ganeshran Posted March 3, 2011 Posted March 3, 2011 Finey' date=' you should go with maxi-pad. :nice:[/quote'] Sexist comment - not cool
ganeshran Posted March 3, 2011 Posted March 3, 2011 Xoom is the best tablet in the market now. though its very expensive :((
Holysmoke Posted March 3, 2011 Posted March 3, 2011 Xoom is the best tablet in the market now. though its very expensive :(( and how many applications does it have ? :cantstop: HelloMoto:hysterical:
Jersey #10 Posted March 3, 2011 Posted March 3, 2011 iPad - Flash = :fail: Galaxy looks promising but the best is the MOTO XOOM!
ganeshran Posted March 3, 2011 Posted March 3, 2011 and how many applications does it have ? :cantstop: HelloMoto:hysterical: All Android apps dude...very close to the iStore.
Holysmoke Posted March 3, 2011 Posted March 3, 2011 All Android apps dude...very close to the iStore. All android apps != all honeycomb apps :cantstop:
Holysmoke Posted March 3, 2011 Posted March 3, 2011 iPad - Flash = :fail: Galaxy looks promising but the best is the MOTO XOOM! Have u used a galaxy tab? Its half the size of the ipad. (see pic)Seriously. And the touchscreen is nowhere as good as apple's stuff. Neither is the software. It doesnt even use honeycomb. (which is the android version for tablets). The galaxy tab feels like a bigger smartphone.. rather than a tablet. It has gingerbread.. the same OS that google "does not recommend for tablets":hysterical: And the samsung galaxy 10.1 looks good.. so does the xoom.. but only specs wise. See, you guys dont understand that this isnt like pc's where specs better = pc better. Everyone has different software, and its the software that makes it. Its the same scenario in computers as well.. where a mac with 2gb ram is much more usable than a pc with 3gb ram.
ganeshran Posted March 3, 2011 Posted March 3, 2011 All android apps != all honeycomb apps :cantstop: Most Android apps should run on honeycomb. After all its not like they dreadfully alter the API with every version. Because of the bigger screen, the UI might look a bit stretched out, if the developer hasnt taken the proper steps.
ganeshran Posted March 3, 2011 Posted March 3, 2011 dude' date=' it doesnt even have angry birds as yet :(([/quote'] Thats because Angry birds uses a lot of resources - pictures, animations etc. All these are resolution dependent and wouldnt look well on a larger screen. They would be working on optimizing the app (both resource and API use) for Honeycomb which has superior capabilities to previous Android versions
Holysmoke Posted March 3, 2011 Posted March 3, 2011 I'm still to be convinced by android, specially for tablets. And then I see stuff like this http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2011/mar/02/android-market-apps-malware More than 50 applications on Google's Android Market have been discovered to be infected with malware called "DroidDream" which can compromise personal data by taking over the user's device, and have been "suspended" from the store. Google removed the apps from the Market immediately on being alerted, but it is not clear whether it has removed them from devices to which they have been downloaded. As many as 200,000 Android devices could have been infected. The revelation comes from Android Police, a news site on Google's operating system, which calls it "the mother of all Android malware", noting that its examination had found that it "steals nearly everything it can: product ID, model, partner (provider?), language, country, and userID. But that's all child's play; the true pièce de résistance is that it has the ability to download more code. In other words, there's no way to know what the app does after it's installed, and the possibilities are nearly endless." Update: details of how the root code works are here. Note that this is a "privilege escalation" attack - once the app starts it uses the fact that it has user privileges to jump out of its sandbox and root the phone. It's a rather brutal reminder of the fact that Android's openness is both a strength and, at times like this, a weakness..
Holysmoke Posted March 4, 2011 Posted March 4, 2011 iPad - Flash = :fail: Galaxy looks promising but the best is the MOTO XOOM! Yeah.. and does the moto xoom play flash ?:giggle: They say "eventually" or "soon" :hehe:
Holysmoke Posted March 4, 2011 Posted March 4, 2011 Samsung sees iPad 2 thinness, price as challenge SEOUL - South Korean giant Samsung Electronics on Friday admitted it faced a tough challenge to compete with Apple's new slimmer and cheaper iPad, saying 'inadequate' parts had to be improved. The iPad 2 unveiled this week was described by Apple chief executive officer Steve Jobs as 'dramatically thinner' than the previous model. The tablet is one-third the thickness of its predecessor at 8.8 millimetres (about one-third of an inch) and also thinner than Samsung's latest 10.9-millimetre Galaxy gadget announced last month. 'We will have to improve the parts that are inadequate,' Lee Don Joo, executive vice president of the Korean firm's mobile division, told Yonhap news agency. 'Apple made it very thin.' Apple is also winning on price so far. Samsung's original seven-inch screen Galaxy Tab was priced at nearly US$900 if bought without a two-year contract from mobile operators, while the cheapest iPad 2 costs US$499. Samsung has not announced pricing for its new 10.1-inch tablet. 'The 10-inch (tablet) was to be priced higher than the seven-inch but we will have to think that over,' Mr Lee told Yonhap. :hehe:
Holysmoke Posted March 4, 2011 Posted March 4, 2011 Here is Engadget editor Joshua Topolsky trying to explain what el jobso is trying to say http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/03/editorial-its-apples-post-pc-world-were-all-just-living/On Wednesday, Apple introduced the world to the iPad 2. A beautiful device, to be sure. Feature packed? You bet. Soon to be selling like hotcakes? Absolutely. But the introduction of an iteration on an already existing product wasn't the most notable piece of the event, nor was the surprise appearance of Steve Jobs. No, Wednesday's event was significant because it introduced the world to Apple's real vision for the foreseeable future, a theme the company has hinted at but never fully expressed. This week, Apple showed everyone where it was headed, challenged competitors on that direction, and made it clear that the company not only has staked a claim in that space, but is defining it. This week, Apple stepped into the "post-PC" era of computing -- and there's no looking back, at least not for the folks in Cupertino. By joining the company's ongoing vision of a "different" kind of computing with a soundbite friendly piece of marketing-speak, Apple has changed the rules of the game, and made the competition's efforts not just an uphill battle, but -- at least in the eyes of Steve Jobs and co. -- essentially moot. But what exactly is the "post-PC" world? And why is it significant? Let me explain. In this new world, Apple no longer has to compete on specs and features, nor does it want to. There is no Mac vs. PC here -- only "the future" versus "the past." It won't be a debate about displays, memory, wireless options -- it will be a debate about the quality of the experience. Apple is not just eschewing the spec conversation in favor of a different conversation -- it's rendering those former conversations useless. It would be like trying to compare a race car to a deeply satisfying book. In a post-PC world, the experience of the product is central and significant above all else. It's not the RAM or CPU speed, screen resolution or number of ports which dictate whether a product is valuable; it becomes purely about the experience of using the device. What that means is that while Motorola and Verizon will spend millions of dollars advertising the Xoom's 4G upgrade options, CPU speed, and high-resolution cameras, Apple need only delight consumers and tell them that specs and and speed are the domain of a dinosaur called the PC. Apple isn't claiming victory in the Space Race -- it's ceding space to the competition. But guess who gets Earth all to itself? Apple's not saying that it beats other tablets on the market. It's saying "we do one thing, and these guys do something else altogether." They're not competition -- they're not even playing the same game! That's not to say Apple has given up on PCs, and in fact, the company's laptop sales are consistently exceeding expectations. But take a look at what's creeping around the corner. There's Lion, with its iOS-like interface, its simplified experience. If Apple has its way, and if the sales of its mobile devices carry on in the manner they have up until now, a post-PC outlook will even fit devices that look alarmingly like... PCs. But right now -- in the tablet space at least -- the problem for Motorola, Samsung, HP, RIM, and anyone else who is challenging Apple becomes infinitely more difficult. Almost any company could put together a more powerful or spec-heavy tablet, but all the horsepower in the world can't help you if you don't find a way to delight the average consumer. Those other tablet makers may have superior hardware (and in the case of the Xoom, some superior software as well), but without that key component of sheer delight, the road for them is long and hard. HP is getting close by touting features like Touch-to-Share, but against experiences like the new GarageBand for iOS and the 65,000 apps (and counting) that currently exist, it's hard to see a clear path to sizable competition. That goes for Google and RIM as well. What Apple has done by introducing its "post-PC" language into the vernacular is almost more a game of semantics. Now when Motorola boasts the brain-crushing, bone-splitting power of the Xoom, the company could easily come off like the guy who buys the red Ferrari because he has something to prove. Apple isn't just challenging perceptions of the PC -- they're saying that the age of the PC is over (at least for most people). The company is forcing consumers to ask if they even still want or need something called a PC (while of course making sure to point out that the competition is playing the same old game). And really, that's all part of the plan. Apple is in the process of making the iPad the de-facto standard for what the next stage of computing looks like, from the look and feel to the kind of software and experiences you have on the device. Apple doesn't just want to own the market -- it wants to own the idea of the market. We've seen this act before, and we know how it ends. There was a time before the iPod too, when companies like HP, Samsung, and even Microsoft fought against Apple for the hearts and minds of the consumer -- but I'll be damned if anyone can remember it.
ganeshran Posted March 4, 2011 Posted March 4, 2011 Yeah.. and does the moto xoom play flash ?:giggle: They say "eventually" or "soon" :hehe: Lets see Flash support for Apple = Never in a gabizillion years Flash support for Xoom = April Flash support for Galaxy = Already supported. Sorry bro, Flash is not one place where you can criticise Android or Motorola.
straight.drive Posted March 5, 2011 Posted March 5, 2011 For ebook reading' date=' do ya'll prefer a dedicated ebook reader such as Kindle or the iPad/Tablet? Heard good things abt the eInk used in the kindle - its easier on the eyes.[/quote'] If your req. is just e-books, do not waste bucks on a tablet. Tablet is more of a marketing gimmick. In e-book reader(s) Kindle 3 is the best.If you plan to read lot of PDF's, go for Kindle DX. I own a Kindle 6". Never been happier.
bulbul Posted March 5, 2011 Posted March 5, 2011 For simple book reading Kindle is enough....if you want color can got nook color. But tabl.ets are entertainment devices mainly..even thoough they are expensive at the moment they have their own advantages. Spec wise Xoom and Tab looks better bu Ipad is good for simplicity . Finally everytthing will be left to individual preferrence..
zen Posted March 5, 2011 Posted March 5, 2011 Don't know abt the other tablets but iPad2 w/ camera, faster processor, and ofc coolness factor sounds promising .... I might finally give into the temptation
Late Cut Posted March 5, 2011 Posted March 5, 2011 For ebook reading' date=' do ya'll prefer a dedicated ebook reader such as Kindle or the iPad/Tablet? Heard good things abt the eInk used in the kindle - its easier on the eyes.[/quote'] I prefer the Ipad to the nook thst my wife has for reading. The touch screen interface is a lot more intuitive than the functionality of the ereaders. I love the ipad; it was definitely a good investment and has a big upside.
ganeshran Posted March 5, 2011 Posted March 5, 2011 ^^ The iPad has a backlit screen. Though its brighter, it is very hard to read in Sunlight and hurts the eyes in case of prolonged reading. The Kindle display is dull but wonderful for reading. It doesn't hurt my eyes too.
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