Tablet with gps reccomendation

[PetiteFleur]

I have a Samsung 10" tablet, about 4yrs old now and has gps and works well with Navionics. Got a newer Samsung recently and also has gps with Navionics. Also copied to my phone - Android of course - I'm not an Apple fan...

 

[smdts]

I have a refurbished samsung galaxy active tab 2 with a 4g sim card, it is fully waterproof, my 3 year old plays with it in the water at the beach and in the hot tub, quite sturdy, good gps, runs navionics well, and ram do a pogo pin vehicle charging cradle that still charges when its wet no problem.
The ram mount holds it on my jetski even while getting some decent air.

 

[Bathbuoy]

I've just bought a Galaxy Tab S5e new from ebay for £265 as I have an android phone, and its perfect for Navionics.

 

[cherod]

apple i pad , with gps
only prob i found was that if not being tampered with it shuts down then got to start it up again ,, maybe a setting

 

[Hurricane]

I've just bought a Galaxy Tab S5e new from ebay for £265 as I have an android phone, and its perfect for Navionics.

The Samsung Tab S tablets are great.
I've had several - fast, high resolution and bright colours.
Speakers are really loud making it a great replacement for a TV or Video conferencing etc.
And way cheaper than Apple when comparing like for like.
Mine runs Navionics and OpenCPN - under OpenCPN, it uses the same charts that I use on the boat - mainly ones that I have georeferenced myself.

 

[markspark7]

The Samsung Tab S tablets are great.
I've had several - fast, high resolution and bright colours.
Speakers are really loud making it a great replacement for a TV or Video conferencing etc.
And way cheaper than Apple when comparing like for like.
Mine runs Navionics and OpenCPN - under OpenCPN, it uses the same charts that I use on the boat - mainly ones that I have georeferenced myself.

I've got three Samsung phones , all latest edition , S20 and S20 Note and I use the New navionics and the Lowrance / C-Map stuff really well . The screens aren't really big enough even though they are the biggest screens on the market at the moment.
I've just ordered a HDMI / USB-C cable to connect my Slate tab to my Samsung and give that a try. I never seem to be able to use Open CPN, find the Navionics much easier to use, although the charts on Lowrance app seem superior.

 

[londonchartplotters]

It only connects via bluetooth to the Ipad.. I am using the Navionics app... It is an older app but it works very well

Quite happy to help you with casting the android without internet,,just contact me.steve

 

[ontheplane]

I have an iPad Air, that ha GPS and no cellular option.

I've also had non cellular Lenovo 7" that had GPS on it too ( made a good Sat nav in car too)....

I can't conceive any £100 tablet that wouldn't have GPS these days! HUWAWEI All do I think.

 

[bowler]

I have an iPad Air, that ha GPS and no cellular option.

I've also had non cellular Lenovo 7" that had GPS on it too ( made a good Sat nav in car too)....

I can't conceive any £100 tablet that wouldn't have GPS these days! HUWAWEI All do I think.

Indeed. I bought a cheapy from Tescos. GPS with Navionics works well but is very hard to see the screen outside in the sun.

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[oldgit]

Indeed. I bought a cheapy from Tescos. GPS with Navionics works well but is very hard to see the screen outside in the sun.

What is is sun of which you speak ?

 

[londonchartplotters]

Does anybody know if you can plug an external GPS usb receiver into a tablet with no built in GPS?
If it was on windows i dont see it being a problem but not sure about Android, will it recognise it??

Got an oldish HP Slate 21 that would be perfect as a chart plotter but no GPS but its a huuuuuuge touch screen.

Hiya,

not pratically no. apart from the problem of probably loosing the charging port to the gps,,the actual android software is written to look for internal gps. However,,,you could always use a gps to wifi unit,like the quarlk elec 012....this sends the gps nmea to the device via a non intrenet wifi connection.

 

[londonchartplotters]

Hiya,

not pratically no. apart from the problem of probably loosing the charging port to the gps,,the actual android software is written to look for internal gps. However,,,you could always use a gps to wifi unit,like the quarlk elec 012....this sends the gps nmea to the device via a non intrenet wifi connection.

opencpn,,accepts this sort of gps data connection.