I run a sports club, that meets in a school hall, where we cannot store anything other than the equipment we use.

Recently someone brought along a tablet PC to film his daughter training for her A level syllabus, and we were amazed how easy it was, and how good the quality of the video on screen was.

We have used a camcorder then transferred it to a laptop and it got quite complicated, ensuring all leads were taken along every session etc.

So we have decided this might be a way to go.

At the same time it was thought we could hold a copy of the XLS file showing payments, that could be referred to when parents queried the coaches about whether, or not, they had paid.

Don't know anything about tablets, so can you advise which would be best tablet for these purposes (anything else it can do would be a bonus). Also which App would be best to show (not modify) the excel spreadsheet.

We reckon a budget up to £350.

Thanks

slightly over budget (if you include the keyboard dock) but the full package is well worth it:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B004TB0EX...SIN=B004TB0EXY

you can get it for about £330 without the dock but the keyboard really does bring a huge number of benefits .....

oh and if i recall it comes with Polaris office pre-installed allowing full view and edit of standard xls

You can get the Motorola Xoom now for around £250, I have one and it's brilliant, HD quality video streaming, I can view and edit all my MS Office apps with no problems. Well recommended.

Makes little sense to me apart from the big viewing screen.

Smartphones usually have the best camera lenses but similarly no optical zoom.
You really can't beat just plugging phones into a laptop/netbook for advanced editing.

Excel and everything currently gets more complicated or restricted on a tablet.

There are a couple of free android office apps that can work with Excel spreadsheets.

A decent spec tablet is the Archos G9 8" although the screen is only 8", at £200. There is also the lesser spec Arnova 10 G2 at £150 both available at Maplin.

Second vote for the Asus Transformer.

The Sony S1 is also pretty good.

We have both of these in our family.

You can get the Atrix Laptop c/w free phone for £300 though I'd still say any netbook plus phone is more powerful.

In laptop mode the Atrix webtop OS is supposedly a Ubuntu Linux distribution.

Also very happy with the Asus transformer.

Another vote for the transformer here.

Cheaper then amazon,

http://www.ebuyer.com/262116-asus-tr...c-tf101-1b028a

I just got an archos 101 (10 inch screen) gen 9 for £250 and its great.up to 32 gb sd card support, ice cream sandwich and a full size usb slot hidden in the back case under a sliding panel. Its supposed to be for a 3g dongle but it can fit a flash drive and can read from it.

Maybe a better way would be to buy a cheaper digital camera which saves the video so an SD card which can then just be taken out and put in the laptop/PC.

You would be able to get a much better quality video with proper optical zoom, better sound etc than you would get from a tablet. I would have thought it would be more comfortable to hold as well than a tablet which is not really ergonomic for holding it to filming.

Another vote for the Xoom here. Mine hardly leaves my hands. Has untied me from my desktop for many of the daily tasks I do.