Hi all,
Fairphone should think about providing Tablets in future. I think if someone is willing to support your project he/she night also buy a responsible produced Tablet and not one of the huge brands.
I would buy
Minimum one answer max three answers.
Thanks for participation in this poll.
Timo
I don’t use a tablet.
I’d buy none of them. That should be an option too IMHO.
This fall I’ll go back to a laptop.
I can not change the poll anymore
My 2 cents:
Tablets are rarely useful, at least that’s my experience and that’s what I hear a lot from other people. It is like a smartphone but rather chunky and like a laptop but rather toy-like (controls- and software-wise). Therefore I think the most sustainable tablet would be the one that doesn’t get produced. I would get a Framework Laptop instead, it is modular, upgrade-able (including the GPU) and repairable. It can run Linux (officially) and Linux can run Android-apps (if that’s what matters to you).
Business-wise, Fairphone’s sales would probably be horribly bad, mainly for reasons I already stated before. It would be interesting to poll, how many Fairphone users would want to own (or own already) any tablet. Because I suspect a lot of them are not interested in tablets in general.
The question is as old as Fairphone itself.
I still hope for a No, they struggle enough with maintaining several Phones.
And there is one already from Shiftphones.
Hello @Switch,
if tablets a really rarely useful why they are used so ofte at schools
and also provided by the sometimes.
In Hambrug.DE iPads are used in schools (public and private) and I read
that students are using Tablets too. I do not like vendor lock ins.
I also see a use case in hospitals e. g. in a ward around. Not all rooms
have a stationary computer preinstalled.
So, we have at least:
I think that other use cases too.
Timo
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In my experience they often have full workstations on wheels with Wi-Fi. Tablets are just too limited.
If the doctors want to show you the results of medical imaging and you can not stand up a tablet may be useful. For example at the emergency ward or during preparation talks for an surgery. Or for looking at any kind of laboratory test if not workstation is available or accessing it will take to much time. Especially at the emergency ward time is limited.
Apple pushes into schools to convince people of their devices early. I don’t exactly like that. In schools, tablets are useful because nowadays kids are not necessarily used to working with a PC anymore but rather with smartphones. The usage is pretty much the same. And tablets are rather limited in what you can do wrong compared to a PC. So all in all that fits quite well into schools where teachers want to do some specific task that is not too complex as it has to fit within 45-90 minutes. Some students might like them because you can take notes with a pen, however I couldn’t imagine that for engineering students - e.g. are there LaTeX editors for tablets out there, so you can write real formulas? Edit: Yes, there are.
For hospitals it’s about displaying documents and maybe taking some quick notes, basically the digital replacement of a paper notebook plus the folder with patient documents. When it comes to writing documents, researching something where you might want to have two applications side by side and so on and so on, a tablet is not really helpful. One could say they are simple to use devices for simple use cases. For more complex use cases you typically need a tailored app. And guess on what kind of device most of these apps are developed?
Btw., none of the doctors that I’ve visited recently had a tablet, but they had a workstation, probably also because writing on a physical keyboard is much faster than any swiping or hand-writing on a touch display.
I was wondering about the actual numbers, so I looked it up. They paint a VERY clear picture about how widespread tablets are in comparison. Source
The tablet market is indeed dead. Just connect your phone to a screen when you need more screen space (that does not include the FP6 though because it doesn’t have that kind of USB port). Do more with less.
The poll should’ve included “I don’t need a tablet”. If you can’t change it, maybe create a new one?
I don’t want a tablet as I never found a use for them personall. But I would love a Fair TV. Android based, fixable, no adds that Google builds in, updatable, and most important, sustainable.
Totally disagree. I own a Microsoft Surface Pro and love it. Because it does both: A handy tablet and when I need it a powerful laptop too.
I would call those “hybrids” and those are kinda useful, I agree.
But I wouldn’t consider the Microsoft Surface Laptops (that’s how Microsoft calls them) a typical tablet. It has a x86 CPU, Windows installed & a keyboard. What I (and the OP probably too) was referring to, was a typical tablet with ARM CPUs, Android/iOS and only the display-part.
The Framework Laptop I suggested has a 360° hinge, so I could argue it is a tablet too. 
Actually, the surface laptop is a completely different machine, it’s a laptop. I’m referring to the surface pro tablet series.
Gotcha, however, looking at this picture, you can’t deny it is more like a laptop. Even if Microsoft doesn’t call it that (they also do not call it tablet, btw)
Tablet or not, it is fairly limited. Even more than normal Laptops or Tablets. Why? Because it ARM-based and runs Windows. Most apps are emulated Windows x86-apps (causing overhead), many apps can’t be emulated and only a few native apps even exist.
If it works for, all good. Personally, I wouldn’t recommend this to anyone.
I’d buy a FairTab if they made one with a headphone jack.
What’s about Bluetooth Headphones?
You’ll find all answers and opinions in this epic topic:
So better not start this off-topic discussion here.
