Why owning a Tablet device?

A Desire HD or Galaxy S2 screen should be big enough and more "managable". No?
 
I've seen them more and more in my engineering classes these days.

Okes whip them out and draw diagrams/notes etc -> quite snazzy since it's all digitized straight away.

Another time we were doing a practical with concrete cubes that we were crushing and my group member pulled out his ipad and filled in values into a nice neat spreadsheet straight away.

I think they are seriously useful, and I'm looking at investing in one in the near future :D
 
They're very useful and can safe a lot of time. Perfect for reading books or just news. It great when you get home can sit on the couch or balcony and reply to mails, check the news and do banking without having to switch on the PC. Yes you can do all these things on a a phone but its by far not as convenient, the large screen makes it all worth it.
 
kingrob said:
A Desire HD or Galaxy S2 screen should be big enough and more "managable". No?
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Hell no! I've got a X10, which has a 4" display, not much smaller than a Desire HD or GS2 display, and I wanted more, Android on a 10.1" display is just amazing, I would go as far as to say that Android was simply built to be a tablet OS, it seems to work even better than it does on phones especially the Honeycomb optimised apps which i simply can't get enough of.

My phone now feels more like an extension of my tablet, when I get home the phone will be used for the occasional quick tweet, WhatsApp and phone call, the tablet does the rest as it does it all better with a much larger display and same OS that I like/so much, Android.

The best part though is the battery life, the tablet seems to COMPLETELY out last both my smartphone and laptop....f-that it makes mince of the laptop.
I can heavioy browse the web via HSPA, tweet, watch a few YouTube vids, read the news, listen to CNN news feed, read a book, play some Angry Birds and I should still have around 45% when get to bed, its just incredible, I'm not that hard on it everyday though so it usually gets charged every 2nd day or so, no modern snpmartphone can take that much abuse on the battery and last the entire day without the user having to try some sort of power saving techniques, a Desire HDD, GS2, X10 etc... will be dead in no time.
 
hawker said:
I've seen them more and more in my engineering classes these days.

Okes whip them out and draw diagrams/notes etc -> quite snazzy since it's all digitized straight away.

Another time we were doing a practical with concrete cubes that we were crushing and my group member pulled out his ipad and filled in values into a nice neat spreadsheet straight away.

I think they are seriously useful, and I'm looking at investing in one in the near future :D
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Most of my lectures are now lectured using Ipads... so the notes are online ready for your downloading! Which is great, but now I need a tablet, because printing out those notes will be a pain.

Also, doing equations is tedious on anything but a tablet (with a sketch pad sort of app) or paper...

I'm also looking into investing in a tablet :)
 
I also have wondered allot about this question. But I think its one of those items that just finds its place in your life.
 
Some laarnie students these days right. Running around with tabs. And probably SGS2 as well!
 
I'm at a university in the States.

90% of the students here bring an electronic to class. Half of that are laptops, the other is the smartphone/tabs.
It's pretty much essential nowadays, I organise EVERYTHING with mine, homework, alarm, games, exams, email, videos, camera, notes, QR code scanner, calendar...

How did I live without it?
 
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