pat wrote:Have you poked your cheapie phone yet?
No, not yet, I want to at least try using it before I break it!
And it's pretty much ok running on the OS that's loaded apart from the SD card issue. Still, it's happy enough with the apps and maps I need with room to spare in the 4GB for the moment. I just can't load the whole of Europe!
I've asked Air Nav Pro if there's a way in their next release they can get the maps stored on the SD card instead.
Neil MacG wrote:I was initially impressed with the cheapness and specs for that phone on ebay but did a bit more searching and came across this one:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/4-7-THL-4000- ... 7573&rt=nc for a few quid cheaper. But it does have the extra 8GB storage instead of 4GB,
That looks ok but only has a 4.7" screen, I wanted a 5.5". Battery life will surely be better, but I have plug in doobreys in the 'dog so battery life doesn't matter to me that much. 960x540 resolution looks good for the size of screen.
Did I mention I had a special paypal offer for which I got 10% off?
As for switching apps back and forth, this is one of the reasons I bought this. If I try to do everything on my tablet I have to tab back and forth, and lose navigation stuff while I'm looking at something else - or I want to switch navigation app to see something else. What I'd really like is a planning/mapping thing like Sky Demon or Air Nav Pro on one of them, then the CAA maps on another. Then I can look up VFR/IFR approach charts or special information for fly-ins, etc, which I've emailed to myself on my tablet!
I can then maybe switch one of the devices to GPS ILS. Or maybe buy some more phones...
Do you think I could cover the whole cockpit with GPS devices?
Having a row of 7" tablets would get rather silly. Perhaps I should go for the 4.7" ones!