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Old 29th January 2010 | 19:41
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IO540
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An interesting product for aviation - approach plate display, and being LCD it could run a moving map too.

1024x768 = just about OK.

Drawbacks: only Apple authorised applications. Not 80x86 processor so cannot run Jeppview, even under an emulator (that's any good performance wise).

The only reason it will sell is because the tablet market went "vertical" some years ago, with almost everything going really thick and heavy, and not really stylish/portable. A 1/2" thick slate like the Ipad could have been made in 2003 but nobody did. Now Apple have, but they have locked it away from more specialised markets like ours because almost nobody is going to port their applications to it. Jepp certainly won't.
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