Hi all,
Yes
@bigcol review below
I did try the app on my 10" tablet as that has inbuilt gps and was my first choice. The tablet had issues with the app so ended up getting a refund.
Cost of new tablet plus app would have been similar to hx 1
That and my handheld gpd had carked it.
Quick review
So far I have used the device quickly in road nav mode.
Worked much like the navman or tomtom with similar commands being given
A nice feature is the ability to set the level of verbosity. I.e. the voice lets you know about the turn straight after previous, 200m out at the turn or varying levels of this.
I also like the ability to search on any part of an address. Unlike tomtom or navmans I have used so far.
Other than this day and night screen functions are good as is the ability to pre program multiple addresses and role one to the next without having to stop to enter the next one.
I have mostly used it so far in the explore mode however and this seems very useful.
First thing. Base map is pre installed but if you want more detail away from home dont forget to download the detail before you go.
Got caught out here. Easy fix was to make my tablet a hotspot and connect wifi to that which allowed me to download in the field. I only needed a smallish area and had heaps of data remaining, but if you dont watch it or upload prior to leaving a wifi network this could get expensive.
Second trap was navigating a computer generated (hema cloud) route when the gps didnt quite trigger one of the waypoints. There were heaps created automatically. Unfortunately it didnt recognise that others downstream were being triggered and kept the next way point pointing at the one missed.just annoying
Navigating to a manually created way point was easy and useful.
As is recording the route. Simly tap the button on the screen to start and stop. Saving can be tricky if you were moving as your aim needs to be good to hit the right button and delete route is the button under save.
Even at max zoom the device scrolled smoothly and easily keot up witht the car even at freeway speed.
Camps 8 is inlcuded and the POIs and other points are useful. As is seeing them appear on the screen.
Still working out 4x4 track gradings but these seem useful.
See below beach trip from last weekend
PUrple line is the tra k logging.
His can also be bbacktracked but I havent tried this yet.
Uploading to cloud is really easy at the end of the trip too.
It would be nice if the west coast hema raster maps were able to be downloaded but guess these are just the pretty version of the gps map.
All great desert maps are standard as is 1:250k and very large scale hema data.
on the whole i like it and dont regret the purchase
