Tripntx
lvl.2
United States
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As a new drone pilot, I stressed for several days over which tablet to purchase after I preordered my MM, especially since I have never owned a tablet or apple product before. I was able to find Wi-Fi only iPad Mini deals at Costco & AAFES, but the lack of GPS is what caused me to stress, and the cost for a cellular version was to steep.
In the end I finally purchased a Huawei MediaPad M5 8.4" with 4GB RAM + 64GB ROM, and added a 256GB mSD card. The Mediapad M5 is a great tablet. The display is bright, has excellent resolution, and the GPS works.
As a dedicated tablet, I have been flying my MM with a MediaPad M5 8.4" every day since Nov 11th. On the morning of Nov 14th I had issues getting it to connect. Not exactly sure, but the evening before I had turned on 'developer mode' but hadn't changed any settings in it, and I had installed MS office. Performed factory reset that morning, and have been flying MM Huawei MediaPad as the interface multiple times a day since then without any further issues.
The Huawei MediaPad M5 8.4" has an extremely nice display, the video is not stretched like it currently is on iPad Mini, and it doesn't seem to place as much of a drain on the Remote Controller battery as so many people led you to believe about android devices.
A couple of days ago, I performed one hour worth of flying (three flights approx. 20 minutes each) without recharging the controller. It had one solid led, and a second flashing led. The second led didn't start flashing until approx. 55 minute flight time, which means it enough battery in the RC for more flying. |
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