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I've decided I want to get a tablet; I'm looking at getting a 7 inch
I'm going on holiday in October to somewhere where internet access will be scare and I'm terrified about the number of books I'll insist on bringing. I don't want a repeat of the Heathrow Airport incident on the way to Japan
So first I thought about just getting a kindle, then I thought..a tablet so I can use if for pdfs for my roleplaying books, tables etc
At the moment the new Nexus 7 is looking good but it's pricey
What have other people got?
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If you want to read books just get a kindle.
I have one of these:
http://uk.nook.com/tablets/nook-simple-touch
which is OK if you don't mind having something that isn't as good as a kindle. Was mad cheap though.
If you want a proper tablet I'd just get an iPad.
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I bought a ipad mini which does me for books and films
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Re: Buying a Tablet
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Heard good things about the Nexus 7, that or the Samsung Tab 7 (?) or whatever it's called both seem like pretty decent tablets. Google have just brought out a new version of the Nexus 7 which is why it is so expensive - the older version can be picked up for £140.
I would avoid going for anything much cheaper than that as a lot of the really low-end tablets really are pretty rubbish!
I have a Blackberry Playbook - which while a really well built tablet with a pretty good OS which is fine for emails, surfing the web, media and stuff - the number of apps available for it is *severely* limited so don't really expect too much beyond the built-in capabilities (which it does well imo).
Also agree with what Brahms says about if you want to read books - get a kindle instead. If you want a multi-purpose device that maybe isn't quite so good for reading books (because of the screen/battery life/portability) then go for an android tablet/ipad instead.
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Kindle fire you mean. KFs are fine but you need to fix them by installing google play and other stuff to break amazons lock down over them, although thats no especially hard to do afaik. Amazon marketplace is fairly decent but there will be stuff you can't get on there, and its just a plain rude inconvenience not being able to access anything you bought on google play.
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Kindle Fires sound very corporate....don't fancy something so tied in to Amazon
And yes, I thought about a kindle first because I was thinking in terms of reading books but so much gaming material is coming out on pdfs now (the latest edition of Call of Cthulhu that I've got via kickstarter is all on pdf). When I'm running a game I end up having to lug so much stuff around with me.
That's what made me start to think tablet.
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I don't mean kindle fire I mean the kindle with the e ink screen.
Pretty sure you can read pdfs on a kindle though there might be some kerfuffle involved..
For reading text and only reading text, you can't beat e-ink.
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Why brahms, I don't see any advantage to e-ink, its just cheap. You can setup a reader on a real tablet to have the same monochrome colours or something with better contrast.
Except for maybe handling sun glare I guess. But berath is talking about pen and paper rpg, which sunlight is anathema to, so its mostly likely not necessary.
I would have got a nexus 7 but apparently its sensors have lag issues. And i'm a bit wary about trusting google with my hardware and OS nowadays.
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sun glare, battery life, eye strain, cost, size, weight.
If all you want to do is read text it's better.
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Quote from: discordance on August 31, 2013, 11:19:50 PM
I would have got a nexus 7 but apparently its sensors have lag issues. And i'm a bit wary about trusting google with my hardware and OS nowadays.
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Quote from: discordance on August 31, 2013, 11:19:50 PM
I would have got a nexus 7 but apparently its sensors have lag issues. And i'm a bit wary about trusting google with my hardware and OS nowadays.
Well, if you don't trust US companies anymore (understandably), you'll have to install something open source. Afaik this is easiest with google devices.
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Quote from: Brahms on August 31, 2013, 11:33:48 PM
sun glare, battery life, eye strain, cost, size, weight.
If all you want to do is read text it's better.
Size and weight are minor differences. Cost isn't a great comparison because even if all you want to do is read you get more features. Colour for a start and i don't think eink is great for images and tables (will be a lot of tables in those manuals). Sun glare is a pretty specific use case, ie you spend a lot of time getting skin cancer and poncing about reading a tablet in public. Battery life and less eye strain I think are the key big benefits.
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Well, if you don't trust US companies anymore (understandably), you'll have to install something open source. Afaik this is easiest with google devices.
They key bad thing there was trusting an american firm with both your hardware and software, apple are a million times worse and don't even blink handing over data. Google don't care either but they are at least throwing some money at making stuff slightly more transparent. Not like you can trust samsung either as south koreans, and with all the stupid import bans against them in america they are pretty desperate to please. Hardware is the key issue because of the possibility of backdoors in either the propriety drivers or the firmware. AOSP compiled yourself on a finnish device would probably be ideal. Too bad nokia have been shit for years. Their time working with microsoft probably has them totally compromised anyway.
I would have actually suggested RIM with their top end encryption, but as canadians they are part of the alliance, and its already been published they helped bypass their encrpytion (which is rated for government use) with diplomatic spying. Its not just US companies you can't trust its UK/USA/CAN/AUS/NZ and possibly GER/FRA and other undisclosed europeans and any US puppet like korea. Basically screwed, mobile devices are too complicated, miniaturised, propriety and homogeneous.
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The sad thing is none of that is tinfoil stuff anymore now we have evidence. There was a huge gaping security flaw in android discovered about a month into the snowden leaks. Day 0 complete security certificates bypass. Been there since android v1. Who knows what criminals and governments have been using that one. To be tinfoil now you have to get really crazy and start talking about mind rays taking over your brain.
You can't not take your security, privacy and safety seriously anymore. Either you keep as much personal information off your devices as you can, or you improve your security. Admittedly for most people keeping info off them is easier and a better idea, but the knowledge of being watched is detrimental to society in itself. Privacy is important.
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Hay fever tablets do me just fine.
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