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Asus ZenPad S 8 Review

After using an Nvidia Shield tablet for a year or so, and dealing with a battery recall and then an RMA because it would no longer hold a charge after only 3 months, I decided to try something different. The Shield is an impressive tablet, and the original version even more so. I would still recommend it for anyone who is serious about mobile gaming, but the average battery life and weight of the tablet itself made me want to find something more suited to my usage patterns. So I started looking…

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A Few Thoughts on Tablets

I’ve been through quite a few Android tablets since they first hit the market a few years back.  I started with the incredibly well built T-Mobile branded Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus.  I actually still have this tablet and it still works.  This particular tablet was during Samsung’s early days in the Android smartphone and tablet market.  It is built like a tank, very solid construction despite it being plastic.  Holding this device and then holding a new Samsung tablet makes the newer Samsung tablets feel very flimsy and fragile.  Samsung’s choice of materials since they became popular has been one of the reasons I’ve shied away from them, that and their TouchWiz UI. which I’m not a fan at all.  Luckily there are quite a few other tablets on the market to choose from, but how to choose from the many other options?

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Amazon FreeTime Unlimited - Great idea, bad implementation

Its no secret that I like Amazon and their services.  There are a lot of things they do much better than their competition, but there are also quite a few things that could use some re-thinking.

As I mentioned in my Kindle Fire HD Kids Edition Tablet Review, one of the compelling reasons to purchase the Fire tablets was access to FreeTime and FreeTime Unlimited.  Amazon’s FreeTime app is great, you can create custom profiles for each child and they can only have access to the content you specify.  You can also manage aspects of it from your Family Library on the Amazon web site, which is the preferred method for me to do it.

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