STUFF TO TURN MY MOBILE PHONE INTO A CHARTPLOTTER

I use Navionics and SavvyNavvy on my iPhone and iPad. All good except visibility in strong sunlight and battery life.

I bought a rugged android tablet on eBay for £90 secondhand use it now as the main navigation tool with the same apps. Waterproof, sunlight friendly screen and long battery life. Mine is made by a company called Conker and is designed for military, oil industry etc usage.
 
Minerva said:
Have you found a nifty way to switch between osenc charts and the Antares ones? On my Win Tablet (with mouse) at the chart table it’s easy to click the wee sausage like buttons at the bottom left of the chart, but my fat fingers struggle to reliably switch between the two on the phone…
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On my Mac I created different chart groups (In the preferences, under the charts section). You can create one for Antares and add all the Antares charts to it, and another for oeSENC charts. On the main UI they are toggled via the context menu, and thus you can switch between them.

Assuming you can do similar on the phone, I find this much easier than trying to mess with the, er, sausages.
 
LadyInBed said:
Has OpenCPN gone out of fashion?
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I set up a new phone earlier in the year. Latest version of Open CPN from the Play Store, and UK O Charts for £30, one including 1 year updates but no time out date so they will last until I decide enough changes have happened to warrant paying for an updates set.

I set up a completely separate phone for boat use as it really needs so many settings different to a normal phone. So it has Open CPN, various other chart viewer apps (not chart plotters) some various mapping apps, tides, weather forecast and real time weather etc.

For the small amount of data I signed up to a SIM with RWG mobile that for a one off £15 gives me a small amount of data each month in theory for ever.
 
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