Your experience with Tablets?

[flabulousfreddy]

I'd honestly say to get an iPad, but with the newest iOS out now, you cannot jailbreak it. Well, technically you CAN, but to me a jailbreak without Cydia is like a car without an engine.

I use it every day for almost everything. It's my TV using the Optimum App when I'm in another room in the house(more than likely my bathroom), my guide when I download game guides off of other sites(like going through Majora's Mask again with the official Player's Guide), my contact(Facebook, email, Twitter, etc), and others.

I have mine jailbroken at iOS 7.1.2 and I can't imagine my life without it. I really use it a lot. It's also easy to use if someone doesn't know how to use a computer. I got my aunt to use it and she's 60.

 

[eriols]

because the tablets in NZ are ridiculously expensive, I bought an older model. at the moment I'm using Asus transformer 101 (tegra 2) for 200 bucks which is good enough for me to read ebooks, streaming movies, playing psx games (with an IPEGA). however it's sluggish when playing youtube videos because tegra 2 is an outdated model.

I'm not a type who is willing to pay premium price for a tablet because I do most of my jobs on pc. sure you can buy expensive tablet which is good for gaming, but is it worth it? most of mobile games are touch oriented, and to this date, I am still not comfortable using tablet to play games (I need to add that, 10 inch tablet + ipega is very nice to play psx games, but it tires your hand. 7-8 inch is probably an ideal size though).

the tablet technology becomes outdated very fast, if you want to buy a hi-end tablet, better to buy a preowned ones.

it's not really worth it if you use it only for basic stuffs (browsing, reading books, and emulator games).

however if you need tablet for streaming your steam games, well you can consider it as an investment.

 

[enarky]

Had a Kindle 3G and loved the friggin hell out of it, lost it on vacation, though. For Ebooks there's nothing better than Epaper displays, even if they're black & white. Seriously, fuck color for Ebooks, unless you're on the reading comprehension level of a three year old there won't be any pictures in most of your books, anyways (technical literature excluded, but most of these are black & white, too). I still have a Sony Z2 tablet, which is also very nice, but it sucks for Ebooks, it's too much of a strain on the eyes. Reading Comics on it, on the other hand, there's nothing better. If you need a tablet for other things than reading, fine, go with it, but for plain old reading there's nothing better than an Ebook reader. Best would probably be get both. Personally I'm going to get a Kindle Voyage as soon as they're available where I live.

tl;dr: do your eyes a favor and don't get a Tablet just for reading.

EDIT:
Oh, dammit! Why are people necrotizing two weeks old threads? Answered here because it was in Recent Threads, but I think this topic is over. Go home, folks...

 

[TVL]

I prefer reading books on my phone. I prefer that to both tablets and e-book-readers. ePub and the fontsize of my preference, unbeatable. I do read books on my computer screen, when it's about coding; Everything else is on my phone, I have terrible eyesight and I can still set it to a nice fontsize so that I can read books without glasses.

I think tablets are good for reading comic books. Maybe they have some other uses too.

 

[Wabsta]

I have a 2012 Nexus 7 and I liked it right untill I got a phone with a resolution MUCH higher than it.
So now I bought a cheap chinese brand windows 8.1 / android tablet: http://www.geekbuying.com/item/Tecl...ndows-8-1--2048-1536-IPS-2GB-32GB-335781.html

Should come in tomorrow. (And I'll gladly let you know how it is, both android and windows. Those specs for that price makes a pretty nice tablet)

 

[dylan2228]

I got a nexus tablet last christmas and havn't really found much use for it, I prefer reading on my kindle as it is much lighter and I hate having to watch movies on a small screen , IMO Moon reader is the best ebook reader for android though

 

[Joe88]

its not really an eye strain, I usually only read at night so I use the night theme which inverts the colors (you can change the color to whatever you want though) and use lux to force the screen into negative value brightness

 

[Sychophantom]

I have a problem with Android. I just don't like all the fragmentation in it when it comes to apps. There's no excuse for phones to ship TODAY running anything less than 4.2....yet I still see 2.3 devices in stores, and some apps just don't work on every device because Android is pretty much the operating system equivalent of the town whore....everyone gets a turn. Top that with a lot of really shitty overlay UI crap from most brands and I will admit, I prefer the locked down approach by Apple. Just not Apple's price tag.

Beyond that, it's much like everyone else said. Simple to load up a tablet with what you want and go.

I have multiple tablets, because I am easily distracted by shiny things.
1 first-gen iPad.
1 HP Touchpad running a Dualboot of Android 4.1 and WebOS (I rarely boot the WebOS side anymore. May just remove it)
1 Kindle Fire HD (Last year's model of the 7-incher)
1 HP Stream 7 (Full Windows 8.1....It's like a new version of a netbook, but since I only paid 50 bucks for it, It'll do. Runs XMBC pretty well, all things considered)

I had an OG Kindle Fire, but gave that to my girlfriend, and another HP Touchpad, which she also claimed.