Originally Posted by Woodentop:
“I am thinking of buying a tablet for mainly away from home use. I have a galaxy phone on EE which is very fast on 3G and wonder if the tablet would accept my sim card from my phone to connect just about anywhere to internet, thus saving the extra sim cost. Also, does the tablet allow the possibility to receive calls as does the ipad so I've been told.”
If all you want is internet access, then you can set most smartphones these days as a wifi hotspot, and connect your tablet directly to the phone via wifi. No extra SIM needed. I don't think you can use the normal phone apps, but you can certainly use Skype.
Skype can be used to get/send phone calls on a tablet which does not have 3G provided you have a wifi connection as above (or via any wifi service).
You can get a personal number which if anybody rings that number will connect you to what ever device you are using that has skype connected.