Hi Birthday time soon, and a couple of people were going to buy me a kindle, but if I pool everyone's generosity I can aim for an upgrade. I need: - The ability to read, with some level of annotation. I write for a living, and I want a tablet to edit. - That's it My thoughts and what I'd like: - I use an iphone for "non work" reading in bed ATM, the backlight means I can read in the dark without waking up the other half. - My main work machine is a Mac. - The writing software I use (Scrivener) is OSX first and foremost and has good sync to iPad tools - I used to do a bit of iOS dev, but not much recently - may change in the future. - The iPad 2 is cool, but I wish they'd have put in a retina style display, so cool for reading! - Other apps on the iPad would be useful (But I have my iPhone so not essential) - Kindle 3G would be nice, but I can hotspot into my iPhone so no great loss (Thinking of UK use here) - Battery life isn't that important as long as it will allow reading for 4-5 hours at a stretch - I could write on an iPad (I have a folding full size keyboard) - My iPhone is an old 3G (jailbroken), a more powerful iOS device would be nice - I can't stand resistive touch screens - For day to day reading I think the kindle screen is better, but I'm very happy reading on an LCD - I don't need to root / jailbreak a device, although I've done so on my iPhone now it's reached it's last ever firmware with apple (Allowing my bluetooth kb & wifi hotspot) - Cameras / Facetime not important. We've got a couple of DSLRs in the house, a video camera, a high end HD video shooting compact and my crappy iPhone camera - I wouldn't buy the iPad 1 new - although I'd consider a real bargain 2nd hand. (may put up a wanted request) So the iPad 2 is winning by a mile, I don't need 3G so the basic £450ish machine would do the trick. 16GB is horridly small, but I could live with it as this would be a "work" machine 1st and foremost, and I'll normally have my laptop and iPhone with me anyway. Thoughts? Any android tablets that'll work like a cheaper iPad 2? I see Samsung are in a bit of a flap RE the pricing of the iPad 2 and are thinking of reducing prices to compete.
Sounds like you've answered your own question, but if it were me I wouldn't want to type much on the iPad - I'd get a laptop instead for that. For reading though and viewing other content, it'll be pretty damned good.
I've got a 13" MBP for proper writing: I'd only type at length on the iPad using an apple bluetooth keyboard (my other half has one she doesn't use) or my stowaway bluetooth. For quick notes when proof reading, the kindle KB or the onscreen iOS KB would do.
