Using Nexus or Galaxy 7 as Dash GPS
I can purchase a Garmin 2595, Nexus 7 or Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 at Costco for about $180. My $800 Garmin 2620 with outdated maps just died. I have used Sygic on my Vizio Tab as a Dash GPS, but the Tab...
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I don't use my Nexus 7 with CoPilot but use my phone with it and it works very well. I doubt I will ever go back to using a dedicated GPS unit again. I'm fine with the smaller screen of the phone since it's much easier to mount and use in a vehicle than a 7 or 10 inch tablet and I really just need the voice prompts while driving anyway. I don't use the phone for trip planning, I do that on my laptop.
I have CoPilot and a couple of other navigation apps installed on my Nexus 7 but I've never attempted to use it to navigate since my phone does the job so well.
Those that say your tablet needs to be connected to wifi in order for the GPS to function don't understand that it depends completely upon which app you use for navigation. If you use Google Maps for navigation then, yes, you need a data connection (it can cache a limited amount of map data but not enough to be useful IMO) but some navigation apps such as Sygic, CoPilot, Navigator, etc... store the map data locally and don't need a data connection to constantly retrieve map data.
I have CoPilot and a couple of other navigation apps installed on my Nexus 7 but I've never attempted to use it to navigate since my phone does the job so well.
Those that say your tablet needs to be connected to wifi in order for the GPS to function don't understand that it depends completely upon which app you use for navigation. If you use Google Maps for navigation then, yes, you need a data connection (it can cache a limited amount of map data but not enough to be useful IMO) but some navigation apps such as Sygic, CoPilot, Navigator, etc... store the map data locally and don't need a data connection to constantly retrieve map data.
