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What's your favorite Android tablet?
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Nexus 7 (FHD, the better model) was the best tablet I've had. I used it even as a phone replacement for a couple of years.
Now I'm using a Galaxy Tab Active 3 as a chartplotter on the boat. Also quite nice, but would be too slow for a "main device". Not to mention camera quality.
Care to elaborate on your chartplotter setup? I've bought a boat and it has a GPS system in it but they don't make the maps cards for it anymore so it's kind of just a really fancy screen that tells me how fast I'm going
I have a Raspberry Pi running Signal K on the computer. This transmits all boat sensor data (depth, wind, GPS, AIS targets, etc) to the tablet. On tablet I can then run a chartplotter app, for example Navionics, SeaPilot, OpenCPN, or my current option, Orca CoPilot.
So.... Your tablet runs on a cell signal?
The tablet does have an LTE modem, but in this case it’s getting internet from the boat (Teltonika RUTX11 modem)
Kinda surprised the Tab Active 3 is slow, because it uses the same internals as the Galaxy S9, which still runs quite well. I would guess then that the 4GB of RAM are the problem.
Out of curiosity, what Android version are you running?