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I have an ipad and find it to be astonishingly useful for work, shopping, entertainment etc etc.
If I had the funds I'd be getting the newest one that allows stylus use so I could transcribe music more easily than using a mouse on a PC
I’m so bored I might as well be listening to Pink Floyd
The Kindle Fire is just fine for what it is (paid under £40 for each), and the new HD8 coming out in June may be worth looking at.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01J94T0XU/ref=sd_allcat_k_dou
The Kindle OS is obviously heavily weighted towards Amazon and entertainment but it is based on Android and you can side load Google Play store on the older models (I assume this will be possible on the new ones) for anything not available in the Amazon app store.
It maybe that if you've got a decent smartphone that a tablet doesn't offer much more. Lots of things I do on the iPad I could do on my phone or on work laptop, just slightly better looking on the iPad. Also lots of things I do on it that I could really live without but I'm slightly addicted to. For work it was great for video conferencing and creating presentations ( the apple equivalent of power point whatever it's called) although not the best for doing big documents. I've got things like Netflix, Now TV and the iPlayer on mine so with a pair of headphones I can dissapear into my own little world. But I play games, do the band Facebook, stream music, do band posters, do the Tesco shop, etc,etc.
If it's a less expensive tablet primarily for reading I'd want to see if I felt comfortable with the resolution, even a good screen can be a bit eye strainy. If it's pdf books are you downloading them in which case memory would be an issue as well.
Use this much more than my previous android tablet. Mostly just as a netbook, and then sometimes undocked as a tablet.
It comes in really handy as the editor interface for my THR10, GSP1101.
Seriously, if you're happy enough with Win10 this is way better than a standard android tablet.
The only downside is you can't get stuff like fruit ninja on it (TBH haven't checked).
I actually took mine to a mates to learn some songs and had the Helix plugged in and monitored thru the PC speakers in his house.
When you get one you'll realise what they can do Android tablets are ok too - even the Kindle Fire and they are under £100 in some cases
You'll always get the Android vs iOS arguments, but I'm sat here with a Galaxy phone and an iPad. Horses for courses. There is a far more varied selection of quality (and cheap) apps available for the iPad.
If you knew that you only wanted to use a tablet for XYZ, and that there was a perfect XYZ app on Android, then I'd say get an Android tablet as there are cheaper Android options.
As you don't know what you'll use it for, you'll find far more uses in the Apple App Store than on Android.
I dismissed the iPad v1 when it was released as a solution looking for a problem. Why would I need a tablet when I had a (selection of) laptops that I was happy with. I was tempted enough to buy a v2 iPad, and shortly thereafter wondered how the hell I'd ever managed without one.
Buy one, it will become indispensable. If not, there's something wrong with you.
It's used for about 95% of my home computing. It's utterly indispensable. Not like food or sunlight indispensable, but you get my drift
Bearing all that in mind, a secondhand one mightn't be a bad idea.
I use it when sitting on the sofa and in bed.
I still use my kindle though for reading books purely for the image quality and battery life.
I have an iPad, and I think it's really good. But it pisses me off that you cannot plug anything into it, no USB port or any other connection, it's all iTunes, which as we all know is absolutely the worst piece of software ever devised. How a company can produce really good hardware, and make such a monumental cock-up with software is beyond comprehension.
EMP - Have you thought about buying secondhand? A lot cheaper like that.
Really? Is that an Apple-certified job, or a knock-off? I had one before, but the iPad refused to recognize it after a couple of goes.
Offset "(Emp) - a little heavy on the hyperbole."