Email should work, once it is set up but you still need to know her password. If it doesn’t work for some reason, get the Yahoo app from the app store. Should work then. Still need the password. Also you can bounce the display to the TV if it is on the same wifi. That should work for movies though I haven’t tried it as we have the Roku to do it. You realize the Fire is great for books, don’t you? MamaSan spends most of her free time staring at hers, reading. She downloads free books quite a bit.
Neither one of us know her Yahoo password. She never logs out, so she has access to it on her computer. Anyway…
Last night she was trying to retrieve her password with no success. She tried clicking on ‘Forgot my password’ and it asked for her to enter the missing numerals in her phone number for verification. I don’t know what she was doing, but she became very frustrated and put the tablet aside. A few minutes later I asked if I could see it. I clicked on ‘Forgot my password’ and was met with the phone verification thing. It wanted me to type in the missing numbers – but which ones? The two dashes? The asterisks? All of them? I guessed it meant the dashes. I told Mrs. L.A. she would be getting a verification code via text. Then her phone pinged. I typed in the verification code, and she now has access to her Yahoo email account. She was a little bit miffed that she’d spent ‘an hour’ (she admitted maybe not that long) trying to get logged in, and I did it in ‘30 seconds’.
In any case, she can now access her email and the tablet is just a little more useful. One of the other nurses (in particular) has one, and loves it. I hope Mrs. L.A. comes to feel the same.
IPad Air here latest version. Unsure of the gigs but all I do is surf, shop and watch movies so memory has not been an issue. Just don’t break it. I have android tablets passed from hubby to me and I am just spoiled I guess. I couldn’t get used to them. IPad all the way for me. BTW I have never took a photo on it, seems awkward sized for photos.
Since the last post, the Fire HD8 has been sitting unused. 
Mrs. L.A. is either on her work computer, or her personal laptop. I don’t monitor what she does on her computers, but I’m pretty sure she uses her personal one for buying stuff from Chewy and Amazon, checking her email occasionally, and playing ‘find the thing’ games. She just hasn’t found a use for the tablet. (Actually, she hasn’t looked for a use. She needs to be told what she can do with it.)
Some of the stuff she can do include buying stuff from Amazon and playing ‘find the thing’ games. And she can watch stuff from Amazon Prime without downloading it: the download is an extra feature. My mother likes watching stuff on her tablet because she can move around with it; it’s much more comfortable to carry around from the greenhouse to the living room to her bed to the kitchen than a laptop, never mind the TV.
I need to figure out how to watch stuff from Amazon Prime (which she has) on the television. There’s probably an app I can add to the DVD/Blu-ray player.
The 46" TV I bought six or seven years ago was apparently too small. She bought a 60-inch (?) to replace it last year or two years ago. She might use the tablet to watch something from an airplane’s entertainment offerings.
Madre de Dios. Dude, I’m sorry to be the one to tell you this but… your wife is a man!
I was long a hold out against tablets.
I did EVERYTHING on my phone so I did not need one.
My wife got one (Samsung) and plays games and such (she loves playing games on the larger screen).
My 2 DDs have iPads and use them for homework, videos, etc.
I was not going to spend that kind of money on something so large that I might not want to carry it around.
I got a very cheap Fire 7 (not HD) and hated it. The text was so bad, it was worse than my smaller phone. Then when the Fire 8 HD came out, I tried again and enjoyed it much more. I got the Fire 10 HD for christmas.
I did the steps to get the Google play store on the tablet (very easy, no rooting required)
I use both to check FB. I use it to talk to friends via Google hangouts. I use the Google spreadsheet and docs. I play Amazon music on them. I use it to read email. I also have certain PDFs that I use it to read (much easier than the phone).
I use them for Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, and I have installed a Plex server to store my movies and TV shows so I use it to navigate those as well.
I have a bible app that I use at church and at home.
I store a lot of different personal things on Google drive, so I can access those things from the tablet.
I use it to read sports articles. I use to to read this webpage. I use it to read blogs that I enjoy. I get newsletters with links in email and I use it to read them as well.
I am not a gamer, but I see no reason one could not play games on it.
I use to to check my retirement account and other portfolios.
Bascially most anything I can do on the computer or my phone, I can now do on the tablet.
Sorry for the stream, I am looking at my tablet to try to make sure I get all the stuff that I use.
The camera is not the best, but it works in a pinch.
Basically I was facing having to get ever larger phones (Samsung Notes) to read all the stuff, now the tablet has allowed me to get a smaller smart phone next time.
I LOVE my Fire HD 8 and 10 tablets.
The 8 is much more portable, but for really good readability, the 10 is amazing (and faster).
Chances are she’ll use it much more on vacation than she does at home w/ access to 2 other devices; that’s the case for me w/ my down market Dell tablet. BTW, I use the Swype keyboard on mine for typing, it’s so much easier.
If you have any wifi security cams set up you can monitor them while on vacation as well.
Last night Mrs. L.A. thanked me for buying her the tablet for Christmas. She said it looks like her employer is going to replace the laptops they issue, with tablets. Mrs. L.A. says she can practice using a tablet on the Fire HD until the company tablets are issued.
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FYI: Tablet sales have now declined for 13 straight quarters.
What kind of job if I may ask?
Professional curiosity; in one of my last jobs we issued tablets to the warehouse guys, mainly as a barcode reader or to enter corrective data on specially-designed screens (for example if the recorded and actual weight of a pallet were different). The screens we made were larger and a lot less busy than the program’s standard ones. One of my coworkers came from every meeting with the Idiot In Charge fuming about “fucking morons who don’t understand people wearing leather gloves in an unheated warehouse need to be able to fucking type without fucking losing fingers”; eventually we got to make the screens the way he and the warehouse people wanted.
She’s an RN.
With everyone having their own tricorder now, my impression is that tablets are superfluous. Personally, I could not do my job on one. I need a mouse and a keyboard, and I need to connect to my office PC via VPN and RDC. I can’t even replace my current laptop, because Apple no longer makes a 17" screen.
I imagine I could use a tablet for chatting on the Dope and FB, and looking things up. Especially with a detachable keyboard. And looking things up on vacation is why The Wife wanted one in the first place.
Global PC shipments have declined for 13 consecutive quarters, too, which makes 6 years of consecutive PC declines.
Way too late to edit, but obviously 13 quarters doesn’t add to up to 6 years, I phrased that badly. So 13 consecutive quarters of decline, 6 years of year-over-year decline.
Both make sense. Phones are covering a lot of what you might want a tablet for. PCs are lasting longer these days and if your main PC use is Facebook and email then you can get by without upgrading for a long while. Even less pressure to upgrade if your phone does the same thing. Even if you’re gaming or doing other more intensive tasks, a good system will last you a long time. I’m using a processor from 2009 (i7-860) and will be upgrading soon but that’s mainly a “Because I want to (and got a nice annual bonus)” than “Because this isn’t working any longer”.