Should I Buy an iPad ?

[Bryn]

However I have not discovered as yet how to install an antivirus program.

If it run a version of Android. Avast is available for it, free of charge.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...security&hl=en

[Resurrection Man]

OK, BO...here's a scenario and tell me if your combination of three pieces of kit can do this either singly or together?

Plug in an SD card and transfer the images onto one of these devices. Then using that device, upload the images to Flickr.

Or using a USB cable, plug in a camera, transfer the photos from the camera into your device as a backup. Then upload to Flickr.

[AmpH]

a 3G/wfi kindle and it is just perfect.

Beef - I know the Kindle is good as an E Reader, but is it actually any good for internet use via 3G ? All I have ever read about this aspect of its functionally is that it is not very good.

[Beef Oven]

Beef - I know the Kindle is good as an E Reader, but is it actually any good for internet use via 3G ? All I have ever read about this aspect of its functionally is that it is not very good.

It's crap - takes for ever to load etc.

But, it gets there, and I was grateful last year in a remote part of Armenia when every other piece of technology failed and my Kindle actually got onto the net and worked. But, that's a desperate situation!!

In the same region it downloaded a copy of Tony Benn's biog in seconds!!!!

So as an e-reader and e-book downloader it's untouchable anywhere , but it's no good as an internet surfer or email device.

[Oddball]

If it run a version of Android. Avast is available for it, free of charge.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...security&hl=en

Many thanks for that advice Bryn - a very useful exercise.

I guess if a rationale is required for purchasing a tablet, it is that it provides a very useful and convenient package for doing a lot of computing tasks. It can't do everything, and what it can do is emulated by laptops, smart phones. But why do I always pick up the tablet if I want some mobile computing?

[Stunsworth]

Beef - I know the Kindle is good as an E Reader, but is it actually any good for internet use via 3G ? All I have ever read about this aspect of its functionally is that it is not very good.

The web browser is pretty rubbish. Acceptable for emergency use only IMHO. If you have a 3G Kindle it's also free to use abroad.

[AmpH]

Beef Oven & Stunsworth - thanks for responses

[Dave2002]

OK, BO...here's a scenario and tell me if your combination of three pieces of kit can do this either singly or together?

Plug in an SD card and transfer the images onto one of these devices. Then using that device, upload the images to Flickr.

Or using a USB cable, plug in a camera, transfer the photos from the camera into your device as a backup. Then upload to Flickr.

RM

I have been using iPads daily for a couple of years now. I agree with some of your criticisms, but they still get a lot of use, and often my main computers don't get turned on.

What mobile devices do you recommend? I don't think they're all equally good. Just saying Android isn't enough - we need brands and models.

[Resurrection Man]

RM

I have been using iPads daily for a couple of years now. I agree with some of your criticisms, but they still get a lot of use, and often my main computers don't get turned on.

What mobile devices do you recommend? I don't think they're all equally good. Just saying Android isn't enough - we need brands and models.

Dave2002...I'm the wrong person to ask for mobile device recommendation! My mobile phone doesn't even have a camera! I can see the validity of the iPad in some circumstances....just for me, I don't really need one. It was a means to an end and it achieved it..albeit with some difficulty. Looking back, I did buy some Apps for it and which never got used. These apps are now sitting on my iMac should I ever feel the urge to get a iMobile device again. The chances of that are slim as after I bought the secondhand iPad back in January and tested out its interconnectivity, setting up email etc I dumped it on my desk and it gradually got covered over with paper work. I never went near it!