What is the cheapest tablet out there the community has found to be good for trainerroad? Need something bigger then my iPhone 8 due to getting old😂 and bad eye sight. Mike

Really? The TR app should have very low requirements - it’s only drawing a few pixels on the screen every second and changing a few numbers… FWIW it works flawlessly* on my five-year-old Google Nexus 7, but I guess that was fairly high-end when it came out. * if you ignore the fact that it’s cras…

Don’t forget that some tablets also natively support ant+ this is ant+ Samsung do a few, the galaxy tab 2 is one I use

I’ll get back to you when I’ve checked, so that you at least know which SOC doesn’t work well enough.

Lenovo Tab 7 1gb didn’t even get through lazy mountain for me without stuttering, using an OTG cable and ant+. My main TR device is an Android Box (H96 Pro). Technically not supported but I downloaded through the play store and am getting all the updates. Only issue I’ve had was half way through Di…

Do Chromebooks work well for TR?

Honestly, find the cheapest iPad you can. Android is a total crapshoot for bluetooth and ANT+ support, especially on the cheaper/lower end. Tablet android is an additional crapshoot for bluetooth support as well. The nightmare of the clusterfuck that is OEM Android, combined with carrier compromise…

Yup, this. I realize Apple devices are more expensive but they (in my experience) tend to have a longer useful life than some cheaper Android devices. Keep an eye on the refurbished and sale section of the Applestore, some good deals can occasionally be had there with the same warranty as new devic…

Lenovo TAB 2, 1.3GHz quad-core MediaTek MT8161 SoC.

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