Ballistic Calculators - iOS or Android?

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Well, I'm in need of a new phone and am able to get a new iphone 6s 16gb for 100$ or a new s7 64gb for 100$. The major deciding factor is going to be what ballistic calc app's are avaliable, and work well with either one. Which platform would you choose for ballistic apps? What apps?
 
Samsung with AB Mobile. If you want to be able to plot trajectories for more advanced things like urban prone shooting, don't bother with calculators that don't have an input for horizontal scope offset or ammunition zero offsets.

Just switched from an iPhone. Android is far less buggy, you can set the web browser to automatically go to desktop sites instead of the mobile one, you have a grace period to return apps and get a refund if they suck, there are more apps and better ones, the apps offered on both often come out on Android sooner (as do their updates ), getting photos off and putting music on is as simple as reading/writing to a flash key. It's painful putting things on the iPhone and getting photos off if you're not using a Mac. More bluetooth devices work with Android because Apple requires manufacturers to put a chip in their device in order to talk to the iPhone (why the bluetooth 4500 Kestrel didn't work with the iPhone). Also, the cable is a regular micro USB, and not a proprietary cable that cost $20 and breaks or the phone refuses to connect to every other month. Apple also puts that chip in the cables so inexpensive copies can'be made. On my iPhone 4S (before they added that) I bought cables from the Dollar store because they outlasted the $20 Apple ones.
 
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I moved to Samsung just over a year ago and I'm not going back to an iPhone anytime soon. And Applied Ballistics is my favourite app so far as well.

If you're tech savvy, you will appreciate the features Android brings to the table. You can tweak and tune pretty much anything. Same goes for AB, it was easy to tune to my dope and it's plain fast
 
kombayotch said:
Samsung with AB Mobile. If you want to be able to plot trajectories for more advanced things like urban prone shooting, don't bother with calculators that don't have an input for horizontal scope offset or ammunition zero offsets.

Just switched from an iPhone. Android is far less buggy, you can set the web browser to automatically go to desktop sites instead of the mobile one, you have a grace period to return apps and get a refund if they suck, there are more apps and better ones, the apps offered on both often come out on Android sooner (as do their updates ), getting photos off and putting music on is as simple as reading/writing to a flash key. It's painful putting things on the iPhone and getting photos off if you're not using a Mac. More bluetooth devices work with Android because Apple requires manufacturers to put a chip in their device in order to talk to the iPhone (why the bluetooth 4500 Kestrel didn't work with the iPhone). Also, the cable is a regular micro USB, and not a proprietary cable that cost $20 and breaks or the phone refuses to connect to every other month. Apple also puts that chip in the cables so inexpensive copies can'be made. On my iPhone 4S (before they added that) I bought cables from the Dollar store because they outlasted the $20 Apple ones.
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Good point about the accessories and connectivity issues. Fortunately I have a Macbook pro, so connecting to computer isn't that big of a issue. But the damn cables is a #####, same with bluetooth. My first iphone was a 3g, that damn thing would never connect to my bluetooth speakerphone. since then s4, and now last 2 years blackberry z10 (useless for anything other than secure link to my work email).

I was leaning towards buying AB once I got a new device, it seems that AB on iOS has a bunch of bugs? in some digging the ios version was giving errors while android was good to go after the same update.
 
bsand said:
Well, I'm in need of a new phone and am able to get a new iphone 6s 16gb for 100$ or a new s7 64gb for 100$. The major deciding factor is going to be what ballistic calc app's are avaliable, and work well with either one. Which platform would you choose for ballistic apps? What apps?
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Any 16 gig phone is useless with the cameras on the phones now a days I garantee you will run out of hard drive space within Months go with an iPhone 64gig minimum
 
Agree on the NO 16GB. I haven't had anything less than 64GB since 2009. I have quite a bit of music, and lots of pics.

As for apps and OS, I am an apple slut. I use Strelok (for now) on my 6s, and it's good. I see it has the option to take info from a Kestrel 5000 series, bit who knows if it'll work well???

I know that my iOS will work with the Magnetospeed I just bought (sorry Bsand), my bullseye camera, Strelok, and my drone's software.....

I can't help but acknowledge that Apple is fading since Jobs died, but I still have some PTSD from my pre-apple days in 2007 when I had to reboot my f-Ing Dlink router 6x a day to make it link to my HP laptop.....I know I know, if I knew more about computers and networking I could make it work better than my apple stuff, but I don't know more, and I don't care to know.....
 
Samsung, Applied Ballistics (primarily), Strelok Pro, Bullet Flight, and Shooter.

Not sure if you have taken this into consideration but Kestrel 4500 Meters Bluetooth application only works with Android type of devices (i'm not sure if they have added the iphone support - google it).

If you go with Android this will allow you to load atmospherics via your Bluetooth-enabled Kestrel directly into the Applied Ball app.

Cheers,
 
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I was leaning towards buying AB once I got a new device, it seems that AB on iOS has a bunch of bugs? in some digging the ios version was giving errors while android was good to go after the same update.
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Yes, as far as I know the iOS version still has issues. I talked to Doc about it at LRSE. They are doing the best they can to fix it, but it's difficult as Apples process for getting updates approved is pretty convoluted. Our developers at work complain about the same thing. It's why most major CAD software isn't written for Macs...

I did iPhones 3-5. I still own their stock, not because I like the products, but because they sells to the masses. Their phone was unique when if first came out. Being able to surf the web like a PC appealed to me. But, they've never updated their browser to give the user the options of always going to the desktop site and some sites don't even have the link to get out of the mobile site (which usually sucks) once the phone sends you there. A few browsers like Atomic have the option, but they are full of bugs and crash often. The bugs and the crashing in multiple apps is what really put me over the edge, that and the cables constantly breaking of the phone refusing to recognize them and not letting itself get charged.
 
I haven't used Applied Ballistics yet but does it allow you to email or print custom data charts by changing things such as range increments?

I am wonderig because I like to be able to print off custom data cards to tape to my rifle but with Strelok Pro I can't configure them exactly how I want and have to hand copy all the numbers.
 
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Roddy said:
I haven't used Applied Ballistics yet but does it allow you to email or print custom data charts by changing things such as range increments?

I am wonderig because I like to be able to print off custom data cards to tape to my rifle but with Strelok Pro I can't configure them exactly how I want and have to hand copy all the numbers.
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Sure does. Best part is, I can then connect to a wireless printer at a hotel and print them off!
 
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