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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):
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
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Date: 2015-10-29 05:34 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2015-10-30 01:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-10-30 03:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-10-30 05:01 am (UTC)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.