Types of GPS, which You may use outdoor, and their shortcomings
Mobile phones, used as GPS navigator
Small screen, short time of work, poorly visible in the sunlight
Car GPS
Large screen, but poorly visible in the sunlight, short time of work
Handheld GPS
Long time of work, quality sunlight readable screen, but small diagonal and non-universal sistem.
E-ink reader
Large screen, good visible in sunlight, long time of work, but slow black-white screen.
Concept of new tablet
- 8" Transflective TFT screen. Main goal of development of this device - to manufacture outdoor tablet with the big color TRANSFLECTIVE screen, which will be well visible in a direct sunlight. As a sample - handheld GPS from Garmin GPSMap60CSX, and the same. All other produced tablets have transmission TFT screens, which are good inside, but absolutely useless outside. We have set a condition to develop not the beautiful screen, but convenient and working outdoor.
- Powerful battery. The main objective - to ensure long functioning of the device without recharge. Becouse, as real outdoor tablet, You may use it in Your trip, where recharging is impossible. And You must have the reliable device, which will support You in any situations.
- Comprehensive system. Perhaps, you want to install Your preferable software on the device, and it must to allow You to make it. For example, pilots of small aviation very often use flight programs, as XC-Soar or LK 8000, which can't be installed on Garmin GPS.
- A lot of peripheral devices, which will allow to use the tablet in the most various tasks, necessary for traveller.
- Waterproof case, which will protect tablet from water, snow and sand. You will never foreknow definitely, what weather can take You unawares. And Your friend and the assistant mast to work in any weather, and save Your health, and, possible, life.
This new device is ready to use as multiple-purpose gps navigator, which can be taken in a trip, to install in a cabin of the airplane, in the car and on the boat. For separate request we may install additional sensors for special purpose. You only need to connect with us, and describe Your wish.
"VESt HORIZON-08" Specifications
Screen
8" (4:3) 1280x1024 resolution TRANSFLECTIVE high-brightness Sunlight readable screen. 6 points projective capacitive touch. Ambient light sensor. Rain and glove mode.
CPU
CPU: Snapdragon 808 20nm ARM Cortex-A57 + ARM Cortex-A53 (ARMv8-A), 6 cores, 1440 MHz. GPU: Adreno 418 600MHz, OpenCL 2.0, OpenGL ES 3.1+, DirectX 11.2 OS: Android 5.1
Battery
2 x Built–in Li-ion Rechargeable 6000mAh, 3,7 v. hot swap. Solar panel on the back side for autonomous charging.
Memory
RAM - 4 Gb LPDDR3 993 MHz ROM - 32Gb emmc 5.1 MicroSD card - up to 200Gb
Integrated tho-way dual-band radio tranceiver
VHF:136-174Mhz(Rx/Tx) UHF:400-520(Rx/Tx) With separate buttons Up to 128 channels 5W/1W Commercial FM radio receiver (65MHz-108MHz)
Phone connection
Dual Sim 2G: GSM 850/900/1800/1900MHz; (options for different standards) 3G: WCDMA: 850/900/1900/2100MHz; 4G: FDD-LTE (B1/2/3/4/5/7/8) GSM/GPRS/EDGE, CMDA
Communications
GPS, A-GPS, GLONASS, BDS, Galileo with connector for external antenna WI-FI a/b/g/n/ac, 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz Bluetooth BT4.1, support BLE RJ45 10/100/1000 LAN USB 2.0 Type-C HDMI Type D, compatible with HDMI 1.3a
Additional functions
Rear camera: 20 million effective pixels, LED flash Front Camera: 8 million effective pixels, wide angle lens Powerful Flashlight with separate button Barometric altitude meter and variometer Air speed meter (as option) Aircraft radio (as option) Magnetic compass Electronic gyroscope Docking station Aircraft transponder (as option)
How to buy?
Pay now and receive discount 10-15% from retail price. It will help us finish our work quicker.
After 1 december 2017 You may purchase it in our shop.
You also may donate this project by transferring on PAYPAL account.
