Weekend Open Forum: Do you own a tablet? If yes, what is its primary use?

I use it as a phone (you know, call people, send sms, etc...), web surfing and reading emails on the go. Oh, and of course, act as a wifi hotspot when I need to use my portable computer on the go! Much more than that it's not useful for. Model is Galaxy Note 10.1 (3g). Looking back now, it was kind of a waste to buy it. It's useless, and thus, not worth its price. But, oh well, guess I'll just have to stick with it now 'till it breaks apart from old age.
 
Games, Reading while on a bus/subway, Sharing pictures/videos when I'm out with friends and family.

But mostly games.
 
I own a Moto Xoom which primarily is taken with on overnight trips or vacation. Even at that all it's used for is streaming video from my Plex server and Skype.
 
I don't own a tablet but my wife just bought an iPad. So far she uses it for email, internet and catch up TV. I have no intention of buying a tablet for myself but will be building new PC in the next couple of months. A PC represents much better value to me. My last PC lasted for 9 years and the replacement should hopefully be of similar build quality.
 
I don't have one, and I really don't see the need, I think if I did buy one it would end up collecting dust. I'm also the guy that turned a lounge chair into a computer chair (yes it is damn comfort). so even when I kick back and watch TV I usually just stay in my chair.
 
Recently got a dell Venue 11 Pro - with a 3770 Atom chip. It sits next to my desk and I use it for email, web, and youtube / video streaming. Also a good toilet reading device.

I had a transformer TF700T (Infinity), and it was slow as ****. I couldn't stand it, I gave it to my bother.
 
Asus Memo 7HD Christmas gift. Network is wire at home and I keep the Wi-Fi off, so I use it only for reading, Kindle and light reader whoever makes that, but it reads pdf, Kindle handles epub and mobi.
 
iPad - provided to me by work. I leave it at home for watching Netflix or playing video games in the bedroom. I sometimes check my email on it like I'm supposed to do.
 
I have a cheap ($69) Android tablet I use for casual web browsing in bed or on the couch. It's not very high-spec and I accept its limitations. I'm using it now to type this as the main PC is in use at the moment.
 
Archos 2.8 tablet.... low battery life, seldom used, battery dead after ~ 1 year...
= mobile internet and for playing angry birds for android.
 
My wife uses our android tablet as a chopping board while reading recipes on it.

Gorilla Glass can certainly withstand a fair bit of chopping.
 
My Nexus 7 (2012) is my main gaming machine. I also use it for reading (both comics and e-books) and occasionally for browsing. Even used TeamViewer on it to provide support for my father once, but that's an exception.

I'm planning to upgrade to an Asus VivoTab Note 8 once that gets released (unless some company announces by that time a Mullins based tablet, but I doubt that would happen). A Windows tablet would allow me to play more games, and since that's my main use for a tablet it should really help my gaming

Edit: It looks like the Note 8 is already on sale somewhere, and people even got it, but I don't know where yet, and I will probably wait for it to become available locally anyway.
 
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My wife uses our android tablet as a chopping board while reading recipes on it.

Gorilla Glass can certainly withstand a fair bit of chopping.
I'm sure many more women would use a tablet for a chopping board if they caught their husbands visiting certain internet sites!
 
I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 tablet and love the thing. I've had it for almost 2 years now and I use it daily for many different tasks.

I play online chess with it (even single player sometimes), use it to read books, emulate my old game boy advance games with it, read manga with it, take pictures and movies with it, and browse the net with it. Granted, I don't have a smartphone yet, so this is kind of my substitute..

Not to mention all the thousands of quality apps that are uploaded to google play every day... there is almost always something interesting to do with the machine... for instance something you'd never think of is there is an app for DayZ in which somebody created an interactive map which you can use while playing the game .... little functionality like that is one of the reasons I love this thing so much.
 
I have a Galaxy note 2 smartphone, desktop PC, and a laptop, so I never found a need to buy one. My galaxy note smartphone is 5", so never found a need for one. I might buy a new tablet/laptop hybrid to replace my laptop, otherwise I imagine it'd collect dust if I had a separate tablet.
 
My family has an iPad 3. I mainly use it for reading feeds but my family family uses it for things like email and facebook. I may buy another iPad in the future for note taking, but at the moment I am fine with the old-school paper and pen.
 
I'm sure many more women would use a tablet for a chopping board if they caught their husbands visiting certain internet sites!
A Tablet is too small for porn, plus it's not 'hands free'
uh, did I just write that...watching too much 'Archer' again.
 
iPad 3 here, is great for watching youtube on the couch, or watching foxtel go in the bedroom.
 
Nexus 10. Mainly IMDB & Guitar Tabs App (the latter being the excuse I made to buy it), also watching box-sets whilst training, a bit of surfing, and Far Cry Outpost to notch-up a few more free XP.
 
I have a Surface 2 and probably use it more than my PC. I also remote desktop into the PC and stream stuff over my network to it.

Love it!
 
Nexus 10. I delayed for a year as I already had a smartphone, laptop and PC and I figured I wouldn't find much use for it. And I was right :)
Mostly use it for reading news feeds and listening to internet radio at night but could do that on the phone anyway.
 
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