Looking for Android Tablet Suggestions

[Knufire]

5188 ended up picking up several 2nd Gen Nexus 7 tablets off eBay. It's an older tablet and most of the ones you can find now are used, but we ended up getting six tablets for around $500.

[jkelleyrtp]

Yeah we/I use a Nexus 10 or a Nexus 7. Good hardware, might be a tad dated, but has excellent battery life and a nice screen.

[JackFisher]

Originally Posted by Knufire

5188 ended up picking up several 2nd Gen Nexus 7 tablets off eBay. It's an older tablet and most of the ones you can find now are used, but we ended up getting six tablets for around $500.

Nexus 7's are really good imo. I have had one for 2 years now and it would be a great tablet for this. Amazon has recently released a $50 tablet. This might be something to consider.

[krtanjek]

TechFire 225 uses 2 Samsung Galaxy Tab 10 for coach and scouting lead, and 10 Samsung Galaxy Tab 7 for scouts (pit scouting/match scouting). We built an app that syncs back to the scouting master tablet and then the coach can go within range of the scouting master and sync current data.

For Worlds/IRI we synced the scouting master to a Samsung Galaxy 6S to sync to the cloud so everyone had the data real-time from their personal phones.

We added nice graphs on our cloud app that showed avg stacks/rc's/auton/etc per robot with picture and per match. PM me if you would like to see example of the data.

Currently looking for cases for the tablets to protect them. We felt going with an Android based tablet gave us more flexibility on creating the scouting application.

[Bryan Herbst]

2052 just purchased 6 Amazon Fire tablets.

They're pretty good tablets for only $50, plus you can buy 5 get one free. It's like Amazon is catering to people scouting 6 robots! The official cases are buy 4 get one free.

Of course, there are two caveats- they come with ads and they aren't true Android. However, the ads are relatively easy to disable, and scouting apps should work just as well on FireOS as "real" Android.

I'd definitely recommend at least considering them.