Is planning on an Amazon Kindle possible
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When travelling rather than take my laptop I'm thinking of buying a cheap android tablet. Would a Kindle Fire work? I think I read somewhere that the minimum Android version is 7?
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@Adrian-Stone, I think I remember to have read somewhere that a kindle does not have GPS on board...
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One of the advatges of MRA Planing website is that it works on different platforms.
I do it on Win Laptop with 13β Win Desktop 27β Display. A 13β iPad and an 10β iPad.
By my experience 10β is the minimum size for a comfortable workflow with MRA planing, but consider not all tools are visible on each Display sizes. They are hidden in submenues on 10β Displays. Also some functions like managing of WP correcetions or adding WP in between a route works differnt by fingertipping on a tablet than with a mouse on WIN or Mac (assumed, I have no Mac).8β is a comfortable size on a tablet for routing with MRA Navigation next, even to the fact that the with/hight ratio on tablets for ladnscape mode is far better than on most smartphones.
But consider you need a good GPS module and best a GSM Sim connection, to get online in case of some problems during a ride, not to forget to have the option to switch on special demands like traffic conditions to Google Maps or other alernatives having life traffic.Me myself I am looking for an alternativ to smartphone and the small display with CarPlay in my cabrio for a better visibilty on the map and infos of MRA during the ride which Carplay didnβt present.
Android tablets in 8β are meanwhile gone from the actual market place of the suppliers. You will find only older models at Amazon, with old Android version, old processor and small storage.
Are they good enough? I dont know.
On the ohter hand my smartphone and tablet world is Apple.
The only way for me to be in the same store, database App is IOS and by this the unfortunately not cheap ipad mini. -
@Peter-Schiefer
Thank you all, I should have said, I generally plan on a Macbook Air when at home and transfer routes to my Garmin Zumo XT for navigation. So it's just for the planning, but interesting to hear about the submenus and so on displaying differently on 8" and 10"+ tablets -
@Adrian-Stone
Adrian MacBook means Apple and IOS world and then your are looking for Android. π€¬ why your are not looking for used iPad mini 8.8β not older than 4 years, Mine is from 2013, one of the first Minis with IOS 12.x. too old for MRA, crashed immediatly. But as I had written, my itend was the use for navigation not for planning, for this the use is too limited stressy.
Quick planning I do with my iPad air with 10,9β Display -
Adrian
me again to have an Idea
here two pictures
first 13 β iPad
second 10,9β iPad air
see the difference in the header menues and map area you can see handle with with start zoom, centered at Cologne airport.
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@Peter-Schiefer
Thank you again. Ahh, yes, the inconsistency in operating system, well, I do mostly use Apple, laptop and phone, but I also have a very old android tablet which is on version 4. I though that just for travel a cheap android would do, as apple is always comes at a premium!Thank you for the pictures of the differences, useful to see
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@Adrian-Stone I use a Samsung Galaxy Tab A7. 10" display. works well for MyRouteapp.com as well as MyRoute-app.
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@Adrian-Stone For planning a Kindle Fire is fine. Navigation, i.e. using MRA Next isn't possible.
All you need is a browser so the Android version (almost) doesn't matter.
Here are screenshots of a Kindle Fire HD 10" (9th generation from 2019 which is definitely not the latest and greatest ) running the default Silk browser to view myrouteapp.com in both portrait and landscape:
Portrait
Landscape
Everything appears to work for me. I don't use this device normally - just saying it looks and acts fine. Space gets a bit tight because of the various menus, but it's perfectly usable.
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@richtea999
seems what I mentioned 10β is the minimum size.
For Adrian than the only consideration, be I am in my confident IOS world or do I handle in addition with Android.
A bit struggeling (I assume, not knowing it indeed) could be the situation with transfer to the Navi Garmin XT.
Working with to different systems the Mac and Android means storage and transfer of routing files are made in different clouds and Apps for the XT. May it is managable but with additional workload if he use an iPhone too, as told and may is connected to the XT yet.I use MRA transfer the routes in my iCloud and easily open Garmin drive on the iPhone by matching the file in the cloud with Garmin Drive and then open my Garmin car satnav Drivesmart 76 and vie BT the route is transfered from the cloud to my Drivesmart.
Therefore continue in one system is the best option and my proposal for him to save money look for an refurbished or used iPad 10,9β