Tablets/iPads

I like my iPhone. It has an ok speaker phone but it has a LED flash for alerts so incoming calls, notifications, and any messages under hearing accessibility. Texting can be weird if you aren't used to a touch screen but its easy after a few days.
 
I am sitting on my bed, typing on AD and just ping from one app to another while watching TV. All on my tablet. It is great for those who can handle multitasking. With apps, there is no need to type out the website ..just click on the icon and u are right into the website u want to me like for example, Bank of America...I just click on the BOA icon and it take me straight to my bank accounts.
 
Lau2046 said:
I'll have to look into this more. Right now I'm trying to justify the purchase. If you have a desktop and a laptop, why does anyone need a tablet? For the moment, the most critical thing I need to is to get a working cellphone that is deaf friendly. I need something with a loud speaker phone, easy keyboard for texting and, God willing, a light to alert me to incoming calls. I don't always have the phone on me to feel any vibrations. If I do decide to try a tablet, I've been hearing good things about the iPad so I might explore this more. There's an Apple store at my local mall so I'm sure anyone of the employees could show me some of the features....if I can justify the expense....thanks for the feedback folks.

Laura
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One great thing is you can take it to bed with you and read or play games much more easily than with a laptop!
 
Bottesini said:
One great thing is you can take it to bed with you and read or play games much more easily than with a laptop!
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Now you people have me curious....just might browse the Apple store to get an idea of how stuff works. BTW, thanks for the tip about the iphone giving visual alerts. That's what I'm looking for when my current contract is up.
 
I love my iPad3. I especially love the long battery life. The only drawback is not being able to open the full version of some websites easily.
 
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iPad is fun but it doesn't have a USB for flash drive unless , I am missing something here.
 
Lau2046 said:
Now you people have me curious....just might browse the Apple store to get an idea of how stuff works. BTW, thanks for the tip about the iphone giving visual alerts. That's what I'm looking for when my current contract is up.
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It does semi give people a hard attack because they aren't used to seeing an iPhone flash haha but it's really handy for me!
 
Lau2046 said:
I'll have to look into this more. Right now I'm trying to justify the purchase. If you have a desktop and a laptop, why does anyone need a tablet? For the moment, the most critical thing I need to is to get a working cellphone that is deaf friendly. I need something with a loud speaker phone, easy keyboard for texting and, God willing, a light to alert me to incoming calls. I don't always have the phone on me to feel any vibrations. If I do decide to try a tablet, I've been hearing good things about the iPad so I might explore this more. There's an Apple store at my local mall so I'm sure anyone of the employees could show me some of the features....if I can justify the expense....thanks for the feedback folks.

Laura
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You can use it in the kitchen, in the garden, or whatever else your intention may be. The main selling point from desktops and laptops is something light, can be always on, and portable viewing for $200-400 bucks. You'll need to justify yourself if that is worth the price.

The iPhone you can set up the camera flash to light up for notifications like lovezebras mentioned. The iPads don't have any option for notification lights.

Contrary to what you might feel, writing is harder on bigger screens than it is on smaller ones. You will probably type (average person gets) 25-40 words per minute (wpm) on something 10" screen. Phones smaller than 4-5" screen tend to get faster wpm because of more hand coverage. If you are not used to touchscreens, you might develop the gorilla arm issue with larger devices. (Gorilla Arm defintion)

Are you looking to use the iPad as a phone replacement?
 
naisho said:
Are you looking to use the iPad as a phone replacement?
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No, nothing will replace the phone, that's essential. I was trying to think of how I might use it, maybe download books? Are people able to download books to the iPad or is that just with Amazon Kindle? As for movies, I can only imagine what the sound might be like in something that size. One of the advantages of desktops is you can damn near have a home theater with the speakers you can buy. Do people watch movies with the tablets too? I can't imagine how they could do this in the office and not be heard.

What started me on the tablets was when I saw a coworker at my past job using the tablet in the office. I'm sure he was just surfing the Net and checking his emails. At the federal level, you have no expectation of privacy. We're told never to use their phones for personal calls and that our computer activity is monitored. Given the restrictive work environment, this might be a way around that. Surf where I like and not worry about Big Brother breathing down my neck.

The phone is going to be the next purchase and I'm leaning toward the Samsung line....but who knows in a few months, something else might show up with the tablet/Kindles and I'll be back at square one...:hmm:

Laura
 
Don't forget. Unless you have wifi available (like at work) you have to pay for a data plan to access the Internet.
I don't have a tablet or a smartphone yet for that reason. I do pay a smaller data plan fee to access my emails, etc, on my wanna-be phone.
 
Lau2046 said:
No, nothing will replace the phone, that's essential. I was trying to think of how I might use it, maybe download books? Are people able to download books to the iPad or is that just with Amazon Kindle? As for movies, I can only imagine what the sound might be like in something that size. One of the advantages of desktops is you can damn near have a home theater with the speakers you can buy. Do people watch movies with the tablets too? I can't imagine how they could do this in the office and not be heard.

What started me on the tablets was when I saw a coworker at my past job using the tablet in the office. I'm sure he was just surfing the Net and checking his emails. At the federal level, you have no expectation of privacy. We're told never to use their phones for personal calls and that our computer activity is monitored. Given the restrictive work environment, this might be a way around that. Surf where I like and not worry about Big Brother breathing down my neck.

The phone is going to be the next purchase and I'm leaning toward the Samsung line....but who knows in a few months, something else might show up with the tablet/Kindles and I'll be back at square one...:hmm:

Laura
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I watch movies or tv shows on my tablet using Netflick.
 
Thanks for the info everyone, this has been helpful. :)

Laura
 
My wife have iPad 2 and I have Dell XPS 12 convertable. My wife love iPad and she hardly use her desktop computer. She got everything what she need but the only remaining problem is some websites may run into difficulty like pull down menu, flashplayer and such.

And for me using Dell XPS 12 because it has all the support I need like USB ports, desktop connection (yes I know iPad has one) and existing work security access. This also have Kindle app installed and I use it to read it in bed. It has lot of nice feature in it but the only problem (well I don't call it "problem") is that battery last half the time as iPhad, but who gonna sit and read for 5 hours straight?? Lot of time that I use this touch pad for little over 2 hours. When I'm done with it and I usually plug the charger in. So, it's not a problem at all. Also this have full blown MS Office 2010 Pro in it where iPad can't There are some software CD that I can install it using portable USB DVD drive with ease.
 
my son has a android tablet and I bought him a bluetooth keyboard and case for it. He use it just like a computer and does his homework on it. He can even print directly to a smartphone capable printer so he can print his homework or study guide sheets.
Pretty neat - just like a laptop.
 
SneakerNet said:
My wife have iPad 2 and I have Dell XPS 12 convertable. My wife love iPad and she hardly use her desktop computer. She got everything what she need but the only remaining problem is some websites may run into difficulty like pull down menu, flashplayer and such.

And for me using Dell XPS 12 because it has all the support I need like USB ports, desktop connection (yes I know iPad has one) and existing work security access. This also have Kindle app installed and I use it to read it in bed. It has lot of nice feature in it but the only problem (well I don't call it "problem") is that battery last half the time as iPhad, but who gonna sit and read for 5 hours straight?? Lot of time that I use this touch pad for little over 2 hours. When I'm done with it and I usually plug the charger in. So, it's not a problem at all. Also this have full blown MS Office 2010 Pro in it where iPad can't There are some software CD that I can install it using portable USB DVD drive with ease.
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How hard is that MS Office 2010 Pro to TAKE OFF. I, for one, have never liked MS Office at all. It is WordPerfect that feels natural to me. I would not want M$ Office taking up space on HD.
 
Jane B. said:
How hard is that MS Office 2010 Pro to TAKE OFF. I, for one, have never liked MS Office at all. It is WordPerfect that feels natural to me. I would not want M$ Office taking up space on HD.
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I used to like WordPerfect long time ago, but with MS Office, it's a corporate wide and sometime there's a formatting issues between WordPerfect and MS Office. Also in our corporation have MS Sharepoint server and MS Project Server will allow to intergrate with our MS Office system. Yeah, it despending on size of HD on Tablet, you can choose limit installation and not have full complete installations. With my Dell Tablet convertable I have 256 GB storage and which is not a problem for me.
 
Some of you said why go with Tablet when you can get a smartphone that does it all.

I had the same thought myself and I was never going to buy a tablet thinking I can do it all same thing on my smartphone but.........

Then I started to realized when I am using my smartphone as my ebook or surf the web etc, battery on smartphone just drains really quick so it not really made to be use like a tablet.

So I bit the bullet and went brought me an Android Tablet which give me 8 to 10 hours battery life, even longer on iPad.

Now me and my wife are hooked to our Tablet, I read in it my bed, use it in my garage to fix truck via googling (Yes I have military graded cover on it), my wife use it in kitchen to keep track of her cooking recepes, my kids are very occupied by the tablet games while we are in waiting room or traveling. NO annoying "Are we there yet???" from them!!!


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Lau, about the speakers, you can plug in any 3.5mm jack (the same one for standard stereo headphones) into virtually 99% of smartphones and tablets.

You can also use speakers for it. Although I think there is a threshhold, they call it ohms or impedance. Some kind of thing related to transfer resistance in the audio terminology. The iPod/iPad and other devices can only transfer so much power thru the audio jack, that when cranking up the speaker past a certain point it becomes "garbage" that the playback is not pure and is scratchy/screechy. You have to look up device ratings from a nerdy perspective to find those ratings.
 
TechBill said:
Some of you said why go with Tablet when you can get a smartphone that does it all.

I had the same thought myself and I was never going to buy a tablet thinking I can do it all same thing on my smartphone but.........

Then I started to realized when I am using my smartphone as my ebook or surf the web etc, battery on smartphone just drains really quick so it not really made to be use like a tablet.

So I bit the bullet and went brought me an Android Tablet which give me 8 to 10 hours battery life, even longer on iPad.

Now me and my wife are hooked to our Tablet, I read in it my bed, use it in my garage to fix truck via googling (Yes I have military graded cover on it), my wife use it in kitchen to keep track of her cooking recepes, my kids are very occupied by the tablet games while we are in waiting room or traveling. NO annoying "Are we there yet???" from them!!!


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That is another thing why my hubby got me a tablet for Christmas 2 years ago. The battery life lasts so much longer on my tablet than on my Android Phone.
 
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