Originally Posted by ozhanu i am not using galaxy and have no idea. however, i would like to suggest you different thing. if you use all in one devices like galaxy and if it's breaks down, you will lose all of your equipment. i think this would be the last think you want to have. i mainly carry an 9" notebook with ssd, cheap nokia phone with mp3 player, and a gps. even one gets broken you can still use the other two. and probably will cost cheaper.

Mumbluz,

You've hit on the real problem. Neither the Galaxy or the iPad are, at present, very usable for travelling in my opinion.

On the road you constantly want to upload the thousands of photos you will take (you'll need way more storage than either can offer (the biggest iPad is only 64Gig - an iPod is 128!!). That means you need an external hard drive - not for back up but as your primary memory. The problam is how do you then plug in the hard drive? Apple now do a little adapter to overcome this glaring ommision but you have to buy it separately and it's a fiddly little thing (easy to lose!) that plugs in where your power socket goes meaning you can't charge at the same time! I'm not sure about the Galaxy but at best, it must have the same problem!

I Met a guy recently who just went out and bought a Nokia smartphone, and downloaded the GPS maps needed from Nokia. He said it worked fine - and he road the old Road of Bones!...

Ultimately, life on the roads tests these gadgets, be it via dirt, dust, water or vibration. I'd say get something designed to take the abuse - you know it'll wait until you need it most before failing on you!

Get a real bike GPS system, an iPod shuffle for your music and a netbook for storage, internet, photos etc.

If you're in to gadgets i'd also highly recomend investing in an e-reader instead of carrying all those heavy books that use up so much space. We've bought a Sony PRS 350 and it's simply brilliant! (forget the Kindle - they're rubbish!) We now have thousands of books (stored on the netbook) in a device thatfits in our trouser pockets, the battery last at least 3 weeks of constant use, and it works perfect even in the brightest sun (it's an e-ink screen not a flickering pc screen like on iPads etc. We've even put all of our guidebooks into it so we don't need to carry them around!