Interesting idea... Mind you, most of the Android car stereo units i've seen are severely underpowered (not much RAM or storage, older, slower processors, etc.).
Why not panel-mount an Android tablet instead?
Good idea plus it comes with back up camera that you can mount in cowl to check engine or see whats in front of taildragger.
Bob
If you were flush mounting a tablet in a panel, you may end up with spotty reception with the internal GPS anyway, so an external one may not be a bad idea. I'd be surprised if an externally mounted GPS on one of the in-dash units didn't appear just like an internal GPS to the OS, so it might be a *better* solution for GPS. If the external GPS is a multi-system unit (A-GPS, GPS, Glonass, etc.).Bare in mind that Android car stereo's have no sensors at all in them. They come with an external GPS antenna for driving but there's no guaranty an aviation app would work with it.
From experience, I can say that a quad-core Android unit with 2GB RAM will not be a "stellar" performer. Yes, it'll work, but you may have issues trying to run more than one app at a time. It may bog down if you start flipping between FltPlanGo and your mail / music / inflight movie app / etc. It's probably not "future proof" either, in that going to Android 7 may not be possible, and it may not have an SD slot for more memory (although it probably does with that large box on the back).Yup... http://a.co/iEKmm6E this one is 1920×1080 pixels videos, Quad Core Intel SoFIA 3GR CPU, DDR3 2GB Ram & EMMC 32GB Rom, more storage(ram) for Apps and Others.
Just a data point that i'm familiar with as I just bought one:At $400, it's also not "cheap" (by car stereo standards) but it's cheap compared to anything you'd install in a panel.
It's not easy. I had a 1st-gen Nexus 7 as well, that eventually got too slow to run FltPlanGo, and I sold it about 9 months ago. I have been looking for more than a year for it's replacement. nVidia and Google have both been rumoured to be releasing updated 7-8" tablets "any time now" but nothing has been forthcoming for the last year. Eventually my desire for a replacement outpaced my patience and I hunted around until ending up with the S2.How the heck do you keep up with all this stuff, Rob? My Gen 1 Nexus 7 is sitting her gathering dust. I wonder what I'll use to replace it. I'll ping you to get an update before I'm ready to buy!
(shipped)
What am I missing? What's the advantage?