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I wasn't going to buy a tablet of any type until one came out with decent handwriting recognition, but I couldn't turn Jolla down. All the same... What I want from a tablet is a tool I can use at work, not just a toy to to play lightweight games on and watch films on a screen that is too small, which doubles as an expensive alarm clock which lets me read email.

IMHO all tablets are missing the one thing that would really make them a useful tool. The ability to write on them and to turn those notes to text. Samsung are getting there, but still have a way to go.

Handwriting recognition - The one thing that laptops are really poor at is taking notes and there is currently no substitute for a decent paper note book for jotting down notes. Despite the fact that today's youth think they are efficient and learn better using a keyboard, there is evidence to suggest that their perceptions are woefully wrong. Writing was, and still is the best way to take notes and learn (Here is link, there are tons more... http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-learning-secret-don-t-take-notes-with-a-laptop/). Until tablets can take the place of a notebook they will be just another tool for Microsoft and Google et al, to grab your stabbed out notes in their respective data prisons. Plus typing on glass makes your fingers hurt after a while. It would also be much more useful as an educational tool in primary education developing fine motor control, legible handwriting (perhaps!) and good for revision if the notes could be added as annotations to ebooks.

A big ask, and I'm not holding my breath, but it doesn't hurt to float the idea.

I wasn't going to buy a tablet of any type until one came out with decent handwriting recognition, but I couldn't turn Jolla down. All the same... What I want from a tablet is a tool I can use at work, not just a toy to to play lightweight games on and watch films on a screen that is too small, which doubles as an expensive alarm clock which lets me read email.

IMHO all tablets are missing the one thing that would really make them a useful tool. The ability to write on them and to turn those notes to text. Samsung are getting there, but still have a way to go.

Handwriting recognition - The one thing that laptops are really poor at is taking notes and there is currently no substitute for a decent paper note book for jotting down notes. Despite the fact that today's youth think they are efficient and learn better using a keyboard, there is evidence to suggest that their perceptions are woefully wrong. Writing was, and still is the best way to take notes and learn (Here is link, there are tons more... http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-learning-secret-don-t-take-notes-with-a-laptop/). Until tablets can take the place of a notebook they will be just another tool for Microsoft and Google et al, to grab your stabbed out notes in their respective data prisons. Plus typing on glass makes your fingers hurt after a while. It would also be much more useful as an educational tool in primary education developing fine motor control, legible handwriting (perhaps!) and good for revision if the notes could be added as annotations to ebooks.

A big ask, and I'm not holding my breath, but it doesn't hurt to float the idea.

I wasn't going to buy a tablet of any type until one came out with decent handwriting recognition, but I couldn't turn Jolla down. All the same... What I want from a tablet is a tool I can use at work, not just a toy to to play lightweight games on and watch films on a screen that is too small, which doubles as an expensive alarm clock which lets me read email.

IMHO all tablets are missing the one thing that would really make them a useful tool. The ability to write on them and to turn those notes to text. Samsung are getting there, but still have a way to go.

Handwriting recognition - The one thing that laptops are really poor at is taking notes and there is currently no substitute for a decent paper note book for jotting down notes. Despite the fact that today's youth think they are efficient and learn better using a keyboard, there is evidence to suggest that their perceptions are woefully wrong. Writing was, and still is the best way to take notes and learn (Here is link, there are tons more... http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-learning-secret-don-t-take-notes-with-a-laptop/). Until tablets can take the place of a notebook they will be just another tool for Microsoft and Google et al, to grab your stabbed out notes in their respective data prisons. Plus typing on glass makes your fingers hurt after a while. It would also be much more useful as an educational tool in primary education developing fine motor control, legible handwriting (perhaps!) and good for revision if the notes could be added as annotations to ebooks.

A big ask, and I'm not holding my breath, but it doesn't hurt to float the idea.

I wasn't going to buy a tablet of any type until one came out with decent handwriting recognition, but I couldn't turn Jolla down. All the same... What I want from a tablet is a tool I can use at work, not just a toy to to play lightweight games on and watch films on a screen that is too small, which doubles as an expensive alarm clock which lets me read email.

IMHO all tablets are missing the one thing that would really make them a useful tool. The ability to write on them and to turn those notes to text. Samsung are getting there, but still have a way to go.

Handwriting recognition - The one thing that laptops are really poor at is taking notes and there is currently no substitute for a decent paper note book for jotting down notes. Despite the fact that today's youth think they are efficient and learn better using a keyboard, there is evidence to suggest that their perceptions are woefully wrong. Writing was, and still is the best way to take notes and learn (Here is link, there are tons more... http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-learning-secret-don-t-take-notes-with-a-laptop/). Until tablets can take the place of a notebook they will be just another tool for Microsoft and Google et al, to grab your stabbed out notes in their respective data prisons. Plus typing on glass makes your fingers hurt after a while. It would also be much more useful as an educational tool in primary education developing fine motor control, legible handwriting (perhaps!) and good for revision if the notes could be added as annotations to ebooks.

A big ask, and I'm not holding my breath, but it doesn't hurt to float the idea.