Nice to see a number of people telling about their actual real-world experiences, I hope these reports keep coming. In theory any device with wifi and a browser will do the job, after a fashion. But some end up just being easier than others.
When buying a tablet for e-target viewing use, the amount of storage (e.g. 16GB vs. 32GB vs. 128GB) doesn't matter.
It is nice to have a fast processor, and good battery life and a bright screen are really useful.
If you are in a store considering a tablet to buy for use with an SMT system, if you have access to the internet you can always go to the silvermountaintargets.com website and run the "simulator" on the tablet you are considering buying, so as to see if that particular tablet has any funny or objectionable quirks (direct link is http://support.silvermountaintargets.com:4000/ ). Then again most big-box stores have pretty generous no-questions-asked return policies, in case you buy a tablet and find that it is objectionable for some reason or other (for example, two or three years ago the native browser on Samsung devices tended to use up nearly 40% of the vertical area with useless non-scrollable browser bits.... thogh I don't think this is a problem with the Chrome browser, which is available for almost any device nowadays).
Apple devices tend to be expensive but they all seem to work very well with SMT e-targets, both with their Safari browser as well as with "Chrome".
For what it's worth the SMT software developers use "Chrome", so things usually work quite well with the Chrome browser. Browser quirks always show up, e.g. Firefox and others, we do try to fix these as soon as we find out about them.
When buying a tablet for e-target viewing use, the amount of storage (e.g. 16GB vs. 32GB vs. 128GB) doesn't matter.
It is nice to have a fast processor, and good battery life and a bright screen are really useful.
If you are in a store considering a tablet to buy for use with an SMT system, if you have access to the internet you can always go to the silvermountaintargets.com website and run the "simulator" on the tablet you are considering buying, so as to see if that particular tablet has any funny or objectionable quirks (direct link is http://support.silvermountaintargets.com:4000/ ). Then again most big-box stores have pretty generous no-questions-asked return policies, in case you buy a tablet and find that it is objectionable for some reason or other (for example, two or three years ago the native browser on Samsung devices tended to use up nearly 40% of the vertical area with useless non-scrollable browser bits.... thogh I don't think this is a problem with the Chrome browser, which is available for almost any device nowadays).
Apple devices tend to be expensive but they all seem to work very well with SMT e-targets, both with their Safari browser as well as with "Chrome".
For what it's worth the SMT software developers use "Chrome", so things usually work quite well with the Chrome browser. Browser quirks always show up, e.g. Firefox and others, we do try to fix these as soon as we find out about them.