snooks
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Get the nav module add on..
Menu-upgrades and apps-nav module
Then it is...you have to work out the tides yourself, but that's only a few taps on the screen.
The Hudl, what a splendid piece of kit it is
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Get the nav module add on..
Menu-upgrades and apps-nav module
Then it is...you have to work out the tides yourself, but that's only a few taps on the screen.
Burnham Bob
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I have a 2013 nexus 7 - the dog's whatsits according to the reviews. bought SWMBO a HUDL as it was cheap enough to find if she didn't get on with a tablet. it's great - and yes the camera is a bit underpowered but as a post above says who uses a tablet as their only camera? you can increase the screen brightness to a certain extent. if you are going the tablet route then a HUDL is a great piece of kit. you won't get much more if you pay a lot more.
Dipper
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My Hudl with MxMariner charts performed well on our passage from Camaret to L'Aber Wrac'h to Dartmouth then Weymouth earlier this week. The French coast isn't as detailed as the English coast (they are only meant to be charts for English waters) but it was really useful for a quick check to see how we were doing. Really pleased with it.
Filgood
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The Fujitsu m702 is fully water and dust proof (ipx 7/8, semi rugged), but costs about £500 (10" screen)
ffiill
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Love our two to bits other than its unswitchable off predictive text!!
Vega1447
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Can you advise how "nav module add on.. Menu-upgrades and apps-nav module" can be obtained/bought?
Thanks.
OceanSprint
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Just took my hudl back to tesco. Bought it in November, and now won't charge. I think the charging socket is not connecting with the charger p!ug very wobbly. hudl OK, but did go into strange spasms now and again, which were solved by turning off and on again. Used the money from the return to buy a nexus 7. Hope the build quality is better.
And no navionics app is not free. And yes you can save routes and waypoints on a hudl or any other Google tablet without any add ons.
And no navionics app is not free. And yes you can save routes and waypoints on a hudl or any other Google tablet without any add ons.
MoodySabre
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snooks
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You can trail it for free.
Tap "menu" at the bottom, then tap "upgrades and apps" then tap "nav module"
Have a play, see if you like it and go from there
mjcoon
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You can trail it for free.
Tap "menu" at the bottom, then tap "upgrades and apps" then tap "nav module"
Have a play, see if you like it and go from there
I had the same question, because on my Hudl, Navionics doesn't show anything like "nav module". Nearest is "Advanced Map Options" for £2.99 as a one time purchase. It's described as a set of "powerful tools", mostly about depth indicators. Nothing dynamic except "Water Level": "adjusts for tide or lake level fluctuations: spot soundings and shorelines automatically update".
Not sure if that really means tidal info, and any case to be useful there would need to be much more timing and flow detail than mentioned there.
Also nothing about free trial (not that £2.99 is much; would hardly be worth it!), which also makes me think that Snooks is referring to something different.
Mike.
Vega1447
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Maybe the nav module is only available for the HD version?
(I bought Navionics originally for my Android smartphone then installed onto Hudl.)
mjcoon
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The home screen icon says it is "Boating HD", so I presume that is not the distinction. (IIRC, HD is for tablets such as Hudl, non-HD is for smartphones, and there is a small screen size overlap ("phablet"?) where either could be used.)
Mike.
Vega1447
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The non-HD version of Navionics works (and displays) fine on my Hudl.
I'd be interested to hear if people think that the extra cost of the HD version is justified..
snooks
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From my iPad:
And this is what you get:
And this is what it looks like on the iPhone:
mjcoon
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Ah, I was mislead by the subject heading being about Hudl into thinking you were referring to an Android version. No doubt the Apple version is different in many subtle ways...
Mike.
Vega1447
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Yep.
Just checked the faqs for navionics.
"Navionics+ and other upgrades like Nav Module, Autorouting and Advanced Map Options are currently available on Apple devices, and coming soon to Android."
To be fair I have just downloaded the navionics+ update so maybe nav module won't be long. .
snooks
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I thought navionics was the same, regardless of operating systems. Sorry to have misled y'all
chartnavigator
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If only : - Most of these different tablet platforms have different operating systems so Apps have to be 'translated' or specially written for them. Hence the differences in operation of identically named Apps. The Navionics App on iPad and the Navionics App on Hudl are effectively two entirely different Apps but produced, (if not actually coded), by the same company following similar visual design criteria. Presumably the limited facilities between different tablets for the same App, are down to the limitations of the tablets themselves. The iPad, being most expensive, probably provides the most facilities for the programmers to utilize. The others will be 'different' by different degrees.
What I'd like to know is, is it worth me buying a Hudl just to write a book on Route Planning using Hudl and Marine Tides Planner. Probably not, unless I'm overwhelmed with requests to include it in my current series. current series.
smartmove2014
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Hudl is certainly built to a price and nowhere near as solid as the 2013 nexus. Screen is also far brighter on the nexus. With the new nexus (eee expected to be around 9" screen) out in a few months I would also expect the cost of the current nexus to drop significantly to clear them. I think its a great bit of kit.
Vega1447
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Maybe I'm cynical but I suspect that Apple make it a condition of allowing Navionics sell on the AppStore that the Android version is a step or two behind the iOS version.
