So I am just starting a random conversation because I'm in a chatty mood and I'm hoping that people respond. So everyone knows I just recently bought a Pixel tablet (I love it btw, you can checkout my review on my website!) it got me thinking w/ the emergance of folding phones & bigger phones (again) in general. How many of you still use your tablets (if you own one) and what was the deciding Factor for the one that you had chose? Also, if you have a folding phone do you still use your tablet?
@BrazenlyLiberal that's kind of the route for me too. I'm fully entrenched (almost) in the Google eco system. Stock, Pixel phone, Pixel tablet. Ill eventually get the pixel watch if they can at least get on par with the Galaxy watches (Samsung's watches are just too good) And I was in debate with the Samsung 9 tablet or the pixel tablet. The speaker dock which also doubles as a charging dock for the tablet was what sold me. Its not perfect (always gonna be tradeoffs with devices) but works 4 me
One Google item I loathe with the intensity of 1000 suns is the chromebook. I have one. I hate it and never use it. Threw it in a drawer and got a windows laptop that syncs with my phone.
@BrazenlyLiberal never used a chromebook. Just because I don't like the chrome os. I tried (just the os) and I'm like hard pass. I'm comfortable with Android. I put it over windows BUT not over the mac os. I just wish game companies would treat android as more than just a mobile device and make real software for it. Would definitely be helpful when it comes to gaming 😂 since Windows seems to have that on lockdown lol
My problem with Apple products is they overvalue and have no competition to rein that in.
@BrazenlyLiberal I don't think it's left my desk since I got this
@Timmah1979 Hi! My Mom loves her pixel phone. I still use tablets and my husband also uses one to run his fish tank automation system. I like that I can leave them strewn about and read a kindle book or check the news when I'm not with my phone or I need to conserve phone battery. Also for those online piano lessons. 🙂
@Timmah1979 Still using my Samsung Tab A and love it. Love the tall form factor for reading Kindle, PDF's, web pages, etc.
I love the form factor of the old flip phones so much that I have been tempted (many times) to get a non-smart flip phone for general use, if only someone had an easy gateway for Uber on non-smart phones, I'd have already done it. As for the new foldable smart phones, for me it's still too spendy and too new (with regard to screen durability and looks after much use)
@Timmah1979 I have a tablet that I use when I'm not using my computer but don't want to dig out my laptop. I prefer it over my phone because it's bigger, basically, and easier to see. It's the 11th edition fire and my 3rd fire tablet (I still have the 2nd upstairs). I need to figure out installing CS on it to make it more useful.
I don't have a folding phone and hate trying to look at things on my phone.
@TrueBloodNet I also thing the tablet phones aren't at the quality they should be yet. Heard too many stories about cracked screens and broken hinges. I had considered a fire tablet but no play store is a deal breaker for me
@Timmah1979 I have google play on it. :) There are lots of work arounds on the web.
I don't carry it instead of my phone bit in addition if I'm going somewhere for a day or two. But mostly just use it in the livingroom or kitchen.
@TrueBloodNet that was the intent for me. But seems like mine is going everywhere with me and my 3k MacBook has been delegated to just photo editing lol
@Timmah1979 LOL Do not put it in your pocket... I watched a dude stick his in a big pocket and then get it smashed 30 seconds later.
@Timmah1979 I had been using tablets for anything non-work-related for some years. After Samsung ticked me off one time too many, I switched to a Chrome Tablet, which I liked quite a lot.
But pretty quickly, I kept realizing all the cool things it could do, running android apps, chrome apps, linux apps were basically stuffing real computer functionality into something awkward and underpowered.
All the things I liked about it, I could get from a regular laptop with a touch screen.
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@Timmah1979 I'm now using a Dell Lenovo laptop from 2018 that I got cheap. It's a tiny bit bigger than the Chromebook, and more powerful and flexible. And it was waaaaaaay cheaper.
I fired up the old Chromebook the other day to see if I could repurpose it, and it ran a bunch of updates.
It's now _painfully_ slow. So much for that "It will get updates for 10 years" selling point. The updates have made it nearly unusable.
@AskTheDevil I'd think 10 is unreasonable no matter who. Tech changes too fast. The pixel
Was guaranteed 5 years of updates. Three years of major updates . I think they learned the error of their ways lol. 5 sounds a lot more reasonable. But I'll prob end up changing to a new one but 2028 anyways
@Timmah1979
I have a Samsung Tab A that I use every day. The deciding factor was how pleased I was with the Samsung phone I had at the time.
I love flip phones, but there's no way I'll pay what they cost these days