My disabilities and other health issues keep me home-bound so GPS & cell aren't too important to me. I have a cell for emergency outgoing calls with a $10.65 every 3 month T-Mobile prepaid plan. I have MagicJack and a Panasonic DECT wireless with extensions in each room where I spend significant time (although a recent fall indicates I need to add a couple of rooms). A friend in Florida has a hardened PC on his boat and uses MagicJack with wireless phones connecting to public APs when in range.

I'm leaning towards Lenovo's IdeaPad A1 (with GPS) and using Skype on it. My niece would like something smaller than a laptop to do email and phone while watching TV and this might be just right

Many years ago I used an early PDA as a universal remote by creating .WAV files of the codes and sending them to an emitter connected to the headphone jack - I may try that with whatever tablet I decide on - there's ample room to store codes. It will depend on whether the audio circuits can handle 38kHz.

Normally, I steer clear of Google where possible because of things like them insisting on getting my cell number in order to open a GMail account, but these inexpensive tablets running Android are just too enticing.