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Default Tablet vs gps
"Mr. Luddite" wrote:
On 3/22/2015 5:52 PM, wrote:
lots of folks seem to be moving away from dedicated gps to tablets with
apps. Any opinions?



You got me curious, so I looked up a chartplotter for an iPad (since I happen to have one).

This one is running Navionics. People seem to be impressed with it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV9gJ4mo9BE

My chart plotter /sonar is much better than running an iPad on the boat.
Mounts to the dash, water proof. Has connections to run to a MMSI radio,
etc. I think the iPad wifi, no phone does not have a GPS built in. So
another connection.
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