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I just want to be able to use all the charts with a built-in GPS for med, atlantic, carib, south pacific, indian ocean to cape town, then back to the carib and so on. Once it’s got the charts i don;t want to download any more stuff until the tablet goes pop. Do I? I don’t think so. And if it DID have a SIM it would only work in the uk so what the heck, don’t need that. Or ok, i get a cheap PAYG chip, someone downloads the charts up front, that’s it. Until i oops drop the thing, get the chip out and maybe have the right to use the charts on new tablet? Or how about two tablets with just one chip? And one sim card.
I am really trying to stay away from Ray’s stuff. I called up Raymarine and asked for Ray but he wouldn’t come on the phone, despite me having spent loads, so sod him.
Anyways, if anyone has great ideas about tablet things, what to buy, let me know. Oh and hopefully NOT iPad stuff - i’m the one who has several Apple ID’s and forgot them, and they don’t match either, so goodbye loads of music, dang, and much sympathetic head shaking in the apple shop. So a tablet whatever with JUST the nav stuff, nice charts ....with a little blob where i am, anywhere on the warm middle strip of the planet, that’s all i want. With a bit of GOTO functionality of course, but not that much. Actually, ok., what i really want is someone ELSE to set it all up and THEY do the downloading things whatever, i just do the credit card thing, so i don’t have to install y/n press buttons are you sure? No i’m not sure you dipstick it’;s the first time i have done it with your latest version whatever and oh dang NOW it’s stopped halfway through! Argh. I’ll pay, they sort it out and NOT any “”oh you only have to download the app sir, it’s very easy” cos it just isn’t, it’s like downloading the engine of a new car for crissakes, especially if you try do it in the back of a taxi, or in another airport or on the boat and it goes “unable to etc” what a load of carp. See, my problem is I used run a computer systems company way back ... and so that would be like say running a car dealership - would you ever fill up the car with fuel? Or even know where the petrol station was? Course not Nor how to check the oil. And likewise servicing, another flippin profit centre, somewhere else, with cheaper people than smartarse Sales people and fewer company car moany moans involved.
So, anyway, tablet-wise, i bet i’ll be able to drive it IF it has the chart software in and IF it works offshore, and IF it has a 12vcig charger connection, i can manage all that. So er anyways, please tell me who would sort that for me? Probably a Samsung, no idea really, perhaps i oughta buy three? That would be good, so i still have two when the first one gets left out in the rain dang. Or perhaps there are rainproof covers? Another twenty quid. Alright forty quid. So if you can point me to a shop anywhere in the uk, that can set all this and hit me with the credit card thing inside ten minutes max, alright 15, that would be fab. Please.
I am really trying to stay away from Ray’s stuff. I called up Raymarine and asked for Ray but he wouldn’t come on the phone, despite me having spent loads, so sod him.
Anyways, if anyone has great ideas about tablet things, what to buy, let me know. Oh and hopefully NOT iPad stuff - i’m the one who has several Apple ID’s and forgot them, and they don’t match either, so goodbye loads of music, dang, and much sympathetic head shaking in the apple shop. So a tablet whatever with JUST the nav stuff, nice charts ....with a little blob where i am, anywhere on the warm middle strip of the planet, that’s all i want. With a bit of GOTO functionality of course, but not that much. Actually, ok., what i really want is someone ELSE to set it all up and THEY do the downloading things whatever, i just do the credit card thing, so i don’t have to install y/n press buttons are you sure? No i’m not sure you dipstick it’;s the first time i have done it with your latest version whatever and oh dang NOW it’s stopped halfway through! Argh. I’ll pay, they sort it out and NOT any “”oh you only have to download the app sir, it’s very easy” cos it just isn’t, it’s like downloading the engine of a new car for crissakes, especially if you try do it in the back of a taxi, or in another airport or on the boat and it goes “unable to etc” what a load of carp. See, my problem is I used run a computer systems company way back ... and so that would be like say running a car dealership - would you ever fill up the car with fuel? Or even know where the petrol station was? Course not Nor how to check the oil. And likewise servicing, another flippin profit centre, somewhere else, with cheaper people than smartarse Sales people and fewer company car moany moans involved.
So, anyway, tablet-wise, i bet i’ll be able to drive it IF it has the chart software in and IF it works offshore, and IF it has a 12vcig charger connection, i can manage all that. So er anyways, please tell me who would sort that for me? Probably a Samsung, no idea really, perhaps i oughta buy three? That would be good, so i still have two when the first one gets left out in the rain dang. Or perhaps there are rainproof covers? Another twenty quid. Alright forty quid. So if you can point me to a shop anywhere in the uk, that can set all this and hit me with the credit card thing inside ten minutes max, alright 15, that would be fab. Please.
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