10" Tablet for my mother

duffer247

Hi All
My mother is turning 77 this year and has been, for the most part successfully, using an 8" Asus tablet. She finds it tricky to enter text particularly passwords but hey don't we all. The pencil thingy helps but I think a 10" screen would help. She also now has netflix so I think fresh tablet would be great.
Simplicity and decent price ideal here, any recommendations warmly appreciated, by my mum too!:D

Davy

It would be more expensive but the finger scanner on the iPads would help with passwords?

What about a keyboard case to help with typing leaving the screen for the full display rather than a screen keyboard.

Using Siri and voice dictation to use speech to type also would be useful for messages etc.

Ursus Horribilis

I don't have any recommendations as such but I thought I'd give you a couple of observations. I've a relative who's not much younger than your mum who was given a 10" tablet with a case by his family. He has arthritis in his hands. The new tablet was heavier and bulkier than his old one so it gave him trouble physically holding it. So if you're thinking of 10" go as light as you can. Would your mum be up for coming along to a shop that sells tablets in order to physically hold some in her own hands? It is a significant jump in terms of tablet size.

On the case thing, this tablet came with its own fitted keyboard case. Fine in theory but awful in reality. The keyboard is grand if you're typing up an email but most of the time it gets in the way. He had to go buy a separate case because trying to use an already bulky 10" tablet with a keyboard case folded round the back was not satisfactory at all.

I'm a big user of styluses but I seem to be alone in my enthusiasm for them. They need a bit of getting used to because it's the equivalent of using a pencil upside down. Some are better than others too, I've found.

colm_mcm

In terms of ease of use, the iPad is hard to beat. It's also nice and light.

gizmo81

I got my 66 year old Aunt an iPad mini and she loves it. Never leaves it down. It's light enough for her too as she has arthritis in her hands. She even changed her phone to an iPhone when her contract was up. Now I love seen her send me the iMessage heartbeats and her squiggles, it's gas but very sweet.

harr

My mum is in her late 60s and we got her a IPad mini for Christmas and she loves it, it was her first tablet and picked up using it very quickly.
Light enough for and likes that she can zoom in fairly easily when inputting passwords and stuff..
I still get the odd phone call where she will be stuck in something..she keeps a little notebook on side board with all the passwords...I have all the important ones

duffer247

harr wrote: »

My mum is in her late 60s and we got her a IPad mini for Christmas and she loves it, it was her first tablet and picked up using it very quickly.
Light enough for and likes that she can zoom in fairly easily when inputting passwords and stuff..
I still get the odd phone call where she will be stuck in something..she keeps a little notebook on side board with all the passwords...I have all the important ones

Thanks guys that's a good heads up:)

_Brian

We got my mum a Lenovo Tab 10' for her 70th a few years ago and she has loved it.
Facebook, googling stuff, myhome.ie, rip.ie.

She said she never ever thought it would be for her and she never ever used a computer before, but it's been trouble free. Her older sister has since bought one too.