OT - another tablet question

I've not used a tablet as such, but as mentioned above the larger Samsung Galaxy mobiles, I have a Note II model GT-N7100, can operate in split screen mode, but I never use it. To me it's an irritation that at least now can be permanently switched off, and it is.

But how do you do anything at all that requires significant text input?

When I was recently 'on the road', someone said to me that "in a few years these" (pointing to my mobile, upon which I'd just been showing off some of the panoramas it had taken) "will be all you need, those " (pointing to the laptop I was working on) "will be redundant!". But it was just a man-in-pub-told-me type of comment, and I didn't and I don't agree. To write anything that needs significant input of text, you need a keyboard. My mobile has a pen keyboard which can come up on-screen, but it's slow and error-prone, and will never be as fast as touch-typing with multiple fingers as I can now more or less do, albeit with more errors than I'd like, but I make just as many errors with the pen keyboard on the mobile, and it's far slower.

I don't think you'll ever be able to do the latter without a keyboard and a decent sized screen.

Yes, though my phone's route-finding did rather lead me astray the other day. Fortunately, although I didn't check the map (you know the type, printed, sits forlorn and neglected in the glove compartment?) as soon as would have been wisest, I didn't let the mobile lead me astray very far before I reverted to such older, tried and tested technologies!

And at least I had plenty of time to spare, and was still well early for the appointment.

R.G. Bargy put finger to keyboard:

Guy goes into the chemist, says "I'd like to buy some Viagra, would I be able to get it over the counter?"

Chemist replies, "Maybe, if you took two tablets."