untonuggan: typewriter on a table, faded (writing)
[personal profile] untonuggan
Hi,

I switched from a smartphone to a tablet/flip-phone set-up last year and have overall been very happy with it.

My one issue is that the tablet I have (an ASUS...something something that runs Droid) has a really shitty camera. For example, if I take photos in good lighting of both of my cats together the camera does not know how to adjust the white balance so one of my cats looks like some sort of alien/ghost making a spectral appearance in the shot. Or everything is hella blurry.

Let us not speak of the video.

This is part of why there have been fewer yarn photos and cat photos overall lately. When I *do* want to take photos, I have been tracking down my partner (who is using my old iPhone 4S -- sans 3G service -- as a tablet) and using the camera on that. I do have a digital camera, but it is sadly to the point where photos from it just look pixelated and weird now.

The plan is to update my tablet about every year anyway (while it still has some trade-in value). I know that the Droid/Apple divide is basically "pick which proprietary system you would prefer to work with!" and if necessary, I could just get a refurbished iPhone 5c or something and use that. However, I have grown used to Droid keyboard controls and would prefer not to keep switching back and forth ad nauseum. Also, Droid is more likely to play nicely with my Linux machine, should I need it to. (I don't have a machine that runs iTunes to sync an iThing with, should I want to back it up.)

Here are the kinds of things I need my tablet to do (besides take photos):
  • calendar, email, web-browsing, google drive document thingies
  • Netflix and Pandora integration
  • take decent photographs, plays nicely with Flickr and Youtube uploaders
  • some sort of note-taking app would be nice (droid does suck with this)
  • be physically light enough that I don't want to murder someone
  • It would be good to get some sort of stand for the new tablet since I seem to read/watch laying down a fair bit
  • affordable ($200 or less, this is probably a Christmas + "hey I did a trade in" kind of thing)
  • storage space for photos or if I want to save things like maps/bus schedules/knitting patterns offline
Anyone have suggestions or ideas?

Date: 2015-10-29 05:34 pm (UTC)
anke: (Default)
From: [personal profile] anke
Huh. I've got a tablet I'm happy with, but I think it was a bit more expensive and can't comment on the camera cause I don't use it.

For note-taking, I prefer Evernote, cause it synches to phone and website, so I can access it from any PC, too. The non-subscription version doesn't deal well (or at all) with offline notes, though.

Date: 2015-10-30 01:25 am (UTC)
sporky_rat: It's a rat!  With a spork!  It's ME! (Default)
From: [personal profile] sporky_rat
I was just going to suggest Evernote as well.

Date: 2015-10-30 03:00 am (UTC)
vintagewitch: (Default)
From: [personal profile] vintagewitch
I don't know too much about the different models of tablet, but I have actually had pretty decent luck finding old electronics on craigslist before - which doesn't help too much for the trade in factor, but it was very inexpensive!

Date: 2015-10-30 05:01 am (UTC)
silveradept: A dragon librarian, wearing a floral print shirt and pince-nez glasses, carrying a book in the left paw. Red and white. (Dragon Librarian)
From: [personal profile] silveradept
I have had excellent success with the nook line of tablets, and the latest nook 10.1 is basically a Galaxy Tab with nook software loaded on top of it - and usually cheaper than the Tab of the same style. I can't say anything about the camera from usage, but I believe the back camera is 8MP.

That said, the price may be above the $200 line without deals or other price-reducing things.

I have an app for Droid called Simple Notepad. Later Android versions also have Keep, which could work as well and is also free.

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