Smartphone for navigation?

[taylormade]

And just for the record, you CAN add GPS to your non-cellular iPad either with a specific Apple connector or a bluetooth GPS adapter, you'll just need to download maps and not depend on online versions.

[Phil M]

BTW, I'm a big fan of Sum Ting Wong, We tu lo, and Bang Ding Ow.

I still remember the Apple IIe computer. Perhaps that's going back too far for you?

My point is that Apple is quite technologically capable of putting in GPS chips into all of their tablets.

[grady]

BTW, I'm a big fan of Sum Ting Wong, We tu lo, and Bang Ding Ow.

You forgot Ho Lee Fuk.

[BOAT]

GPS no worky without a map in the memory - way way out there in the Pacific Ocean where there is no internet you will ask your smart phone to tell you where you are and it can give you great GPS coordinates, but it won't have a map to display those coordinates unless you can get on the internet to download one OR if you have already loaded mega gigabytes of map data onto your phone before hand.

That's why we need "chart"plotters - they have the "charts" already inside them.

[Neo]

Boat, "mega gigabytes of map data", offline storage on a smartphone is pretty easy now days.

[Phil M]

Offline map storage is relatively easy and relatively cheap for both Android and Apple tablets and smartphones. Now I have backup navigation of my backup navigation.
I was pretty amazed when I first saw it on my tablet.
Ho Le Fuk

[kadet]

Android smart phone, opencpn and some maps, about 650MB good to go

https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... free&hl=en

[BOAT]

mega gigabytes and gazillion data stuff and bunches of data - really, the main thing is that GPS position - once you have that none of the other stuff really matters. The latitude is pretty easy to navigate by here on the west coast (home is 33.21 degrees) and as the number grows I know I'm going north. Real easy here on the west coast - if your latitude is zero, well all sailors know that one but for us West Coast guys that means Ecuador! ( Ooh, I'm way too far south! Missed Mexico again!) and you east coast guys all know the 23.26' that all those islands off Florida but for west coast sailors the 23.26' is Cabo baby!

That's all you really need over here in the Pacific - as long as your latitude is between 30 and 45 just sail east!

Don't need a map in the phone - just need the GPS coordinates.

[taylormade]

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I still remember the Apple IIe computer. Perhaps that's going back too far for you?

My point is that Apple is quite technologically capable of putting in GPS chips into all of their tablets.

Nope, in fact the Apple IIe was the first proper computer I ever had as a kid. We were bad ass because we had TWO 5.25 floppy drives. I played Dr J vs Larry Bird on that computer and it got me into computers... who knew that it's what I'd be doing some 30 plus years later.

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You forgot Ho Lee Fuk.

Ahhhh but I didn't forget, I just chose not to quote that particular one.