The Big 3 7" Tablets... My Review

[JayJ]

Yeah as Bigtroutz has mentioned, widgets are there to give information they can also be a shortcuts but a good widget offers the user information without entering the full application or direct access to a part of an application that would otherwise take several presses or gestures to access.

Swipe or gesture typing is a personal choice, I've used different types of this input since I had my first Android device three years ago starting with Swype. I tried a few others but signed up to the beta testing of Swype and liked it allot, I recently tried Swiftkey Flow but didn't find it worked how I wanted.
I use the stock Jelly Bean gesture keyboard now though as it does just what I want in a keyboard.

As for email, you could try one of the many email clients available on Google Play like K9 or there are many others.

Sent from my 32GB Nexus 7 using Tapatalk HD

[radiocycle]

Interesting review there mdholm.  But with iAnything and their closed-door policy on many aspects of its technology I would NEVER own any of the current generation of products! 

radio

[mdholm]

That's cool, radio.  We all like different things.