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Are there any tinfoil hats on Amazon?
Pretty sensible in my view. Lenovo are not exactly unknown for anti-consumer activities though.
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Pretty sensible in my view. Lenovo are not exactly unknown for anti-consumer activities though.
Maybe it's just a matter of accuracy? Or maybe the voices I've been listening to in the budget sailing world are looking to systems failures that depends upon dedicated GPS?
Either way, you can get usb GPS pucks that'll give a v. accurate location off the satellites.
Even Lenovo you have to go through all the app permissions & turn a load of Android stuff off
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If you want budget sailing use a paper chart, and a hand bearing compass, the rest is cheating. But if you can afford to buy and run the boat, you can handle a few hundred quid for one of the proper gps gadgets.
I prefer a paper chart and a just a position off a gps, but Im old and haven't used any of the latest stuff, last time we chartered in Greece I didnt like the digital chart detail.
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I understand the sentiment, but there are some of us on here who've been using Chinese phones for years. They simply make the best rugged phones.
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As you obviously need to buy a tin foil sowester!How come I got quoted & dragged into that one?
SorryHow come I got quoted & dragged into that one?
The boat is small, simple and so everything follows from that; weighs less than 650kg & trails v. comfortably behind a medium car though I have a van & use that. The size means lower maintenance costs, approx £500 for parts & materials since she came into my ownership a cpl of years ago. I'd like new main & jib but that'll wait until I'm feeling flush. The ground rent on a drying mooring is £75/annum though only used March - Sep/Oct depending on the weather& other commitments. The sailing club is v low key& relaxed £160/annum.
Most of my stuff I've had for yrs & I've gathered or been given as cast offs, I keep my eyes open for off season & eBay/fbm bargains.
She cost me £200 to buy, I do all the work myself with help from my father until he died. Messing around in boats has been one of the ways we've spent time together in the 25 yrs since I came back to the UK. That time is priceless,
She's not flash, bit scruffy really but for me the fun's in the adventures - big & small not the preening G&T crowd.
As for charts, I have some of the old Admiralty leisure folios, they're great for planning & pipe dreams, I know how to use them & still mark a position but really all the navs done on the tablet. I've a little etrax as a backup also GPS on the VHF. Speed & depth are the only dedicated marine instruments & v basic, the current one's were new old stock for less than £100.
She's slow, often uncomfortable but glorious fun at a budget.
Most of my stuff I've had for yrs & I've gathered or been given as cast offs, I keep my eyes open for off season & eBay/fbm bargains.
She cost me £200 to buy, I do all the work myself with help from my father until he died. Messing around in boats has been one of the ways we've spent time together in the 25 yrs since I came back to the UK. That time is priceless,
She's not flash, bit scruffy really but for me the fun's in the adventures - big & small not the preening G&T crowd.
As for charts, I have some of the old Admiralty leisure folios, they're great for planning & pipe dreams, I know how to use them & still mark a position but really all the navs done on the tablet. I've a little etrax as a backup also GPS on the VHF. Speed & depth are the only dedicated marine instruments & v basic, the current one's were new old stock for less than £100.
She's slow, often uncomfortable but glorious fun at a budget.
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I see little (general user) benefit. If you want connectivity, it can be tethered easily to a 'phone. That also saves another SIM account.
mart
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Also, quite a few places provide WiFi to use.
This from Doogee:
Dear User
Hi, GPS systems rely on hardware devices to receive signals and perform position calculations, while the software part is responsible for processing these signals and presenting the position results.
Greetings.
Global After-sales
SupportEmail: support-service@doogee.com
Official site: www.doogee.com
FAQ : https://www.doogee.cc/page/faqs.html
Doesn't really answer my question but I'll go back to them & try again
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Dear User
Hi, GPS systems rely on hardware devices to receive signals and perform position calculations, while the software part is responsible for processing these signals and presenting the position results.
Greetings.
Global After-sales
SupportEmail: support-service@doogee.com
Official site: www.doogee.com
FAQ : https://www.doogee.cc/page/faqs.html
Doesn't really answer my question but I'll go back to them & try again
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Well I still haven't bought a new tablet, I just don't have the buy it now reflexes of people like @MattF 
I do like to eat things like this out so went to Currys and had a play with a Lenovo 10" tab, it was pretty good and one of the most important things for me is it had a "back button".
Does anyone else have a problem with almost everything now not having one? I mean it's surely a nessessity?
I do like to eat things like this out so went to Currys and had a play with a Lenovo 10" tab, it was pretty good and one of the most important things for me is it had a "back button".
Does anyone else have a problem with almost everything now not having one? I mean it's surely a nessessity?
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It can often be hard to find the 'back button,' especially when it is a touch button built in to the screen very near the edge and not lit up.Well I still haven't bought a new tablet, I just don't have the buy it now reflexes of people like @MattF
I do like to eat things like this out so went to Currys and had a play with a Lenovo 10" tab, it was pretty good and one of the most important things for me is it had a "back button".
Does anyone else have a problem with almost everything now not having one? I mean it's surely a nessessity?
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The ones I would class as the most prominent, (I've had products from all 3), are Blackview, Ulefone & Doogee. You also have Oukitel & several others.
I started off with a Blackview, years ago. Their BV6000 phone. I believe @Hood had the same phone. Cracking rugged phone that was.
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Thank you @MattF for posting at least 4 Chinese named phone. I wonder if their tablets also go by these names.
I got a Samsung Tablet a few years ago,but not ages, £300, and as Samsung have ceased providing updates of Android. So now I have a £300 piece of junk. One by one, the Apps stop working due to not having the right level Android.
Maybe not such a PITA if it was a Chinese brand that cost say a 3rd of the price.
