iSailor won't work on Hudl 2 - why?

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After much research on here re tablets, I've just bought myself a Hudl 2. I then tried to get iSailor & it says it's not compatible with the device - which is very strange because a) the Hudl 2 has Android 5.1 & b) my partner can get it on his cheapo Acer. Anyone know why it won't work on the Hudl 2 & if there is any fix?
 
I can't even download it from the Google Play store, it just says 'not compatible with this device'. And, slightly oddly, if I search for it in Google Play on the device it offers me Navionics instead. At the moment, it looks as though I'll have to take it up on its suggestion.
 
from Google Play Store iSailor page "Intel chipset Android devices are not supported!"

...from Google.... "The Hudl 2 sees the Tesco tablet move from an ARM-based chip set up to an Intel Z3735D chipset"
 
I have IPads, iPhone and Hudl2.
The Navionics app on the Hudl2 is not as sharp as it is on the iPad. I also have got Memory Map Marine charts. £25 for 850 Admiralty Charts. They are Raster charts but display clearly on the Hudl2.
 
Fantasie 19 said:
from Google Play Store iSailor page "Intel chipset Android devices are not supported!"

...from Google.... "The Hudl 2 sees the Tesco tablet move from an ARM-based chip set up to an Intel Z3735D chipset"
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I did see that - but my partner's Acer also seems to have an Intel chip & iSailor works fine on it. Starting to think I bought the wrong tablet, damn it!
 
MissFitz said:
I did see that - but my partner's Acer also seems to have an Intel chip & iSailor works fine on it. Starting to think I bought the wrong tablet, damn it!
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Last time I saw Hudl2s were selling for a premium on eBay

Flog it and buy a nice samsung instead :)
 
MissFitz said:
Um, sorry to be dim, but what does that mean? Do most tablets not have Intel chips?
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I've gone down the Apple route so I don't really know what the landscape looks like in Android-land. But ARM chips are very common in mobile phones, tablets, music players, freeview boxes, and all sorts of other things that are essentially computers but aren't always recognised as such.

Still designed in Cambridge, by the way, by the descendant of the company that built the BBC Micro in the 80s :encouragement:

Pete
 
Transas isailor isnt even offered on my Hudl2 talet, whereas it is on my Samsung S4 phone - I wonder how many people know that Android has this difficulty... I didnt until this thread.
 
prv said:
I've gone down the Apple route so I don't really know what the landscape looks like in Android-land. But ARM chips are very common …
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I'm sure ARM processors are the most common on Android phones and tablets, too.

This thread surprised me with the revelation that the Hudl2 is an Intel.

My Moto G phone, for example, uses a Qualcomm Snapdragon. My last phone was a THL (a cheap Chinese brand) and that used a MediaTek chip (whose name begins with MK or MTK).
 
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