The biggest and surprising failing for nearly all of the Android / Kindle / windows Tablet options out there I see is the failure to include a Sim option for genuinely mobile computing. WiFi devices may be feasible for use in cities but quickly grind to a halt when travelling or when you are in a cottage in the country which does not have WiFi. I find this extremely odd as it is precisely when I am away from home and in this situation away from WiFi that I am most likely to need to use these sorts of devices. If they are portable devices they should in my mind be most useful if they can be used wherever there is a mobile signal rather than reliant on clumsily piggy backing on somebody else’s WiFi.
I started looking at chrome Books but no mobile sim options I can find, similarly for Windows tablets Kindle tablets and most Android tablets. This is the strangest lack I find in the mobile tablet sector at the moment. You could cobble solutions together I suppose by using Dongles or tethering but elegant this is not. In these situations only my iPhone and my old iPad Mini with data sim cut the mustard and provide some web connectivity for me. People are often surprised that my old iPad can connect to the web anywhere but this is old not new technology. In ancient times of early Kindle Keyboard models you could use a data sim but bizarrely no more as Amazon has completely withdrawn data sim options for Kindle and they are all WiFi only now. As useful as a choclate teapot on a motorway or in a country cottage without WiFi. If anybody can point me to a newer genuinely portable device with this functionality I would be interested. David Griffith From: Dane Trethowan [mailto:grtd...@internode.on.net] Sent: 14 November 2017 21:15 To: techno-chat@techno-chat.net Subject: [Techno-Chat]: Tablet Computing Firstly the Samsung Galaxy Books are Windows based tablets so if you purchase a Galaxy Book you're literally purchasing yourself a mini Windows 10 Pro machine, nothing wrong with that whatever. I was asked what I thought the best Android tablet was. Only my opinion of course but I don't think there's any best Android tablet right now and I'm astonished that I'm making such remarks as there very clearly should be some very good Android tables around but for some reason there isn't. When it comes to build the iPad range are tops, I've not yet seen an Android tablet come even close. When it comes to Power the iPad keeps moving ahead. So we have the iPad but then that's not everything that people may demand from a tablet, yes its powerful but perhaps not versatile enough and that's where a good Android tablet should be in its element but no, not yet, the only alternative then is a Windows tablet such as the Galaxy Book. The Galaxy Book isn't quite as well built as an iPad but its a tough build all the same as all modern Samsung phones and tablets seem to be thus should last you hears to come. I'm working on a series of audio demos for the Samsung Galaxy Book 12 at the moment and will release them shortly. On 11/15/2017 7:32 AM, Gordon Smith wrote: The latest model is called the PixelBook. The main advantage is that there is now full 100% Android app support built-in which means, of course, that you can install TalkBack and BrailleBack. Specs look quite good, although I still think that the Samsung Galaxy Books, based on what I’ve read and what I’ve been told, offer a better alternative. ======================================== My compliments and kindest regards Gordon Smith: <gor...@mac-access.net> Accessibility & Information Technology Support Specialist.. This Message Was Created Using 100% Recycled Electrons. If you can avoid printing it, please do so. Think of the environment, save a tree! Contact: • UK Free Phone: 0800 8620538 • UK Geographic / Global: +44(0) 1642 688095 • UK Mobile/SMS: +44 (0)7804 983849 • Vic. Australia: +61 38 82059300 • US/Canada: +1 646 9151493 ---------------------------------------- On 10 Nov 2017, at 10:14, Joshua Gregory <joshtg...@gmail.com> wrote: I'll have to take a look at that, thank you! On Fri, Nov 10, 2017, 12:07 AM Dane Trethowan <grtd...@internode.on.net> wrote: Hi! No first hand experience hereas yet. I've thought about getting a Chromebook to look at and I do know someone who uses a Chromebook fulltime, he's totally blind and loves it, he came from using an Apple Mac Mini and Voiceover. Further to this, may I suggest you look up the AFB Access World magazine. There you'll find a series of reviews and articles that have tracked the Chromebook and the Screen Reading technology. On 11/10/2017 1:34 PM, Joshua Gregory wrote: > > Hello, > I was wondering if anybody has had any experiences with Chromebooks > and the chromevox screen reader. What were your experiences? Did you > like it, did you not? Was there anything that stood out to you in > comparison to, say, windows and nvda or narrator? 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