[Therion] Best caving tablet

[John Stevens]

I have thought about using my 7” asus tablet which is about as large as I can hold in one hand. Its worth looking as Sexy Topo (an Android version of PocketTopo).
But I still go back to my ruggedised version of the Fujitsu Siemans Pocket Loox N560. An RPDA with IP65 protection, or semi rugged EDA version, Ebay from about £20. The EDA needs some extra protection but thats not too hard to do.

While these windows mobile PDA’s are so cheap, they seem to be the answer until rugged tablets get to a sensible price.

John S

From: Footleg 
Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2015 6:08 PM
To: List for Therion users 
Subject: Re: [Therion] Best caving tablet

I would agree that the 'hold in one hand' size of a PDA is a big plus. You need to be able to cave with the device in your hand, and unless you only survey large walking passages with flat floors you will appreciate something that you can climb around the cave while holding in one hand. Also makes packing the device for transportation through crawls and awkward entrance series much easier. I am often surveying 3 hours from an entrance and having a light weight compact kit means it always gets taken on exploration trips in case we make a break through. So we often leave the cave with data on the trip where a discovery was made. 

Footleg

On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 9:13 PM Andrew Atkinson <andrew at wotcc.org.uk> wrote:

  I have a asus vivo tab/not 8 tablet, which I just find too big for cave
  surveying, which I feel will be a problem with the one below. I think
  that you need to be able to hold it on one hand while caving, which for
  me makes a 6inch tablet probably the biggest, but I have not got round
  to buying one as yet.
  The vivo although it has a wacom tablet built in, I am not very
  impressed with the accuracy, even after going through the 100+ point
  calibration, gone back to my dell axim,

  Andrew

  On 15/09/15 20:50, Rob Countess wrote:
  > http://ruggedpcreview.com/3_slates_xplore_xslate_b10.html
  >
  > I'm thinking of this: XSlate B10. Has wacom digitizer. They also make
  > smaller android model. Any thoughts?
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