OK, so about a year ago I wrote about what I though was truly poor practice.  Calling a tablet "magical"

I stand by my observation, magical, hardly.  Small and amazing, yes!

But if a tablet is magical, then what is a SmartPhone?  What's above Magical?

Because it's smaller and almost as powerful.

I got a Toshiba Thrive for Christmas (Note I did not say Holiday - Would sound sort of stupid, there, wouldn't it?)  It is an awesome machine.  Ease of use is what I see, and what I can measure as a solid difference between it and a laptop.  The battery life is superb, but so would a laptop with a active 9" screen.  All that real estate eats batteries.  So, make a much smaller laptop, skip the HD and DVD, cause they consume massive battery life, and you have a laptop which can go for many hours - Magic!

Hope you can laugh, too!

All in all, I really like the new tablet, another place to spend countless hours.  It's a nice cross between a phone and a laptop.  So far, I don't like it much for work.  Keyboard is too small and it's virtual, so if I drag my fingers it's crazy.  But it's text to voice is very good, and I could use it if I didn't like (or have) the laptop at all.  And it should improve some of those blog or immediate issues reports we read ont he web lately, where you just wish someone would turn off autocorrect...

I use the Thrive, an Android 3.2 device right now.  I asked a couple of folks using the iPad what they see.  Same answer each time, ease of access versus a laptop.

So we have a reason.  A rather good one.  And if you don't mind I would like to revisit an area I often go to, This tablet may be just the thing for your needs.  I see the ease of use and the basic dummy down of a tablet as the next great wave for elderly folks that never really took to a PC, and now have to have something to keep up with the grand-kids and great -grandchildren.   Video phone use is a no brainer, and the overall, tablet is on, tablet is available, no 6 months learning curve, is attractive to the elder generation.

In my next blog entry, I'll give you my overall run down of the Thrive, 16GB tablet.

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