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Originally Posted by Madelaine Amee
Tom - thanks for your great email and explanation of the tablet terms. I have been gone most of the day and have only just found your reply to my original post about the computer club ---- appreciate your input. Now, do I bite the bullet and buy the IPad or do I chance my arm and buy one of the much less expensive androids? I am really intrigued by the Dragon. I really only (at this time) want the tablet for travel outside the country. Of course when I get one I will probably fall in love with it and take it everywhere with me!  |
How would you use it for travel outside this country?
I'll tell you how I used my smart phone in Spain and Italy 2 years ago.
First of all a smart phone is a computer that is also a phone. I turned off the phone feature because it is expensive to use and my wife and I were always together.
I had an app for Rome that used my GPS and when ever I got lost the app told me where I was and how to get to where I was going. If we wanted to eat or see what is special in the area I could click a button and it would tell me the restaurants or art museums in the area and if I still didn't know which way to walk I clicked a button and like a compass a blue arrow pointed in the right direction.
I also downloaded Rick Steves audio tour guides before I left home for Rome, Venice, Florence, Barcelona, and Malaga. It was like wearing a head set in a museum.
I also had a collection of audio books that I listened to while flying or riding a train.
I'm sure there more more things I could have used.
The most popular phones right now are called phablets. That is because they are closer in size to a tablet but are also a phone. It's a huge smart phone. Some people can only afford one device so this is their phone, computer and tablet.