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Very cool ray.. But a but unsure on what it's good for.. I mean to use it you need a small screen.. But then it's basically a small desk top..

Cool thinking.. But I can't really see it taking off..

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Very cool ray.. But a but unsure on what it's good for.. I mean to use it you need a small screen.. But then it's basically a small desk top..

Cool thinking.. But I can't really see it taking off..

I think the idea is that you can take it anywhere and effectively have your own PC wherever you go, as long as you can plug it into a screen, TV or whatever. This is one of those things where people start to create stuff that it can be used for, rather than having an end purpose outright.

Cheers

Ray

Would it be any good for having a computer in the dash? Get a 7'' touch screen and use the micro computer to run gps, music, etc.

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You'd have to work out whether it's powerful enough to properly run an Android navigation program. It has a micro-SD card slot, so you certainly have enough memory for maps. The only thing you'd really have to work out is running the screen. You can get independent LCD screens that run off a USB connection, so it's quite possible to do a fair bit with such a device.

Cheers

Ray

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hey Ray, have you ordered a nexus 7 yet. looks promising with gps, Bluetooth, etc. but I wonder what google was thinking with only 16 GB. good price too.

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hey Ray, have you ordered a nexus 7 yet. looks promising with gps, Bluetooth, etc. but I wonder what google was thinking with only 16 GB. good price too.

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I have this ambivalence towards Google products like I do towards Apple; I'd rather own none of them. I'm more than happy with my Gigabyte Windows 7 tablet and if I didn't have that, I'd probably wait for the upcoming Microsoft Surface tablet. Also, I don't really see the need for a 7" tablet, as that's no bigger than the screen on my head unit.

Cheers

Ray

I think a raspberry pi and a nice high quality HDMI touchscreen and some tricky software would make an awsome car stereo. Currently there are some software front ends for Windows based PC's - but these are impracticle for car use, to big and clunky.

Somthing needs to be built from the ground up on hardware like this.

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And then... need to port the ecutalk software to android.... that would be cool.

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Oh yeah, can't wait for that. I wish Peter would loosened up a bit and share the code if he's not willing to do it himself, I'd happily pay for that piece of code.

Cheers

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