sunnypete - You connect to a printer by wifi. It works well. You do of course need a printer connected to your router.

sunnypete "excuse for buying yet more goodies?" - definitely. Bought a new networked laser recently and the speed and quality compared to the old one is so much better.

robgf - I can tell you are either not converted or a little jealous as you don't yet have one!! :)

Well, having just had one bought as a birthday present (partly because her ladyship had run out of ideas and her brother was singing its praises after having just bought one) I must say I'm quite impressed with my Google Nexus 7 (32GB).

I regard it as a bit of a "toy" really - not really useful for anything serious (e.g. spreadsheets) but perfect for the inconsequentialities of life like social networking, pastimes (games, youtube), reading (books and current affairs) and email (and much much more).

A good deal larger than any smartphone, it's still quite a neat size to carry round but will not fit in any pocket conveniently unless one is wearing the suit/hacking/blazer jacket.

I don't think it will be just a fad for me. I'm usually glued to the smartphone for SN and online games, so I guess this is going to take its place as the screen is larger. I now see the smartphone getting a rest and being used only where it's not convenient to take the tablet e.g. nights out.

I don't want to turn this into a review, but the lack of a rear facing camera and 3/4G will send people towards other products, however that's not an issue for me, just an observation.

I think fad is too strong a word, but I also think there are serious issues in such monolithic devices that cannot easily be repaired. A keyboard and mouse are consumable items, for instance.

Also the mirror side of the convenience of having all your devices easily to hand in one package is the vulnerability of all of them to a single incident, be it accidental or malicious. And the risks increase when even more uses are packed into them. Suppose in the future they get used as driving licenses, passports, credit cards (oh, wait...), national insurance documents, central heating controllers, personal heart pacemakers cum defibrillator, car and house keys, the list goes on and on. All perhaps feasable in the next 30 years though, in my opinion. And all it takes is leaving it on the bus...

WTM