How many of you will consider an Android Tablet?

[Thphilli]

LOL at parroting EXACTLY what Tim Cook said today. I mean seriously that is hilarious. Android tablets is just a scaled up phone, are you serious? iOS on the iPad is the EXACT same as iOS on the phone, with a new Mail app.

They parrot, you parrot, I parrot. In the end it's mostly everyone telling the half truths that justify our side of the argument.

iPad apps won't run an an iPhone, so your argument is silly, at best. On the other hand there are no Android Tablet apps in the Market, and darn few else where. While some applications will scale nicely, yes a nicer scaling than iPhone to iPad, they fail to do anything that the phone couldn't. There is more to having a Tablet than blowing up your games and videos. The interface needs to take advantage of the space to make it a real improvement.

[Note: Some apps improve with scale very well, like video, books, and web browsers. Others just give you a bigger list to scroll though, instead of a better way to navigate and enter data.]

An Android Tablet on 2.2 is a compromise. It does somethings better than an iPad, and somethings worse. What it does not do is deliver a full tablet experience.

But this whole argument really isn't about current tablets, is it? Very few people got supper excited trying to decide if they were going to jump the Apple cart and get a Galaxy Tab.

No, this is about Honeycomb, and the fact that a tablet running it promises some serious improvements over the iPad, with far fewer of the drawbacks. Honeycomb isn't a market reality yet, but neither was the iPad when quite a few of us got excited about it, and even pre-ordered them based on hopes and trust.

I don't blame people for getting excited about the upcoming tablets. I'm very interested to see what they bring as well. But seriously, hashing over the old arguments is a complete waste of time, and a distraction from what is important.

Honeycomb tablets are coming. A second generation iPad is (almost) sure to s how up. Android and Apple fans can look forward to a very interesting year in tablets. Tablets have to be the fastest moving market at the moment. Let's all sit back and enjoy what is to come.

If nothing else we can (I hope) come up with some new arguments to parrot back and forth to each other.

Pretty much everything you said is true. Keep in mind though, that there has been no official android tablet launch. Every tablet that is running Android up until Honeycomb has simply been using Froyo, which is a phone OS. Honeycomb changes that entirely, and is what I was talking about.

 

[xune]

DLNA, look it up.

http://www.ipadforums.net/ipad-apps/17033-smartstor-fusion-dlna-app-ipad-free-get-now.html

 

[donka]

DLNA, look it up.

http://www.ipadforums.net/ipad-apps/17033-smartstor-fusion-dlna-app-ipad-free-get-now.html

Not sure how this works with the Smartstor devices but I have tried it with two other DLNA NAS boxes and this app is very flaky - sometimes lists the contents of the NAS, other times it doesn't see it. Crashes at random etc. Same after a reboot. Removed pretty quickly.

 

[xune]

DLNA, look it up.

http://www.ipadforums.net/ipad-apps/17033-smartstor-fusion-dlna-app-ipad-free-get-now.html

Not sure how this works with the Smartstor devices but I have tried it with two other DLNA NAS boxes and this app is very flaky - sometimes lists the contents of the NAS, other times it doesn't see it. Crashes at random etc. Same after a reboot. Removed pretty quickly.

At the link, it specifies in the FAB section, which servers and controllers work with the app.

 

[xune]

It would be awesome if you could pair your ipad with a laptop or desktop and transfer files, but Apple of course gimped that capability intentionally.

What are you talking about? Of course you can pair your iPad with your laptop or desktop to transfer files.

Direct USB to 30pin, or wirelessly via wifi/cellular radio. Cloud/internet or LAN.

If you're talking about itunes OTA, you would know by now that doesn't even exist with any other iOS device, and BT is inefficient and lacks the transceiver distance of wifi.

 

[donka]

At the link, it specifies in the FAB section, which servers and controllers work with the app.

FAB? I'm lost...

 

[Tobo]

Just to answer this thread's original question, I had my Galaxy Tab for 2wks before selling it.

Clunky laggy thin: hate it. Flash aint worth it!

 

[Superbike81]

That's because the Galaxy Tab is terrible, especially compared to the new crop that will be getting released next month and through June.

 

[gentlefury]

LOL at parroting EXACTLY what Tim Cook said today. I mean seriously that is hilarious. Android tablets is just a scaled up phone, are you serious? iOS on the iPad is the EXACT same as iOS on the phone, with a new Mail app.

They parrot, you parrot, I parrot. In the end it's mostly everyone telling the half truths that justify our side of the argument.

iPad apps won't run an an iPhone, so your argument is silly, at best. On the other hand there are no Android Tablet apps in the Market, and darn few else where. While some applications will scale nicely, yes a nicer scaling than iPhone to iPad, they fail to do anything that the phone couldn't. There is more to having a Tablet than blowing up your games and videos. The interface needs to take advantage of the space to make it a real improvement.

[Note: Some apps improve with scale very well, like video, books, and web browsers. Others just give you a bigger list to scroll though, instead of a better way to navigate and enter data.]

An Android Tablet on 2.2 is a compromise. It does somethings better than an iPad, and somethings worse. What it does not do is deliver a full tablet experience.

But this whole argument really isn't about current tablets, is it? Very few people got supper excited trying to decide if they were going to jump the Apple cart and get a Galaxy Tab.

No, this is about Honeycomb, and the fact that a tablet running it promises some serious improvements over the iPad, with far fewer of the drawbacks. Honeycomb isn't a market reality yet, but neither was the iPad when quite a few of us got excited about it, and even pre-ordered them based on hopes and trust.

I don't blame people for getting excited about the upcoming tablets. I'm very interested to see what they bring as well. But seriously, hashing over the old arguments is a complete waste of time, and a distraction from what is important.

Honeycomb tablets are coming. A second generation iPad is (almost) sure to s how up. Android and Apple fans can look forward to a very interesting year in tablets. Tablets have to be the fastest moving market at the moment. Let's all sit back and enjoy what is to come.

If nothing else we can (I hope) come up with some new arguments to parrot back and forth to each other.

Pretty much everything you said is true. Keep in mind though, that there has been no official android tablet launch. Every tablet that is running Android up until Honeycomb has simply been using Froyo, which is a phone OS. Honeycomb changes that entirely, and is what I was talking about.

And honeycomb is still a LONG way from production. That guy from google demoing it wouldn't give a date but he implied a while...seems like that might be a 2012 toy.

 

[Superbike81]

Oops, double post.

 

[Superbike81]

2012???? What makes you think that?

We are looking April/May at the latest.

Possibly late February since that's what the rumors say for the release date for the Xoom which had been the testbed for Honeycomb.

 

[twerppoet]

Or this summer at the vary latest. Even if it is not 100% ready. Google doesn't have any problem with releasing softwear that still needs polish, and to wait longer than that will all but reneg on the promise made by their current tablet partner, Motorola.

The pressure to meet a spring ship date is going to be huge.

 

[gentlefury]

Or this summer at the vary latest. Even if it is not 100% ready. Google doesn't have any problem with releasing softwear that still needs polish, and to wait longer than that will all but reneg on the promise made by their current tablet partner, Motorola.

The pressure to meet a spring ship date is going to be huge.

As is evidenced by my basically useless Google TV. If it werent a good tv I would have returned it. The only thing I really use in the built ni features is netflix which is really no differet from what I already had on the PS3

 

[Thphilli]

It would be awesome if you could pair your ipad with a laptop or desktop and transfer files, but Apple of course gimped that capability intentionally.

What are you talking about? Of course you can pair your iPad with your laptop or desktop to transfer files.

Direct USB to 30pin, or wirelessly via wifi/cellular radio. Cloud/internet or LAN.

If you're talking about itunes OTA, you would know by now that doesn't even exist with any other iOS device, and BT is inefficient and lacks the transceiver distance of wifi.

Why dont you read the context of the post. We were talking about bluetooth.

 

[Thphilli]

They parrot, you parrot, I parrot. In the end it's mostly everyone telling the half truths that justify our side of the argument.

iPad apps won't run an an iPhone, so your argument is silly, at best. On the other hand there are no Android Tablet apps in the Market, and darn few else where. While some applications will scale nicely, yes a nicer scaling than iPhone to iPad, they fail to do anything that the phone couldn't. There is more to having a Tablet than blowing up your games and videos. The interface needs to take advantage of the space to make it a real improvement.

[Note: Some apps improve with scale very well, like video, books, and web browsers. Others just give you a bigger list to scroll though, instead of a better way to navigate and enter data.]

An Android Tablet on 2.2 is a compromise. It does somethings better than an iPad, and somethings worse. What it does not do is deliver a full tablet experience.

But this whole argument really isn't about current tablets, is it? Very few people got supper excited trying to decide if they were going to jump the Apple cart and get a Galaxy Tab.

No, this is about Honeycomb, and the fact that a tablet running it promises some serious improvements over the iPad, with far fewer of the drawbacks. Honeycomb isn't a market reality yet, but neither was the iPad when quite a few of us got excited about it, and even pre-ordered them based on hopes and trust.

I don't blame people for getting excited about the upcoming tablets. I'm very interested to see what they bring as well. But seriously, hashing over the old arguments is a complete waste of time, and a distraction from what is important.

Honeycomb tablets are coming. A second generation iPad is (almost) sure to s how up. Android and Apple fans can look forward to a very interesting year in tablets. Tablets have to be the fastest moving market at the moment. Let's all sit back and enjoy what is to come.

If nothing else we can (I hope) come up with some new arguments to parrot back and forth to each other.

Pretty much everything you said is true. Keep in mind though, that there has been no official android tablet launch. Every tablet that is running Android up until Honeycomb has simply been using Froyo, which is a phone OS. Honeycomb changes that entirely, and is what I was talking about.

And honeycomb is still a LONG way from production. That guy from google demoing it wouldn't give a date but he implied a while...seems like that might be a 2012 toy.

What are you talking about? It is launching on tablets in Q1 2011. We will see Honeycomb on retail tablets before the iPad 2 is released.