Hi Guys
I’m looking at getting either a Kindle fire or the Nexus 7, my biggest concern is that i’ll want to be able to transfer data via usb from my Mio Cyclo as GPX files. Anyone had any experience with this as i’m worried that there might be some software conflicts like with Apple products, i could go to PC world and ask but i usually get blank expessions in those places! 🙄

without sounding too harsh….

use the search button… we’ve done this a LOT latley and in great depth.

That sounds like very niche usage. Why wouldn’t you connect it to a computer?

My laptops on its last legs and i dont use it for anything more than internet and media so i thought i’d have a go with the tablet! I can still use the missus’ laptop but it’d be nice to use the tablet for GPX. I’ll have a look on here for previous posts, cheers for the heads up.

I have a Nexus 7 and using an USB OTG cable and Nexus media importer app I can mount USB drives etc on the Nexus 7 can copy/stream data. One device I have tried but it failed to mount was my S2 phone. Don’t know if it will work with your cylo, seems to be a bit hit and miss with devices, see troubleshooting section…… http://nexususb.blogspot.co.uk/

For the extra £40 go for the Samsung 10inch tablet on sale at Tesco would be my choice rather than a 7inch one. Not sure about transferring your gpx files

The USB OTG cable can be had for buttons too; I’ve just bought one off Amazon for about four quid.

The resolution on the nexus is a lot better than the Samsung which more than makes up for the screen size IMO.

This is the OTG cable I bought….

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/290782467521

I think your only option for transferring USB files to a tablet is a MS Surface and that costs so much that you could buy a cheap laptop and a Nexus 7.

I thought the Kindle fire was pretty much locked down to the AMazon/kindle eco system,doesnt even have access to the full Google App store.

Nexus 7 rooted. Job done.

I’d pretty much sold myself the Nexus 7 and you guys seem to have closed the deal, cheers. I’ll let you know if the Mio works with it or not!

Why are you rooting, out of interest?

Why are you rooting, out of interest?

I’m a bit of a closet nerd and like doing stuff like that.

Hehe (-:

I’ve not looked into rooting on the Nexus yet, is all. I’ve done it on previous handsets to install custom ROMs, would’ve thought there was less of a need to do that on a carrier-free Google device.

Anyone had any experience with this as i’m worried that there might be some software conflicts like with Apple products

Specifically, out of interest?

Like transferring files over USB, as per the OP?

I posted the best offer I could find (at PC World) in this post yesterday, http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/psa-samsung-galaxy-note-101-tablet-16gb-wi-fi

without sounding too harsh….

use the search button… we’ve done this a LOT latley and in great depth

Why does it matter? are you paying for the server space or something?

Why does it matter? are you paying for the server space or something?

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