What's your favorite Android tablet?
Previously on Lemmy: Asus
Android tablets are devices that I don't know a lot about. I've seen plenty of them around, but I haven't seen many people actually use them, but I've seen plenty of iPads and sometimes Surfaces out in the wild. Many large Android manufacturers have tried, like Samsung and Huawei, but reception to them seems lurkwarm at best.
Tablets, to me, are more of media consumption devices than productivity devices. So, I guess the questions of the week would be, what is your experiences with Android tablets, and what are some features you are looking for in an Android tablet to make it worth buying?
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Nexus 7 (FHD, the better model) was the best tablet I've had. I used it even as a phone replacement for a couple of years.
Now I'm using a Galaxy Tab Active 3 as a chartplotter on the boat. Also quite nice, but would be too slow for a "main device". Not to mention camera quality.
Kinda surprised the Tab Active 3 is slow, because it uses the same internals as the Galaxy S9, which still runs quite well. I would guess then that the 4GB of RAM are the problem.
Out of curiosity, what Android version are you running?
Care to elaborate on your chartplotter setup? I've bought a boat and it has a GPS system in it but they don't make the maps cards for it anymore so it's kind of just a really fancy screen that tells me how fast I'm going
I have a Raspberry Pi running Signal K on the computer. This transmits all boat sensor data (depth, wind, GPS, AIS targets, etc) to the tablet. On tablet I can then run a chartplotter app, for example Navionics, SeaPilot, OpenCPN, or my current option, Orca CoPilot.
So.... Your tablet runs on a cell signal?
The tablet does have an LTE modem, but in this case it’s getting internet from the boat (Teltonika RUTX11 modem)