Help Tablet with good Gps built-in

[umby75]

Hi, I'm looking for use a tablet in my car as car navigator and other features...
But to be honest I've been very disappointed about Gps capabilities.
I tried a Samsung Sm-t239 and Nexus 9 as it was suggested somewhere as "a tablet with good GPS".
But as I said I was very disappointed because i.e. when you are in bad weather conditions they lose GPS signal.
I also tried to use an external Bluetooth GPS antenna but you can't get a good compatibility with Waze and Maps withwith exte Gps antenna.
Can you suggest me a serious tablet for that?
I found an offer for Lenovo Tab 3 plus but I don't know it?

 

[svim]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System
I tend to look at GPS as something that's really wonderful when it's working but not too surprised when it's not. Simultaneously connecting to multiple satellites isn't trivial so I'm not surprised that you ran into problems during a bad weather spell.
Ignoring military-grade mobile devices that have a lot of alternative redundancy built in I don't think there is any consumer mobile device that will be close to anything like 100% reliability as far as GPS. But hopefully I'm wrong and someone will suggest some devices they know of from experience that might meet your requirements.
If anything I'd put less emphasis on GPS reliability overall. It's an aging technology that really needs upgrading (and here in the U.S. austerity now means wealth continues to shift from the public sector to private interests).
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/feat...ld-economy-runs-on-gps-it-needs-a-backup-plan

 

[umby75]

Thank you for your infos.
I can guarantee my Oneplus 5 never loses Gps signal in any weather conditions.
I've compared many times and these are the outcomes..
I don't know why but the tablets often encounter these issue..but I think that probably there should be something better. A GPS feature that use Glonass and other Gps mode too..

 

[mikedt]

Thank you for your infos.
I can guarantee my Oneplus 5 never loses Gps signal in any weather conditions.
I've compared many times and these are the outcomes..
I don't know why but the tablets often encounter these issue..but I think that probably there should be something better. A GPS feature that use Glonass and other Gps mode too..

I was under the impression that most devices these days do have Glonass, as well as GPS. Because apparently manufacturers can't distribute products in the Russian Federation unless they do support it. Also I'm seeing many devices that have support for BeiDou as well, and I've never had any navigation problems in China due to bad weather.

Also there's Galileo from the EU, but I'm not sure if that's a thing yet.