Techno Pro-jay

[susandennis]

So the whole take the tablet instead thing has gotten me thinking and testing and playing.

How practical is it for me to do what I do everyday on a tablet?  Or even on my phone?  Randoms:

• Typing is one obstacle.  I have not developed the skills needed to be a great onscreen typists - phone or tablet.


• In my embarrassingly giant trove of collected hardware I have located both a fullsized bluetooth keyboard and a teensy weensy one.  Both work.


• I have yet another keyboard - this one a keyboard case - for the tablet, coming tomorrow.


• Speed is another factor.  My phone, a Nexus 5, actually has a beefier processor than my Nexus 7 tablet. I have no idea how much beefier but the action is better in practice.


• The Nexus 7 tablet is not always well behaved.  The phone seems far steadier and more reliable.


• Websites tend to default to 'mobile' versions which are generally not at all satisfactory. Often you can click to non-mobile but sometimes it is trickier than that.


• I need Flickr, Google +, Twitter, Gmail, and, of course, reading/writing at LJ.  (I already use the phone and/or tablet for Kindle and Audible and games.)

I think I'm going to put this laptop away and see how phone/tablet living works.

Comments

[howeird]

The Nexus 7 and both Samsung and Motorola phones have pretty good talk-to-write. I have found I can do away with a lot of typing that way.

[susandennis]

Oh! You are right. I forget about that. Thanks for the reminder.

install chrome or firefox on your tablet

[henare.livejournal.com]

i find that, with chrome, i usually don't get the lame mobile versions of websites this way ..

Re: install chrome or firefox on your tablet

[susandennis]

Even LJ? I get that giant blue stripe across the top asking me if I want the mobile site - Chrome and Foxfire. And many others give me a pseudo mobile site - not the mobile one but not the desktop one either. We must visit different sites! :)

Re: install chrome or firefox on your tablet

[henare.livejournal.com]

i haven't tried lj with these ... i only go to lj about 2x/week to see what's going on and to think about what i'll write next.