Lol, I have 8 Android and 4 Windows tablets from the time I was trying to find a replacement for the iPad. After I wasted so much money trying to find iPad alternatives, I eventually figured it's cheaper for me to just pay Apple's storage tax.
Interesting. My first tablet was a crappy Android 7in sub $90 tablet in 2012 (sold in the mean time). Another one was an Asus transformer Android that fortunately broke within warranty ans was refunded. The one I still have was a pretty good ipad mini competitor in 2013, the galaxy note 8 (yes, that's why the phone is called note8, and not note 8, because there was a note 8 tablet back then...), one of the very first tablet with LTE. Great device but not great battery life which degraded to unusable levels over time... Replaced by a mini 2 first and mini 4 after (now mini 5). And my last Android (I don't think I'll ever buy one again...) was the only one I occasionally still use, a Lenovo Yoga 2 pro, a 13.3in tablet with a 2k screen an integrated projector. I mainly use it for the projector and as portable tv, but it's too slow for anything else... Once I gave up on android I have been using both surface style devices and ipads, but I have progressively moved to ipads, including as an on the go device, and use the surface devices only occasionally. I also bought a UMPC 2-3 years ago (GPD pocket) but battery died after just 1 year...
That's right. I think we talked about this before, regarding the photo books. I feel like there has to be an alternative, but you would know better than me. Below is a link with some suggestions, I have heard you can do it on Google Photos also. Good luck.
Top 8 Apps to Make Photobook on iPad
Want to make a photobook on iPad? Sure you can do it with any of the mentioned 8 apps in this article.www.iskysoft.com
Yep, it's those instances where you're really glad to have an extra mobile device with its own internet.
I think it’s the best one overall. Even the air or standard model is too big, it yields too uncomfortable for my hands over a short duration of time...and my hands are decently sized too.
Every time I've thought I could live without an iPad I kept going back to it - but mostly because I find reading on them to be the best way to do my reading (I read a lot). I've never been able to go without an iPad for that reason. The portability, amount of text on the screen vs my 11 Pro Max, and the battery life make it a must for me. It is my most used device outside of work.
I often have a bluetooth keyboard hooked up to my iPad (on a stand) and use it as I would a laptop. (Day One, talking with family, posting here on Macrumors, taking notes, I use the pencil a lot with OneNote (work) and Notability (personal)).
That said, I too want to badly reduce the number of devices that I have. Every time I've attempted to do this, I end up going back and getting X device again (X = desktop or iPad). There are use cases for both and not having one or the other can result in even worse problems than having all the devices and feeling like you need to slim down.
Just curious, couldn’t you have hotspotted during the outtage?
You'd be running down the phone battery though. In cases of power outage, we tend to conserve phone batteries for essential communications only.
Consider it as insurance. Albeit for me, the LTE iPad serves that function as well. I'm more likely to forget both phone and watch than iPad.
Mine would be:
Have never hotspotted so wouldn’t have been a good time to figure it out. I use the watch for communication when convenient such as quick responses to texts in the car or on calls while walking my dog. I live
True. I remember paying around $30 per month for my grandmother's Life Alert and one issue was she didn't always wear it.
Thanks for the feedback. There are definitely some good reasons to have multiple data subscriptions, such as safety or even just convenience. I’m personally a stickler for cutting out excess expenses, especially subscriptions, so I’m always looking for the most cost-efficient solutions to problems. I almost always have wi-fi for my iPad, so for me occasionally hotspotting from my phone is definitely the way to go. (It’s suuuper easy, by the way, assuming you have that option in your data plan. Just the press of a button.)
That seems like a pretty good deal! I wish prepaid data didn’t expire, but 150 days is a decent amount of time.
