I got brave and bought my wife a tablet for Christmas. If you knew about my wife's fear of computers you would understand. Neither of us have a smart phone, this will be our first experience with android. It will be used with wifi only, no air card.
For now, it will be a "picture viewer", she can take the SD card out of her camera and look at the pictures without having to run to walmart to print them. The tablet does have an SD slot.
Next I will be setting it up for email so I don't have to turn on my computer every time her sister sends her some pictures.
My question:
Are there any real advantages to using GMail with an android device or would yahoo work just as good?
from the back woods of east texas,
James
I'm not an expert, either, but I set up my smart phone (Android) with a gmail account. My gmail email is only used on my smart phone for downloading apps from Google Play, which is the "app" store. Because it's a gmail account, it allows me access to other Google products (Calender, etc), too.
Because it's an android, I would set up a gmail account (email) for the tablet, primarily for the apps store.
Thanks Target, didn't know about the app store.
James
Yahoo will work fine, but I'd probably open a gmail account too. Google is in cahoots with Android...they work seamlessly together.
You can filter all yahoo mail through gmail, so there's no disadvantage.
BTW, I got my wife electronics this year as well. Unlike yours, I'm pretty sure mine will be disappointed. 😀
I got the gmail account set up. My wife didn't have an email account, she just gave out mine and then I had to bring it up on the screen for her to read. Kinda like having an email with her own personal computer operator that had other things he could be doing.
I do have some advantages though, I could have bought her a new rake and she would have been quite happy with it.
Thanks
Does your wife Like to read? If so, get the amazon kindle app for the tablet. (cheaper than the google books app)
I got my wife an android tablet over a year ago, thinking It would be good for both of us to have. Her to use as an e-reader and I could use it at meetings etc for a nice little portable computer. That catch here is, I haven't hardly seen the tablet since day 1. Once she figured out how to use amazon for downloading books, she won't let that thing out of her sight. She loves reading most of the 1000's of free books online, and occasionally she buys a few 99c ones here and there.
We both have gmail accounts, which I like better than my old hotmail and yahoo emails. I have those emails now filtered to my gmail inbox. We share access to our online gmail calendars so that either one of us can add something to them and the other can see it.
I've also burned a few dvd movies into tablet form that we have used to entertain our daughter (3yo) on long trips.
Love the tablet and would recommend to most.
what tablet did you get?
I am seriously considering a Nexus 7
