Take the new
Nexus 7.
I am looking at dumping my old (2005)
LS800 because it is quite heavy, has a battery life of ~1.5hrs (so needs to be powered during flight), and runs a a bit too warm even with the glued-on fan.
But the LS800, being winXP, does DUN to a standard
Hayes modem satellite phone, (Thuraya 7100) via a USB-232 cable. This
pic shows the same setup with a little laptop. This is brill for getting a
whole pile of met data on a long flight.
Can this be done with an Android tablet?
Also, how much work would it be to write a little app which captures and dumps
all touchscreen messages, until terminated by one of the side buttons? For flying, you don't want the touchscreen to be accidentally messed with (another advantage of the LS800, but all the new tablets have this problem). Obviously this can't be done on an Ipad (unless jailbroken) but an Ipad doesn't run half the apps I need to run anyway...