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Is your tablet gathering dust yet ?
BrokenArrow
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Daughter and wife both desperately wanted Samsung Galaxy tabs.
Neither now being used, what a waste of money.
Neither now being used, what a waste of money.
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Tablets will come in at no.6
3d TV no.5
For example, could you imagine contributing to this forum without a proper keyboard?
Haven't used mine for weeks! Occasionally, I use it for listening to BBC iplayer radio broadcasts in bed but not very often, and that's about it. Waste of space really, but nobody can accuse me of not at least trying to 'get with it'!
My 2012 Nexus 7 is used most days. I wouldn't swap it for a laptop or desktop but it's still useful to have, especially when travelling.
I guess it varies for everybody. In my case the tablet is used every single day. It's the laptop that's more neglected of late. I prefer the desktop for serious work.
Similar. I was working on the laptop, but i sorted out an office environment, and now i am using the desktop for work.
Most of the time it's just for browsing and it'd be a waste to fire the laptop up.
I also read in bed with it.
But if you have a galaxy tab gathering dust i wouldn't mind making you a sensible offer for it.
Think I'd like a more powerful tablet now, but apart from that, I wouldn't be without it.
I'm quite happy to use it for posting on here, but it doesn't play nicely with the posting boxes in some forums for some reason.
Wouldn't be without my desktops either though.
It's laptops that I don't have much use for.
I brought my Playbook in 2011 and I still use it every single day, it is one of the most used products I have ever purchased.
Bozza
main email tool,as well as checking the news,weather etc,and storing phone
numbers and emails of friends and family! I use my PC every day still, but the
Hudl is checked for mail every hour or so, as I run a small musical venture that
gets constant traffic by mail!
And for the person who said that you can't type on forums, I do it all the time with my iPad. In fact I'm typing this on my iPad!
It's not a laptop/desktop replacement but I use my laptop less and less these days. I probably only use my laptop once or twice a month, yet I use my tablet everyday.
I don't know if it's just because android tablets are lower quality in the hardware therefore fail to register key presses or register them slightly off, I don't know, but it's true. Or maybe the touch response is just quicker, I don't know. Even more ironic is the fact you can change the keyboard on the droid so in theory you could improve things, but it never does.
I use my tablet at work mainly when it's quiet, it's a nice discrete portable computer for surfing, reading, watching TV etc and playing games at home. Laptops are too big to want to take to work for casual use and the battery life can't hold a candle.
My only wish is that I got a tablet with more storage, but it was my girlfriends old retina mini which I knew to be flawless in operation so I didn't necessarily want to risk getting something bigger that had faults.
Yet when I had my droid tablets, they were usually glitchy or unpolished enough for me to not want to use them. The closest I found to acceptable was the z2 but even that is a distant second best to the ipad for the things that matter to me personally. People always bang on about how you can get more done on a droid, but yet isn't that what the laptop is for?!
My playbook is the kids video player of choice. HIgher quality screen and speakers than my 2012 N7, and 64gb storage that means that they have all the star wars, raving rabbids and other random videos that they could ever want to watch ....
For general browsing a tablet is way preferable to a laptop; prior to having one I did think that they were a solution looking for a problem, but their sheer convenience is brilliant. My youngest uses his Hudl for gaming (preferable to a Nintendo DS in his eyes). Oldest uses his for Skype while he plays Minecraft on his laptop.
They aren't even slightly in the same category as 3D TV.
Dave
I changed to a 5 inch display phone and find I can now use that more than a tablet for browsing, in fact on the train into London which i do a lot I don't take a tablet now.
However, if I need to do something a bit more intensive then I will use a tablet or my laptop, especially for typing on. Tablets are just not designed for that, people think of them as a laptop replacement but they're not.
Have had the iPad 2, 3 and now the 64gb Air. Used all day everyday for everything except banking. Load video and download BBC iPlayer programs for travelling too. Ebay is so much easier on iPad and wife uses her in combination with the Kindle for reading lots of books. Has replaced news papers, magazines sketch pad, camera and more.
MacBook Pro is gathering dust and MacMini is used occasionally. If iPad was lost or broken would have to get immediate replacement. Best piece of tech ever invented.
A 5" phone is still a pretty massive compromise over even a small tablet, an 8" tab has about 2.5 - 3x the screen area of a 5 inch phone. Then there's the battery life. Although relatively poor for a phone, the battery life on my nexus 5 is literally nowhere near a decent tablet, which may be a problem in a long trip where you don't have access to a power socket to charge, not to mention it keeps your phone fuller for longer by not needing to be used so much.
I agree they aren't laptop replacements but I'm starting to think my ancient Lenovo is all the laptop I need for the rare occasions I need to do something more than a tablet can manage instead of the expensive ultra book that I have a fair bit of cash tied up in...
It is but for a large part of the time I can live with it. Putting it next to an old 3.5 inch screen or even a 4 inch screen and I couldn't do it, but now I can get by, but yes for more relaxed viewing and some typing then a tablet is better as I'm using right now.
I've also used my old Playbook to deliver powerpoint presentations rather than lug a laptop around.