Tablet for receiving BT5 LR coded

[Steve J]

I am developing an application that involves an nRF52840 transmitting Bluetooth 5 LR coded phy and need an Android tablet to run the receiving app on. There seems to be very little information out there as which tablets a) support extended advertising and coded, and b), are good at it. I just returned a Samsung A7 Lite which has yeses in the right places on the nRF Connect Device Information screen, but in reality only receives a coded message every few seconds when I need it to pick up multiple messages a second.

Any recommendations? Preferably < 150 £/€.

[Joakim Jakobsen]

Hi.

Maybe you will receive some input on other customers and their experience with different tablets.

I don't really have a suggestion for you other than that you could check the bluetooth listing for the different tablets to see which BT5 features they support.

Also there is a previous ticket listing some of the phones/tablets with long range support. Note that it is a little outdated.
RE: Is there any smartphone with supporting of Bluetooth 5 Long Range feature?

Br,
Joakim

[Steve J]

Asking the manufacturers is a waste of time. They either don't answer or you end up dealing with a 1st line support person who doesn't understand the question. Nokia basically told me that I should only be running apps that they ship with the device. Even if the tablet says that it does extended and coded (yeses in RF Connect for Mobile) the reality may be that it doesn't do it very well. The Samsung A7 Lite only picks up a coded message every few seconds.

I have bought and returned two tablets in the last few weeks.

I have seen that ticket and another similar one. As you say, they are dated and, in any case, I don't want a 'phone. Ideally I want a 7 or 8" tablet.

I think that I am going to end up using an old netbook running Linux with an nRF52840 in a USB port.

[Joakim Jakobsen]

Steve J said:

Asking the manufacturers is a waste of time.

What I really meant was to check the bluetooth listing; 

https://launchstudio.bluetooth.com/Listings/Search 

From there you can check if the device is registered with coded_phy support. 

Br, 
Joakim