Thread: What's the state of play with tablets?

Originally Posted by Hugh Cow

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Originally Posted by Switch

I have been traveling a lot recently and the second hand iPad I bought from a mate who was upgrading has been a real boon on the move. Merkin English spell checker is the only downside.
Ideal for movies, email and posting shit on here.
Best camera I ever had too.

I don't use iShit, but you're telling me there isn't a British English spell checker on the gay ipad?

Must admit defaulting to Merkin English spell checkers does cause me a tad of aggravation.Although the way their southern neighbours are pouring in Spanish will soon be the dominant language if it's not already. Speaking of which is their a correct English spell checker available on TD?

Is there......

^ That's a Hispano-American innovation. The structure preferred by traditionalists is 'Is they're a....'

Cheers,

I'll have a look at Lenovo then? After the Samsung.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

I don't know about glitches, but as for updates, I suppose when no-one bothers hacking ipads they don't need them.

Plus the owners are too fucking skint to rob having spent all their money on some overpriced, glorified mouse mat.

What kind of 'tard would buy a mouse pad for an IPad?

I'm on my second IPad. It's IPad Air 2 and love it just like I did the first one, which I dropped and broke after five years of no problems.

Don't trust my PC or my Android phone to do internet banking.

Originally Posted by misskit

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

I don't know about glitches, but as for updates, I suppose when no-one bothers hacking ipads they don't need them.

Plus the owners are too fucking skint to rob having spent all their money on some overpriced, glorified mouse mat.

What kind of 'tard would buy a mouse pad for an IPad?

I'm on my second IPad. It's IPad Air 2 and love it just like I did the first one, which I dropped and broke after five years of no problems.

Don't trust my PC or my Android phone to do internet banking.

Oh well that's OK then, because of course you don't get malware on ipads.

Oh.

We’ve discovered a new family of iOS malware that successfully infected non-jailbroken devices we’ve named “AceDeceiver”.

What makes AceDeceiver different from previous iOS malware is that instead of abusing enterprise certificates as some iOS malware has over the past two years, AceDeceiver manages to install itself without any enterprise certificate at all. It does so by exploiting design flaws in Apple’s DRM mechanism, and even as Apple has removed AceDeceiver from App Store, it may still spread thanks to a novel attack vector.

AceDeceiver is the first iOS malware we’ve seen that abuses certain design flaws in Apple’s DRM protection mechanism — namely FairPlay — to install malicious apps on iOS devices regardless of whether they are jailbroken. This technique is called “FairPlay Man-In-The-Middle (MITM)” and has been used since 2013 to spread pirated iOS apps, but this is the first time we’ve seen it used to spread malware. (The FairPlay MITM attack technique was also presented at the USENIX Security Symposium in 2014; however, attacks using this technique are still occurring successfully.)

Yeah, still, you know IOS don't have as many problems with malware. Don't you?

Originally Posted by baldrick

I have been looking at that to replace the note 2 - lack of OIS is a little bit of a drawback , but the rest looks great - not the fastest processor , but paired with the big battery it will last a while - what are your thoughts about it ?

I am not a big performance hound. I just need something for browsing and email on the go. It comes in a variety of guises with the top end processor OK for gaming.

Build quality is very good.

MIUI is surprisingly good.

It is strange how quick you get used to it and my Note sized Lenovo K3 now looks tiny in my hand.

The new version that just came out downsizes the camera from a daft 16MP down to a more reasonable 12 MP - I would prefer 8 or 10MP.

I got a 128Gb SD card for $16 to hold a ton of music. It is dual sim if you don't use the SD card slot.

^

That's a very cheap SD 128 card Loopy, did ya buy it from a Liberian or sumtin. ?

Recon it will pack it in, ya better back up all ya music eh.

^I bought 2

1 was $25 shipping from inside Australia in 2 days.

The other was $17 shipping from China but it still arrived in a week.

The second one was to bang in the slot of my Lenovo laptop as it only has a 300Gb HD. Just bumped the storage by 40%

Originally Posted by terry57

ya better back up all ya music eh

Just going to use both of them to hold copies of my existing music library so if they crap out no loss.

^ 128 Gigabit = 16 GigaByte so not remarkably cheap

^^

Regards Loms Statement Loopy.

Are they Gigabit or gigabyte.?

Ta.

I bought some cheapies here in BKK.

128 gigabyte.

Absolutely fine for Pics and music but must back up of course.

Lazarda has some cracking deals but I always go Samsung Vevo original these days.

Good price and great quality cards.

I miscapitalised my 'b' it should of course have read 128 GB.

Yes for the low low price of only AU$17 one can now purchase a 128 GB class 10 micro SD card with SD adaptor

Had 2 of them for a month.

All good so far.

Even with claimed class 10 data rate I am not sure I would go for the cheap end for HD/4K video recording or long burst hi-def RAW photography but for playing music and taking regular photos they are fine.

Originally Posted by misskit

Yeah, still, you know IOS don't have as many problems with malware. Don't you?

And if you trust something on that basis you are asking for trouble.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Originally Posted by Slick

iPad or kindle fire here.

Fuck me there's a gay combo for you.

Why is it gay? US Amazon e-book selection is massive. Can download an entire novel in seconds even on the absolute shittiest of satellite connections/cellular data worldwide. Need the next installment of a novel series you just finished and in some shithole area? One click & done.

iPad for convienience. Posting, typing, emailing is flawless and efficient.

Kindle is truly a device of total convenience for a traveler who can bang out a thick novel in 2 days.

Originally Posted by Slick

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Originally Posted by Slick

iPad or kindle fire here.

Fuck me there's a gay combo for you.

Why is it gay? US Amazon e-book selection is massive. Can download an entire novel in seconds even on the absolute shittiest of satellite connections/cellular data worldwide. Need the next installment of a novel series you just finished and in some shithole area? One click & done.

iPad for convienience. Posting, typing, emailing is flawless and efficient.

Kindle is truly a device of total convenience for a traveler who can bang out a thick novel in 2 days.

Yeah, I suppose when you are reading picture books you want the glossy screen.

People that read ones with words in them use the Paperwhite.

You have no soul Harry.

So, who were you before?

Christ, it's not............

Originally Posted by Looper

Yes for the low low price of only AU$17 one can now purchase a 128 GB class 10 micro SD card with SD adaptor

Even with claimed class 10 data rate I am not sure I would go for the cheap end for HD/4K video recording or long burst hi-def RAW photography but for playing music and taking regular photos they are fine.

The cheap cards are great for music and Pics as long as ya back up.

But through experience I have found that even when rated class 10 they will not cut it when recording HD 4K.

HC cards anyway.

The last thing ya want is for a cheap card to corrupt so for high end recording always pay the wedge for a quality fast speed card.

We all learn from experience and to lose ya shit because ya Jewed on the SD card is really fooked up.

So Tel, share your wisdom mate, what card do you use?

^ seniors card

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

This 10" beauty cannot be beaten for travel, especially with the battery life.

Takes a MicroSD memory card too; you can add a bluetooth keyboard if you need to type a lot.

Also 802.11ac Wifi.

Dogs bollocks but a bit hard to find; I had to order mine from Amazon Germany.

http://www3.lenovo.com/medias/lenovo...GZiMjEyNGZhYTQ



I have a Samsung as well, a 12" for the kitchen (wall mounts) but it is nowhere near this for travel.

Oh, and the retractable bracket thing you see at the bottom doubles up as a stand or a hangar, too. Sits nicely on an airplane table, and you can adjust the angle to suit.

Agree with Harry here, bought one 6 months ago, very good value, great battery life.
Also you can pay a bit more and have the one that projects screen onto a wall etc.

No external drives, everyone does it all in the cloud now mate, although it takes a MicroSD Card and prolly a USBA/USBC drive if you can find one(I've never looked).

There are lots of Android apps that do Excel spreadsheets, including MS Excel.

Another stupid question.

How do these thing communicate with the outside world? WiFI I assume.

But if my house in a foreign country doesn't have WiFi what then.

Can I use my smartphone as a modem?