IPad Wannabes??? Harumph!!!
So what is the buzz... aside from the XOOM, which one of these is crushworthy??? Which ones will make it to market???
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/01/27/one-year-later-101-ipad-wannabes/?iid=EL
Name Screen (in) OS
Acer iconia tab a500 10 Android
Acer Iconia W7 tablet 10.1 Windows
AOC Breeze 8 Android
Archos 101 10 Android
Asus Eee Slate EP121 12 Windows
Asus Eee Pad Slider 10 Android
Asus Eee Pad MeMo 7 Android
Asus Eee Pad Xformer 10 Android
Augen Doppio 10.1 Android
Augen Espresso 7 Android
Augen Latte 7 Android
Augen Latte Grand 7 Android
Azpen tablet 7 Android
Azpen tablet 7 Windows
BlackBerry PlayBook 7 QNX
Dell Streak 10 10 Android
Dell Streak 7 7 Android
eFun Nextbook Next4 10 Android
eFun Nextbook Next6 7 Android
Enspert Identity Tab E201 7 Android
Enspert Identity Tab E301 7 Android
Fujitsu Windows 7 tablet 7 Windows
Fujitsu Lifebook T901 13.1 Windows
Kno single screen 14 Linux
Kno dual-screen 14×2 Linux
Lenovo LePad 10 Android
Lenovo Windows7 slate 10 Windows
LG Optimus tablet 8.9 Android
LG T-mobile G-Slate 10 Android
Motion CL900 10 Windows
Motorola Xoom 10 Android
MSI WindPad 100A 10 Android
MSI WindPad 100W 10 Windows
MSI Kid Pad 10 Android
NEC Cloud Comm. LT-W 7 Android
Netbook Nav7 7 Windows
Netbook Nav9 8.9 Windows
Netbook Nav10i 10.1 Windows
Notion Ink Adam 10 Android
OpenPeak OpenTablet 10 Android
Panasonic VieraTablet 4 Android
Panasonic VieraTablet 7 Android
Panasonic VieraTablet 10 Android
Razer Switchblade 7 Windows
Rullingnet Vinci 7 Android
Samsung Galaxy Tab WiFi 7 Android
Samsung TX100 10 Windows
toshiba Toshiba Tablet 10 Android
Velocity Micro Cruz tablet 7 Android
Velocity Micro Cruz tablet 8 Android
Velocity Micro Cruz tablet 10 Android
Viewsonic ViewPad 10 10.1 Android/Windows
Viewsonic ViewPad 10s 10.1 Android
Viliv X10 10.2 Android
Vilix X7 7 Android
Vilix X70 7 Windows
Vizio Vizio (Via) Tablet 8 Android
Samsung Galaxy Tab 4G 7 Android
I just pee'd a little
There were even more devices... I didn't include the eReaders... I know Roebeet has hacked his Pandigital Novel and others are working on the Nook Color. The KNO devices are going to run Linux?
I love the GTab... this thing is GRRRRRRRRRRRRRREAT. I know the folks on here don't love the screen and are looking for a Tegra II device w/ an IPS screen. I'm more patient and won't look for another device until I see lots of DEV activity here on XDA for them.
It will be neat to see what shakes out and which of these tablets will become competitive in the marketplace.
We are SO gonna get abandoned
It took me a long time to sift through the tablet mess and find one that I thought had the most potential. I chose the G tablet, but how long before the well dries up and we see fewer and fewer updates for this tablet because there are so many more to choose from?
I don't have the funds to purchase a new tablet every 6 months.
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/01/01/the-island-of-misfit-tablets/
HAHA!!! Another link in the article points to the "island of misfit tablets" and apparently our beloved GTABLET is the posterchild!
doctorisin said:
HAHA!!! Another link in the article points to the "island of misfit tablets" and apparently our beloved GTABLET is the posterchild!
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LOL...
iPad wannabe's, so now Apple invented the tablet/slate eh?
He's kind of right though - rushing to market with 2.2 on these things is proof enough that Google never meant it for tablets. They exasperated it by not allowing the market to work, but can you blame them? Many games and apps aren't formatted for anything bigger than 4 to 7 inches so people would I think, have a real problem and complain to Google. They nipped that one in the bud. No native home/back/menu in the ui means it has to be included in a custom ui, lest we have to hunt in the dark and sustain much a frustration, since it's in the custom ui, it doesn't persist in certain apps, which means no matter what you'll have to suffer through this frustration at some point, with some app....maybe your favourite one. That or franken-fy the tablet with ghastly mods to find our non-lit capacitive keys....or stretch pretty far to get at them either way on this size device.
I don't think it would be 3/4 as bad if they just made the keys back-lit though. I honestly cannot understand why it wasn't made that way.
In the end, misfit toy? Maybe. But I sure do love mine
If I was ever entertaining the idea of getting another tablet this year, my first brand choice would be HTC, then Dell or LG. Not really looking forward to anything else. But that's only if my G Tablet falls extremely short of my needs and that's not the case right now.
Neoprimal said:
In the end, misfit toy? Maybe. But I sure do love mine
If I was ever entertaining the idea of getting another tablet this year, my first brand choice would be HTC, then Dell or LG. Not really looking forward to anything else. But that's only if my G Tablet falls extremely short of my needs and that's not the case right now.
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I am comfortable withe the future. My first phone was an MT3G and I and many others fel in love with this first wave Google device. TO THIS DAY devs that loved there time with that device are porting newer roms to work in the confines of its 90 MB of ram. That to me is the best part about xda. Taking what you have and making it better every day as a community. Progression and new tek are great but if you can't ever be happy with what you have now you wont be happy with the next thing either.
Speaking of the future though, if Nvidia and HTC turn the lights down low and get there Google on.... till then I fing love my gtablet.
I love my gTab as well but in the end it's another electronic device and I would not hesitate to buy another tab when this one begins to seem too slow and/or a bunch of really cool new apps and games are released but cannot be installed and/or ran on the gTab. When that day comes I'll be on the lookout for another tablet to drop that meets the spec/price/value/xda-dev-support sweet spot the gTab did when I first bought it.
I still have my old Commodore so it's not like I can't appreciate folks that have deep feelings about a device but I enjoy progress as well.
A lot of action waiting in the wings. But how come they missed the Elocity A10? I expect to receive mine in about 2 weeks, and it has everything my Gtab has, plus a gorgeous IPS screen, with the highest rez in the tablet market.
What other tablets?!?!?!
i dont care what ppl say paying only $400 for the best computer substitute i have ever had is not a problem. i looked at MANY tablets including the iPad (but lets face it the iTunes syncing in 5 hours because it has to rename my media and put it in random folders so that i cant mess with my own media fiasco headache is just not worth it) and i had a few basic requirements:
1. Capacitive touch screen only
2. 10" or bigger or its just a large phone
3. Dockable - preferred but not required
4. long lasting battery
5. rootable with custom roms
6. expandable memory
7. both CPU and GPU - at least 1GHz
8. has a reasonable price
the gTablet met all of those without any problems. and im very happy with it to the point that i only use my main computer now for media sync with my zune and programming.
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and i had a few basic requirements:
1. Capacitive touch screen only
2. 10" or bigger or its just a large phone
3. Dockable - preferred but not required
4. long lasting battery
5. rootable with custom roms
6. expandable memory
7. both CPU and GPU - at least 1GHz
8. has a reasonable price
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Exactly. (Not to say the mt3g is even close in spec, but for its time) This is why I jumped on the mt3g when it first came out. It just recently can't play some newer games but zenonia 2 works great and so do emulators and flash net surfing. I got a 4gb 10 series SD card just to give it a little boost with davlic partition cash. All I'm saying is these are the fun bits of squeezing every last drop out of our gear as possible that I'm waiting for with the gtablet. Being able to run new apps on my gtablet that someone thought they had to run out and spend 800$ to be able to use.
@OP
You're missing the Acer Iconia A100 (the 7" variant). That's the one I have my eyes upon.
Other than that, visit ARMdevices.net for some of the less-recognized tabs that will be coming. Gigabyte, MSI, Shuttle, are all showing tablets at CEBIT. And Samsung/Moto both said they'll have other models on tap this year. So, yes, it will be crowded, which is good news for the consumer. More choices, lower prices.
Lenovo Lepad
OS:
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capacitance touch screen
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resolution 1280 × 800
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doctorisin said:
IPad Wannabes??? Harumph!!!
So what is the buzz... aside from the XOOM, which one of these is crushworthy??? Which ones will make it to market???
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/01/27/one-year-later-101-ipad-wannabes/?iid=EL
Name Screen (in) OS
Acer iconia tab a500 10 Android
Acer Iconia W7 tablet 10.1 Windows
AOC Breeze 8 Android
Archos 101 10 Android
Asus Eee Slate EP121 12 Windows
Asus Eee Pad Slider 10 Android
Asus Eee Pad MeMo 7 Android
Asus Eee Pad Xformer 10 Android
Augen Doppio 10.1 Android
Augen Espresso 7 Android
Augen Latte 7 Android
Augen Latte Grand 7 Android
Azpen tablet 7 Android
Azpen tablet 7 Windows
BlackBerry PlayBook 7 QNX
Dell Streak 10 10 Android
Dell Streak 7 7 Android
eFun Nextbook Next4 10 Android
eFun Nextbook Next6 7 Android
Enspert Identity Tab E201 7 Android
Enspert Identity Tab E301 7 Android
Fujitsu Windows 7 tablet 7 Windows
Fujitsu Lifebook T901 13.1 Windows
Kno single screen 14 Linux
Kno dual-screen 14×2 Linux
Lenovo LePad 10 Android
Lenovo Windows7 slate 10 Windows
LG Optimus tablet 8.9 Android
LG T-mobile G-Slate 10 Android
Motion CL900 10 Windows
Motorola Xoom 10 Android
MSI WindPad 100A 10 Android
MSI WindPad 100W 10 Windows
MSI Kid Pad 10 Android
NEC Cloud Comm. LT-W 7 Android
Netbook Nav7 7 Windows
Netbook Nav9 8.9 Windows
Netbook Nav10i 10.1 Windows
Notion Ink Adam 10 Android
OpenPeak OpenTablet 10 Android
Panasonic VieraTablet 4 Android
Panasonic VieraTablet 7 Android
Panasonic VieraTablet 10 Android
Razer Switchblade 7 Windows
Rullingnet Vinci 7 Android
Samsung Galaxy Tab WiFi 7 Android
Samsung TX100 10 Windows
toshiba Toshiba Tablet 10 Android
Velocity Micro Cruz tablet 7 Android
Velocity Micro Cruz tablet 8 Android
Velocity Micro Cruz tablet 10 Android
Viewsonic ViewPad 10 10.1 Android/Windows
Viewsonic ViewPad 10s 10.1 Android
Viliv X10 10.2 Android
Vilix X7 7 Android
Vilix X70 7 Windows
Vizio Vizio (Via) Tablet 8 Android
Samsung Galaxy Tab 4G 7 Android
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All of them why should they be compared to anything? They are stand alone products each with pluses and minuses of their own including crapple.
Nice, sweet, don't you just love choices? Asus Transformer released this month for $399 without keyboard.
The one that is going to dominate is the Asus Eee Slate ep121. Yeah, it is expensive, but is more like a desktop than any of the others. With windows 8 right around the corner, definitely looking better.
I ordered a GTablet the other day and they accidentally sent me the ViewPad 10S...I do see that the GTab is more supported as far as roms and that is a GOOD thing..HOWEVER, the ViewPad 10S looks as though it will get the ICS Update..as long as Viewsonic doesn't botch it like the stock rom...my questions is what would you do...keep the ViewPad or send it back to get the Gtab
JediKnight1 said:
I ordered a GTablet the other day and they accidentally sent me the ViewPad 10S...I do see that the GTab is more supported as far as roms and that is a GOOD thing..HOWEVER, the ViewPad 10S looks as though it will get the ICS Update..as long as Viewsonic doesn't botch it like the stock rom...my questions is what would you do...keep the ViewPad or send it back to get the Gtab
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Haven't seen anything to suggest ICS on Viewpad 10S.
There is a ICS release for the Viewpad 10 (dual boot) which is significantly diefferent than both the Viewpad 10S and gTablet. Viewpad 10S is similar to gTab & uses the same processor. Viewpad 10 (dual boot) is a completely different beast. It has an Intel Prine Trail processor & can run Android x86 and/or Wndows 7. It also has 2G DDR3 ram (vs 512M DDR2 on 10S), 16 or 32G SSD (vs 512M EMMC on the 10S), & only 4 hours of battery time (vs 7 on 10S).
I'd send the Viewpad 10S back & have them send me the correct tablet.
I got that too Exactly the same issue ordered from amazon from circuit city got a 10s instead of a gtablet. So I should return since it doesn't have microusb and 16gb and lacks support is useless then.
Bait & Switch or False Advertising
tichs said:
I got that too Exactly the same issue ordered from amazon from circuit city got a 10s instead of a gtablet. So I should return since it doesn't have microusb and 16gb and lacks support is useless then.
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I would send it back. You are now the 3rd person this week that I've heard that ordered a gTablet from Amazon fulfilled by Circuit City that got a Viewpad10S instead. 10S IMO is inferior.
Al
Did anyone own this android tablet yet? Decide to purchase one but still cornered about the quality of the device.I owned a ainol novo aurora 2 and it is malfunction after 5 month using it.Having a lot of issue such as tablet screen won`t turn on even the battery full.Should I purchase this tablet or find other tablet brand?
i have an older win tablet (iconia w510), but looking for a tablet with higher res. so far Teclast X98 Pro has gotten on my list. Any other tablets out there that I should consider?
Cube iwork 11 ; Onda V919 Air CH; Teclast X98 Plus...
The currently is a sale for Chuwi Hi10. I actually ordered it yesterday and will post my review when I get it (but this will take some time). I posted about it int he Windows 10 sub-forum: http://forum.xda-developers.com/windows-10/general/chuwi-hi10-170-black-friday-t3257969
The tablet has some really nice specs and, for a few extra $$, you can get a keyboard for it as well. That thread contains (my) affiliate link, but you have a direct link to the product as well.
thanks, the Chuwi Hi10 looks interesting. last i checked there was a lot of bad reviews for the teclast pro on gearbest, but i dont find them now.
I love the mate 9 but just got a great deal on a new view 10,i was going to wait until June for my upgrade for the mate 10 Pro, but at £350 sim free I can't grumble.
Anyone used this phone
Cheers
Will be selling my mate 9 mint condition for £280