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My mother in law is dying to show off her newish grandson on her socials and wants a tablet of some kind to take pictures with a decent size screen to view them on. Is there anything that is very (I.e. ridculously) user friendly?
The obvious one, from the point of view of someone who already uses one, is an iPad, in particular the Mini. Very intuitive OS, not too big to handle, especially when taking photos, and a good size screen for viewing. Anything bigger is really unwieldy for taking photos with.
I think, of the three, the OS I'd be most inclined to give a total novice is actually Windows Phone. And the Nokia 1520 has a very good camera; but the 6" format could be either helpfully wieldy or a little small. The iPad camera is pretty decent, too, though - and, whilst Windows Phone has some very good photography apps, the social media support is rather better on iOS and Android.
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iPad. So much more Intuative than android. The OS is the same on all of them so buy the biggest screen your budget can stretch to.
Nexus 7
Does she already have a smartphone? If so, get a tablet with the same OS.
Ideally, set up the phone to auto-upload photos, then use the tablet to view them.
What Miketually says. Current Android is no more faffy than iOS, unless of course you've got an iphone and need to relearn.
I'm far from a beginner, but any iOS device I've ever had the misery to have to try and use, has been a hateful piece of crap and far from intuitive.
Never had any issues with Android
Maybe I should have been clearer - this woman struggles to figure out how to press the Answer button on her big button old persons phone as it is! 🙂 All she will learn how to do with whatever device we buy her is take photos (cropping off everyones heads) and look at photos!
I will try and have a play with those mentioned above, thanks for the suggestions.
iPad minis are on the apple refurbished part of the store for £209 at present.
iPads are so expensive though. And I'm talking about actual cash not cash-per-spec.
this woman struggles to figure out how to press the Answer button on her big button old persons phone as it is!
on this basis get her the cheapest tablet you can because in a month she will have given up using it
Android. Set the number of home screens to the minimum possible (not sure you can set to 1).
Then have just a camera app button and a gallery app button on the home screen. Can't get much more simple than that.
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One of the basic novatech ones.
As said above put the camera buttons and photo viewer on the first screen and is job done.
You can get sandbox apps for your phone tablet to select what apps are available to your kids when they demand to use your phone. I reckon that would work?
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My mother loves hers
set up the phone to auto-upload photos
Unless it's iOS, in which case don't bother. The whole implementation of Photostream is woeful. Time and time again I tear what little hair I have out as photos deleted on one device re-appear on another. It makes managing photos a ball ache of the highest order.