my work involves a lot of travel, and a lot of punishment on my stuff, The big problem is finding a tablet that can run in field as well as the office
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I have a ASUS transformer 101. You can get a keyboard for it and connect like a laptop or disconnect and it's a tablet. With keyboard you also get extra battery life. As to punishment you could always get a good case. The ASUS has gorilla glas which is scratch resistant. Other than that you may want a ruggidized laptop. They are a variety available that can handle being run over by a car from what I hear.
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It is very nice for reading, which is the my main use for this tablet, but for heavy work I have a Surface Pro 3.I used to own a Surface RT and Surface 2. Comparing with those for reading is more suitable and you can run legacy apps.
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If you want a tablet that supports a thumb drive, you might want to look at Acer. I have an Iconia 500, and it has a full-sized usb port.
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You can not, the best tablet for multiple use is microsoft SURFACE win8,that's it .
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I'm a designer and illustrator, but I also use the tablet just to navigate around. And if you can type with a pen in your hand, you don't even have to put the pen down when you're writing someone a note.
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This is both a tablet and a PC with Window 8 when docked it works as a slim laptop. Similar to a netbook good for MS office and web pages. I am not sure I would like to do serious programming or development on this. When not docked it works well as a touch screen tablet with apps from windows and all. I have found this very helpful when traveling I can do my reports and expenses in word easily then undock and enjoy tablet movies. way better than my IPAD and BT keyboard.
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It's a tablet, you can easily break in two but you would not have all the benefits of it's components.
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Most apps run fine. phone works well, but I only recomend it if used for work purposes or are very outdoorsy. Recommend galaxy s3 or something with atleast 1.5 gig ram in the processor
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Yes, there are several apps that can do the job. Do a search on Play Store.
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My tablet is running slow and freezes a lot so I hardly use it for important stuff.
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Yes, there are apps for that. The key is to recognize that the amount of memory is limited, and installing too many games or other apps will make it perform poorly. For a single purpose tablet, (ie. Kids to play, adults to i Se for remote email, etc) this works great. If speed is a big issue, spend the money and get something more robust. This has worked out well for my middle school aged daughter.
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I bought a case for 7 inch tablets at Walmart but you can find them here on Amazon, Big Lots, etc.
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I'm waiting for the release of the 6 cell version. I don't want to have a small, take anywhere laptop that needs a plug to work after two hours of use. There are other, similar subnotebooks coming out soon too. The Acer one, Dell (whatever, don't know if it has a name), the new ASUS 901 and 1000 series, and, very likely, there will be more. Buying one now is great if you can find one, and I would like to, but I don't want to feel buyer's remorse in a short period of time.
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Laptop is probably better because of a more effective keyboard interface. The Acers can get a bit tied up sometimes. Also you can have the full Microsoft Office suite on a laptop which you cannot on the tablet
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Original Galaxy Tab is too slow of a processor and very little ram. At best you can run one basic application at a time. Try Google Books, might have better success with that.
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No application can give you something that the hardware is missing. Unfortunately there's no such thing. If you could find a USB to Bluetooth adapter and that a software driver is available to control it (if such thing exists), the tablet's battery will drain up very very fast, not worth doing anyway.
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I use it for email and internet all the time. As for paying bills, you might want to invest into a small keyboard that you can plug into the USB.