Thinking about using a Galaxy Tab as a head unit....

[voyeur]

I will be watching you with interest.

Last week I upgraded TORQUE for Android on my Galaxy Tab and at last it works with a cheapo ODB11 bluetooth EMC... My JDM double din head unit is dead so if this looks like a way to go then it could actually save me some money.. I have taken to putting my SIM in the GT anyway so wont need phone to hook up...

[Triathlete]

I will be watching you with interest....

With that screen name we would have expected this!

Thoughts?

Maybe...if I had any clue what you were talking about!

[rowhard]

Maybe...if I had any clue what you were talking about!

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[eternal21]

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C'mon, guys, this isn't that hard *lol* Instead of using a regular stereo head unit, I'm going to run my stereo off a Tablet, like this one:



That way, you don't need to pay for a small screened Garmin or TomTom unit, pay for the upgrades, pay for this,
pay for that. You can have full flexibility and a camera to record day to day driving and offroading
adventures, etc. It'll have your GPS and slew of other features, as well.

Using this to play the music: http://androidcommunity.com/poweramp...roid-20101022/
Using this for regular voice commands: http://www.vlingo.com/demo/screenshots
And using Google Maps for GPS

All on a big, clear 7" touchscreen that's portable.

Since we can't really use our rearview mirrors, I'm going to fabricate a mount out of a case so that I can change it
to whichever of my 2 vehicles I'm driving.

Then, you get a car charger and hard wire it in. Get a 3.5mm to RCA cable and run it to an EQ, which I picked up
and posted about earlier. Then run your EQ to your amps like you normally would so your input source is the Tab. CarPC goodness on
the cheap and tidy w/out the need to permanently alter anything. Forget Ford/Microsoft
Sync and all that stuff. This is a more efficient way to do more.

[eternal21]

So today I played with the phone settings. The app was set to take the lowest grade video, so I set it to take 720x480, which is the same as the Galaxy Tab. After I did that, the video quality changed dramatically. Below are the 2 videos I shot, and you can't really tell which one is shot in 720p and which isn't. I checked the frame rate, and one shot in 26fps, the other 29fps.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X5NuZCXxHU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4f2-WtKL-Q


Here's what the app looks like on the device screen: