I had a question from a fellow pilot who was thinking of buying a Kindle Fire to run XCSoar. Not knowing much about this new device, I started to do some digging. At first look, it's a 7" Android Device marketed by Amazon used to read books and do more than the previous Kindles. As well as reading books, the Kindle Fire gives you access to movies and apps* (Amazon Apps - not Android Market from what I have read). Also has it's own "Cloud-accelerated" browser called Silk, 8GB of storage, Wi-Fi and USB2.0.
It sells for USD 199 which seems like quite a good price compared to iPad, Iconia, Eepad etc. In order to get the price down, some features deemed as not required for an e-reader have to be dropped from the offering. I attach here a quote from a reviewer in regard to this: Amazon’s choices of what features they didn’t include in the Kindle Fire are almost as important as the features they did. Amazon’s new tablet reportedly does not include: GPS or Accelerometer (G-Sensor) Bluetooth Radio 3G/4G Radio No Microphone No Cameras No Memory Expansion Slot No HDMI/mini HDMI port All of these missing features were shaved to reduce cost, size/weight and battery usage. (This from the-gadgeteer.com) Lack of GPS and bluetooth and no out-of-box access to Android Market are the reasons I would shy away from this device, but I would like to hear from anyone who thinks it would work well with XCSoar and how it could be used with common instruments like Cambridge, Borgelt etc. Best Regards Simon Marko ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ Xcsoar-user mailing list Xcsoar-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcsoar-user
