to finish that horse left the barn in 1986 for me. Been doing it ever since, even in Autocad 12. It is hardly something new, been around now for at least 35 years and available for surveyors and engineers as an option.?ÿ

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@robertusa

https://www.amazon.com/Hakeeta-Pocket-Touchscreen-Windows-m3-7y30/dp/B07X4H1H1L

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