What do you use your tablet for?

[Tyre Smoke]

Long story short, I've got a Samsung S21 Ultra phone that has, like most of you I imagine, my life on it. Apart from all the usual mobile phone stuff, banking for personal and business, shopping apps, diary, photos, you get the picture.

I've also got a Samsung S7 tablet. Which is great, has the pen thingy, but I'm struggling to find a use for it.

So what do you do on your tablet that you can't/don't do on your phone?

[aparna]

Chess, drawing, marking up pdfs, reading mags, Netflix in the bath, cooking, second monitor when travelling.

[Sporky]

I use the pen in Myscript Nebo for note-taking on my S7 (used to have an S3). Has handwriting recognition, does sums, blah blah.

Otherwise I'm not sure I use it for anything my phone can't do, but I prefer the larger screen for a lot of things.

[grumbledoak]

Reading books and surfing the web are far better on the bigger screen, but don't really need the rest of the PC.

[Scabutz]

Porn. Bigger screen, bigger titties

[Tyre Smoke]

Scabutz said:

Porn. Bigger screen, bigger titties

[HTP99]

I've a P30 Pro phone and a Media Pad M5 10" tablet, (both of which are linked up) when home the P30 Pro is cast aside and all browsing and games is done on the Media Pad, I guess I could do everything on the P30 but the larger screen of the tablet (such as typing this), is just so much easier on the tablet.

[sevensfun]

As my ipad has got slower ive stopped using it for browsing web/youtube/mail etc.

[Johnnytheboy]

Browsing the internet, can get full rather than mobile sites working OK.

Playing XCOM, which has been passably ported to Android.

Browsing YouTube and sending it to the TV.

[DoctorX]

Everything I do on my phone, but with a nice big screen. Plus reading magazines on Readly is great on a tablet,

[PeteinSQ]

DoctorX said:

Everything I do on my phone, but with a nice big screen. Plus reading magazines on Readly is great on a tablet,

Can't recommend Readly on a tablet enough. Also Netflix if you're wanting to watch something that your partner doesn't want to watch.

[soad]

Tyre Smoke said:

Scabutz said:

Porn. Bigger screen, bigger titties

[cobra kid]

Scabutz said:

Porn. Bigger screen, bigger titties

Bigger schlongs though. Always a down side.

[snuffy]

I bought a cheap tablet a few years ago for work to give the impression I was taking notes in meetings.

[e-honda]

Sorry to have to tell you but they're still the same size, your just getting a better look.

[AJB88]

I don't anymore. Used to carry on for watching stuff on like Youtube, Netflix etc but just carry my phone now.

If I am flying or going on a long train journey they I might dig it out just to save phone battery life.

[AC43]

AJB88 said:

If I am flying or going on a long train journey they I might dig it out just to save phone battery life.

I took the train from London to Edinburgh and back the other weekend and my tablet was great for reading C&SC and watching some Rust Valley restorers.

A lot of the time at home, though, it just sits unused as I find my phone good enough for simple stiff and a laptop easier for more complicated things.

[thebraketester]

e-honda said:

Sorry to have to tell you but they're still the same size, your just getting a better look.

Alright Buzz Killington.

[rdjohn]

I use my laptop for anything business related, my phone, if I am mobile and my iPad, for all reading, general surfing and communicating with mates. It also controls my Sonos, heating, lights and Satbox. If I am outside, it sources radio and music to my bluetooth speaker. If I am travelling, then watching Netflix etc.

The 3 products seem quite distinct - in my head

[Kermit power]

I use my S7 for note taking in pretty much every call or meeting I have, and also watch vast amounts of Netflix and the like on it, especially whilst cooking.

It also nicely fills the gap between screen size limitations of my phone (not that my Note 10+ has a particularly small screen) and portability of my laptop, which is great for driving multiple external monitors, but weighs a tonne as a result.

Lastly, especially on weekend breaks and the like, I like sitting at breakfast with maybe a map open on the tablet whilst I'm using my phone to look up details of places on the map without having to constantly flick between apps or browser windows on the phone.