Posted on 11/24/2014 10:12:22 AM PST by Chickensoup
Yes I know I am the ONLY Freeper who does, but what the heck?
Just get a Surface...I’ve seen the surface Pro and its pretty awesome if pricey...nice to have the advantages of a laptop and a tablet...
One more thought: Vonage has an HD voice app for smartphones:
http://www.mgraves.org/2012/07/making-use-of-wideband-voice-right-now-vonage-mobile/
MAN that looks good!
Our family has 3 Kindle Fires and two Fire phones. We love them.
Never had a problem with any and they do waaay more than we ever need.
Pad Thai
it surely is.
I’m also a MS fan. I have a Surface Pro 2 tablet and it is great. I would suggest that the Surface Pro 3 is also a good way to go from everything I’ve seen in trying it out.
If you do a *lot* of reading, I highly recommend the Kindle Paperwhite. It is purely for book reading, but it does this one thing really well; runs about 3 weeks on one battery charge, bright display even in sunlight, very light, about $120.
By the way, I also have an Apple iPad Mini, which I love for browsing, email, podcasts, or watching movies.
Check out the Dell Venue 8 Pro Microsoft tablet.
You can buy a smartphone like a Samsung Galaxy Note 3 and just don’t buy any phone service with it. It will connect to wifi anywhere you go and you can check email and surf the net and download ebooks. You also have the added benefit of being able to call 911 just in case you need it.
For later.
I thought you had to buy the service with the phone.
There are “2 in 1s” using Microsoft 8.1 from Dell, HP, Lenova and others from Best Buy for around $400 for 11 inch screens.
They flip over to become a tablet, then flip back to a conventional keyboard.
They have wifi. Some are only solid state, and some have a conventional hard drive, and some have both.
Go to a shopping site where you can see lots of available models, such as Amazon.com (there are others). Pick the tablet size you want. Next pick the best screen resolution you can afford. Next pick the most amount of memory you can afford. Decide if you want both front and back cameras. Get rid of the android OS tablets since you seem to not like those for some reason. Sort the remaining filtered tablets by price from low to high. The lowest priced one meets your requirements, but you might want to also filter based on the processor speed.
We have an andoid, kindle, and surface. For your purposes, probably the android or kindle. Cost, android will probably be your best bed.
Pros:
Android is cheap, and will do what you want. More customizable like a smart phone (same OS).
Kindle is relatively cheap and will definitely meet your desires of checking email, web browsing, reading books (and watching videos).
Surface is the whole package really, a scaled down laptop computer.
Cons:
Android - google.
Kindle - not customizable, not as large app library available, but it is getting better.
Surface - lot of money for just an email checker.
I bought three Kindle Fires for the price of one iPad.
I have a first-generation Kindle Fire... well, had, as I gave it to my eldest son and got a regular Kindle because I only used it as a reader anyway, and the basic Kindle is much smaller, lighter, and lasts longer on a charge.
I found the Fire pretty underpowered, but that was just the first-gen model and the newer ones are supposed to be much better.
Buy anything else and you'll take your chances about whether the manufacturer will care about it after six months since they're now pushing something newer. And don't expect much in the way of future upgradability or software compabatility. The mobile malware, however, is free. :)
Check out Dell.com. Right now they have a number of tablets from $100.
Far prefer my tablet over using my smartphone for internet etc.
Samsung has a 12.2 tablet now, but it is very expensive. I have a Motorola Xoom and love it. I prefer the 10” tabs over the 7’s. But, that is my preference.
This weekend will be an ideal time to get a tablet.
Nope. Pay cash for the phone and you own it.
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