Tablet users: what do you take the tablet for?

[Pogo]

Here's a really elementary question.

What good are tablets? Or iPads?

I'm seeing deals on this tablet, that tablet, the other tablet so I looked into what they do to see what I'm missing. I haven't found out yet.

OK I see where I could get e-mail portability. I already carry a laptop and it's just not important enough to see e-mail all the time.

I see where I can get GPS service. I already have a GPS.

I see where I can carry documents. That's useful but I already have a Nook.

I have no interest in games, and videos/photos can wait for the laptop.

What's left? What do these things do that nothing else does?

 

[Bleipriester]

If it has a mirror app, I´d use it as mirror.

 

[Pogo]

If it has a mirror app, I´d use it as mirror.

Yup - that one works even with the power off.

 

[Chuckt]

I ran out of shelf space on my book case so I wanted to buy e-books and they are protected in the cloud. In other words, I can carry a light tablet instead of four or more books on vacation.
The Tablet is useful at places that offer free wifi.
My tablet plays music.
My tablet plays application programs or games.
I have a calculator program for my tablet.
The tablet powers on faster than a computer and it is portable so I can check the internet and read on the couch which you can't do with a desktop because it isn't portable.

A tablet is only as good as the store it is built on so you might as well research the stores that support different tablets.
The New Kindle Fire HD has a mini to tv HDMI connector so you can watch movies. I think you get certain free movies and television programs with Amazon Prime.
The Kindle Fire doesn't work well with email with certain internet service providers if you are doing web based mail because the Kindle Fire's browser is Amazon Silk and only Internet Explorer is supported with some ISPs.

 

[BDBoop]

Here's a really elementary question.

What good are tablets? Or iPads?

I'm seeing deals on this tablet, that tablet, the other tablet so I looked into what they do to see what I'm missing. I haven't found out yet.

OK I see where I could get e-mail portability. I already carry a laptop and it's just not important enough to see e-mail all the time.

I see where I can get GPS service. I already have a GPS.

I see where I can carry documents. That's useful but I already have a Nook.

I have no interest in games, and videos/photos can wait for the laptop.

What's left? What do these things do that nothing else does?

I mostly use mine for being online when I'm tired of having my ass planted in this chair. I also watch Hulu Plus, Netflix, Amazon Prime and XFinity.

 

[Gracie]

Sounds confusing.

 

[Chuckt]

Sounds confusing.

I was at the shore with my Kindle and there was a sale. I was able to place an order with my Kindle.

I was getting free internet from the hotel and the internet kept going out. When I went to play music, my music wouldn't play because some of my music is stored not on the actual device but it is stored on the cloud and couldn't be streamed from the internet to the Kindle. I would have to research this across devices to tell you more about what is going on.

It is easier to read the internet with a seven inch device than a smart phone unless you are reading with an app (application).

The other danger is that the Kindle is glass and is possible to break. I bought a cheap cover at Five Below that gives some protection and I have a second cover. You just have to be careful with them but I haven't broken mine yet.

I took my Kindle out and I was able to finish my first E-book (electronic book). I also find that I can get a price deal on some books but I actually prefer paper books over electronic.

You can also view your webcam on the Kindle because there is an app for that.

 

[flacaltenn]

Dont expect to enjoy usmb from a tablet. Its like writing a novel on a fischer price toy

Not great fkr worki g or producing anything. If you want to just read or dont mind watchi g media wkth poor sound have at it. Pardon the typing im on a tablet. Only took 15 minutes to post this...

 

[BDBoop]

USMB works fine for me on my iPad, and I only have the 1st gen. I don't use tapatalk.

 

[Ringel05]

I stopped using tablets when paper was invented.........

 

[Pogo]

I stopped using tablets when paper was invented.........

Interesting. I always thought you were a chiseler.

 

[Connery]

I bought an iPad Retina as I wanted to be portable. I was always carrying around my 9 pound (4.08233 kg) laptop when I traveled. A pain to be sure. I went to the Apple store and I asked a great many questions and was told what I wanted to hear, not what I needed to hear and purchased the item. To say the least I was pissed, except that I got so many discounts and promos from the place I purchased it was more like a toy than anything else. Fact is I was looking to switch from windows to mac and Apple lost a customer.

I bought an Asus Windows 8 Notebook which runs full programs, has Bluetooth which serves as the foil to the app running iPad.

Having said all that, I have discovered the iPad does serve a great purpose when I am recording my performances, taking pics(does not replace my wonderful camera), checking stuff at USMB ( no long communication), apps for my son which are both fun and educational and scrabble for me. Tapatalk was a waste of money for me.

Avalon Beach NSW, Australia Sunrise (Taken with my iPad)

 

[Pogo]

I bought an iPad Retina as I wanted to be portable. I was always carrying around my 9 pound (4.08233 kg) laptop when I traveled. A pain to be sure. I went to the Apple store and I asked a great many questions and was told what I wanted to hear, not what I needed to hear and purchased the item. To say the least I was pissed, except that I got so many discounts and promos from the place I purchased it was more like a toy than anything else. Fact is I was looking to switch from windows to mac and Apple lost a customer.

I bought an Asus Windows 8 Notebook which runs full programs, has Bluetooth which serves as the foil to the app running iPad.

Having said all that, I have discovered the iPad does serve a great purpose when I am recording my performances, taking pics(does not replace my wonderful camera), checking stuff at USMB ( no long communication), apps for my son which are both fun and educational and scrabble for me. Tapatalk was a waste of money for me.

Avalon Beach NSW, Australia Sunrise (Taken with my iPad)

Ah feel your pain, bruh.

I'm starting to turn my affections away from the aforementioned Nook -- first they told me it would read docs, which was a selling point as I'd use that feature for work. It wouldn't. After a couple of calls to Customer Service they admitted it doesn't, only PDFs. OK, I can do that conversion, though it's an extra step... now it's now refusing to shake hands with any comptuer, even this brand new one, so I can convert docs to PDF all day but I can't load them.

The worse news is the reason I have a new laptop is that the old one obliterated itself after two years, and even when it was running was full of issues. Worst POS I've ever had. And it was an Asus. I'll never buy that brand again, it was that bad.

 

[Connery]

Based mon the price I pad and the benefits my son is garnering from the iPad in the final analysis I am happy with the purchase. Same with the Asus it has touchscreen which I like. I use an HP 23" All-in-one with Windows 8 touchscreen which I am very pleased with as I can blow up my photos and get very fine details I use for editing and such.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Reading. I have a Kindle Fire. Probably 80% of what I use it for is reading.
Other than that, I am subscribed to two online magazines, very good for viewing those.
Games work well on them, as long as they are relatively simple.
The video quality is very good. It also has quite good sound coming from the audio output, and the speakers are surprisingly pretty decent - better than most laptops.
So in a nutshell - reading on a laptop is terrible on your eyes, and uncomfortable as hell. A tablet's screen is designed for reading. Watching videos is, I think, better also in bed as a laptop lying down is not that comfortable and you have to have the screen just right - whereas a tablet has the same video quality from any angle.

 

[Pogo]

Reading. I have a Kindle Fire. Probably 80% of what I use it for is reading.
Other than that, I am subscribed to two online magazines, very good for viewing those.
Games work well on them, as long as they are relatively simple.
The video quality is very good. It also has quite good sound coming from the audio output, and the speakers are surprisingly pretty decent - better than most laptops.
So in a nutshell - reading on a laptop is terrible on your eyes, and uncomfortable as hell. A tablet's screen is designed for reading. Watching videos is, I think, better also in bed as a laptop lying down is not that comfortable and you have to have the screen just right - whereas a tablet has the same video quality from any angle.

I didn't get the impression that tablets were using a "passive" technology like e-Ink (?) -- the glare of staring at a laptop screen after a day of correcting everybody who's wrong on USMB is one way the Nook is a relief from all that. I'm sure there are variations of course.

Useful info about the practicality aspects though. Thanks.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Reading. I have a Kindle Fire. Probably 80% of what I use it for is reading.
Other than that, I am subscribed to two online magazines, very good for viewing those.
Games work well on them, as long as they are relatively simple.
The video quality is very good. It also has quite good sound coming from the audio output, and the speakers are surprisingly pretty decent - better than most laptops.
So in a nutshell - reading on a laptop is terrible on your eyes, and uncomfortable as hell. A tablet's screen is designed for reading. Watching videos is, I think, better also in bed as a laptop lying down is not that comfortable and you have to have the screen just right - whereas a tablet has the same video quality from any angle.

I didn't get the impression that tablets were using a "passive" technology like e-Ink (?) -- the glare of staring at a laptop screen after a day of correcting everybody who's wrong on USMB is one way the Nook is a relief from all that. I'm sure there are variations of course.

Useful info about the practicality aspects though. Thanks.

I can only speak for the Kindle Fire of course, it does not use e-Ink like the kindle reader or nook. However, like right now the text on the screen while I am typing is kind of blurry, this is due to the rather large pixels that make up the text on a PC. Also the background on a computer is way too white.
On a tablet, the first thing you see is the text is smoother, due to a much smaller/finer pixel size. Also the background "paper" has a blueish-gray to it. Not as brite white as the background of a laptop. Much easier on the eyes.

 

[Samson]

I stopped using tablets when paper was invented.........

Interesting. I always thought you were a chiseler.

Ringel's More like a Pecker.

 

[Samson]

I have all my files on a laptop, and use Iphone for email.

That leaves only one reason to have the notebook:




Internet Porn

 

[Dot Com]

I just got a Nook HD+ last week and its great- 9" HD screen[bigger than kindles] reads both pdf& Epub, among others and I get free wi fi in B&N stores, not to mention can pretty much read anything in the store for free while i'm there. Rock bottom price was the clencher for me.