Android devices are not real computers. I’ve been using a Dell Venue 7 for a few weeks now, and it sucks.
Granted, it does what it was designed to do. That is, Google intentionally crippled it because it caters to folks who consume computer activity, but don’t use it to produce anything. It’s just fine for light weight communication and surfing, and might be pretty useful for land navigation if you can wade through a hundred apps claiming the same thing but precious few that actually do you any good. About the only thing you can do on Android that requires a significant attention span is read ebooks.
But you could never write a book on one. Most serious writers would find Android intolerable. Even when you find tools from your actual computer ported over the Android, the defaults have all been altered. By that I mean that nothing works as you would expect from using it everywhere else. Android suffers from very poor support for a mouse and dicey support for keyboards. It keeps trying to drop my Bluetooth mouse, even when they are within inches.
So if you are a writer or like to twiddle with graphics, forget Android. From what I’ve read, Chromebook is even worse, with a horribly sparse collection of apps that are far less useful than the ones on Android. If you can find something you like online, you might be okay, but if it doesn’t run in a browser, you can’t have it on Chromebook. If it were an emergency, I could write some short stuff on the Android tablet, but not when I’m working on a longer project and need all the extra tools. They just aren’t there, and given the design of Android, they never will be there. Google is supporting the trend to dumb-down users and make them consumers, not creators.
Again, Android is for folks who don’t really need a computer.
