Hey guys,
I'm going to go travelling for 9-months soon. I've been looking for useful tablets to take along and I liked the Kindle Fire (ebooks, internet, etc). But it's difficult to find out if it is suitable to managing picture while on the go.
Basically, I want to upload pictures from my camera onto online backup services and an external harddrive that i will take along too.
Does anyone have any advice about this?
cheers!
The Kindle Fire is not good for this, I'm afraid. You can't just connect a USB device (be it your camera or portable hard drive) to it and transfer to and from it, as Amazon has locked down that particular USB fuctionality. And it has no SD card slot, so you can't just pop the camera's memory card in.
Other Android devices SHOULD be fine, I think - but I'm not certain. And beware tablets that have no SD card slot as you might find you don't have enough storage.
But, most tablets can't provide enough power through their mini-USB port to run an external hard drive anyway, so you would need a hard drive that supports an external power supply of its own. You would also need a USB OTG cable.
Transfering photos from your camera to your tablet should be no problem - you'd just need a USB OTG cable for this too.
Its a little more than a feature being locked down, not all USB ports are created equally and can transfer data.
Most tablets cannot handle what you want to do that well if at all. Power to the HDD is also often a problem.
Also uploading to the internet is often not possible, because upload times around the world arte pretty average. This is changing due to the whole concept of the cloud getting more popular.
For less than the price of a tablet you can get a decent netbook, which is a small laptop, 10 inches. With 500 GB hard disk and 6 GB RAM. Buy an external drive, not expensive and you can play and record DVD's and you have all you need.
And you have no worry about formats, players, etc and for FREE instead of paying someone a fortune for things to put on it, you can download mountains of stuff to watch, read and listen to. And burn picture DVD's as you wish.
Mine has a very hard metal casing unlike the tablet. A minor knock can crack a tablet and then you lose the screen and you may as well throw it away, and everything on it.