Tablets

[Liquid]

Having just received a call that my chosen tablet is out of stock for a month+(asus transformer prime).

I wanted to know if anyone has a suggestion for a good one?

Main needs are;
Wifi/LTE/ or 3G connectivity,
A reasonable rear camera 8mb+ would be prefereable.
And preferably not iOS as I need to install my own program's on it.

It will be used for work not as a movie/gaming device.

Just need to be able to run mysql databases on the fly and upload/download images.

Any ideas?

[MI5]

Anything Android based will do the job. The Nexus 7 & 10 are great value....

[Liquid]

The nexus 10 was my second choice unfortunatly it falls flat on its camera quality:(

Edit: its not bad quality just it won't resize that well with such a low pixel count.

[Anonymous]

How about any of the Samsung tablets, they look like they are pretty good

[sheepdog]

Well I'd be surprised if any tablet would be able to run MySql locally! If its got an ssd you might be looking at a replacement sooner rather than later due to the read/writes of a database. 

I'd suggest looking at the Windows 7 alternatives (they're still out there) if you need to do work stuff as MS Office is never mentioned as being essential to the road warrior.

I could suggest you have a web based interface to your server accessing it over 3G and do it that way but that would take a bit of time to set up. 

[Liquid]

Sorry poor choice of words. It will only be updating/query a sql database. Your quite correct a tablet would not have the resources to act as a server.

I would inevitably use myphpadmin and possibly a code editor(notepad with syntax highlighting plugin)

[sheepdog]

Phpadmin over the web I take it? Still a bit of overkill to input data! Digressing in Liquid style (oooh an Inception moment), if your data structure is relatively simple then you could export it to a spreadsheet then if updating data, re-import it later.

Otherwise, I'd be looking at the Samsung Note tablets that has a stylus. The Galaxy Note 8.0 is a recent release and seems to have everything you need though you will need to wait for the 3G version to be released. 

[Liquid]

Very good point. I believe you have cracked it my friend thank you:)