Posted on 08/03/2011 10:00:36 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Android Honeycomb based tablets are beginning to feel like they're a dime a dozen. 10.1-inch slates are coming out of the woodwork from a bunch of major players, and for all intents and purposes, they're built upon very similar base platforms with NVIDIA's Tegra 2 processor powering them. Capacitive touch displays, integrated 802.11 WiFi, 8 - 32GB of ROM storage, 1GB of RAM, accelerometers, gyroscopes, front and rear facing cameras and Android 3.1 -- you know the drill.
Fortunately, beyond the cookie-cutter reference platform, some manufacturers are building tablets that stand out from the crowd. Asus stepped out early with an innovative approach to expanding the tablet experience and Samsung decided to take on the iPad 2's thin and sleek design approach but augmented that with what is arguably (or perhaps not depending on your tastes) the best looking tablet display currently on the market.
Toshiba historically has been known for building notebooks that perhaps aren't as thin and sleek as other machines but rather have a build quality and feature set that is best-of-class. On the tablet front, Toshiba's first effort with an Android-based 10-inch slate looks to be cut from the same cloth. The not-so svelte Toshiba Thrive showed up here recently for testing and a run-through with our usual fine-toothed comb of analysis. How does it measure up in the buzzing hive of Honeycomb goodness already in the market? You're about to find out.
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7? How many devices can someone use at the same time, that essentially do the same thing?
The carriers must be loving this. Multiple contracts just for each family.
Well, it does keep the foreign assemblers employed.
Keeps a lot of people employed, foreign and domestic, including probably you, and certainly me.
But that in turn, really boosted our ASW efforts and defense contracts. Too bad there isn’t more of an underwater threat.
No, I’m out of the wireless business, but you’re right, it did for a while. Too bad there isn’t something else that can employ so many people, especially domestically.
I am new to the entire blackberry, ipad, tablet realm. What is the difference? Can you connect to the internet from anywhere using a tablet, or do you need a wifi network to connect? I suppose I should go ask some 8 year old kid how to use one? lol
“Pushing the “Web OS” bit seems a losing battle in the long run. Once the tablet has as much power as a laptop, what is the point of a dummied down operating system?”
My thinking as well.
I know Windows. Why do I want to F around with multiple OS’s, even the utter “hipness” of Apple’s?
iTunes for example, sucks compares to the much more open and configurable Windows-based, Media Monkey.
How far away can we be after all from a tablet containing hardware capable of running Win 7?
“Pushing the “Web OS” bit seems a losing battle in the long run. Once the tablet has as much power as a laptop, what is the point of a dummied down operating system?”
My thinking as well.
I know Windows. Why do I want to F around with multiple OS’s, even the utter “hipness” of Apple’s?
iTunes for example, sucks compares to the much more open and configurable Windows-based, Media Monkey.
How far away can we be after all from a tablet containing hardware capable of running Win 7?
I’m not in the wireless business, I work in enterprise communications. But among our customers are most major retailers, who of course keep the doors open by selling people #$%^ they don’t need. In this world your either selling #$%^ people don’t need or selling to people that sell #$%^ people don’t need. One way or the other that’s what keeps the lights on. It’s the sign of a successful culture, if your society doesn’t have a lot of “extra” crap around then it’s at subsistence level, I’ve lived at subsistence level, it sucks.
On the whole, they tend to be lighter, have better screen resolution, and have longer battery life than laptops.
If you don't need a keyboard all of the time, but instead you're mostly just consuming content (web, music, video, games, books, etc.), then a tablet is likely the better choice. If you're more into producing content (writing documents, etc.), you'll probably prefer some form of notebook or netbook, depending on your power/speed requirements.
All of these devices can connect to the net via WiFi. They all have configurations that allow you to connect over cellular service (EDGE, 3G, 4G) if you have a data plan with an appropriate wireless provider.
For example, if you got the iPad with AT&T 3G service, you can get a month-to-moth (no contract) data plan for 250 MB ($14.99) or 2 GB ($25.00) usage. So for amonth you're going to travel, you might turn the service on, but then stop service when you get home and just stick with WiFi. Other devices and providers have similar, though not identical, plans.
The value HP has in webOS is not so much as an operating system, but as an optimized touchscreen interface in a tech world that is increasingly moving away from the keyboard and mouse....
Abd why have all the gadgets in your car?
Abd why have.....should be...And why have
I still refuse to buy ANYTHING made by that shit company! Read this link from way, WAY back:
http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/543539/posts
We all need to talk to the younguns...
My granddaughter is all excited about her new blackberry...with keyboard...which I cam hardly see,,,
She is constantly sending a text message to someone...and getting responses back!
They live in a different world!
And he is dropping his winnings in all kinds of liberal schemes around the world...
But many conservatives on this website keep sending him their money!
Why spend money with the liberal Bill Gates...he is still doing damage to conservative causes around the world also!
And Steve Jobs is Ronald Reagan?
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