Android Tablet Questions

[devilock76]

I bought my girl a samsung galaxy tab 10.1 fir her birthday in july, and we both really like it. Sure there are some times I wish it was a laptop, but we have laptops and thats not why we git it anyways. We have ipads at my work, which are cool, but I prefer the android galaxy tab over the ipad. Revardless of what people say to me you need flash. We print wirelessly with the tab as well, and I like the freedom of being able to install what I want, not what apple says I can. I will say apple has more apps, but whatever... Adobe has some cool stuff coming out for android next month with a cloud which will be cool, but for just serfing the web in bed, the car, or the couch it is pretty cool.

I have not found the app store to be to restrictive for what I want to do. Android and the latency issues with audio has been more of an obstacle. Howver as far as media goes I do like that with Android it is easier to get media from Amazon on the device directly.

Ken

[wadetheblade]

Oh yeah, would not have bought it for her but staples had a $100 off coupon, and I had a gift card, so it ended up $350 before tax. Well worth it to me.

[wadetheblade]

I bought my girl a samsung galaxy tab 10.1 fir her birthday in july, and we both really like it. Sure there are some times I wish it was a laptop, but we have laptops and thats not why we got it anyways. We have ipads at my work, which are cool, but I prefer the android galaxy tab over the ipad. Regardless of what people say to me you need flash. We print wirelessly with the tab as well, and I like the freedom of being able to install what I want, not what apple says I can. I will say apple has more apps, but whatever... Adobe has some cool stuff coming out for android next month with a cloud which will be cool, but for just surfing the web in bed, the car, or the couch it is pretty cool.

[devilock76]

What's irritating me is all the artificial controls on the system. A netbook may be slow, but there's very few limits on what you can do. You can use any kind of Linux, BSD, Windows, and with some hacking, and luck, OSX. It'll run any program made within hardware limits, and programs are infinitely customizable.

It looks like I've got a root prompt on the tablet, but I still can't write to the file system. The NAND is locked :bangs head:

What is the old NetBSD adage? Oh yeah, "You can install it on a toaster!"

Ken

[lxskllr]

What's irritating me is all the artificial controls on the system. A netbook may be slow, but there's very few limits on what you can do. You can use any kind of Linux, BSD, Windows, and with some hacking, and luck, OSX. It'll run any program made within hardware limits, and programs are infinitely customizable.

It looks like I've got a root prompt on the tablet, but I still can't write to the file system. The NAND is locked :bangs head:

[devilock76]

Doesn't look like there's anything ready made as of yet. I'm currently starting with the basics, and trying to learn how it all goes together. I don't know how much time I'll spend on this. It's more just to do it, than out of any need. I think I've decided I don't like ARM. It's fine as a phone system, or simple reader/web browser, but is inferior to the classic x86.

As is Atom really, they fail in processing speed but they make up for it in compact size and conservative battery consumption. At the end of the day when it comes to devices designed around portability that is the target.

Ken

[lxskllr]

Go to XDA developers forum. I am sure someone there can help. I have the Gtablet with the Vegan Rom tablet. (has nothing to do with veganism, hehehehe)

Ken

Doesn't look like there's anything ready made as of yet. I'm currently starting with the basics, and trying to learn how it all goes together. I don't know how much time I'll spend on this. It's more just to do it, than out of any need. I think I've decided I don't like ARM. It's fine as a phone system, or simple reader/web browser, but is inferior to the classic x86.

[devilock76]

Haven't figured out how to root the tablet yet. It's real niche device, and there isn't much out there on it. I've collected a few apps. The real gem is the rpn scientific calculator. Too bad I seldom need that kind of device anymore :^D

Are iPad apps portable centric like Android? What continues to piss me off is the lack of functionality on the apps. Everything has ginormous PlaySkool buttons, and little control. I suppose that can be expected since many are for phones, but I'd like to see a selectable dual interface. Stripped down for phones, full featured for tablets.

Go to XDA developers forum. I am sure someone there can help. I have the Gtablet with the Vegan Rom tablet. (has nothing to do with veganism, hehehehe)

Ken

[lxskllr]

Haven't figured out how to root the tablet yet. It's real niche device, and there isn't much out there on it. I've collected a few apps. The real gem is the rpn scientific calculator. Too bad I seldom need that kind of device anymore :^D

Are iPad apps portable centric like Android? What continues to piss me off is the lack of functionality on the apps. Everything has ginormous PlaySkool buttons, and little control. I suppose that can be expected since many are for phones, but I'd like to see a selectable dual interface. Stripped down for phones, full featured for tablets.

[devilock76]

I'll third that. Especially for business. The apps are MUCH better than their Android cousins. If something comes along thats better, you bet your ass I'm dropping serious funds on it, but until then, there are iPad's and they are crud. In fact, according to a recently announced browser tracking firm, the iPad has 97.2% of the tablet browser share (http://gizmodo.com/5848590/no-one-uses-android-tablets).

So are there really as many tablets out there as the competitors say there are? Apple is the only one that reports sold whereas the others report shipped. Huge difference there!

Business maybe, media definitely, Ipad kills (unless we talk about flash sites).

Android in my usage has one advantage, and that is from the sys-admin side, better VNC/SSH tools available. Just my experience granted. I find it enjoyable working on my BSD server from my Gtablet at times.

Ken

[Ainkor]

In my mind the Ipad is still the only decent tablet. Almost 100% because of the high quality software available in the App Store. The programs on there are priced very competatively, I mean Beatmaker 2 for example is a mobile AWS for making loops, music etc and it is more powerfull that other software that costs hundreds of dollars, but you can pick it up for $10. Same with the office suite, it's like $15 last time I checked, but buying a copy of MS word or excel for the computer costs hundreds. In general the apps are high quality and the selection is massive. For this reason alone I think the Ipad is the best bet for anyone truly trying to use a tablet for anything. The droid ones are okay but they suffer the same problems as windows computers in my opinion and for some reason they just don't have the polished feel that the iPad does.

I'll third that. Especially for business. The apps are MUCH better than their Android cousins. If something comes along thats better, you bet your ass I'm dropping serious funds on it, but until then, there are iPad's and they are crud. In fact, according to a recently announced browser tracking firm, the iPad has 97.2% of the tablet browser share (http://gizmodo.com/5848590/no-one-uses-android-tablets).

So are there really as many tablets out there as the competitors say there are? Apple is the only one that reports sold whereas the others report shipped. Huge difference there!

[CoderGuy]

In my mind the Ipad is still the only decent tablet. Almost 100% because of the high quality software available in the App Store. The programs on there are priced very competatively, I mean Beatmaker 2 for example is a mobile AWS for making loops, music etc and it is more powerfull that other software that costs hundreds of dollars, but you can pick it up for $10. Same with the office suite, it's like $15 last time I checked, but buying a copy of MS word or excel for the computer costs hundreds. In general the apps are high quality and the selection is massive. For this reason alone I think the Ipad is the best bet for anyone truly trying to use a tablet for anything. The droid ones are okay but they suffer the same problems as windows computers in my opinion and for some reason they just don't have the polished feel that the iPad does.

^^^^THIS

And based on new benchmarks, the iPad 2 and even iPhone 4S (arrives Friday at my door!) are faster than the competition in most benchmarks.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4951/i...pu-than-ipad-2

[sgreger1]

In my mind the Ipad is still the only decent tablet. Almost 100% because of the high quality software available in the App Store. The programs on there are priced very competatively, I mean Beatmaker 2 for example is a mobile AWS for making loops, music etc and it is more powerfull that other software that costs hundreds of dollars, but you can pick it up for $10. Same with the office suite, it's like $15 last time I checked, but buying a copy of MS word or excel for the computer costs hundreds. In general the apps are high quality and the selection is massive. For this reason alone I think the Ipad is the best bet for anyone truly trying to use a tablet for anything. The droid ones are okay but they suffer the same problems as windows computers in my opinion and for some reason they just don't have the polished feel that the iPad does.

[lxskllr]

Have you unlocked or "rooted" the device?

No, I haven't. I'm still just playing, and trying to decide if I'm going to keep it, or give it to my daughter for Xmas :^D

The fact that's used won't be an issue. I always customize electronic devices for her, before I give them as gifts :^)

[wa3zrm]

Have you unlocked or "rooted" the device?