If your looking for a tablet...

[Reynard]

Glad I bought my iPad II 3 months ago instead of waiting for iPad III, we could be waiting a while for it I gather.

[sgreger1]

Yeah, even Adobe admits flash sux lol

At least on mobile platforms. Adobe is only dropping ambitions for mobile Flash, as it just isn't compatible and is too processor intensive and glitchy.
HTML5 can do mos tof what flash can, and much more efficiently. On top of that it is automatically compatable with all existing devices. Can't really compete with that. I am glad Apple took a stand against Flash on mobile devices, it wasn't ever going to be anything but clunky.

[CoderGuy]

Good news for people like me with iPads: Adobe dumps flash player

Yeah, even Adobe admits flash sux lol

[Reynard]

Good news for people like me with iPads: Adobe dumps flash player

[Premium Parrots]

I love my Valium Tablet. With a couple of those nothing else matters.

[ChaoticGemini]

I bought my husband an iPad2 shortly after they came out. I have the kindle fire. I like it for the reasons I got it.. I wanted to be able to take books, comics and a couple of magazines with me without the need for a light. I wanted something with a little bigger screen for streaming movies around the house without having to lug a laptop around. I also liked it's size. The Fire does do more, but that's all I wanted. The web browser is not bad. Apparently it does email, but I never set it up. The couple of android apps I threw on seem to run well. Just be aware it does have its downsides and is in no way an iPad. I really find it difficult to put them in the same category. The fire is more like a glorified ereader the iPad more of a striped down laptop. I debated on the HPs (even had my hands on one) but decided I didn't want something I had to fiddle with and just wanted a media viewing device. It comes down to what you want to do with the device and picking which one does the job. Imho, they still have yet to make the right smartphone and tablet.

[lxskllr]

iPads are too expensive for a toy. $150 is the most I'd pay for any tablet, and that's really pushing it.

[chadizzy1]

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[GoVegan]

Trying to talk my wife into a Kindle Fire. $200? Not too bad really.

I hear you. I saw some pretty good reviews on Kindle Fire. Probably going to wait until after Christmas before I start getting serious about getting one. $200 isn't bad but it will also get some nice gifts.

[AtreyuKun]

Trying to talk my wife into a Kindle Fire. $200? Not too bad really.

[clint404]

Or you could get a cheap HP touch pad for $100-200 (originally $450) and flash cyanogen mod version of android to it and have a top of the line android tablet for half the price.

[lxskllr]

Crappy tablets at woot.com today. Android 2.2, and slow, but would make an alright reader, and portable beater for getting online. $70 + $5 shipping. I got 2. One for my mother to use as a picture frame, and one for me as a toy, or possibly a gift for someone else. Have to inspect first. I saw this linked for hacks for this tablet, but haven't looked at it yet...

http://www.slatedroid.com/topic/2157...s-market-more/

Get it here, but if you're interested, don't dally. It'll only be up until 12:00am central time, or until they sell out.
http://www.woot.com/

[GoVegan]

Actually, I think HP's little promotion worked to the consumers advantage. I am seeing a lot more tablets available in the $200 and under range. They have quite a few of them at Tiger Direct.
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...3-_-CatId_6838

From reading the reviews, it seems like there is a huge difference between Android 2.2 and Android 2.3 so it might be good to use that as a starting point. It seems like the Android 2.3 systems start around $150 which still isn't bad.

[CoderGuy]

UPDATE!!!

HP finally announced their intentions of what to do with that last load they had produced. They already gave the employees a change to get one and they filled all the back orders. The remainder are going to Bestbuy. Starting nov 1st if you buy an HP computer or some other expensive HP product you will have the opportunity to buy the touchpad at the fire sale price from Best buy. HP screwed a lot of people...hard. They led customers on big time then used the remainder of the touchpads to promote more HP sales. Thats kin to the kid in the christmas story when he used his orphan annie decoder ring to decode a secret message. The secret message was a freakin commercial for Ovaltine. The same let down. "Its a crummy commercial". Self serving bastards over there at HP.

I got my 32gb so I really don't give a crap but over on the "official HP touchpad update blog" the natives are pissed.

The sellers on ebay and CL haven't figured this out yet. I just got the update email from HP about an hour ago. When the sellers on ebay and CL find out the prices will surely go up. Bottom price on ebay today for a nib 32gb is like $240 shipped. Not bad.....a dam site better the the $600 retail plus shipping. If your wanting one don't delay.....prices will jump within the next day or so.

Thanks for the update and the heads up!

[Premium Parrots]

UPDATE!!!

HP finally announced their intentions of what to do with that last load they had produced. They already gave the employees a change to get one and they filled all the back orders. The remainder are going to Bestbuy. Starting nov 1st if you buy an HP computer or some other expensive HP product you will have the opportunity to buy the touchpad at the fire sale price from Best buy. HP screwed a lot of people...hard. They led customers on big time then used the remainder of the touchpads to promote more HP sales. Thats kin to the kid in the christmas story when he used his orphan annie decoder ring to decode a secret message. The secret message was a freakin commercial for Ovaltine. The same let down. "Its a crummy commercial". Self serving bastards over there at HP.

I got my 32gb so I really don't give a crap but over on the "official HP touchpad update blog" the natives are pissed.

The sellers on ebay and CL haven't figured this out yet. I just got the update email from HP about an hour ago. When the sellers on ebay and CL find out the prices will surely go up. Bottom price on ebay today for a nib 32gb is like $240 shipped. Not bad.....a dam site better the the $600 retail plus shipping. If your wanting one don't delay.....prices will jump within the next day or so.