tl;dr: I use the Galaxy Note 3 for my phone and tablet. I use it because it's got just enough real estate to check out Reddit/Twitter/websites while on the go,

tl;dr: I use the Galaxy Note 3 for my phone and tablet. I use it because it's got just enough real estate to check out Reddit/Twitter/websites while on the go, but I wouldn't personally recommend it for note-taking. -- I had an iPad for a few years and then sold it somewhere around 2013. I just didn't use it enough, because my laptop was so much more useful for what I was doing, which was mostly coding and writing emails. I have a Kindle now, but am honestly thinking about selling that too, if only because the DRM really freaks me out. It's so much easier than lugging books around, but I've never had to charge my book and it won't disappear should Amazon go out of business one day. I was going to say that I don't have a "tablet" anymore, but then I realized I have a Galaxy Note 3 for my personal phone, and that's a tablet compared to pretty much any phone before it. The thing made me nervous when I bought it because I was worried it was going to be too big, but I'd do it again in a heartbeat. It's big enough for web browsing, even for a guy with terrible eyesight like me, but I can still toss it in my pocket. I'd feel like a tool if I did that with an iPad, and I can't figure out why. It's totally normal to see someone fiddling with their phone in a waiting room or on line at the DMV or something, but an iPad looks silly in those situations, for whatever reason. One downside to the "phablet" revolution: When someone calls me and I don't have headphones handy it looks like I'm holding an LCD TV to the side of my head. But I spend way more time staring at this thing than talking on it anyway.