The Best Cheapest Phone that can carry manuals to be read (in place of a tap-top).

[Kyocop]

Hi!

The boss is about to ditch his old (non-Smart) cell phone and upgrade to a plan for personal and business use. He and his wife only need abou 450 minutes each month...but what he really wants is to be able to put the manuals on a phone big enough to read and so be ready on every service call.

What do you all use? Any Suggestions? What is a good little smart phone for a tec?

[rthonpm]

A phone with that large of a screen is going to be pretty big. Even something like a droid X is a little small for parts catalogues and such where there's a lot of detail. Tell him to bite the bullet and get a tablet...

[Hemlock]

Call me old, but the 10" screen on a tablet still seems a little too small. Get a laptop with a nice, big 17" viewing area.

[KenB]

I wonder if anybody has tried putting manuals on an iPad yet.

[RRodgers]

I wonder if anybody has tried putting manuals on an iPad yet.

I use my BlackBerry's address book to keep a list of parts that I use a lot.

[Gregg]

Take a look here. www.pogoplug.com
I use a personal storage cloud, work well with any connected device.

[jonezy999]

I tried loading manuals on my HTC but its just too bloody small and the pdf search leaves some to be desired. I carry a portable HDD loaded with manuals as well as my laptop. HDD is good when ya can get a spare pc rather than setting up a lap top just to look up an error code.

[mezerwi]

Ive been using HTC Desire to read service manuals.

[bdcrandall13]

We have a tech that uses a Samsung Tablet and are looking at Motorola Xoom's for everyone else. Saves a lot of time, is way easier to carry around than manulas or a laptop.

[Kyocop]

Thank you all for your suggestions.