<i>tl;dr: I use the Galaxy Note 3 for my phone and tablet. I use it because it&#x27;s got just enough real estate to check out Reddit&#x2F;Twitter&#x2F;websites while on the go, but I wouldn&#x27;t personally recommend it for note-taking.</i><p>--<p>I had an iPad for a few years and then sold it somewhere around 2013. I just didn&#x27;t use it enough, because my laptop was so much more useful for what I was doing, which was mostly coding and writing emails.<p>I have a Kindle now, but am honestly thinking about selling that too, if only because the DRM really freaks me out. It&#x27;s so much easier than lugging books around, but I&#x27;ve never had to charge my book and it won&#x27;t disappear should Amazon go out of business one day.<p>I was going to say that I don&#x27;t have a &quot;tablet&quot; anymore, but then I realized I have a Galaxy Note 3 for my personal phone, and that&#x27;s a tablet compared to pretty much any phone before it.<p>The thing made me nervous when I bought it because I was worried it was going to be too big, but I&#x27;d do it again in a heartbeat. It&#x27;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&#x27;d feel like a tool if I did that with an iPad, and I can&#x27;t figure out why. It&#x27;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.<p>One downside to the &quot;phablet&quot; revolution: When someone calls me and I don&#x27;t have headphones handy it looks like I&#x27;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.