Tablet toy

My husband won an ipad the other day.  It was one of those pure luck, boy I would kill to be him type days.  he got paid to be fed breakfast, lunch and dinner, plus he wins an ipad.

Our first plan was to sell it, and actually our new plan.  But in between we decided to check it out and see if it is a fun toy.

It is!  I love being able to download a free ap and let Baby Girl play games for a few minutes while we need to sit quiet.  It works on wifi, which we have at home, at church (which is where scouts, FLL, 4H and just about every thing else we do is) and lots of other places, like the library.

I downloaded a free ap for simple writing practice, puzzles, a 'fake phone' pretty nifty it lets the kids push the phone buttons and more looking like a phone, but no worry about calls being charged.  (they can't it's a tablet!)  I do think the new fun free aps will run their course before to long, but for now I have been saving it for special occasions and there are still more aps to explore.

The kids have used it to watch a youtube video, I have used it to have a youtube playlist go in the background helping Little One to sleep while I work on the laptop.  No more slowing my internet down.  Plus it stays cool which means it can be in the kids lap, or on the bed without getting uncomfortable.

I can also use it to check email and FB or even post here, but it isn't as good as a real laptop.  The browser locks up more often and the interface is occasionally annoying.

And worst of all it doesn't have Flash!  I didn't realize how annoying that would be till I tried to let the kids use headventureland, khan academy, starfall.com, notdoppler.com and other online games.  None of them work!

I would say that given a choice between a netbook and a tablet, I would choose tablet, takes up less space, gets less hot, and for some reason a tiny touch screen keyboard is easier to use, you assume you can't use proper hand position so the smallness doesn't bother me.  Though I would never pay for an ipad without flash support!

We decided to sell it after all, though there is a really really good chance we will take the money for it turn around and buy both a laptop and a tablet!