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

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?

Originally Posted by VocalNeal

Can I use my smartphone as a modem?

Good question,

Ive been trying to work that one out as well.

Originally Posted by David48atTD

^^ Harry, I don't use/trust the 'cloud' for anything ... but, then again, I don't even have/trust FaceBook.

VN, my Yoga 2 Tablet has a mini HMDI port, but no usb port.

So what does the power plug into?

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Originally Posted by David48atTD

^^ Harry, I don't use/trust the 'cloud' for anything ... but, then again, I don't even have/trust FaceBook.

VN, my Yoga 2 Tablet has a mini HMDI port, but no usb port.

So what does the power plug into?

What you see is what you get.

No USB Port

You can use your Smartphone as a Wireless Router (a.k.a. Hotspot).

I do it all the time with AIS and my Pixel XL. It works on Samsungs too.

So what do you think that thing on the side you plug the power cable into is then?

Duh.

I mean apart from the fact you can chuck stuff on a MicroSD card and just plug it in, you can buy dual USB-A/C adapters.

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Originally Posted by VocalNeal

Can I use my smartphone as a modem?

settings ---> wireless & networks --> more --> tethering and portable hotspot -- > on

set your wifi hotspot up with a name and password

Originally Posted by David48atTD

I don't use/trust the 'cloud' for anything ...

You shouldn't, the old rule "noting is free" applies.
Many routers nowaday comes with cloud functions so you can create your own private cloud on your LAN instead of giving away your data to god knows who.

Originally Posted by lom

Originally Posted by David48atTD

I don't use/trust the 'cloud' for anything ...

You shouldn't, the old rule "noting is free" applies.

Many routers nowaday comes with cloud functions so you can create your own private cloud on your LAN instead of giving away your data to god knows who.

Oh give over, it's perfectly acceptable for unimportant data, especially pirate fucking moves and TV for travel FFS.

Some of the bigger ones will even delete them if they recognise them.

Opening your home network is a far bigger risk.

Opened a MEGA cloud drive account let's see.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Oh give over, it's perfectly acceptable for unimportant data, especially pirate fucking moves and TV for travel FFS. Some of the bigger ones will even delete them if they recognise them.

So they spy on their users, checking what they store in the cloud.
Thanks for proving my point.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Opening your home network is a far bigger risk.

Bollox. A local VPN or IPSec server on the router is all you need and it is very secure.

Originally Posted by lom

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Oh give over, it's perfectly acceptable for unimportant data, especially pirate fucking moves and TV for travel FFS. Some of the bigger ones will even delete them if they recognise them.

So they spy on their users, checking what they store in the cloud.
Thanks for proving my point.

That's why I said "it's perfectly acceptable for unimportant data" you idiot. Do you have reading comprehension problems?

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Opening your home network is a far bigger risk.

Originally Posted by lom

Bollox. A local VPN or IPSec server on the router is all you need and it is very secure.

And what Router do you use?

Oddly, torrents download loads faster on my tablet than they do on my laptop.

Originally Posted by armstrong

Oddly, torrents download loads faster on my tablet than they do on my laptop.

Could be because one is 2.4Ghz and the other 5Ghz, or one is 802.11n and the other 802.11g for example.

All sorts of reasons which you could probably work out fairly easily by running speedtest on both devices (that's assuming torrents are maxing out the connection).

Just a tip if you are buying Tablets for your kids.

The Lenovo tablets we have don't have a auto setting for screen brightness.

We are for ever adjusting the screen brightness for day and night time use.

Apart from that, for kids, considering the price, they are great.

A year on, despite being dropped a few times, everything works.

Fingers Crossed

jesus, this is 2017, and you retards still discuss tablets ???

hello, the world is clouded, tablets are so 2010 !!!

^ it is just your veiwsonic that is clouded - with ladyboy sperm

my tablet is used for reading ebooks , browsing 'tinternet and watching movies on flights

and the viewsonic is still doing fine, best tablet ever

never seen a bigger one since

and it has Android 3.0 or is it 2.5 ? can't remember

Listen to Buttplug, he is an "IT Expert".

oh look, an indian called

Originally Posted by Dragonfly

oh look, an indian called

The irony is (look Buttplug, this is how you use the word) that even a fucking indian knows more about computers than you do.