Why get a high end tablet anyway? Just get one of these: http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/tablets/lenovo/a-series/tab2a10/ The 32GB one is $219 right now and it takes SD cards also. Great specs and design for the price, we're looking at getting a few for work for simple web based job organisation stuff.
Nobody knows what they want until Cupertino tells you so! How long will you live in denial? But seriously, it comes down to resale value. You can usually dump iPhones/iPads and recover a bulk of the purchase price. The Android stuff is a paperweight within a year. A tablet is a lot less personal than a phone... the OS shouldn't matter much. I cycle through roughly 4 smartphones a year. The insane resale value and liquidity of Apple products is much appreciated.
I pay almost nothing for my iPhones. I can usually sell the old one on ebay for nearly the cost of the subsidized new phone. AT&T doesn't give you any discount for being out of contract and continuing to use an old phone. So there is absolutely no reason to keep your phone when you are due for an upgrade.
I gave those a serious look and they sound pretty good for the price but there are two issues. My wife uses the speakers all the time and the speakers are the most complained about feature on the tablet. The second issue was the Lolipop upgrade. Most people bought and reviewed the tablet with KitKat. I went to android central and saw several people saying the Lolipop upgrade killed the battery and caused lag. I don't want to deal with that. In fact I'm now dealing with it on my own Tab S. A couple of weeks ago I noticed that it was dead all the time. The charge used to last forever so I knew it wasn't normal. I checked the OS version and it was Lolipop. It updated itself a few months ago. Now I'm losing 15% battery charge every hour when it's sleeping so it's dead in 8 hours even if I don't use it. Lolipop is why I sold my last tablet and phone and now it's why I might sell this one too. I just wiped it so I'll see if that does anything to help. Anyway I got Staples to match the Walmart price of the iPad and throw in a 10% difference discount. The total came to $316 for an AT&T 32GB Air 1. Staples was still selling them for $687.
Fair points. The iPad definitely sounds like the way to go then. Especially considering the resale value factor. The Lolipop upgrade wasn't perfect on my S5 either, but I didn't have any issues related to battery or anything serious so the few small problems were outweighed by the new features (mainly trusted locations). That is something I'll have to keep in mind if we get those Lenovo Tab 2's for work. Ipads are out of the question as we need something cheaper due to likliness of damage and we also need SD cards. Hopefully they release a non-buggy update to 5.1 sometime soon.
Just found out something I didn't know. I was very early to the gmail party and so I took forename.surname@gmail.com and have been using it ever since. I occasionally get emails or forenamesurname@gmail.com and just ignore them. Recently someone seems to have signed this up to ebay and bought loads of items and not paid for them but I was getting all the emails complaining about this. Apparently Gmail doesn't care about .'s in an email address, you can put them anywhere you like or use none at all, they all belong to you. Because my name isn't that uncommon in the world this means I guess that there are plenty of people out there with a number after the name but I am the one who has the unique name without any numbers to make it different. Had to raise a case with Ebay who have put a stop on the guys account until he chooses a new email address. And just as I type this I get a new email as someone else has done the same and tried to set up a google account linked to mine. Maybe being the first with my name to get gmail wasn't such a good idea... https://support.google.com/mail/answer/10313?hl=en
Well the odd email wasn't an issue, I just assumed DNS was misdirecting them from time to time. It's only when I checked the info and there was a note next to the address from Google saying 'Yes, this is you' and a link that I bothered to look into it. It's a hassle now because I've had 10+ emails from ebay in the last 2 days whereas in the past I might get 1 or 2 random ones a week.
LOL! Not gonna lie, I could see this going either way based on the pic. When Ahmed Mohamed went to his high school in Irving, Texas, Monday, he was so excited. A teenager with dreams of becoming an engineer, he wanted to show his teacher the digital clock he'd made from a pencil case. The 14-year-old's day ended not with praise, but punishment, after the school called police and he was arrested. "I built a clock to impress my teacher but when I showed it to her, she thought it was a threat to her," Ahmed told reporters Wednesday. "It was really sad that she took the wrong impression of it." Ahmed talked to the media gathered on his front yard and appeared to wear the same NASA T-shirt he had on in a picture taken as he was being arrested. In the image, he looks confused and upset as he's being led out of school in handcuffs. "They arrested me and they told me that I committed the crime of a hoax bomb, a fake bomb," the freshman later explained to WFAA after authorities released him. http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/16/us/texas-student-ahmed-muslim-clock-bomb/index.html
Kid seems like an Asperger's case with no self/social awareness that being muslim and approaching your teacher with a big ticking clock thing that looks like a bomb might be taken the wrong way. The massive overreaction of the school and police was dumb. The SJW clickbait faux outrage by the media was also dumb. Just a story of people acting like idiots all around.
The metal briefcase kind of sealed the deal for the fake-bomb look. I mean how often do you see a metal briefcase full of wires that isn't meant to look like a bomb? It's pretty damn cliché. In fact here is a picture of a "simulated modular bomb threat" used for training in security check points.
Yeah, you know...every time I see a guy in a suit with a briefcase looking at his watch, I call the police. Total giveaway. Briefcase has to be full of kidnapping money or explosives. See it all the time in the movies...
Typical, eh? You can take the bomb out of the suitcase but you can't take the suitcase out of the bomb.
I'm surprised the news our prime minister previously stuck his cock in a dead pig's head hasn't gained a bit more traction in the mainstream press. I guess boys will be boys.