Those that have bought one of the latest capacitive touch 7" tablets. As a basic wifi, android mobile internet device, which ones are good, and why?
I'm considering the allwinner A10 or one of the others in that catagory. I am selling my X5A-G and want to move up. Considering the operating voltage as a primary factor for battery life. Am I wrong?
I honestly think that beyond the PB at $199 and the Kindle Fire there are no good, cheap tablets. And when I mean good I mean reliable with good battery life.
But hopefully I am wrong.
Well I just bought a Fire. Given that Amazon is slightly subsidizing the cost of it, I didn't think it could really get much better than that since other manufacturers are selling theirs for a profit... It seems to be just fine so far.
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nicksti said:
I honestly think that beyond the PB at $199 and the Kindle Fire there are no good, cheap tablets. And when I mean good I mean reliable with good battery life.
But hopefully I am wrong.
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Just because there aren't any good ones doesn't mean there can't be a best one
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Of the following 4+ which would you people get and why?
The 2 bigger screen android Asus tablets...the Notion Ink Adam or wait quite a while for Adam 2?...or the rumored HTC tablets?
I'm really leaning towards one of the 2 asus tablets or waiting for the HTC tablets cuz:
1) I'm half Taiwanese and if you see my sign it only has HTC phones hehe
2) The Asus ones are coming out pretty soon and seem like good bang for the buck.
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Of the following 4+ which would you people get and why?
The 2 bigger screen android Asus tablets...the Notion Ink Adam or wait quite a while for Adam 2?...or the rumored HTC tablets?
I'm really leaning towards one of the 2 asus tablets or waiting for the HTC tablets cuz:
1) I'm half Taiwanese and if you see my sign it only has HTC phones hehe
2) The Asus ones are coming out pretty soon and seem like good bang for the buck.
Sorry if this is a repeat question and please do link to similar/same threads!
Thanks in advance.
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None of the above as an early adopter (except the HTC maybe). These companies don't make cell phones, and have very little experience with android. Buying them early is begging to get a lemon, especially when trying to save money if you're buying in the price bracket i'm guessing these will fall in.
even if other pretty/kinda credible websites such as slashgear give good to decent reviews of certain products? the asus ones received decent to good reviews on just demo/pre-production units.
I really do not see the practicality of a tablet, very limited in functionality, Give me a 10" slimline netbook wirelessly tethered to my HTC or with an aircard any day, 100 time more useful for half the price & you get real quality hardware & proper web browsing functionality on an OS & browser of your choice.
thanks...but...
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I really do not see the practicality of a tablet, very limited in functionality, Give me a 10" slimline netbook wirelessly tethered to my HTC or with an aircard any day, 100 time more useful for half the price & you get real quality hardware & proper web browsing functionality on an OS & browser of your choice.
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Thanks for the reply and show of your opinion but it has nothing to do with what I asked about...
An expansion of options was the underlying point :-D
Might not help you too much but could help other using this thread as a reference on tablet purchase.
Lol ok fair enough ; )
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Would it be possible to put Android on a Playbook? It would run like butter on that glorious dual core Snapdragon and 1gb of RAM. I've played with one for a few minutes in a store, and it's a solid device. I'd personally love to have a Playbook if it ran Android. That's one of the reasons I want a Kindle Fire, it's basically a Playbook running Amazon's version of Android, and I presume it'll be cracked and vanilla Android would be put on there at some point.
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I am considering buying one of them too considering it is a flash capable device now priced at $299.00 for the 16GB model...very enticing indeed. Anyone on xda know if this can be done?
Would make a wonderful community project
At $199, this would be a much better value than the Kindle Fire or the Nook Tablet. One catch though... XDA Dev support! Any progress on rooting and hacking this thing?
If not yet, then maybe once Black Friday hits!
http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/09/staples-slashes-playbook-price-to-199-on-black-friday/
IIRC, the general consensus on this by any potential devs was that it was gonna be way too difficult to be worth it.
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At $199, this would be a much better value than the Kindle Fire or the Nook Tablet. One catch though... XDA Dev support! Any progress on rooting and hacking this thing?
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Rooting is taken care of by Dingleberry, and there are a bunch of devs over at Crackberry who seem to be doing a bunch of stuff.
Hey guys,
My friend will sell me his playbook for ~$50.
Is there any sense in me buying it? I already have the touchpad (CM7).
Also, for those of you who have it: how do you like it?
Get it and sell it for a profit, you could probably sell it on Craigslist or Ebay for at least $100-ish.
Since you already have a TP, that'd be my course of action.
Yes. As far as I know you can plug it to your TV and watch movies. The interface is similar to webOS which I love.
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Hey guys,
My friend will sell me his playbook for ~
Is there any sense in me buying it? I already have the touchpad (CM7).
Also, for those of you who have it: how do you like it?
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I got a PlayBook for free through the Android developer 'port' promotion, and I really like the device. It feels great to hold, is a nice size, and has a good screen! I'd buy one for that price. The only thing that lets it down is the apps, there aren't anywhere near as many as on iOS and Android (though there are some), but as a web browser alone it's worth it in my opinion.
For $50 definitely!
I've got one, I'm not really one for playing games etc on it but for work related things its really handy and great for email if you own a blackberry to sync with it.
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I got a PlayBook for free through the Android developer 'port' promotion, and I really like the device. It feels great to hold, is a nice size, and has a good screen! I'd buy one for that price. The only thing that lets it down is the apps, there aren't anywhere near as many as on iOS and Android (though there are some), but as a web browser alone it's worth it in my opinion.
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Same here. Well worth it for fifty though, if you get it and you like gaming you get black pegasus and also asphalt 6 for free, both great fun (in asphalt the tablet becomes your steering wheel).
You can put android apps on if they are repackaged, I forget the sites exact name (think it was mybarapps.com) but there is a site where thousands of popular android apps have been packaged to run on playbook.
Also playbook will be getting the new os bb10 which should make it even better but spec wise its got a dual core cpu and the same ram as the new ipad so its quick and very responsive.
Downside is not lots of apps (good games though inc. Deadspace) but can sideload any android app if you have the apk to repackage which helps, and its been poorly advertised so its not selling well.
But if you don't like it the guys at crackberry should have android ported to it soon so you could install that on it when its available (though to be fair playbook os2 is really good already anyway).
Edit: the site is www.playbookbars.com
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Thanks for the replies. I think I will pick it up
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My work gave me one to use and it honestly sits on my computer desk at home and is never charged or used. My wife tried to use it one time to read kindle books but it doesn't have a kindle app and it failed to open the books in the kindle cloud reader.
I honestly can't say much that's good about this device other than the size and the multitasking. But the apps in the market are limited and the device itself doesn't do much.
I spend most my time on my Xoom instead. I guess for 50 bucks it would be worth it. I paid nothing for mine and would have rather gotten 50 bucks from work lol.
For 50 bucks...
For 50$ I would buy any tablet, especially when I love the concept of a tablet but haven't bought one yet
Same here... for 50 bucks I'd definitely take it! Decide what to do with it later.
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Hello XDA, I want to buy a tablet, but I don't know which one... What do you recommend me? I want to spend at about 550 euro on it and I have no prefferences ( Samsung, Apple, even Asus or anything )... I want it for Internet, games, applications and all its functions, but especially these three in that order...
Thank you very much!
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Hello XDA, I want to buy a tablet, but I don't know which one... What do you recommend me? I want to spend at about 550 euro on it and I have no prefferences ( Samsung, Apple, even Asus or anything )... I want it for Internet, games, applications and all its functions, but especially these three in that order...
Thank you very much!
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honestly if you just want a solid tablet, fast processor, good games, good apps go with apple
I own an ipad 3, a kindle fire, and a samsung galaxy 7+
ipad beats them all for general use. if you are a heavy modder/tweaker, you're obviously gonna find an android tablet to suit you better. but otherwise, apple wins in my book
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honestly if you just want a solid tablet, fast processor, good games, good apps go with apple
I own an ipad 3, a kindle fire, and a samsung galaxy 7+
ipad beats them all for general use. if you are a heavy modder/tweaker, you're obviously gonna find an android tablet to suit you better. but otherwise, apple wins in my book
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No, I don't want it for mods/tweaks, now I try something with my S2. I want it only for general daily use.
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I have owned a Motorola Xoom, an Asus Prime tablet, an Amazon Kindle Fire and a Google nexus 7.
From my personal experience with tablets I really do think that both Amazon and Google have found the sweet spot for tablet size.
I much prefer using the smaller tablets due to them being easier to hold, lighter and a lot easier to take with you.
I always rather pick up my Nexus on the way out the door than grabbing either of my larger tablets and to be honest at night too for reading purposes or just watching something. It does the jobs very well.
What is other peoples views on this, which do you all prefer?
Is bigger, better?
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