No! The Galaxy Book sells for £699.00 for the 10.6-Inch version and £899.00 for the 12-Inch. I’m not sure how much the LTE-enabled versions go for, I’ll check.
======================================== My compliments and kindest regards Gordon Smith: <[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. Australia: +61 38 82059300 • US/Canada: +1 646 9151493 ---------------------------------------- On 16 Nov 2017, at 15:41, Dane Trethowan <[email protected]> wrote: I can't be sure of that as I don't know the conversion rate from pounds to Australian dollars but I think it would be near the mark yep. On 11/17/2017 1:07 AM, david griffith wrote: > Wow – I have just looked on Amazon and the price for that Tablet appears to > be £1,400 – does that sound right? > David Griffith > > My Blind Access and Guide dog Blog > http://dgriffithblog.wordpress.com/ <http://dgriffithblog.wordpress.com/> > My Blind hammer Blog > https://www.westhamtillidie.com/authors/blind-hammer/posts > <https://www.westhamtillidie.com/authors/blind-hammer/posts> > > From: Dane Trethowan <mailto:[email protected]> > Sent: 15 November 2017 21:46 > To: Techno-Chat ... Technology Enthusiasm! > <mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Techno-Chat]: Tablet Computing > > The Samsung tablet in question is the Samsung Galaxy Book 12, its a higher > spec and more powerful machine than the Tab and I think its more recent too. > > > ********** > “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 4:01 am, David Griffith <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > OK glad to be contradicted. > I looked up the Samsung 12 on UK Amazon. > Is it this one on the UK Store ? > http://tinyurl.com/y8ml9a9o <http://tinyurl.com/y8ml9a9o> > In my defence it does not scream out a sim card in its specification though > I did notice a description of 4G WiFi on its description. > The main issue I think is that at over £700 including delivery It is > significantly more expensive than the tablets I was looking at – about twice > the cost of other PC tablet machines and nearly 3 times as much as the Asus > Chrome Books and 6 times as much as some of the Kindle options. Even my sim > based 64gb iPad was only £450, admittedly a few years ago now. so I am > probably looking at the wrong end of the market. I am not at all sure I > want to pay over £700 for a tablet I am only going to use occasionally > whilst out or on holiday. My main Desktop machine with 16 GB ram, 512 GB > SSD main drive with 4TB secondary drive which I used every single day only > cost me £550 , with Windows and Office though it was custom built by an > engineer I know. If I could find a cheaper Tablet option like a Chrome Book > at about £250 with a sim slot I would go for it like a shot. > David Griffith > > > From: Dane Trethowan [mailto:[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>] > Sent: 15 November 2017 15:28 > To: Techno-Chat ... Technology Enthusiasm! > Subject: Re: [Techno-Chat]: Tablet Computing > > 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] > <mailto:[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. Australia: > +61 38 82059300 > • US/Canada: > +1 646 9151493 > > ---------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > > On 10 Nov 2017, at 10:14, Joshua Gregory <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > I'll have to take a look at that, thank you! > On > Fri, Nov 10, 2017, 12:07 AM Dane Trethowan <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> 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? 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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