Tablet or no?

verizon and att will never have unlimited data. there crap don't stink. and as long as people are willing to pay there high prices. they have no reason to change what's working for them. and you can take that to the bank.

why verizon offered it for that very limited time is beyond me. but i'm sure they are regretting ever doing it. as they are trying everything in there power to push people off the unlimited bandwagon.

 

Well went with the iPhone and am on it now. Made the right choice, still use a kindle fire as my tab though

 

Hey, those of you who have a tablet and use Google Maps, can you click and drag a route to change it? Can you copy/cut and paste using the touch screen? I have been tried to find a Best Buy salesperson who knows how to do it but no success yet... I can do it with a Surface Windows but not going to spend $ 500.00 for that...

 

Rocks, I've got a Galaxy Note 10.1, Google Maps only gives you a few options on routing, not the click and drag. Cut and paste is no problem, especially if I pull out the stylus. I grab the laptop if I have to do a lot a typing/data entry and for my logs (DDL), but for surfing I almost always just grab the tablet. Checking out locations in sat view is far easier on the tablet as well. As pointed out, for sitting around and messing around, the tablet is far more convenient than a laptop.

 

Thank you Hammer... that was all I needed to know. I wish there were some kind of application with Google maps navigation and click and drag capability combined so that one could change their route any way they wanted while in transit and automatically get the mileage, the time of the trip, and check route and locations with satellite view as well.

 

I just went and checked, even in the browser, I could only drag the waypoints around on the tablet. I do most of my route checking with the GPS, I been at this long enough I know what waypoints to put in to compare routes in most places.

 

I thought you said one can't click and drag a route around to change the route... right? So, what do you mean you could only drag the waypoints?

This is what I want to do, for example, using Google Maps, I enter a trip with starting address in Atlanta, GA and ending in Wildwood, GA. It shows route going thru downtown....




...but I change my route in order to go around I-285. So, I click on the route and drag it to where I want.




And automatically get the mileage and time for the trip. This is easy to do using my laptop but can it be done with a tablet?

I have been doing a lot of changing routes with my simple, basic GPS... and it works.. but I would like the convenience and the speed of a tablet... and being able to have a satellite view of my route and the locations as I drive... That would save me time.

 

On the example you gave, if I had entered a stop (but only through the tablet browser, Google Maps app doesn't do multiple stops,) in Atlanta, I could grab that and move it, but not just any point on the route as you can on the laptop. That's what I meant by only the waypoints (stops) could be moved.