I've found 10.1" tablets to be just too much for me. Pretty awkward to hold whether you're reading or typing.
7-8.9" ones however are just perfectly sized IMO.
7-8.9" ones however are just perfectly sized IMO.
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sitrep: The tablet is quite okay for reading. In fact, I've read a good 10 papers on it, so it's doing its job well. Although the pdf viewer app I have supports annotations I don't use them cause they're pretty impractical. There is also no particularly good way to quickly navigate to a different part of a pdf to look at figures, the appendix etc. Basically, it's worse than a computer. But still quite good.
In all other things it's basically worse than a computer. Instead of having a keyboard + a mouse with 3 buttons and a scrollwheel it's like having only a mouse with a single button. Copy pasting a url from Chrome into Gmail to send to someone is a lot of work. Typing on the on-screen keyboard is slow and error prone. Browsing the web is mostly okay, but clicking on links, switching between tabs etc is slower. Pretty much everything is slower, which just encourages me to wait until I'm back at a computer and read more papers instead. :xfinger:
Also, the screen keeps dimming after a few seconds in all apps except ezpdf. In spite of any screen brightness settings. It's really annoying. If anyone knows how to fix that I'm all ears.
In all other things it's basically worse than a computer. Instead of having a keyboard + a mouse with 3 buttons and a scrollwheel it's like having only a mouse with a single button. Copy pasting a url from Chrome into Gmail to send to someone is a lot of work. Typing on the on-screen keyboard is slow and error prone. Browsing the web is mostly okay, but clicking on links, switching between tabs etc is slower. Pretty much everything is slower, which just encourages me to wait until I'm back at a computer and read more papers instead. :xfinger:
Also, the screen keeps dimming after a few seconds in all apps except ezpdf. In spite of any screen brightness settings. It's really annoying. If anyone knows how to fix that I'm all ears.
I've officially gone over to the dark side. And I think I made a big $#@!ing mistake 
@Dru, what should I do to make this thing usable? Does jailbreaking help in any way?
@Dru, what should I do to make this thing usable? Does jailbreaking help in any way?
Don't laugh at my misery
I held one yesterday, the feel is good but I immediately thought of how terrible everything else is. I think I will buy the 8 inch note.
I really like how smooth everything is, but smoothness without features is useless really... You should check the Xperia Tablet Z... If it wasn't insanely expensive here I'd have bought that without a second thought.
I hate that I can't customise the current brick . Jail breaking it is!
I held one yesterday, the feel is good but I immediately thought of how terrible everything else is. I think I will buy the 8 inch note.
I hate that I can't customise the current brick . Jail breaking it is!
Don't laugh at my misery
I really like how smooth everything is, but smoothness without features is useless really... You should check the Xperia Tablet Z... If it wasn't insanely expensive here I'd have bought that without a second thought.
I hate that I can't customise the current brick . Jail breaking it is!
I really like how smooth everything is, but smoothness without features is useless really... You should check the Xperia Tablet Z... If it wasn't insanely expensive here I'd have bought that without a second thought.
I hate that I can't customise the current brick . Jail breaking it is!