Just had a very frustrating evening trying to do two basic tasks that would have taken 30 seconds on a laptop.

Task 1. I had a word document saved onto my Dropbox. There's no way to open an email on an iPad then add an attachment as you would in Outlook. Neither could I email it direct from the Dropbox app. I had to faff about saving it to the iPad, then download a file manager app, and then send the document to email from there.

Task 2. I had an email I'd received on my phone which I wanted to print. I can see my wireless printer from my phone but for some reason there doesn't seem to be an email client for Android which allows you print emails in the normal way.

Added to this, every week I receive a set of documents from a colleague which I need to print. These all seem to be Word 97-2003 format documents. I can usually print 4 out of 5 of them from the iPad but the last one won't open or print. Strangely I can open this document on an iPhone.

I don't think Bill Gates needs to worry about iPads or Android phones/tablets taking over from Windows! Not on this showing!

Martin

Ok the other hand I can print and email just fine from iOS and Android.

It all depends on your setup.

According to senior managers everything is better when you have an ipad. EVERYTHING.

The weather, your pay, your wife gets prettier, car gets faster and used no petrol. And you can do anything on them 200% better than anything from MS. If they get to bring in their own toys they're 300% better.

Well that's what I get told when the ignorant ****wits want their toys plugged into everything.

Can do most things on my phone, but quite often use the laptop for certain things as it's easier

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Tablets = Consuming information

Computers = Creating information

Printing depends on your printer.

My hp supports their app so I can print from my nexus, and phone etc. I can also email from my drop box. Must be an apple thing.

Can't print from my Galaxy S3 either.

PrinterShare app does cost but is brilliant for printing on most makes of printer

I've now got HP's e-print working where you email a file to the printer. I can see that as a solution if I'm outside my network but what a kludge when I'm connected to the bloody thing by WiFi!

Yep - I dislike the HP app hence the change to PrinterShare. Made life much easier and offers all the proper options for my HP Photosmart Premium printer

Edited 24 April, 201313 yr by Lemming

I couldn't go back to a laptop now, pretty much run everything from my ipad which is a sad truth but they are tremendous bits of kit when used properly... Everything from Security Cameras to a Recording studio on mine.

Task 1 you can do from the Dropbox App. You can email a link to any file. Ok it's not attaching it but still not far off