I’m sorry to contradict you but all the devices we have been talking about - including my Samsung Galaxy Book 12 Windows Tablet - do allow for SIM card data thus they are totally portable so use on a mountain top, park bench or in a cafe, the choice is yours. Actually the use of SIM cards in modern day computing goes deeper and runs wider than I possibly thought, my New HP Probook 404 G3 can also take a SIM card. Many of the Android tablets out there naturally take a SIM card too though - as I said earlier - at present I don’t believe the current crop of Android tablets are anywhere near up to speed when it comes to Windows or IOS offerings, even the build isn’t as good. Will that change? I sincerely hope so but its taking a long time.
********** “For the gardener nothing is more handier than bulbs, I mean the 1’s you put in the ground and not the electric light 1’s.” > On 16 Nov 2017, at 2:00 am, David Griffith <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 could use a data sim but bizarrely no more as Amazon has completely withdrawn 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:[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>] > Sent: 14 November 2017 21:15 > To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > 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: >> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> >> 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. 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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? Thanks very much! >>> > >>> -- >>> ********** >>> "For the gardener nothing is more handier than bulbs, I mean the one's you >>> put in the ground and not the electric light one's." >>> ********** >>> ------------------------------ >>> This post, like all posts to the Techno Chat E-Mail group has been scanned >>> by our server-side antivirus/malware solution. This should not, however, be >>> viewed as a substitution for your own security strategy. We assume no >>> culpability whatever, implicit or otherwise, for any compromise to your >>> systems as a result of opening any post to this group. Suffice it to say >>> that we remain vigilant within the boundaries of reason. We strongly urge >>> you to do likewise! 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