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[tunnie]

I see tablets as an evolution of the netbook+smart phone. Easily portable device with (unlike a smart phone) a useable screen size for surfing, mail, etc.

.. and, moving on from the netbook, ditching the dire X86 architecture for something that will give both performance and sensible battery life for the type of computing folk need "on the go" i.e. surfing, email, @rsebook, shtwitter, etc..

.. of course, you need to add a keyboard for it to be anything more than an expensive digital photo frame IMHO.

Not sure I get the "TV on the go" thing. I'm increasingly disinclined to switch on the TV when I'm sitting right in front of it with break all to do, let alone when I'm doing something more interesting.

Oddly, I've started using my netbook more than I use the tablet now. Both only used for web surfing, and spot of email.

I agree on the whole gay "tv on the go" BS though. I suspect a short lived gimmick, which you can bet your backside the mobile networks will put a stop on anyway.

There are plenty of WiFi hot spots around to make it still very usable 

[TheBoy]

I see tablets as an evolution of the netbook+smart phone. Easily portable device with (unlike a smart phone) a useable screen size for surfing, mail, etc.

.. and, moving on from the netbook, ditching the dire X86 architecture for something that will give both performance and sensible battery life for the type of computing folk need "on the go" i.e. surfing, email, @rsebook, shtwitter, etc..

.. of course, you need to add a keyboard for it to be anything more than an expensive digital photo frame IMHO.

Not sure I get the "TV on the go" thing. I'm increasingly disinclined to switch on the TV when I'm sitting right in front of it with break all to do, let alone when I'm doing something more interesting.

Oddly, I've started using my netbook more than I use the tablet now. Both only used for web surfing, and spot of email.

I agree on the whole gay "tv on the go" BS though. I suspect a short lived gimmick, which you can bet your backside the mobile networks will put a stop on anyway.

There are plenty of WiFi hot spots around to make it still very usable 

No there isn't .  There isn't really enough 3g to make it usable...

[tunnie]

Not a problem outside London 

[Kevin Wood]

My brother has one of those Asus android pads with a separate keyboard and display which can be slotted together to turn it into a "netbook". I quite like it, I must admit, but the keyboard would never leave it if I had one, and, at the price, I'll stick to linux netbooks for a while, thanks.

[aaronjb]

My brother has one of those Asus android pads with a separate keyboard and display which can be slotted together to turn it into a "netbook". I quite like it, I must admit, but the keyboard would never leave it if I had one, and, at the price, I'll stick to linux netbooks for a while, thanks.

I have one of those (a Transformer, not Transformer Prime) - never use it, though The touch pad annoys me as it doesn't do palm detection, so typing seems to require my hands to hover over the thing.

The Asus Slider looks nicer, but they've not made a Prime version :-/

[feeutfo]

Tv on the go, maybe not.

Tv at work, defo. 

And programming sky plus remotely is worth while, btw.  


And what's all this nonsense about keyboards?  ...whatever they are...? 

[TheBoy]

Tv on the go, maybe not.

Tv at work, defo. 

And programming sky plus remotely is worth while, btw.  


And what's all this nonsense about keyboards?  ...whatever they are...? 

See, us Media Center users have been able to remotely schedule (and watch) stuff for years. Sky are so far behind

Keyboards are still the future. Onscreen keyboards are slow and inaccurate. Its just gayPads and similar have become a status symbol, hence their current popularity.  They have a place, but doesn't warranty the sales figures.