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Eug said:
Well, I did say elsewhere else (not sure if it was this thread or another one) that I'd pay $299 for a 64 GB model... and would even consider a 32 GB model.

16 GB just doesn't cut it for me. Welcome to 2010.

P.S. Just for reference: Even in 2010 there was no such thing as an 8 GB iPad. They started at 16 GB back then. Yeah, it was at a higher price, but I suspect it was not just a marketing choice, but also for reasons of overall functionality.
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wait, the device has micro-usb doesn't it? Can't we slap on usb storage?
 
I guess I am lucky because I am having a hard time understand what use case you guys have that require you to store all that media off line. If I have wifi access, I just stream it. If I don't, say on a flight, I load a few movies. On a 7" device, I think I can live with 700 MB DivX/XViD files. That's two hours for 700MB. Fly across the US, that's what 6 hours? Three movies = 2.1GB. The only device I currently have where I run into space issues and actually have to get creative / make sacrifices is my iPod Shuffle. It has 2GB.
 
sygyzy said:
I guess I am lucky because I am having a hard time understand what use case you guys have that require you to store all that media off line.
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Some of us feel lonely when we aren't carrying around 6gb of high def porn.
 
sygyzy said:
I guess I am lucky because I am having a hard time understand what use case you guys have that require you to store all that media off line. If I have wifi access, I just stream it. If I don't, say on a flight, I load a few movies. On a 7" device, I think I can live with 700 MB DivX/XViD files. That's two hours for 700MB. Fly across the US, that's what 6 hours? Three movies = 2.1GB. The only device I currently have where I run into space issues and actually have to get creative / make sacrifices is my iPod Shuffle. It has 2GB.
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Or in other words, if you're a heavy power user, maybe a budget tablet isn't going to meet all your needs? It's Android after all, there are various devices to choose from.
 
Anyone else getting so bored at this Project Glass demo? We know what it is. Show us more info about the HUD, price, release date, etc... Just stop showing us stupid first person pictures. This is annoying.
 
If I really wanted to, couldn't I set up a local network on my phone or a laptop and stream stuff to the tablet while on a plane or something?
 
NikolaeVarius said:
If I really wanted to, couldn't I set up a local network on my phone or a laptop and stream stuff to the tablet while on a plane or something?
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Yes. If you have Play On or TVersity or ORB or whatever attached to your PC at home, and you somehow manage to get internet on your Tablet, then you can stream whatever to it.
 
dlock13 said:
Anyone else getting so bored at this Project Glass demo? We know what it is. Show us more info about the HUD, price, release date, etc... Just stop showing us stupid first person pictures. This is annoying.
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yes, zzzzzz


NikolaeVarius said:
If I really wanted to, couldn't I set up a local network on my phone or a laptop and stream stuff to the tablet while on a plane or something?
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i don't think plane wifi is fast enough for that...
 
dlock13 said:
Anyone else getting so bored at this Project Glass demo? We know what it is. Show us more info about the HUD, price, release date, etc... Just stop showing us stupid first person pictures. This is annoying.
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You're not the only one, even The Verge's live stream mentioned it being long.
 
Eug said:
Considering that HD H.264 files are commonly 4-8 GB or more, that means you get to put all of 1-2 movies on the tablet before filling up your 16 GB (since say 6 GB will already be used anyway).

Unless you enjoy re-encoding your movies every time you want to go somewhere. Been there, done that, with my iPad, and it's a royal PITA.
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What would motivate you to store a 4-8gb high quality HD movie on a 7" tablet anyway ??
A 700mb HD movie looks more than fine on a 7" screen.
A 7" tablet is great as a traveling gadget.
If I want to watch high quality HD movies, watch it at home on Blue-ray ???
 
Nice to see the 7" tablet finally came out. If anyone recalls, it was 3 months ago everyone was telling me to just wait as it'd be out any day now. http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2235825&highlight=

I've already grown bored of my Kindle Fire, might try and sell it for $100 or so and get this for the next toy.

Hard to say if 8GB would be an issue, probably not for me but I have to think the offline Google Maps would take up a good bit of data, unless its offline only for pre-plotted routes.
 
As someone who has criticized Android severely for lag and an unpolished UI, ICS got my hopes up, and JB really sealed the deal.

I recognize that we finally reached parity in a lot of fields against iOS, but at this point its just bells and whistles like magazine subscriptions. The OS if it is as described by Google, is pretty damn well made now especially with 60fps smoothness. Everyone who used to say omg if you use a dual core its smooth. Then they moved the benchmark to a quad core. Well clearly Project Butter can make things smoother still.

JB is an upgrade to Gingerbread (EDIT: ICS) right? So I'm hoping a lot of things can be ported over ASAP. I'm on a SGS2, so I have my hopes set low because this device gets fucked over for a lot of things. Here's to hoping the next Nexus phone is awesome.
 
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dlock13 said:
Yes. If you have Play On or TVersity or ORB or whatever attached to your PC at home, and you somehow manage to get internet on your Tablet, then you can stream whatever to it.
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No, what he was asking is storing the media files on his laptop or phone (which has tons of storage space) and streaming from the laptop/phone to the tablet while on a plane, without internet connection.

In this case the laptop/phone is the server, and the tablet is the client, and they're connected in some kind of a personal local network.
 
DLeRium said:
JB is an upgrade to Gingerbread right? So I'm hoping a lot of things can be ported over ASAP. I'm on a SGS2, so I have my hopes set low because this device gets fucked over for a lot of things. Here's to hoping the next Nexus phone is awesome.
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no, JB is an upgrade to ICS. 4.1.

from 4.0 onwards, the tablet and phone codebase is one and the same. 2.3/gingerbread was the last phone only version.
 
Those lucky bastards. Free Galaxy Nexus with Preview Jellybean, a Nexus 7 tablet, and a Nexus Q. Holy shit. All Today. I hope we get a shit ton of Jellybean previews today.
 
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