If you happen to read my Business Blog for Designed To A Tee you will note that I bought a tablet this week.
It wasn’t the tablet I crave, which is an iPad, but a nice little Android tablet that was 1/3 the price of a iPad.
As it says in that blog post, I did buy it so I could learn about Android. But I bought for another reason as well.
My hands.
At 43 years of age I have mostly reached the point where I cannot hold a pen for more than a few minutes. So I can sign my name but can’t really take notes in a meeting. I can make out a cheque but I can’t write in my journal.
And I need to be able to do all of those things, from note taking to journalling. And sometimes you don’t have your laptop with you. So you have your tablet.
I have been using my iPhone for these things, but the keyboard on my tablet is so much bigger I can practically touch type on it, as I am on this keyboard as I type this. Not quite as fast as I type on a keyboard (which is somewhere around 80 – 100 wpm) because the onscreen keyboard doesn’t react as fast and because it’s not full size.
But faster than on my iPhone. Easier, also.
So I bought a tablet.
I love her.
Her name is Sally.
What tablet did you get? Is it actually a “little” one?
How are you finding the onscreen keyboard? Have you tried SwiftKey yet? Free trial is here https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.touchtype.swiftkey.tablet.trial&hl=en
It’s a NATPC M009S and it is little in that it’s only 7″.
I like the keyboard but I’ll check out that link, thanks!