Tablets, again

[rightisright]

It arrived this morning via the BToH. I have only played around with it a bit, but the screen is amazing.

I made the mistake of comparing video w. my first gen iPad in front of the GF. Now she feels slighted w. her hand me down iPad

[Weetabix]

OK. You got me. I'm going to try one.

I'm thinking I'll mount it in the kitchen for using allrecipes.com.

[rightisright]

OK. You got me. I'm going to try one.

I'm thinking I'll mount it in the kitchen for using allrecipes.com.

Weet, if that is all you are going to use it for, get the cheaper Kindle Fire. I have one whose sole purpose is a recipe reader. IIRC, I paid $59 for a refurb. Firefox has an add-on that lets you forward recipes directly from your computer to the Fire. It works well and I don't care if I accidentally spill a roux on the Fire and bork it.

But I surely would not recommend it for general use. Net browsing is slowwwwww. And I wouldn't want to play anything other than Solitary on it.

[Weetabix]

It will end up being used for everything and stolen by some other member of the household. The kitchen is my rationalization for buying it and checking out the amazing(ish) display.

[rightisright]

It will end up being used for everything and stolen by some other member of the household. The kitchen is my rationalization for buying it and checking out the amazing(ish) display.

Then get the Nexus.

[Denis]

Curses. Customs stopped my tablet in the post. I'll have to pay EUR 34 in taxes and fees so I can retrieve it. B'stards! Roll on the EU free trade agreement with the USA, I say.

[Weetabix]

The Nexus arrived today. I'm thinking of watching the same Youtube video side by side to see the display differences. Any better way to compare?

[Denis]

Curses. Customs stopped my tablet in the post. I'll have to pay EUR 34 in taxes and fees so I can retrieve it. B'stards! Roll on the EU free trade agreement with the USA, I say.

This tablet was born under the wrong star. I went to the PO to pick up the parcel and pay the &^%$ customs fees, and I got hit with a EUR 35 parking ticket in the 2 minutes I was inside...

OK - cheer me up - who can recommend good android apps?

[Cobar]

OK - cheer me up - who can recommend good android apps?

I like Beyondpod for podcasts. "ezPDF" is the best PDF reader I have found for android. MathAlly graphing calculator is nice if you need to do graphs, but I think handycalc is nicer for normal stuff. MX player is my preferred video player, but it is one of those apps I have used so long that I might just be used to it and there might be better. Poweramp is a nice music player if the default player does not do it for you. I like pocket to send web articles to my phone to read on break or in line at a shop, but for me it is more useful on my phone than a tablet. Oh and the wolfram alpha app is kind of fun in a geeky way.

[rightisright]

Tonido to remotely access files on my office computer. QuickOffice to view Microsoft Office files and .pdfs. Barcode Scanner for product reviews and price comparison. Pandora for music.