Originally Posted by
planemechanic
But one can and does frequently have them plugged in at the hotel desk while working on the computer. The power cord is not an issue for most people.
Which is an irrelevance to the question of whether an external dangling storage device is useful "expanded storage" for a tablet (or phone, although that's already expanding the scope beyond
richardd and my point of disagreement about whether that's a useful form of
expansion as opposed to only loading/backing up).
For that matter, any tablet with battery life as limited as most laptops' would be an absolute dud in the marketplace.