My Tablet observations and why I wont be carrying on with one.
I wrote about tablets and my opinion in October last year but I have given up avoiding them and went with a tablet last December, I decided that if I am going to comment then at least I should try one. After all they are not new technology, Kirk used one, so did Ford Prefect and Arthur Dent and who can forget 2001 a space odyssey? Besides I used to have a Psion which was useful.
I was given one by a supplier as a recognition of purchasing copious amounts of IT equipment. I tried to sell it before Christmas for the stupid price of £59. I took it to network meetings, lent it out and overall about 80 people knew it was a available – It didn’t sell so after Christmas I decided this was the time for me to abandon the netbook and try the flow.
The model was £200 7″ model and this is why I am going back to my netbook and using my smartphone.
- The keyboard was a bad experience. I have fingers the size of sausages and I kept missing the keys.
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I cant run any meaningful Microsoft software on it
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The battery life is half a day or one evening – just
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Its awkward to hold in front of you, so you buy a case with a lid acting as an angled holder
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I cant run any interactive networking tasks with any of our five servers in the three locations
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It is great fro using on the internet but so is my phone
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Its impractical to keep with me all the time unlike my phone
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I charge my phone last thing at night, I kept forgetting the tablet
So on balance they are great to watch films on if you in a village Post Office (Thanks Diane for pointing that out) or if you have to view information which could be visual such as a doctor, estate agent. Otherwise I will be sticking with my phone which is more tablet like and compact anyway. I have even started using it to read books as the real thing is never with me when I have time.
My phone is my mobile email, SatNav, MP3 player, video player, notebook, dictating machine, to do list, camera (great for visual things like licence numbers), phone and texting device. Why do I need to duplicate it?
There was a recent article questioning the actual productivity in business, it came to the conclusion that I have, its great as an entry level PC for the internet or to take somewhere for film watching but apart from that it’s productivity is questionable and cmx is all about business computing.
So the solution for me and I suspect others is a desktop computer, a phone and a netbook, all integrated and synced up. Anyone want a tablet?