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[Martian]

It will be interesting to see how good the kindle fire is (I suspect a bit below par)

I've read a few comparisons on the Kindle Fire HD vs Nexus 7, and the Nexus wins overall (although not by much).

I think the Kindle's main two drawbacks are that the OS is pretty much locked down application wise, and the Kindle doesn't seem to have half the hardware the Nexus does (eg, GPS).

The missus is going out to compare both today as she does like a book or 2000, but so far (at least on paper) it looks like she'll be getting a Nexus.

[Martian]

*Although I guess a USB covers most lap top diags these day?

Diags can be done on a mobile phone using (dare I say it) Bluetooth 

[tunnie]

I keep looking at 'pads' but the question is, what do you really use it for.

I was getting an iPad 3 for 1 week in 4 due to on-call reasons, I've now managed to permanently acquire one as we found we missed it so much.

We find it so handy while on sofa or away to have something that's instantly available to browse, no boot time, just press a button to surf, be it me on OOF, MrsT on shopping sites 

Also use it a lot for maps, checking where we need to go, tube planning, what I'm looking to buy currently (was browsing i5 bundles last night)

Even though I've nabbed one from work, we fight over it, so we are going to buy our own as well 

[Marks DTM Calib]

Thats the issue, is does nothing better than the considerably cheaper options for what I would use one for.

That and the 'throw away after a few years becasue the battery is goosed' technology is a big downer for me.

Bottom line is I want a tool which meets the requirements.....although I still dont know which one to get!   

[llewellyn237]

What happens is, a company storms the market with an almost unbelievable toaster. Within a few years every Tom, Dick and Harry company follows suit, only trying to add a little extra...

One day a Korean company will launch a toaster so alike to the original, they'll end up having a court dispute resulting in them paying the creators of the original toaster £hundreds of millions... Oh wait...

You obviously think this is a Samsung S3 vs iPhone 5 discussion, but it's not just the Galaxy range of handsets that offer better functionality....all the other mobile platforms do as well because they don't have anywhere near the restrictions that iOS does.

I fail to see what bearing the lawsuit debacle offers, especially as Apple have also copied Samsung's technology in the past and been successfully sued for it.
I also believe Apple were forced to publically apologise recently after they falsely accused Samsung of copying the iPad, so it's swings & roundabouts.

If people want to mess about trying to transfer a video/pic/whatever from their phone to (say) their friends USB stick then good luck to them, but I find it makes life much easier when you can simply plug that USB stick directly in to the phone and copy whatever you like in a few seconds.

If you're in range for Bluetooth then why not just hook the thing up with the data cable provided? Bone idleness?

Anyway, this thread got completely derailed. Apologies to the OP.

[tunnie]

Thats the issue, is does nothing better than the considerably cheaper options for what I would use one for.

That and the 'throw away after a few years becasue the battery is goosed' technology is a big downer for me.

Bottom line is I want a tool which meets the requirements.....although I still dont know which one to get!   

Having most in the office, I'd have to disagree there. The Xoom2 is a fine example, its well built, has SD card, 3G, everything, its also a 10" tablet, but even with ICS update its still not as "fluid" to use as the pad.

I also find 7" ones too small, also MrsT struggles with anything Android

[Marks DTM Calib]

OS is no issue for us for what we would use it for, were very 'adaptable' 

The bottom line is that if the ipad proves to be the ideal option then its to far outside the price bracket and hence no pad.

[feeutfo]

Although if I do need diags on the car, I can use her dell experon, or whatever it's called.

And if I use it outside it won't cook me gonads.

[Marks DTM Calib]

Already have a laptop which is used for the office apps, car diag software etc, cant say I find it gets hot though (warm yes).

The more I look into it the ipad is not an option due to the lack of serviceability and price.

[feeutfo]

TB did say the more modern Lappys are better on heat.

Hers is worse on mains power, as the battery is cabbaged, but even when the on battery it ain't great.

Kevs little note book is tempting tbh. But from what I already have, there's no point. Plus I don't have the nouse or interest to cock about adding memory/ram/Linux to make it useable for minimal uptime it will get.

One day maybe.


I am getting board with iOS though.


 

[Martian]

What happens is, a company storms the market with an almost unbelievable toaster. Within a few years every Tom, Dick and Harry company follows suit, only trying to add a little extra...

One day a Korean company will launch a toaster so alike to the original, they'll end up having a court dispute resulting in them paying the creators of the original toaster £hundreds of millions... Oh wait...

You obviously think this is a Samsung S3 vs iPhone 5 discussion, but it's not just the Galaxy range of handsets that offer better functionality....all the other mobile platforms do as well because they don't have anywhere near the restrictions that iOS does.

I fail to see what bearing the lawsuit debacle offers, especially as Apple have also copied Samsung's technology in the past and been successfully sued for it.
I also believe Apple were forced to publically apologise recently after they falsely accused Samsung of copying the iPad, so it's swings & roundabouts.

If people want to mess about trying to transfer a video/pic/whatever from their phone to (say) their friends USB stick then good luck to them, but I find it makes life much easier when you can simply plug that USB stick directly in to the phone and copy whatever you like in a few seconds.

If you're in range for Bluetooth then why not just hook the thing up with the data cable provided? Bone idleness?

So I'm in the pub (or wherever), take a pic or a video, then an iPhone user decides they would like a copy.
Now aside from the fact I don't carry a USB data cable everywhere (not that I can connect to an iOS device using it anyway), that's where BT holds it's own.

Yes I know I can use 3rd party apps such as WhatsApp, but even ignoring the paltry (3MB) filesize limit, that method of transfer still eats in to the 3G data limit.
Simple fact of the matter is that Apple have no reason whatsoever for castrating hardware, but if Apple users want to take it up the ar$e then I have no problem with them being relieved of their hard earned just so they can have the latest bit of useless bling.

[feeutfo]

A single image is no biggy. Multiple images, it falls on its arse...


And besides, no crApple owner would be seen dead with any Android chav!  . 

[Martian]

A single image is no biggy. Multiple images, it falls on its arse...

Tried transferring a single image to my mates 4s, no go.
The 4s didn't even bother to alert him of an intended incoming connection, and the Droid just got the "connection refused" message.

[omegod]

I didn't intend to start such a heated debate  , cheers for all the opinions and I think for what it will be used for something non Crapple related will be up to the job. I know a lot of her mates have the ipad but sense has to prevail where cost is concerned and the omegod pot is not exactly overflowing. So the nexus or kindle fire seem like options, in terms of apps which would have more availability??

[tunnie]

Nexus