I love my Amazon Fire tablet.  Way cheaper than the alternatives, but work quite well.

The only warning I would give for an Amazon tablet is app compatibility.  It simply doesn't have the same apps that are available in the Apple/Android world.  If you have apps that you must use, this might be a sticking point.  If you can do everything through a web browser though, you are good to go (that's what I do).  They have most of the really popular apps, but if you're looking for anything specific, they might not support Amazon. 

The 8 inch is very reasonably priced, and is even cheaper if you wait for one of Amazon's many sales.  They put their own devices on sale all the time.  As long as you don't need a bunch of specific apps, I highly recommend them.  I've never owned a more expensive tablet to compare, but honestly I don't know what else I need.  I use mine almost every day. 

On 8/3/2021 at 2:19 PM, flyinpilot212121 said:

Hi everyone, 

Opposite to the title of this post, I know many use tablets with flight sims..im looking for a recommendation on a decent tablet that would be well priced to simply look at charts and weather forecast. Im not sure I want to dump 300$ on an iPad, looking for something at about 100$ As this tablet will only be used for sim purpose. Any decent tablets on the cheap (I know usually “decent” and “cheap” don’t go hand in hand)

TIA

I use a Huawei MediaPad T5 (I got the 3GB RAM Version)

I use it for charts & to run Touch Portal. It is a decent 10 inch tablet that I picked up new in box for around $120 CDN

Hi,

I use 3 Tablets from china like this one

https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B091F19X27/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Works perfekt on my cockpit

Edited August 4, 20214 yr by sal9000

4 hours ago, anitelite said:

Will an Amazon 8" or 10" Fire tablet work ??

 

3 hours ago, anitelite said:

wife has a 10" Fire tablet.  ... but its no speed demon......

 

2 hours ago, kerosene31 said:

I love my Amazon Fire tablet.  Way cheaper than the alternatives, but work quite well.

No doubting that Fire tablets are generally good value, seeing as they are subsidised by Amazon and effectively lock you in to their ecosystem if you're not confident unlocking them. But they do tend to be lacking in the RAM department, which causes that speed issue.

I should also have added that both the brands I suggested (Vankyo and Teclast) have vanilla Android OSes - absolutely no bloatware to eat up the storage or slow things down. That alone makes them a good deal. They also seem to have pretty decent support and community help which is handy when buying a 'no-name' product.

My first tablet was an 7" Google Nexus (2012, the first edition) and it was fine for the first few years, but now it is a complete snail, often taking several minutes to respond, and that's after resetting and taking off all apps. My 2 current tablets power on in 10 to 20 seconds, are very responsive and literally switch off in under a second.

22 hours ago, irrics said:

What app do you use for connecting MSFS data to FF?

I don't. I just use it for approach plates,I don't really use the GPS feature on foreflight in the air either. Mainly use approach plates, taxi diagrams and WX

I use an iPad air with Navigraph Charts and Simlink.

Hi

I run Remote Flight Cockpit app on my iPad , used it for FSX,P3D & now MSFS.

Works great

Brian

Hiw about a tablet that would run Flight displays from Fenix or PMDG?

The grandkids have Lenovo tablets that seem to work fine.

I got a Samsung GalaxyTab A8, which I use for the EFBs in Fenix and FSL.

I sometimes use Skydemon connected to an android Tablet through MSFS Bridge, but only because I have a Skydemon subscription anyway.
There are a few free moving map apps I believe that can be used in the same way, they arent power hungry programs so even an inexpensive modern android tablet will handle them

Edited October 4, 20223 yr by Pathfinder633