Practical use: Galaxy Tab

[brendonwp]

My phone contract expires at the middle of this month. I'm happy to keep my old phone, but I could use a tablet for reading documents and possibly doing some writing (with a keyboard) when I don't have space to bring my laptop.

The Galaxy Tab is available on my phone contract. I'm worried that it won't cope with Word documents with graphics or larger PDFs (> 1MB). I had a look at one of my Word documents on a Tab at the Samsung store at Vodaworld. The doc was < 1MB with one large graphic, and scrolling it was jerky. I don't mind using non-WYSIWG mode, but I'm not sure if the software does this.

What practical experience do you guys have with this? I'd love a higher spec tablet, but I can't find one that I can get on my phone contract.

 

[brendonwp]

Well, if I do go ahead with the Tab I'll give feedback on what pans out. It sucks to be studying again and short of cash. I'm doomed to fall behind the tech leading edge just as things are getting really interesting in Android-land

 

[Maddmatt]

Was that the 7-inch Tab? I would advise against it. Rather get the new more powerful dual core tablets with Android 3. Like the 10-inch Samsung Tab.

 

[brendonwp]

Yes, it's the 7-inch. Voda and MTN want me to take out a separate data contract for any device without phone capabilities, which is all the 10-inch tablets. I do like the specs on them though. I may even go on pay-as-you-go until the networks come to their senses.. but that will probably be 6 months or so...