after using an ipad of the mates, looking at the cost of the app`s, seeing just how invaluable a tool it would be in my life i went totally sideways and purchased a samsung galaxy tab, i now have a device that does for me exactly what the ipad would personally give me, it does however have access to the android market where a lot of ` apps` are free of charge, not only that but it does something the `i-blab` cant do not even the new updated one - its capable of making and recieving telephone calls, sending texts and mms`s, it has flash, it was still a damn sight cheaper than a second hand `ipad`, it has wifi, it has gps and gprs, it even plays `i tunes` music
, so im out fishing with the mate, im chatting to him about a fishing tackle deal i had just seen on the web and showed it him on the tab when suddenly the call tone goes, its my partner lilyann, asking if the mates with me as his wife s trying to ring him, hes gobsmacked because his `matching` i phone is flat and on charge in the car, the call has come in seamlessly with the web browsing, no ipad can do this, yes they can use instant messenger, thats assuming the data connection is good, but his has not been set up for messenger, so hes blapping about the memory his pad has, my tabs got 64gb as well, hes muttering about some barcode scanner thing, so i shows him the one on my tab, he started blabbering about the pdf reader on his, so i sent him some pdf docs i have been reading on the tab about e boats and while i was at it an ebook which i have been reading off and on for a month, so he then starts bemoaning the iphone and the cost, only to be totally urinated off when i tell him as my contract was up i had just replaced it again with o2, with that i got the galaxy s which does near all the tab will do albeit a smaller screen, im now paying less monthly than i was previously and i have a spare mini tab/phone - just means shifting the sim across, seems his son is getting the `i-doorstop` for uni and hes off to get himself a tab on contract, he is flogging his `i always dead phone` which is on o2 same as me and putting the sim into the new tab, best part, if i need to i can take my big laptop away with me and tether the tab or the galaxy s to it and access the web via that rather than have a seperate `dongle`
end the day its horses for courses, the ipad offers a lot of expensive apps/functions i will never ever use and from what i have seen and read few other people will use either