[Noisebridge-discuss] Moving to Lebanon

[Andy Isaacson]

On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 09:26:54AM -0700, James Sundquist wrote:
> My friend, a teacher, is moving from the US to Lebanon for the next few
> years and is not very tech savvy.  She has never used a touch screen, but
> is familiar with Skype.  What would you recommend in terms of a tablet
> and/or smartphone for her to use?  She hopes to use something both for
> personal use and for connecting to a classroom projector without always
> lugging her laptop around.  Word is the internet cuts out or goes offline
> regularly where she'll live and theft is the device(s) is a very real
> possibiliity.

In that situation I'd recommend getting a lighter laptop, like a 10" or
11" netbook.  For the projector you probably need a VGA output, and
there aren't really any good tablets that do VGA.

The Kindle Fire and Samsung Galaxy are both decent android tablets, but
they don't have a VGA output option.  You might be able to get something
working with a USB framebuffer device but they're not regularly
supported on Android.

Hmmmm, an Android tablet with MHL might be able to do VGA with this
interesting little dongle:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA07Y0850112

Make sure you get a tablet that supports MHL though, the connector is
microUSB but the electrical signals aren't USB.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_High-Definition_Link

-andy