Let's get the good part out of the way: If you can figure out what radio version and sub-sub-sub version you have, it will connect via bluetooth and read/write data. But holy cow, there's a lot of problems with the User Experience. The overall design philosophy for programming a channel is "one-at-a-time" - there's no editable grid view of all the channels, there's only these tiny little "cards" that represent open and filled channels (and they use RED to signal an open channel, rather than to warn of a full channel). When editing an "empty" channel, it seems to randomly pick up a description (Tag) from other channels. There's no explicit way to suppress TX functions on a given channel. The field order on channel programming is...unexpected...with alpha tags being near the last things you enter, not near the first. All in all, it is slightly - just slightly - easier than programming via the keypad, but it has a long way to go to even remotely compare with the excellent CHIRP software. But if you need something to backup and restore your radio, it's kinda useful. OH, and assume all your data is being shipped to China for some reason.
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