Perhaps two versions of the earl

[jcmilling]

Use the 4.7 screen but use the form factor of a hand held radio.
- In this version you keep gps, map, and ham and make the antenna more a whip. Drop the solar back but make the battery compartment much bigger and bulkier with the ability to swap up a battery quickly.

Use a 13" screen (yup its bigger but people will like it) - make this more of a map system keep gps, map, and solar. Drop the ham functions. You can make the case have a handle and be bulky more as a protection.

The 13" screen would be able to produce faster since you dont have to deal with ham specifications. You can also add ham ability by using a Bluetooth system.

I have gave up my right to have a strong opinion on this when I asked for my refund 15 days ago but I still wish for this project to succeed.

[AlbertaCowboy]

I'm not going to lie, as a draftsman, I'd LOVE a 13" eInk Android tablet for de-papering structural drawings, but I don't think that the average person is going to want to carry that kind of hardware around as a map unit in the bush. I don't think that a tablet much larger than 7" is practical for ease of portability. Awkward or not, you can still handle a 6" tablet one handed, while there's no way at all that you can use a 13" in one mitt.

[PMR]

Going to 2 extremes would not bring the product we backed to market!