After a lot of research, and some hard, hard shopping, I got a Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus. It's wifi-only, so my email is *not* updated constantly wherever I am (I count this as a feature, not a bug; I have a smartphone, which does a fine job of updating my email constantly), but I can use it as a web-browser/email checker/whatever when I have access to wifi. Mostly, I use it to read books -- that's 90% of its use. It also plays music, of course, and takes pictures and does many, many things that I simply don't care about.
My biggest complaint is that, while the tab is Android-based, Samsung has loaded the poor thing with a proprietary platform called KIES, which is a mild pain in the neck to deal with. Had I known, I would have waited another couple months and gotten a Nexus, the Google tablet, which, lacking the proprietary "manager", is significantly less of a pain in the neck to deal with.
The biggest problem I have with the tablet (and with the phone, for that matter) is that I think that files have to be physically "on" the machine (or the card), so there was a lot of grief on the front-end learning how to move files physically to the machine (see "manager," pain in the neck). My excuse is that I don't live anywhere near, much less in a "cloud" and I want to know I have access to my stuff, even if I'm sitting out in the middle of Baxter Park.
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My biggest complaint is that, while the tab is Android-based, Samsung has loaded the poor thing with a proprietary platform called KIES, which is a mild pain in the neck to deal with. Had I known, I would have waited another couple months and gotten a Nexus, the Google tablet, which, lacking the proprietary "manager", is significantly less of a pain in the neck to deal with.
The biggest problem I have with the tablet (and with the phone, for that matter) is that I think that files have to be physically "on" the machine (or the card), so there was a lot of grief on the front-end learning how to move files physically to the machine (see "manager," pain in the neck). My excuse is that I don't live anywhere near, much less in a "cloud" and I want to know I have access to my stuff, even if I'm sitting out in the middle of Baxter Park.
Hope that helps.