Android Tablets

[scotty73]

I swung by Tesco on the way home and picked one up (on the business card of course). So I'm now typing this on my Galaxy Tab 2

SHHH, you've had one since August.

[lozz]

Borrowed from the other 406 forum

http://www.snotr.com/video/8965/

lmfao

[scotty73]

Borrowed from the other 406 forum

http://www.snotr.com/video/8965/

lmfao

The all new dish washer safe ipad.

[lozz]

Borrowed from the other 406 forum

http://www.snotr.com/video/8965/

lmfao

The all new dish washer safe ipad.

http://www.snotr.com/video/5914/grandma__s_laptop

grandmar proof

[lozz]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6X9pS8V ... re=related

[steve_earwig]

I've g9t a TABLOET IT'S SOI EAsy to use I can't be3kieve all the fun I've been nissing . Well, it was free with the IPTV thing (which is equally as pointless). It's tiny too, so it makes a lousy chopping board...

[highlander]

Nice typing, boss

What kind did you get? And (generic tablet/smartphone question time) - what's your score in Angry Birds?

[lozz]

Anyone found any good. Car apps

I've tried torque but it don't work


Anyone want a PC

I've not even plugged it in since getting this tablet,

[steve_earwig]

Cheapy cheapy cheap cheap cheap... wtf is angry birds, some sort of game? I'm afraid I don't do games 'cos I long ago realised they're a massive waste of time.

Cheapy cheap... http://www.alcatelonetouch.com/global-e ... h_t10.html I didn't realise they made them so small, this is barely larger than a mobile phone When the wife ordered up the IPTV and said we'd be getting a tablet as a sweetener I thought it would be about A4 size, which is the size of the only other one I'd (knowingly) seen. I've got some memory for it, and a real keyboard so I don't hit 6 keys at once (which, unfortunatly, is the UK layout, with no Croatian characters - čćžšđ - because nobody sells one here) but in the month or so we've had it I've... discovered that I can't get it into the network to browse files straight off the pc (which seems like the most basic thing it could possibly do), I've stuck some books on it via USB (surely there are cheaper things for that) and a few movies that I had to install a proper player for because the one it comes with is crap. The wife has read the news off of it a couple of times. I realise in the UK there are a lot of networks you can pick up, but in Croatia the moment it leaves the house it's a paperweight. In the house there's a pc, which is infinity easier to use

I'll tell you what though, this has put me right off WIndows 8 with its touch screen interface. Also, it occured to me just the other day, when I was a kid we used to have an ITT feathertouch tv, which was some sort of prototype 'cos it has buttons you just had to touch to change channels etc. The trouble with it was that flies used to change the channels too, and I've often got a fly on the monitor in the summer...

[scotty73]

said we'd be getting a tablet as a sweetener

[scotty73]

Okay i should have explained that I Googled saccharin tablet sweetener looking for a pic of just the tablet but once i saw with Steve's name in it i couldn't resist.... Well i thought it was funny at the time... anyone else? No, ok then.

[steve_earwig]

I recognised there was a link between "tablet" and "sweetener" but I couldn't figure out what it had to do with a Soft drink

It doesn't say Steve, it says Stevia.

[Bailes1992]

Can I quickly mention the blackberry PlayBook?
Mine is absolutely superb, screen is amazing, touch screen is great, it has never crashed on me and has superb battery life!
Also full 1080dp video recording etc etc.

Also a bargain fir £129

[highlander]

Cheapy cheapy cheap cheap cheap... wtf is angry birds, some sort of game? I'm afraid I don't do games 'cos I long ago realised they're a massive waste of time.

Some might argue that this is the whole point? If you're having fun while playing then maybe it isn't such a waste of time. Still, different strokes, and all that - I spend most of my free time gaming

I didn't realise they made them so small, this is barely larger than a mobile phone

7in is a good size. I have a Google Nexus 7 (great tablet) which I primarily use as an e-book reader; it's light enough to hold like a paperback book (i.e. one handed, with the other hand free to "turn the pages"). I found with the wifely person's iPad, I could hold it like that, but it wasn't comfortable to hold in that manner for a long time (if I start reading, eventually the wifely person will nudge me and say "finished?" and I'll realize hours have gone past).

I've... discovered that I can't get it into the network to browse files straight off the pc (which seems like the most basic thing it could possibly do)

You can do that - go on to the Google Play store and download "File Manager HD". It's a free tool, and has an option to connect to network shares. It's also a good file manager for managing where you put files on the tablet itself.

I'll tell you what though, this has put me right off WIndows 8 with its touch screen interface

Windows 8 is perfectly capable of putting you off in its own special way. It's a bugger. Android is much easier to use, and far more consistent. Windows 8 is trying to get rid of the desktop environment, replacing it with the live tiles system introduced with recent versions of Windows Phone but it's doing it in such an asinine manner - for anyone who doesn't have a touchscreen monitor (very high percentage of Windows users), Windows 8 makes no sense at all. It's pointless for a desktop PC, and barely acceptable on a laptop. What's worse is that if you're in the desktop environment and you open up a Windows 8 "app", the "app" opens up in full screen AND YOU CAN'T RESIZE IT. Grrrrr! This is different from traditional "applications" which open up in a window - it's more like a game that hides the desktop and opens up in full-screen.

Take the Weather "app" for instance - if I'm looking at my e-mail, and I open the weather "app", you'd expect it to come up in a little window with a 5 day forecast or something. Nope. Full-screen. And what does it do with all the space it has? It shows you a picture of a rainy day (this fills 80% of the screen). It's full-screen because Microsoft seem to have made that a requirement. What a bloody nuisance! And how do you close that app? You'd expect there to be a little "X" in the top right. Right? Wrong! You need to use ALT+F4. Good fun on an on-screen keyboard...

[steve_earwig]

Cheapy cheapy cheap cheap cheap... wtf is angry birds, some sort of game? I'm afraid I don't do games 'cos I long ago realised they're a massive waste of time.

Some might argue that this is the whole point? If you're having fun while playing then maybe it isn't such a waste of time. Still, different strokes, and all that - I spend most of my free time gaming

So it is a game? I've heard the name but I've no idea, hold on... Ah yes

players use a slingshot to launch birds at pigs stationed on or within various structures, with the intent of destroying all the pigs on the playing field

That sounds exciting I used to play Doom, Quake etc. but I didn't like the way I'd suddenly find 4 hours had shot past and I had a migraine, resulting in a complete day lost. In my free time I like to lurk on this forum and a couple of others and watch stuff I've downloaded, mainly documentaries (watching Blood of the Vikings again at the moment).

I didn't realise they made them so small, this is barely larger than a mobile phone

7in is a good size. I have a Google Nexus 7 (great tablet) which I primarily use as an e-book reader; it's light enough to hold like a paperback book (i.e. one handed, with the other hand free to "turn the pages"). I found with the wifely person's iPad, I could hold it like that, but it wasn't comfortable to hold in that manner for a long time (if I start reading, eventually the wifely person will nudge me and say "finished?" and I'll realize hours have gone past).

See above for time-wasting, I really only read while I'm waiting for stuff these days, usually the doctors (lots of that in the last couple of years) but then I have some paper-type books. I think I'd feel a bit odd reading stuff off a tablet outside the quacks but I guess I'd get used to it. I guess anything bigger than 7" would be a bit stupid...

I've... discovered that I can't get it into the network to browse files straight off the pc (which seems like the most basic thing it could possibly do)

You can do that - go on to the Google Play store and download "File Manager HD". It's a free tool, and has an option to connect to network shares. It's also a good file manager for managing where you put files on the tablet itself.

Cheers, I'll have a look for that later. I Googled before and I did come across some free programs for doing it, however when I followed the link for one it was no longer free and the other one didn't work at all and crashed ever time I opened it, it's too long ago to remember what they were anyway. I still reckon this should be the single most useful feature for a tablet, not coming with it already is like, umm, having a garage but no way of getting your car into it without a crane. Surely it would be much more useful than links for Farcebook, Twatter and all the other garbage I've had to ditch

I'll tell you what though, this has put me right off WIndows 8 with its touch screen interface

Windows 8 is perfectly capable of putting you off in its own special way. It's a bugger. Android is much easier to use, and far more consistent. Windows 8 is trying to get rid of the desktop environment, replacing it with the live tiles system introduced with recent versions of Windows Phone but it's doing it in such an asinine manner - for anyone who doesn't have a touchscreen monitor (very high percentage of Windows users), Windows 8 makes no sense at all. It's pointless for a desktop PC, and barely acceptable on a laptop. What's worse is that if you're in the desktop environment and you open up a Windows 8 "app", the "app" opens up in full screen AND YOU CAN'T RESIZE IT. Grrrrr! This is different from traditional "applications" which open up in a window - it's more like a game that hides the desktop and opens up in full-screen.

Take the Weather "app" for instance - if I'm looking at my e-mail, and I open the weather "app", you'd expect it to come up in a little window with a 5 day forecast or something. Nope. Full-screen. And what does it do with all the space it has? It shows you a picture of a rainy day (this fills 80% of the screen). It's full-screen because Microsoft seem to have made that a requirement. What a bloody nuisance! And how do you close that app? You'd expect there to be a little "X" in the top right. Right? Wrong! You need to use ALT+F4. Good fun on an on-screen keyboard...

And I thought it was bad enough not having a right click on the tablet