tablet market's heating up: Samsung Tab 10.1 v2

[tonygeor]

I want to see the 8.9" version

 

[zerocool84]

Engadget had a huge iPad 2 banner on top of its site for months after iPad 2 launch.
Anyways, Android 3 is in many ways ahead of Apple iOS. It's designed from ground up for tablets, has widgets, Flash, etc. It's not as refined, and HC specific apps may be lacking initially, though most Android apps scale well to display. Many people don't really use the apps, but mainly web browser, gmail, calendar, and other stuff that Google does great.

Well most reviewers say they prefer Honeycomb to iOS because of the way it handles multitasking and notifications, it makes it easier to be productive but they have all also said it was buggy and it could have been the hardware on the Xoom since they don't seem to have these problems on the Transformer or new Galaxy Tab 10.1.

 

[logic_88]

Rockplayer is redundant on a Samsung Android device -- the native video app plays every format/codec out of the box.

Can a Samsung Tegra2 device play HD MKVs without stuttering or dropping frames?

I've seen many complaints about HD MKV problems with the Xoom and Transformer.

 

[DivideBYZero]

*sigh* like it or not, there IS a market for most devices. While it might not fit what you are looking for, chances are, it fits what someone wants. So while you might look at something, scoff, and say it deserves a 2/10...there's probably plenty of people out there that will still buy it, and maybe even like it.

The tech crowd is very cliquey and wants to jump on a bandwagon, shrieking "THIS PRODUCT IS GREAT AND EVERYTHING ELSE SUCKS SO HARD LOLZ @ U FOR NOT AGREEING". Like it or not - that's not the case.

+1, great post. Many here should reflect on the bolded part.

 

[Pliablemoose]

I take all reviews with a grain of salt, they all seem to be biased in one way or another.

If you notice, anything Apple related on Engadget gets a gazillion comments negative & positive. I do think it was more biased towards Apple products with the old editorial staff, the new staff should be a little better, but they still see massive pageviews whit Apple products so there's that too.

As far as the PlayBook, it's really a bit of a moving target, with as many updates as they're doing to the software/firmware, a review of it one day may be useless the next day. I am impressed with the amount of time and effort BB is putting into their tablet.

As far as the HC based tablets, I'm swearing off Android OS'd product purchases till they release the source code, unfortunately, I think the platform will be more and more locked down as the popularity of Android continues to grow. I may be wrong, but I suspect I'm correct... My thunderbolt was a bitch to root.

 

[Mopetar]

*sigh* like it or not, there IS a market for most devices. While it might not fit what you are looking for, chances are, it fits what someone wants. So while you might look at something, scoff, and say it deserves a 2/10...there's probably plenty of people out there that will still buy it, and maybe even like it.

The tech crowd is very cliquey and wants to jump on a bandwagon, shrieking "THIS PRODUCT IS GREAT AND EVERYTHING ELSE SUCKS SO HARD LOLZ @ U FOR NOT AGREEING". Like it or not - that's not the case.

I'm not disagreeing with you, but there's a clear difference between the frothy-mouthed fanboy mentality and a purely open and honest point of view. Like it or not, some products come out half-baked, unpolished, or simply short of the mark. Not providing accurate assessment is shoddy work or, even worse, disingenuous.

 

[makken]

Yes the tablets can run normal Android apps perfectly fine. There are probably issues with some (improper scaling) but all apps should work fine. There is just a lack of "Tablet specific" apps at the moment.

I was just thinking, most android tablets have a 1280x800 display
Most android phones have a 480x800 display.
So the vertical resolution is correct, it just means that theres additional horizontal space

I wonder if its possible to design it in such a way that you can run 2 phone apps on a tablet side by side, or split the screen such that one screen will show the current app, while the second screen shows the previous state. (so for example, if the tablet splits the screen into a left and right 800x480 sections, and if you have a phone app that starts up with a menu on the right side, when you select something from the menu, the menu screen will jump to the left section, while your selection opens up in the right section)

 

[Mopetar]

I was just thinking, most android tablets have a 1280x800 display
Most android phones have a 480x800 display.
So the vertical resolution is correct, it just means that theres additional horizontal space

I wonder if its possible to design it in such a way that you can run 2 phone apps on a tablet side by side, or split the screen such that one screen will show the current app, while the second screen shows the previous state. (so for example, if the tablet splits the screen into a left and right 800x480 sections, and if you have a phone app that starts up with a menu on the right side, when you select something from the menu, the menu screen will jump to the left section, while your selection opens up in the right section)

There's no reason it isn't possible, it's just that there're a lot of design considerations to take into account. For example, what's the behavior for the onscreen keyboard; does each individual app get its own keyboard, or is there a larger keyboard that can be shared?