Tablets and Antares

dylanwinter

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Check in the android store or where ever you get android apps and see what the minimum spec required is for Antares / Memory Map, that will tell you what you need. Or just buy an iPad..... You know you want to. :)
 
I just use the TIF versions and browse them as images. Works on anything.

But that won't show you where you are ....

I don't think either Antares or Memory-Map are particularly demanding, but you will lose a lot of functionality if your tablet doesn't have an inbuilt GPS reciever.
 
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I recently bought an "emergency" Alcatel Android Tablet from Amazon with Android 5 on it, and was disgusted that despite there being an SD card slot, I couldn't change the default save location to the Card... It went back.... Caveat Emptor with Android 5 up
 
Well obvious things are that the lenovo in the link has a 10" screen vs the 7" i think on the hudl.

The first hudl was a bit slow. So make sure its a hudl 2.

You will probably smash the screen after a while so it may not matter.....
 
Well obvious things are that the lenovo in the link has a 10" screen vs the 7" i think on the hudl.

The first hudl was a bit slow. So make sure its a hudl 2.

You will probably smash the screen after a while so it may not matter.....

more liklely to drown it in the puddle that forms when it rains in the front of the cockpit seats
 
I just use the TIF versions and browse them as images. Works on anything.

You have a rather obtuse attitude to some things JD, BB goes to great trouble using GPS to ensure his charting is accurate so that unlike older charts your position cursor is exactly where you are but you just use them as pictures? Seems a waste of a prime facility.
 
You have a rather obtuse attitude to some things JD, BB goes to great trouble using GPS to ensure his charting is accurate so that unlike older charts your position cursor is exactly where you are but you just use them as pictures? Seems a waste of a prime facility.

It works for me, probably because I almost always use paper charts. I have never felt the lack of a GPS-driven cursor on the CCC sailing direction chartlets to be a major problem.

People who use plotters or plotter software will doubtless do things differently, which is fine.
 
That's why I have eyes. I do have MXMariner on the tablet (haven't managed to convert the Antares Charts yet) but I never bother with the GPS side of things. At the Antares scale I don't really see the need.
Must have really well calibrated eyeballs, the ability to see in the dark, the ability to see in fog and some extrasensory ability out of sight of land. Given that it's trivially easy to have a wee screen displaying your position, I can't understand why you wouldn't.
 
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