Wife had an old tablet. Battery would last about an hour. She bought a Pixel Tablet. It's really thin and light weight. The audio is really good. I wish it had a stylus and it's a bit pricey. Happy wife, happy life.
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Good point, one which I entirely overlooked - no GPS.What location abilities does the Pixel tablet have?
I ask because my first reaction to something requiring "Google Location Accuracy" to be turned on is "why?". But if the tablet doesn't have GPS then presumably with the wireless network based location turned off (which is what that setting actually toggles - the name does not describe what it does) the only location information it will have is from your IP address.
I'm with you on this! One thing we noticed though is that Google Maps works in the car when wifi connected via hotspot to one of our phones. I wonder... is GPS data getting piggybacked to the tablet, or is Maps using the Location Accuracy "feature"?(The reason this caught my eye is that I personally leave that setting "off", so anything that requires it "on" will attract my attention. It's just because enabling it allows Google to collect supposedly anonymous location data, which I prefer not to do).
That's an interesting question. I'd not expect a hotspot to pass its precise location on to devices connected to it because it's not necessary, so only someone whose main business is data mining would code it to do that... OK, so maybe I should expect that from Google!I'm with you on this! One thing we noticed though is that Google Maps works in the car when wifi connected via hotspot to one of our phones. I wonder... is GPS data getting piggybacked to the tablet, or is Maps using the Location Accuracy "feature"?
I'm a poor judge of distance, so I can't answer that first question. I can tell you though that it seems to acquire way points and notify of turns simultaneously with the phone... regardless of whether it's from the phone it's tethered to or the passenger's phone. Interesting (but at least it works).How accurate does it look: accurate to 3-5 meters or to 10s of meters? The former would imply that the phone was passing a GPS location, while the latter is what you get from wireless networks alone.
(Unless Bluetooth is involved somehow? Bluetooth on Android requires location access, so perhaps there's a route for the tablet getting precise location from the phone that way? I'm just speculating here - it's not something that could happen by accident, but I'd not put it past Google building that in without telling anyone, whether via BT or the hotspot)