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Lap Top VS Pads ? My opinion is : rubbish ..! Yes 'Tablet ' is a desperate ideal to compete in the ever fierce competition in the lap top industries!
App? nonsense .. stupid product that cant even make a phone call without subscribing to expense mobile co.'s contract !
Budiman
You must understand the capabilities of the device you purchase. Why do you want to purchase them? Laptops are portable computers which can be quite heavy on the shoulder if you carry the power cable and transformer unit with it. If you only surf the internet and do lots of word processing, maybe a lighter netbook is good enough. I use a laptop for most work in the office and my missus uses a netbook. I use an ipad2 for quick surfing and mainly for reading my pdf reference books as I find that I do not need to carry thick heavy science references when I only need the pdf versions. I sometimes scan some of my books and convert them into pdf formats using Acrobat Reader Professional. The ipad reads these pdf files quite well and fast too. I have a collection of Prevention magazines, Reader's Digest, Popular Science. Discovery Magazines and my collection of MAD Magazines in pdf formats which I couldn't buy before. The Samsung Galaxy Tablets, the version 10.1 and 7.7, are useless for this task as I had them briefly but sold them off as they are so slow to flick the pages. You can read magazines and news features with the ipad2 using Flipboard and I use this as my daily fix of latest science and intech news.Originally Posted by Anthony Bo Eng
Oh, yes, I have a Barnes & Nobel Nook ebook reader which I use to read my favourite John Grisham and Michael Crighton epub books.
So, my point is...understand what you need the device for. Don't just buy one because everyone buys one.
“Mastering modern technology is easy; even a Neanderthal can do it...” Besitai 2012
SETIAKawan
I have a laptop , a tablet and a smartphone ... I used all of them for work and play as well ... the laptop is good when we need to do serious work ( microsoft office type applications , printing ) .... tablet is for quick referencing when I meet up clients at work .... ( can't carry the laptop all the time ) and lastly the smart phone to keep appointments and also as a GPS .....
Different equipment ... different usages .... can't expect one product to do all ? I don't think technology is there yet ....
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hmmm...I might miss the big picture ..
Administrator
I am sorry but you are a bit behind the times. Actually the tablets are getting to cover a lot of the tasks you mentioned. The trick is to find the right app. Did you know they also sell keyboards for tabs? and have you seen people holding the tab 7 to their ear answering a call? I have. Looks rather awkward but yes, the tablet do have phone functions. Actually I'd rather use a blue-tooth earpiece.
And btw, all these aren't anything new... you were probably still playing marbles in the sand when some of us were using Palmtop devices in the 90's. Those devices are not very different from the tablets nowadays, only smaller. Phone calls? No problem, depending on the model. And my Palm could even handle Microsoft Office documents and has a great hand-writing recognition application which is certainly faster than typing on the virtual/digital keyboards on the tablet screens today
Budiman
I had the Galaxy Tab 7.7 for a short while and I found that it won't pair with my older blue-tooth 2.0 earpieces (including my Sony-Ericsson HBH-PV740) due to the higher Honeycomb Android OS and newer Blue-tooth software (told by my vendor who tried to pair them with my Tab). My aging Samsung Galaxy S GT-I9003 could pair with these devices until its OS was upgraded from Froyo to Gingerbread. After that, I couldn't pair them anymore. Any solution, besides throwing away the old devices?
“Mastering modern technology is easy; even a Neanderthal can do it...” Besitai 2012
Budiman
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great stuff!
Budiman
Downgrade the OS from Gingerbread back to Froyo. If that is not possible you can root the device and try a different ROM. A word of warning though, you could brick your device which could prove far more expensive than getting a new Bluetooth earphone.
Budiman
marc0...thanks for the advice but I.ll rather not root my Galaxy S (although the thought is tempting as that will allow a lot of applications to run in my old phone), but junk my Bluetooth devices instead. Don't know if the new Galaxy S3 will pair with my old bluetooth devices as the Icecream Sandwich may not be compatible with these old devices. Thought of upgrading. Any report of incompatibility with old bluetooth devices?
“Mastering modern technology is easy; even a Neanderthal can do it...” Besitai 2012
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