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Old February 8th 11, 09:30 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Darryl Ramm
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Default Possible Android Tablet?

On Feb 8, 11:44*am, jsbrake wrote:
Wouldn't the Xoom be too large, as well? *It has a 10.1" screen... and
my original question was politely shot down for just such a reason.

I guess this is all dreaming, anyway... I can't afford to upgrade from
my little Navigon -- I need to pay for my wife's launches now that
she's learned to fly.


The Xoom and similar tablets may well be too large for mounting on
many panels but there are already folks carrying around iPads etc. to
occasionally pull out and use in flight for charts, weather, other
info etc. I see the main interesting use of these larger tablets as a
pre and post flight devices that can occasionally be pulled out and
used in a cockpit. It would be interesting to see the pre- and post-
flight (e.g. flight analysis, scoring) area will be addressed in
future by soaring software developers. But it is hard to justify doing
a lot there today since there is not yet huge adoption, there are two
new main competing tablet platforms (iOS and Android) and the iPad for
example has some I/O device connectivity restrictions. There are
already some quite interesting general aviation apps for the iPad for
example.

To me the main interest in the Xoom is its *the* Honeycomb platform
for a whole raft of different developers to play with.

Darryl
 




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