what do you use your tablet for?

TommyTheGun · 03-10-2012 3:40pm #1

Hi all,

I'm just asking a general question for what you all use your android tab for mostly, as I'm trying to find ways of maximising the use of my purchase.

I'm a newbie to android, having only ever used windows based products, small bit of apple macbooks, but i have had an iphone for 2 years, so I thought I'd try android.

A few people who use this forum regularly, might have seen my previous comments of my frustrations with the tablet, but overall its good, just have to try stop myself slipping back to use the gf's windows laptop, or using my iphone for ease of use browsing.

I purchased the ASUS Transformer TF300 with doc, primarily to use for skyGO , and RTE player and my Garmin. I've subsequently found i cant use any of them and although the good folks on this forum have tried to help, i cant seem to find an .apk to get it working. i've no idea what rooting is or how to do it either, so I'll be useless at that if anyone suggests it!

For documents, I find the polaris software awkward for excel sheets and have purchased the PRO office suite too, but still getting used to it.

So, .......apart from internet browsing and ease of use, what do you guys use your tablet for ??

thanks in advance for any replies,

cheers, Tom

Bluefoam · 03-10-2012 4:55pm

TommyTheGun wrote: »

Hi all,

I'm just asking a general question for what you all use your android tab for mostly, as I'm trying to find ways of maximising the use of my purchase.

I'm a newbie to android, having only ever used windows based products, small bit of apple macbooks, but i have had an iphone for 2 years, so I thought I'd try android.

A few people who use this forum regularly, might have seen my previous comments of my frustrations with the tablet, but overall its good, just have to try stop myself slipping back to use the gf's windows laptop, or using my iphone for ease of use browsing.

I purchased the ASUS Transformer TF300 with doc, primarily to use for skyGO , and RTE player and my Garmin. I've subsequently found i cant use any of them and although the good folks on this forum have tried to help, i cant seem to find an .apk to get it working. i've no idea what rooting is or how to do it either, so I'll be useless at that if anyone suggests it!

For documents, I find the polaris software awkward for excel sheets and have purchased the PRO office suite too, but still getting used to it.

So, .......apart from internet browsing and ease of use, what do you guys use your tablet for ??

thanks in advance for any replies,

cheers, Tom

I got mine for internet browsing, email - I have two seperate accounts, personal and business - following news and blogs. Collecting and storing data, quick access to important documents through cloud storage + sharing of said data, reading and marking up .PDF and AutoCAD drawings (very important and unexpected advantage). Viewing and showing images and presentation materials to clients and colleagues, skyping my family and friends, playing music to external speakers - mostly when I have friends over,we pass the tablet around and choose songs off YouTube and play through tubemote.

I initially bought it for email, browsing and particularly watching movies while traveling and being stuck in boring business hotels and airports.

I have the transformer prime on jellybean. Flash is working well. If you want me to send you the .apk, pm me your email address.

pickarooney · 03-10-2012 4:59pm

Watching Films and TV shows mainly, reading books and surfing, skype, online shopping and cooking

threein99 · 03-10-2012 4:59pm

This is the best use for them I have found

projectgtr · 03-10-2012 5:28pm

I got mine for browsing and ended up using it more for comics

TommyTheGun · 03-10-2012 5:38pm

Bluefoam wrote: »

TommyTheGun wrote: »

Hi all,

I'm just asking a general question for what you all use your android tab for mostly, as I'm trying to find ways of maximising the use of my purchase.

I'm a newbie to android, having only ever used windows based products, small bit of apple macbooks, but i have had an iphone for 2 years, so I thought I'd try android.

A few people who use this forum regularly, might have seen my previous comments of my frustrations with the tablet, but overall its good, just have to try stop myself slipping back to use the gf's windows laptop, or using my iphone for ease of use browsing.

I purchased the ASUS Transformer TF300 with doc, primarily to use for skyGO , and RTE player and my Garmin. I've subsequently found i cant use any of them and although the good folks on this forum have tried to help, i cant seem to find an .apk to get it working. i've no idea what rooting is or how to do it either, so I'll be useless at that if anyone suggests it!

For documents, I find the polaris software awkward for excel sheets and have purchased the PRO office suite too, but still getting used to it.

So, .......apart from internet browsing and ease of use, what do you guys use your tablet for ??

thanks in advance for any replies,

cheers, Tom

I got mine for internet browsing, email - I have two seperate accounts, personal and business - following news and blogs. Collecting and storing data, quick access to important documents through cloud storage + sharing of said data, reading and marking up .PDF and AutoCAD drawings (very important and unexpected advantage). Viewing and showing images and presentation materials to clients and colleagues, skyping my family and friends, playing music to external speakers - mostly when I have friends over,we pass the tablet around and choose songs off YouTube and play through tubemote.

I initially bought it for email, browsing and particularly watching movies while traveling and being stuck in boring business hotels and airports.

I have the transformer prime on jellybean. Flash is working well. If you want me to send you the .apk, pm me your email address.

Thanks a million, i suppose for travelling away from home, it certainly has it's uses alright. I Could have certainly done with it whilst I was away working a lot last year.I never heard of tubemote, must check it out (these are the reasons for my post!!)

Yep, I'll PM you now my email, if you could send send the .apk, that would be great, much appreciated.

Tom

Atomic Pineapple · 03-10-2012 5:39pm

SkyGo and RTE Player should work on the TF300 should they not? It's not on Jellybean already is it?

Patsy fyre · 03-10-2012 5:43pm

Filmon will also work, loads of tv channels there.

Pop'n'Fresh · 03-10-2012 9:49pm

Don't forget if you have Netflix there's an app for that too.

I use my tablet (Asus Transformer Pad Infinity TF700) for Browsing, Email, YouTube, Twitter, Movies, Music, Few games.
Like someone said at a party I use my tablet hooked up to speakers and let people pick whatever music they want. There's a Grooveshark app too so you don't even need your own music collection!

There are so many was to enjoy your tablet

There's a forum called XDA Developers Forum which for non techie people can be a bit daunting but I suggest you have a look around the TF300 forum. You'll learn lots and pick up some great hints and tips.
There's also Transformerforums.com specifically for Asus products with plenty of helpful people there too with advice on apps to play with

TommyTheGun · 04-10-2012 6:14pm

Pop'n'Fresh wrote: »

Don't forget if you have Netflix there's an app for that too.

I use my tablet (Asus Transformer Pad Infinity TF700) for Browsing, Email, YouTube, Twitter, Movies, Music, Few games.
Like someone said at a party I use my tablet hooked up to speakers and let people pick whatever music they want. There's a Grooveshark app too so you don't even need your own music collection!

There are so many was to enjoy your tablet There's a forum called XDA Developers Forum which for non techie people can be a bit daunting but I suggest you have a look around the TF300 forum. You'll learn lots and pick up some great hints and tips.
There's also Transformerforums.com specifically for Asus products with plenty of helpful people there too with advice on apps to play with

Thanks for the info, must check that out

Heathen · 04-10-2012 9:23pm

I bought a kind of cheap one, purposely just for reading PDF's, i have gigggggabytes of training material for work i need to read on a constant basis and using a tablet makes reading them so handy, i didnt get a powerful one because i have a really bad attention span and i would only get distracted by playing games when i should be reading up on things :-)

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