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For a year, I consciously refrained from buying a tablet. During this year, I seriously thought about buying it 3 times to replace a laptop on trips and other occasions where the computer is uncomfortable, but you need to be able to solve working issues.

And each time I came across the same problem. I could use all the SaaS services I needed from my mobile phone, or they were not critical for me. Except one - Google.Docs. And since for some reason (partly related to work, partly purely objective) I use a service from Google to store and edit documents, this factor was critical. The only, seemingly insignificant, software, not limited by the capabilities of the operating systems themselves and hardware, factor. But he crossed out all the other benefits of tablet mobility for me.

For a whole year, tablets beckoned, but in fact they were useless to me. Without color, without taste, without smell ... Until Yuppy appeared.

The life-giving drink has become very simple both in terms of creation and in terms of using the SaaS service - cloudHQ, which, among other things, allows you to synchronize Google documents with Dropbox. About this a little later, but for now about the sad.

The sad humor of history is that a year ago there were no obstacles to the emergence of such an opportunity. But it was:
1. The official Google Docs application for Android, which can do absolutely nothing but show a list of your files.
2. Mobile browser version of Google Docs, in which changing more than 100 characters of the file caused a headache and a strong desire to break the phone against the wall.
3. Several office applications for telephones that were capable of the maximum - this is to make the necessary changes to the file when the Internet is available. Also not without matyuki.
4. One rather miserable application that could open Google documents offline, but did not have an acceptable file editor.

Combining all this, in general, one could use the document service. But only the strongest elves of the 80th level with iron immunity to any computer perversions were capable of this.

I could only grind my teeth when I looked at the tablet users with black envy, recalling the only reason why I could not use their mobility.

3 days ago I found out about cloudHQ. The day after I saw the service in action, without hesitation I bought an Android tablet.

The idea is simple. If you cannot use Google Docs directly, you can sync Google documents with Dropbox. For tablets and smartphones, this works as follows. Install Dropbox on the device and in a few clicks configure it to synchronize with your Google account on cloudHQ . You can edit documents with any mobile office application. CloudHQ takes care that your Dropbox folder is always in sync with your Google account.

For complete mobility and the ability to manage my documents without going online, I installed Dropsync. The application allows you to store current copies of files on a mobile device without having to download each manually.

I’m not sure what exactly this cloudHQ function will be very popular in the future (I still hope that Google will finally release something that will allow them to use their service in their operating system), but in general cloudHQ has the right direction. Such services help to solve simple, but critical business tasks of tablets and manage your digital world without being tied to a specific piece of hardware.

Thanks to them, I can say: today I had a working day without a laptop, and the tablet did an excellent job with most of my work tasks.

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