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TheDoctor

Noble and true, with a heart of steel
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The limitations of a touch-screen keyboard and a tiny screen do show up. Plus, my webmail doesn't actually work on the phone.
My partner needed to do some unexpected work stuff while we were away, and it was just-about doable on a tablet. It wouldn't have been on a phone, but a netbook would have been easier and quicker by far. Android does have its limits...
 

ColinJ

Puzzle game procrastinator!
I wanted to investigate the possibility of working on my Galaxy Tab when away from home. It is bad enough typing CC posts on the touchscreen, as I am doing right now, so there is no way that I would want to type out long articles on it.

I invested in an Advent K512 Bluetooth keyboard for less than £10 on eBay. You can get them now for £14 incl. p&p on Buy It Now, or bid lower in one of the auctions.

I chose this medium-sized design, on the grounds that a small keyboard would not be a lot better than the touchscreen, but a full-sized one would lose a lot of the portability I was looking for.

The Advent is very good. The only reason that I am not using it to type this post is that it interacts badly with the combination of my Opera mobile browser and the CC post edit box - I get multiple unwanted auto-repeats of characters. That problem will hopefully be fixed when Shaun does the forthcoming update of the forum software. The keyboard works perfectly in my Office suite.

The keyboard and tablet combination is still under half the weight of the laptop and its power supply. When I carry the laptop in my rucksack, I am always aware that it is there, whereas I do not notice the weight of the tablet and keyboard.
 

compo

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Harlow
I have just last week bought a £29 Nook from Argos. I love it so far. I haven't bought any books for it yet, being content with some of the many free titles available but looking at the retailers I see a few I may buy, all at under a pound.

I had never heard of it or come across the make until reading about it on here so thanks to whoever bought it up in a thread!
 
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