Which tablet should we buy - or none at all?

Thank you for all your advice! I've bought a Hudl! I might be back for more advice!!

I love my tablet. Only regret is that I didn't buy a better one. Mine is a little on the slow side compared to my kindle HD. However, i prefer the 10" screen on my tablet. I charge it every night as I use it such a lot. I also have a cable ( 5 pounds on ebay,)which connects to my TV set and can watch things on the large screen. I play soduko, word search, patience, crosswords etc as well as posting on GN. I also email, take photos........ is there anything this tablet can't do?

Im another iPad mini fan.My old ipad seems way too heavy now. I prefer reclining too as I use it. I've dropped it many times too with no obvious harm.

It's good for checking out eating places on Trip advisor.

My iPad is a mini. Excellent for going in handbag on holiday for information, and nice to take photos on it too. Don't need to sit in front of PC to look at them.

Another Apple hag here as DN calls it. Love the way phone, desktop and iPad all talk to each other. DH bought a Samsung tablet sneakily and I hated having to learn all the Android stuff so we took it back and paid the difference for another iPad. But it is all very much what you are used to and what suits you best.

I love my ipad (so does DH ). The only thing to watch is that you either have, or get, a printer that is AirPrint compatible, or that you can convert. Unfortunately, mine isn't and can't, but I can print emails and internet stuff from my android phone and laptop, so I'm not minded to buy a new one just to accommodate yet another Apple anomaly.

I have had an i-pad for 3 years and love it. I am about to buy an i-phone to go with it.

So I would say go for an i-pad, maybe a mini depending on how portable you want it to be.

Nellie it depends on your phone. Mine has a setting under connections to use it as a mobile hot-spot. I enable this and it then shows up as an available wi fi connection on my tablet.

I suggest you google your make of phone and tablet and mobile hot-spot.

Remember that you will have to pay for the mobile data you use if it is not included in your contract.

Hudl2 is brilliant! Nice sized screen. Really pleased with mine. Made my choice partly based on the fact that small DGS aged four could use it - thought I stood a chance!

The 'experts' reckon the Hudl2 is the best value tablet on the market. It's extremely easy to use kitty and you're already computer savvy

Kitty I think you will need one each so you can sit and post to each other with no need to talk.

Mamie Pittcity My new smart mobile is Bluetooth paired to my tablet. How can I use the phones mobile data connection to show stuff on the tablet?

My cousin who couldn't cope at all with a Tablet has a Hudli and she is getting on great with it.

She is in her late 70s and not very IT savvy but she's now posting on Facebook, putting in photos and having a great time.

Derby is getting the same reception here kitty all hopes dashed,all that promise gone.

Thanks all! That's much clearer now. We print by wifi at home already so that should be ok.

I think we had almost decided on a Hudl to begin with, as the cheapest option, and if we like it we can donate to a DGC and buy a better one for us!

How will we cope with one between us? Will we end up divorced?

SkyGo is good Ann, but our allocation is already taken up by 2 x DS. Anyway, he's a bit off watching Forest at the moment! He even gave up his season ticket to DSiL on Saturday!

Basically you connect through wifi; at home, hotel, shopping centre etc. It is also possible to connect through your mobile phone as Pittcity says, if you don't have access to wifi. Air printing uses your wifi network but needs a printer that will support it and most new ones do that. Or you just email something on to your main computer and print from there. I don't print stuff like hotel reservations though, just show them the booking details on screen.

Kitty, I am as thick as a plank and I have no problems with my i-pad. I even set it up myself following the on screen instuctions. I would find the mini too small but that is personal, and with "sky on the go" your DH would be able to watch Forest on it while you watch something far more interesting on the tele.

Thanks for all the info! I'm a bit confused now - do we have to pay someone a contract fee? How do we connect to the internet? By air printing, do you mean wifi? Anyone got a spare child to sort it out for me?

If you have a modern smart phone you can use the data connection as a portable Wi Fi hot spot. Just google for instructions.
I often link my tablet to my phone to use it's data connection simply because the bigger screen is easier to read and bigger buttons to type with.

You can also download games, books, magazines etc that you can use without Wi-Fi

I got my hudl2 for Christmas Lona. I love mine too. I took it to my Sister's house yesterday, and took some lovely photos of her new granddaughter with it. It is fairly portable and I like it very much. I have sudoku and ebooks on it for entertainment.

Didn't answer the "while we are away" bit, sorry.
Pretty much anything and everything really, but in particular:
Travel plans, gallery / museum sites, good restaurants and hotels, Skype / Facetime (for staying in touch) banking, ferry updates, local information etc.
When we were in Spain in January we had a Mifi device with unlimet internet at 5€ a day. This meant we could use the ipads independent of wifi connections / hotspots and was much cheaper than using the data allowance on our iphones.

I love my ipad and can't imagine being without it. OH has the ipad mini and I would probably go for that now, because it would fit better in my handbag. I can word process quite happily on the Word or Pages (using a stylus) and our cheap as chips printer does air printing. I plug it in to re-charge overnight so no problems there.
We have a MacMini and a Windows laptop, but they rarely get turned on these days. Pretty much everything can be done from the ipad.

I bought a Hudl2 in January, and I love it. It does everything I need and it's good value.
It depends on what you want to use it for.

We do have smart phones but feel they are a bit small! How do you know that I lie in bed posting on gn, Nellie!