tablets – Mummy To Twins Plus One

Mobile Technology

Currently I am using a Google Nexus 7 and wireless keyboard to write this post, and did the other one yesterday. I am still ironing out kinks to make it all a seamless exercise and it is still a struggle as nothing beats your own home desktop computer.

Even though I love my home based computer nothing beats being mobile with a new tablet and keyboard. The Nexus and keyboard allowed me to take notes in summer school for my final subject at university if you don’t know I am nearly finished a Master’s in Project Management and very keen to complete. Not long go!

The only things that are driving me insane is the lack of options that I normally get on my home based desktop and the fact that it is a pain to transfer images as I have so many to choose from. It is a great to have Dropbox to allow me to upload pictures and add them to the hard-drive of the Nexus. It might have something to do with slow Internet at home we are lucky to have very fast Internet. I am obviously used to the fast pace and get annoyed at anything less.

I am going to be trying to write some blog posts for one of the websites that I write for and crossing fingers it all works out. I just need to see if the word document software on this device will save well and allow me to add pictures to send to the editors of the site. We will see.

Have you gone away and taken mobile technology with you? Has it worked or was it a pain in the arse. Currently I have been quite annoyed with things as I was unable do what I have normally do

ne at home, but I am sure that once I come more familiar with the Nexus and the applications that I am running it might become more seamless. Tell me your stories? What has happened to you if you have done this?

Serious Gear Lust

I have had serious lust over the iPad’s and would just love to own one. I know it is a terrible thing to admit, but it is true. Having a tablet would definitely be a help in life, while out with the kids I could be doing work, and at home I could take the tablet to bed (how strange to say take a tablet to bed, you know I mean a laptop device, not a bex or a tablet) to read articles for university, and of course if I have any further spare time, I will use it to surf the web or just read for my own interest.

Finding out that there is a mini iPad about to be launched is great news, and that it might be cheaper than the other iPad’s on the market. This mini iPad will be launching in October some time so I’m keen to find out more, although the article about the mini iPad claim that the launch will be more likely for September. We will have to wait and see.

It is not just the iPad’s that have managed to wake my gear lust; it is also Microsoft’s Surface, again coming in October. From what I understand there is no cost listed currently for these devices and I would love to have one also. You might just say that I am keen to have a portable device that I can take with me, out and about or to just retire and read books or articles with. The desktop computer just does not cut it anymore. One amazing thing about Microsoft Surface is that the cover for the tablet becomes the keyboard, no need to purchase the keyboard separately.

Do you lust after products that you cannot have? Is it just me that wants a tablet? I also find the term tablet a bit strange…I feel like I am asking for a pill/medicine. I know it is not, but that is what it sounds like. A bit like when I first heard of the Nitendo Wii, it took me a moment to understand that people were talking about a product and not wanting to go to the toilet. I know silly, but how many others have had the same issue? I am up with technology and very savvy with it, and sometimes the names for products just throw you.

Send in your comments, or stories about what things you lust over. My list is getting longer and longer, however I will stick with either an iPad or the Microsoft Surface for the moment. It will be interesting to see how Google, Apple and Microsoft go with very similar products and what prices they will sell at. Having a price point that is more competitive might mean the organisation that wins the business will corner the market.