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

[eternal21]

"Video is private" can not be viewed.

Sorry about that...fixed now.

[rowhard]

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

X2

[RamAirZ]

Looks good man. I get what your saying about looking out the windshield but with them at the top of the dash I still felt like I was looking out the windshield, I think staring at it in either spot is "dangerous" and IMO neither is much better than the other but the rearview mount will be alot cooler and be real slick when your finished with it, plus you need room for those gauges

[eternal21]

X2

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:

[stangri]

Sorry, which app is that?

[eternal21]

Sorry, which app is that?

Post 1, http://www.dailyroads.com/voyager.php

[crotchrocket]

I just bought an car bracket for my iPad which is now goint to do my music sat nav etc instead of buying another double din head unit. I think its going to work great

[eternal21]

I just bought an car bracket for my iPad which is now goint to do my music sat nav etc instead of buying another double din head unit. I think its going to work great

Where are you planning on mounting it?

[crotchrocket]

For the short term i just got this, i am going to make a bracket for this to mount on the dash at some point. There arent that many brackets available yet.

[eternal21]

What are you going to do with it when you go out to eat or to the movies and such?

[crotchrocket]

It clips out pretty quick. And I'll just have to carry it or something I gues

[crotchrocket]

I tried this on the way home last night using the Navfree app. Which was completely free and it worked great! even pauses the music to give directions.

[eternal21]

The Tab and 4 channel Class D amp will be here in a few days.

[RamAirZ]

awesome!