Which Cheap Tablets Have GPS

I'm on diazepam for my back, no gps, but hey, after a couple, who cares what direction your pointing :)
 
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lampshuk said:
I have a Lenovo A7 bought for £120 from ebay earlier this year. 10" screen which is OK..
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I'm pretty sure Lenovo have never made a 10" A7 - they seem to reserve the Tab A7/A8/A10 naming for Android tablets (they also make some Windows tablets, in their "Yoga" and "Miix" ranges) and the number refers to the screen size.

Anytime I've seen them advertised, the Tab A10's are 10", the A7 has a 7" screen, and the A8 has an 8" screen.

To answer OP's original question, BTW, both the listings for A7 I've seen say they have GPS:

 
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I happen to have a Lenovo A8 sat on the arm of the sofa next to me.
Bought for about £70 in October

I just installed a GPS Status Ap to see what it had to say for its self.
I'm getting an error message about not having a compass sensor, but sat on the window sill of the house (its raining outside) and with WiFi disabled its picked up a couple of satellites (I usually struggle to get more than that on the window sill with any device).

So I think an A8 will do nav for you. Screen size not too bad - certainly a good bit bigger than either my first or 3rd gen Moto G
 
Norman_E said:
Interesting, but how do you update it?
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It's possible you never saw the 'update available' notification. Go to SETTINGS then at the very bottom of the list ABOUT TABLET. Then UPDATES. If update is available and not installed it will tell you. The updates were released in batches according to device S/N, but I would think they should all be out by now.

I can't say I have noticed any real 'improvements' ...... screen presentation has changed (some can be changed back if you prefer). One big difference is that it takes MUCH longer to boot because it now encrypts/de-encrypts every time. (Anyone found a way to disable encryption??). Unfortunately STILL no way to disable that awful chime on power-up........must have lost many sales to business users along the way:rolleyes:
 
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Thank you, I managed to update it this morning while waiting for the rest of the family to arrive. It was a two stage process because it had not been turned on for a while. First it updated tp prere for the new Android version and then a second manual update installed 5.1. It all seems to work OK.
 
Santa brought me a hudl2 My son downloaded the open cpn system anyone any links to get some charts. Thanks
 
peterhull said:
Interesting summary of the Lenovo range. I thought it odd that only one seller is advertising the 10 inch model, your explanation makes sense thanks for enlightening us all. I suspected a link with IBM because when you search for Lenovo, IBM range comes up as well.

I use a a Motorola Moto G 2nd generation for my Charts when sailing. I has a quad core processor and is very fast on wifi etc. Just got to watch battery usage. If you switch the wifi and sim card off I find it preserves the battery well enough. Charge it at th end of the day.

I keep it in my sailing jacket and just pull it out when I want to use the charts. It has worked well for me with Memory Map Charts.

I keep wondering about using a Tablet to get a larger screen area but as yet not made up my mind. There is a bewildering choice out there.!!
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Lenovo is IBM/IBM became Lenovo.
 
davids0865 said:
I thought the printer division became Lexmark?
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That was the previous round, in the early 90's.

Lexmark was formed on March 27, 1991 when IBM divested a number of its hardware manufacturing operations, including printer and printer supply operations, … in a leveraged buyout. Lexmark became a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange on November 15, 1995.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexmark​

Lenovo was the same sort of sell-off, but a division of laptops and PCs, about 10 or 15 years later.
 
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