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I have a Toshiba Thrive 10" tablet. I want to use it in cab mounted beside the factory mygig as a Nav unit. I'd use one of these to mount it.
The huge screen would be awesome as a mapping for GPS offroad too. I'd use BackCountry Navigator as the software platform. It seems to be the best available for Android.
Since I don't want to add a sim card to the device (I already have a phone), I'd get one of these Dual Bluetooth GPS antennas to receive signal from.
My Nav unit doesn't seem to operate correctly anyway and I've never really liked it's unlocked features from factory. I know I can pay $300 to fully unlock it through a lockpick but I think that is a lot for ability to add a camera and play movies/nav on the fly. I should get my head unit looked at by the stealership and see if it can figure out why it always thinks I'm in another state, no matter where I am. This happened when I installed the Trail Dash, so that may have something to do with it.
Or should I just get one of these and forget about it?
Just looking for some advice on which way to spend $ for a decent set up that will work well on the trails. We're going to Moab so I want to make sure I have excellent mapping of the trails we want to do as a group. I know very little on GPS. Geo-tagging sounds interesting. Geo-caching does not to me though. Bread crumbing and custom way points sound like must haves. Not sure if back country can do the bread crumbing part.
Daily use with having all my tunes and so one won't be such a bad thing either - although there is already 1100 songs in the mygig. Not to mention that now I have the Android app for controlling the gopro2 with will be excellent on the tablet.
The huge screen would be awesome as a mapping for GPS offroad too. I'd use BackCountry Navigator as the software platform. It seems to be the best available for Android.
Since I don't want to add a sim card to the device (I already have a phone), I'd get one of these Dual Bluetooth GPS antennas to receive signal from.

My Nav unit doesn't seem to operate correctly anyway and I've never really liked it's unlocked features from factory. I know I can pay $300 to fully unlock it through a lockpick but I think that is a lot for ability to add a camera and play movies/nav on the fly. I should get my head unit looked at by the stealership and see if it can figure out why it always thinks I'm in another state, no matter where I am. This happened when I installed the Trail Dash, so that may have something to do with it.
Or should I just get one of these and forget about it?

Just looking for some advice on which way to spend $ for a decent set up that will work well on the trails. We're going to Moab so I want to make sure I have excellent mapping of the trails we want to do as a group. I know very little on GPS. Geo-tagging sounds interesting. Geo-caching does not to me though. Bread crumbing and custom way points sound like must haves. Not sure if back country can do the bread crumbing part.
Daily use with having all my tunes and so one won't be such a bad thing either - although there is already 1100 songs in the mygig. Not to mention that now I have the Android app for controlling the gopro2 with will be excellent on the tablet.