I am looking for an android tablet to run astronomy apps it must have an inbuilt GPS so that the night sky positions can be seen, I do not need 3g access only wireless and possibly bluetooth.I have been looking at the Asus Transformer,are there any other suggestions.
Regards Stu Sanderson.
Android tablet with GPS.
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Hi Stu.
The Sony Tablet S should fit the bill, although at the present moment it's a bit dearer in Australia than overseas($200). It's a nice unit.
see http://goo.gl/wWMjn
However I'm curious -- I don't know anything about Astronomy, but how could you possibly need to know your location that accurately? (Unless you're tracking near-earth objects such as the moon.) I would have thought a general latitude and longitude would be sufficient, and any error of a few kilometres would make no difference.
The apps available can by using the GPS compass show you the night
sky and stars ,galaxies etc at wherever you point the device making it much easier to align scopes or just for your own info know what
you are looking at.
Regards Stu