After some dithering, I am still maintaining my previous conviction that the convenience of a smartphone outweighs the benefits of lugging a 600g tablet on the go. Unless you don't already own a 10.1" netbook which itself offer far greater practicalities than any tablets, you might want to ignore this post and go out today grab a tablet. If you already own one, then forget about the tablet for the time being because it is really just an up-sized smartphone that happens to have a laptop-esque keypad albeit a touchscreen one. Need to do some lite or serious work on the move, then lug along a netbook or better still, a 14.1' proper laptop. Or unless you are Grace Chng; a serious techno-geek or a serial e-book reader, you should also ignore this ranting of mine.

The icing on the cake is this: laptop and netbook prices .....