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Yesterday my gleaming new 10.1 inch tablet was delivered. All well and good. But now I'm......meh! Why was I lusting after one for so long! :shrug:
 
If you have an iPad, then there isn't a huge amount of difference, you get the widgets but you lose out on some apps.

What stuff do you use that isn't available? (in case there is a different app)
 
Ricardodaforce said:
Yesterday my gleaming new 10.1 inch tablet was delivered. All well and good. But now I'm......meh! Why was I lusting after one for so long! :shrug:
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I must admit I'm feeling distinctly underwhelmed by the iPad. The first thing I tried to do with it (stream music from server to amp) it just can't do in a user friendly way - unlike a windows laptop which can.

I'm hoping it will grow on us for other uses but at the moment it spends a lot of time turned off.
 
If you have an i device, it will only work perfectly in the apple eco system

It will stream music perfectly from iTunes to an apple TV or an airport express.

DLNA? no chance. (Try android for that)
 
Wife has an ipad and to be really fair I still struggle to find a use for it, apart from surfing the net and playing angry birds lol
 
SpikeK6 said:
Wife has an ipad and to be really fair I still struggle to find a use for it, apart from surfing the net and playing angry birds lol
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They are consumption devices, so internet, facebook, some games, reading magazines, newspapers, watching films etc. Tablets excel at this, but that is the limit of them. I have a keyboard dock for my tablet, but never bother and won't bother getting another keyboard for a tablet
 
Ipad controlling DLNA streaming from one source to another player. A friend of mine struggled with this.
 
Tablets are soooo last year (had one, didn't use it, sold it).
 
Ipads seem to be very good for keeping toddlers entertained. I'm not being sarcastic.
 
I was lucky enough to get a cheap HP Touchpad which I've put Android on to, I love it but it has it's limitations. Web browsing is ok but the touchscreen principle doesn't always work very well on some web sites, I can do some basic office type stuff on it but it's not really designed for that and it can become a chore. What it excels at is book reading, light game playing and the odd video/specialist app use (time wasters really).
If I had paid ~£400-500 for it I'd have been disappointed and to be honest I don't see where the high price tag is merited on any tablet device.
Still as I said at the beginning I love my TP and would hate to part with it, I've two laptops that never get used now I've got this, the desktop pc is still used a lot but of course it stays home..

I might buy a RasberryPi and make my own :)
 
granted theyre not for everyone, i think a lot of people bought them because they were popular and didnt have a genuine use.

me for example, my ipad has replaced my laptop. i use mine for browsing, email, music, light film use on the go/laying in bed, ereader, games, got my portfolio on it, model release database app, got a few light editing apps on it etc.
 
I use mine everyday.

I read ebooks on it, listen to music whilst walking to work, show prospective clients my photos, show clients their photos via the hdmi out function, compile orders, use it to run my book keeping and spending, model release form management, emails on the go, keep a copy of all promotional offers on it, keep upto date with sites via rss, keeping diary upto date..

And best of all........ Watch iplayer in the bath!

I haven't turned it off since I got it mid November.....

Granted my phone could do most of this, but battery life not so good, and iPad does all of the above so so well. I wouldn't have taken my laptop half the places I've taken the iPad.
 
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neil_g said:
what has been imagined cannot be unimagined..

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Lol... It's not a pretty sight! And no, I don't hold the iPad above the bath, I rest it on a nearby cabinet :)
 
Saw it described as the one item people really want, but they don't know why or what for

Brilliant marketing though, modern day equivalent of the clairol foot spa
 
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Use my iPad most days, reading books and magazines, listening to audio books, storing/reading/editing work-related documents, music, videos, general Internet, work-related remote connections, specific email, TP on the move, eBay, lecture notes, storing reference encyclopaedias, BBC news, photo editing and storage ...
 
I'm the same, but I do prefer watching my downloaded TV shows without having to convert them and on a bigger screen than my iPhone when I'm on the train. I also have a pdf version of a very heavy textbook that is our bible at uni so definitely worth it for that!
 
stokes said:
Lol... It's not a pretty sight! And no, I don't hold the iPad above the bath, I rest it on a nearby cabinet :)
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Watching a film or streaming TV on my iPad whilst having a shower is like being in one of those fancy hotels where they've got them built into the bathroom walls! I don't tend to spend much time watching the tube. So, it's a great way to multitask!

My iPad is great although it doesn't seem as snappy since installing OS5 onto it. I probably wouldn't be able to tell the difference if I'd never used it pre-OS5, but in certain ways I can perceive a difference.

I'm pretty sure I'll upgrade to the next incarnation of the iPad. The front facing camera will be great for video calls with my baby daughter when I'm out all day :)
 
It is all about the apps, but also about the rest of your systems.

We use ours all the time. My wife doesn't even have a laptop anymore as it does everything she needs. Email/browsing/printing writing occasional letters etc.

I use mine to make process diagrams quick (like with Visio) manage servers remotely. Perform presentations to new clients. Read my news from source that I want using early edition. Have my 10k pages contracts easily to hand. A pack of reference manuals in electronic books etc.

And the children really take to it as well. So easy to synchronise my movies from my own iTunes server for myself or the children on long journeys.

Great device. But got to say have been there on android and older windows machine an the pro apps just aren't there for those devices. Not even such a simple function as reviewing a document and embedding you comments within.
 
Turned into an iPad thread, OP has an Android tablet.

After 7months tablet free after selling iPad, we have a tablet again. Motorola XOOM.
Used often for web/mail and apps - TV and Film and Music. Keeps little ones busy too and with the HDMI cable we can watch films/video clips etc at all family houses on the big screens.
 
Mattwood said:
Turned into an iPad thread, OP has an Android tablet.

After 7months tablet free after selling iPad, we have a tablet again. Motorola XOOM.
Used often for web/mail and apps - TV and Film and Music. Keeps little ones busy too and with the HDMI cable we can watch films/video clips etc at all family houses on the big screens.
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Because beyond what you do on the Xoom it is all about the apps unless you just want a big media player that has been around for years...
 
dejongj said:
Because beyond what you do on the Xoom it is all about the apps unless you just want a big media player that has been around for years...
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And there is LOTS of APPS on Android Market/Slide Market/Amazon Market/user created apks.! (y)

I use lots of apps also - pretty much everything I had on IOS/iPad I have a similar app on Android. That goes for handsets as well.
 
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Mattwood said:
And there is LOTS of APPS on Android Market/Slide Market/Amazon Market/user created apks.! (y)

I use lots of apps also - pretty much everything I had on IOS/iPad I have a similar app on Android. That goes for handsets as well.
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I can't find anything like Flipboard in the Android Market :thinking:
 
Channel caster is another. I had an alpha of it but it was just video based then. Not sure what it's like now.
 
Mattwood said:
Channel caster is another. I had an alpha of it but it was just video based then. Not sure what it's like now.
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As I suspected they are total pants compared to Flipboard and even way poorer than the next best thing Pulse.
 
Ricardodaforce said:
As I suspected they are total pants compared to Flipboard and even way poorer than the next best thing Pulse.
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it is my experience as well, the quality of the apps is just still not there...Let alone proper tablet versions etc..
 
Mattwood said:
:dummy: Some people, never happy.. you just want that app so ask the dev to port...

Pulse is on Android as well tbw
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Pulse is my fave app on my tablet, but as has been said, the quality of app that's available for my wife's iPad is much greater than what's available for my Tab 10.1.
It's just a fact.
 
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