Finally I bought a keyboard but not the Magic Keyboard.
Magic Keyboard is very elegant and nice to use but a bit too heavy and big cons to me is cannot fold over.

I bought Smart Keyboard Folio at the end.

It looks pretty solid also. Slimmer, lighter and can fold over, just no touchpad but it is ok to me.

Portuguese layout will be crap... who knows Portuguese here

Nice photo... you installed paperlike? hard to take photo of ipad with the reflection

Hi. Nope. It is naked without any screen protector.

I don't very like screen protector.

Anyone facing issue with the screen getting scratch easily?i dun feel like puting a screen protector. If really need, anyone know where can get paperlike screen protector except online? Thx

I think JerryRigsEverything puts it at rank 6/7 scratch resistance or something.

Spanish speaking people


Usually physical stores don’t carry that ‘Paperlike-ish’ screen protector because only a handful of brands has them.

I’m currently using Switcheasy’s variant - not the best but it does the job. You can get them from Shopee / Lazada. There’s alot of alternative brands too like Elecom (highly rated) and ESR (lower tier).

If you insist on Paperlike, try searching on Carousell, some sellers are selling in 1 piece since it comes with 2 per set.

Folks, sorry to double post, but I really need some help / assistance to troubleshoot some matters. Basically, the TL;DR: Either my accessories don't work, or its Apple, or the app developers, or all 3 of them together.



First frustration: Adonite Note Plus and some apps.
I understand that this is more towards app-related, since I think Apple doesn't provide support for third party styluses, to which I've observed that

a) Apple does not provide any support for third party styluses
b) not all app developers provide support for third party styluses
c) all app developers that provides stylus support input for iPadOS must supoort Apple Pencil 1 / Apple Pencil 2 natively

therefore I arrived at what is possibly a flawed conclusion is that
a) either Apple is trying to do all that so that users are prompted to get Apple Pencil 2 (for iPad Pro)
b) there needs to be some weird OS level tweaks by third party to allow extended stylus support.


Either way, the core issue was using Adonite Note Plus in Microsoft Word / Excel / OneNote, because it doesn't work the way I know it work in Microsoft Office apps in Windows Platform (sorry, I don't have Mac, so I don't know)



The second core problem, is about USB-C Hub and whatever you can stick off it.



So, as you can see, I plugged in that soundcard to the hub, then to the iPad Pro.

Suffice to say, not everything works. I'm very, very curious, as to know if the audio routing is OS level problem, or app-level problem, or both?

I ran the audio to a speaker, then plugged a microphone to the soundcard.
It works for YouTube (audio out), but doesn't work for Google Meet.

(why the hassle? because I plugged in a projector too, so I could teleconference a group of people. )

So either
a) wait for bugs to solve itself out
or
b) buy a "better hub". Which I don't even know if such a hub exists.

This post has been edited by hyperyouth_firepower: Aug 26 2020, 09:43 AM

time for Samsung galaxy Tab S7?

Nah. My reasons why to not use an S7, is mostly due to Android.

That said, disclaimer as always, I'm using a BlackBerry Key2, and that thing on Android is fantastic.

S7, the way I look at it, is a ballooned up Note, which isn't bad, but I already have an Android, and having another Android kind of defeats my original purpose (which was to get a replacement for my very old Surface Pro 2 2014 as a carry-all tablet). Though i'm not sure if the S7 will have similar issues, or not.

Hey guys received my keyboard. Ok wor, it is follow our usual keyboard instead of the Portuguese keyboard. Hahaha

But the only thing I wanna said its damn nice to type but its very small for this 11 inch one. Damn

Because Apple don’t want you to replace Macbook with iPad

Here’s the Competitor with the pricing

https://www.lowyat.net/2020/220085/samsung-...lity-confirmed/

Tab S7 6GB RAM and 128GB Storage - RM3299
Tab S7+ 8GB RAM and 256GB Storage - RM4599

Hmm price not very attractive

It's in iPad Pro territory except with more freebies. Based on the longevity, apps optimisation and just overall a better tablet ecosystem, it'll be hard to sway iPad owners over with that kind of pricing.

hmm... the s7 is priced exactly as an 11" iPad Pro wifi only.

The s7+ is within the 12" iPad Pro price range.

This is intriguing.

Ya, it's also worth noting that both the S7 and S7+ are WiFi only, so no 4G or 5G connectivity.

blergh. Its bound to cannibalize one way or another.

The more I look at it, the more I'm convinced Google might as well just merge both Android and ChromeOS for the tablet versions of tablets. It will take some work, but it seems a more functional approach to things, rather than trying to leave it to developers (especially Samsung) to contribute to the code and leave it as it is hanging if there is no further support.

You can switch already, the free gifts are great. 😬

But they are limited to the first 1000 buyers - so better act fast!