replacement for my Huddle

[ghostlymoron]

Hi Peter, my hudl gave up the ghost ages ago. I took it back to Tesco where I brought it. They told me they no longer supported them and gave me a full refund although it was out of warranty. I replaced it with a Samsung galaxy tab E which works really well and much better made than the hudl. Runs navionics fine I'm very satisfied.
Some new software is not supported by the Android version I've got but the new models would be up to date. I could probably up date to the latest one if I was clever but i dont find it a big problem.
Cheers R

 

[escapism]

I'd agree with that to some extent, a slow processor doesn't matter too much for navigation at less than 10 knots. However, my bugbear is that the screen is invisible in any amount of sunlight. How do you overcome that?

Yes. its not for cockpit use in sun, or rain, or even if there's a heavy dew. Additionally, polaroid sunglasses render the screen black when viewed normally. I think these problems apply to all cheap tablets used as plotter surrogates, but ready to stand corrected. It does the jobs I want it to though, and has done so for more years than I expected!

 

[KompetentKrew]

I have a Samsung tablet, but hated Samsung's customisations to Android, and their crapware - it interrupted me by asking me if I wished to save to Samsung Cloud and such annoying nonsense. I fixed this by installing an alternative ROM, LineageOS, but this is beyond many people. I'm surprised no-one ever mentions these annoying Samsung customisations.

 

[Stemar]

I'm with you on the bloatware, but even the Hudl has its own Tesco bloatware. Are there any tablets that come with plain vanilla Android?

 

[ghostlymoron]

I have a Samsung tablet, but hated Samsung's customisations to Android, and their crapware - it interrupted me by asking me if I wished to save to Samsung Cloud and such annoying nonsense. I fixed this by installing an alternative ROM, LineageOS, but this is beyond many people. I'm surprised no-one ever mentions these annoying Samsung customisations.

I don't get any annoying pre installed software on my Galaxy tab E. Perhaps it's too old.

 

[KompetentKrew]

I'm with you on the bloatware, but even the Hudl has its own Tesco bloatware. Are there any tablets that come with plain vanilla Android?

Many of the cheap chinese brands, probably. Although Xiaomi's crapware is terrible too, and they stopped making their A1, A2, A3 series of vanilla Android phones.

LineageOS is lovely on my Samsung Tab. but installing custom ROMs is beyond most people's abilities and support is spotty.