Tablet 2.0!

Last Saturday, I rewarded myself with a new toy!

A few weeks back, my ipod touch’s button decided to stop functioning altogether. I haven’t tried getting it fixed yet, although I still use it in my car for music purposes. And there’s also the assistive touch available, which I haven’t tried yet. In other words, I was just looking for a good reason to actually get something new, as a replacement for my ipod touch.

I use my ipod touch for a lot of things – checking my email, doing research, reading various stuff from the web (especially from Wiki), etc. So not being able to use it was quite a challenge at times for the past weeks only because I was used to not having to open my computer anymore to do these things.

For the replacement, I was thinking about getting something bigger than the touch. Initially I just thinking of getting a Kindle instead, something to get me to start reading again. But I’m not quite convinced with Kindle’s product yet (Kindle Fire, that is) and the simple kindle reader was just too one sided for me. It was good for reading, and only reading.

I didn’t want to get an iPhone or something similar because I didn’t want to spend that much and have another small device like the touch. And I didn’t want an iPad or something similar as well because it is quite big, and very expensive too.

And so, my brother suggested, why not get something in the middle then – and the search for the Galaxy Tablet 2 – 7 inches began!

It’s a tablet the size of Kindle, where you can read properly, not too big like the iPad, and not too small like the iPhone, and most important of all, it’s not very expensive at all. Affordable, and right enough size for me.

And I finally have it here, with me, for two days, and so far, I have adjusted to the Andriod experience (which I think by the way, is waaaay better that the Apple experience), and I’ve been enjoying so far. Definitely a good buy. It is deeply integrated with your google account, which is pretty neat, and at the same time, quite scary (as Rhys points out) because of the fact that google knows so much about yourself now!

So now, I’m back online, even gtalk’s available in my tablet now! And I can finally stop opening my laptop all the time just to check something in the web.