Should I wait for the Galaxy Tab 10.1 which comes out June 8th. Or should I get the acer a500?
I'm not a Samsung fan but their new tab looks promising. I love the A500 but the Samsung will likely be an easier nut to crack if you want custom roms and kernels.
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outdooz said:
Should I wait for the Galaxy Tab 10.1 which comes out June 8th. Or should I get the acer a500?
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Depends what you needs are. The Acer is a nice tablet, but if you can do with out the full USB host and don't mind paying a little more, the tab 10.1 looks like the better choice.
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I wont be installing anything custom on it. I think overall samsung is better than acer. Is that correct?
outdooz said:
I wont be installing anything custom on it. I think overall samsung is better than acer. Is that correct?
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Not really. Running stock they're pretty much the same. Samsung is a now an update partner with Google so updates may come quickly.
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Not really. Running stock they're pretty much the same. Samsung is a now an update partner with Google so updates may come quickly.
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I wouldn't read to much in to that, everyone knows Samsung has been the worst with pushing updates, not to say that can't change.
But yes HC is all the same, so the overall feel will be the same, but the Samsung is much lighter and features IPS I think.
With that said, I returned my Acer only because of the lack of customization for the time being. If this changes I'd buy it again. Until than I'm hoping a rooted nook color will suit my needs.
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According to acers website an update is suppose to be coming in june
bog3nator said:
According to acers website an update is suppose to be coming in june
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There you have it.
Link?
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bog3nator said:
According to acers website an update is suppose to be coming in june
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Yeah doesn't it say that for the specs in regards to playing 1080p video?
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Just read the Samsung doesn't have USB out, HDMI out, SD, nor microsd.......fail
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michaelg1030 said:
Just read the Samsung doesn't have USB out, HDMI out, SD, nor microsd.......fail
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Ugh. Fail indeed. The hdmi and USB were big selling points for me.
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I'm in the same boat as you. On one hand, I really do love the Samsung's form factor. At the same time, it doesn't have HDMI out, USB, or microSD. However, Samsung is supposed to be a part of that new policy Google announced today which would guarantee updates for 18 months, plus it will be easier for the devs here to crack. I don't know how good Acer will be with updates.
Ugh, I don't know what to do either. I was GOING to buy the Acer today, but saw the Samsung and decided to wait....AHHHHHH
I would wait for the 3.1 update with better USB support. When it lands I think a lot of people are going to regret not buying a device with usb functionality like the a500.
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I'm in the same boat as you. On one hand, I really do love the Samsung's form factor. At the same time, it doesn't have HDMI out, USB, or microSD. However, Samsung is supposed to be a part of that new policy Google announced today which would guarantee updates for 18 months, plus it will be easier for the devs here to crack. I don't know how good Acer will be with updates.
Ugh, I don't know what to do either. I was GOING to buy the Acer today, but saw the Samsung and decided to wait....AHHHHHH
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You're gonna want that HDMI... its mirroring on your TV. Lots of ways to use that besides watching movies...
I have debated all this myself. Always new devices on the horizon. I really like the Acer and am keeping it. I just got the case from staples and love it. USB is huge for me.
Is DLNA the same or at least as good as HDMI out?
sigh.
the 10.1v is confirmed to not have a microsd slot, however the 10.1 more than likely will.
it has a micro sd card. You are looking at the 10.1v
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Should I wait for the Galaxy Tab 10.1 which comes out June 8th. Or should I get the acer a500?
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There's no harm in waiting. If you can wait, wait. When the Samsung comes you'll be able to make a choice based on what's actually there vs. rumor and speculation.
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There's no harm in waiting. If you can wait, wait. When the Samsung comes you'll be able to make a choice based on what's actually there vs. rumor and speculation.
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Well its not really rumor. It has a set release date and specifications.
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So im most likely going to get a tablet in june and i was wondering what i should get.
There's always the iPad and then the new galaxy tab is coming out so idk suggest.
I would have suggested the Galaxy Tab 10.1 before I found out it was Tegra 2 based. I personally wouldn't buy any Tegra 2 based tablet due to the ridiculous video playback limitation.
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So im most likely going to get a tablet in june and i was wondering what i should get.
There's always the iPad and then the new galaxy tab is coming out so idk suggest.
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Motorola Xoom or iPad 2
Edit: Or Flyer
Did the news get around about a guy named butcher pete?
Wait until August!!!
http://www.androidcentral.com/nvidia-shows-project-kal-el-quad-core-tegra
Quad-core Tablets for android!!
I just got a ipad2 and im loving it now I just waiting on a jailbreak
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love my xoom
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Blackberry playbook ;-)
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Samsung Epic 4g.
I personally like my Galaxy Tab 7in its not too big and it's not too small..... wish there was more community support for it but.... it's all good still a decent toy all around
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I personally like my Galaxy Tab 7in its not too big and it's not too small..... wish there was more community support for it but.... it's all good still a decent toy all around
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I'm still interested in getting the 7in. I think 10in is to much to carry around. 7in is great for ebook reading. I just wish it was led display. I'm a firm believer there is a market for 7in tablets.
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muyoso said:
I would have suggested the Galaxy Tab 10.1 before I found out it was Tegra 2 based. I personally wouldn't buy any Tegra 2 based tablet due to the ridiculous video playback limitation.
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Explain?
I'm looking to get a tablet soon too, and the 10.1 coming out soon was what I was thinking of. The xoom is nice, but screen isn't large enough. The other downside to the 10.1 that I know of is that it's only going to have the proprietary port from Samsung and not USB or anything else, yes?
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Explain?
I'm looking to get a tablet soon too, and the 10.1 coming out soon was what I was thinking of. The xoom is nice, but screen isn't large enough. The other downside to the 10.1 that I know of is that it's only going to have the proprietary port from Samsung and not USB or anything else, yes?
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Wait until Tegra 3 coming out in August!
Quad-core tablets!!!!!! (look on first page of the thread for link. too lazy to repost)
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Explain?
I'm looking to get a tablet soon too, and the 10.1 coming out soon was what I was thinking of. The xoom is nice, but screen isn't large enough. The other downside to the 10.1 that I know of is that it's only going to have the proprietary port from Samsung and not USB or anything else, yes?
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Tegra 2 is incapable of playing high profile mkv files smoothly. Basically it would mean having to transcode all of my media. I refuse to do that, since even the ORIGINAL iPad can play high profile mkv files flawlessly (with XBMC), as can our Epic 4g's.
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Tegra 2 is incapable of playing high profile mkv files smoothly. Basically it would mean having to transcode all of my media. I refuse to do that, since even the ORIGINAL iPad can play high profile mkv files flawlessly (with XBMC), as can our Epic 4g's.
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Ahh, gotchya. Thanks for the info. I wasn't planning on using it for movies but that's good to know. Is the Tegra 3 a solution to this or just a next gen quad core with the same flaw?
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Ahh, gotchya. Thanks for the info. I wasn't planning on using it for movies but that's good to know. Is the Tegra 3 a solution to this or just a next gen quad core with the same flaw?
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Tegra 3 is just a next gen quad core, but it almost certainly will fix the flaw. Even if they didn't, technically the quad core would be powerful enough to just use the cpu to software decode the video most likely.
I say the nook color rooted thats just me!! Half the price of the galaxy tab and the same hardware....
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I say the nook color rooted thats just me!! Half the price of the galaxy tab and the same hardware....
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Not so much:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4302/battle-of-the-budget-tablets-nook-color-vs-galaxy-tab
Ok without the camera and has an underclocked cpu oh and the screen lol
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I think the biggest bang for the $$ at this moment is Acer iconia (a) sales in Staple for $450 dual core, hdmi, wifi only etc...
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Ok without the camera and has an underclocked cpu oh and the screen lol
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To be honest though, id probably go for the Nook color too if I needed a tablet right now. Would love to find one used for like a hundred to mess with.
Wow what a price drop, if I had the choice now at this price I think I would have went for the xoom.
http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/motorola-xoom-tablet-pc-32gb-09752543-pdt.html
Also the pb liberty which is the exact same thing as acer own pb for £299 16G
http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/packard-bell-liberty-tablet-pc-16gb-10969066-pdt.html
MJ-12
Still no usb if I'm not mistaken.
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When I was looking at tabs I wanted the xoom the most, i came across an iconia at a good price and couldn't pass it up.
Since then the only thing I've wanted for the iconia is more development support.
After some tweaking it runs much better and looks better.
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ibsk8 said:
When I was looking at tabs I wanted the xoom the most, i came across an iconia at a good price and couldn't pass it up.
Since then the only thing I've wanted for the iconia is more development support.
After some tweaking it runs much better and looks better.
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Try one of the custom Roms on and you will not be sorry about it.
I'm currently using FGuy's Falcon galaxy, and its awesome. It's based on Acer's stock rom with Galaxy Tab's UX interface. It's fun to have a Iconia with so much of indeginous developers on this and many other forums.
Like the title says, many devices are starting to get ICS, while this Google I/O Tab 10.1 is still stuck at 3.1. Will we ever get 3.2 or even ICS.
Cant believe they just abandoned this thing.
Might move to the transformer and never come back.
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Officially...yes
But you can flash any custom rom that is meant for the wifi only version if the tab and it will work fine...even the touchwiz ones
Officially? Did they say something?
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yes they did, use google you'll get an official statement...
in Canada, the 3.2 update was received not much ago, while the others had it a while ago. we'll most likely get the update after ICS...
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Officially? Did they say something?
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Oops...sorry for the misunderstanding...I meant no...not officially..but you can flash a custom tom...they're pretty nice.
I've decided I'm going to sell this thing. Better get the Transformer Prime.
Am I missing something? As far as I know there has already been an official statement from samsung that ICS will come in the next months.
I bought this tablet just a month ago and my laptop hasn't been used since.
It is rooted but still on stock 3.2 honeycomb wich is working great.
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blue13x said:
I've decided I'm going to sell this thing. Better get the Transformer Prime.
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Sure, but if you're only going to use official ROMs, no need to be on XDA. XDA is for folks who use custom ROMs; we honestly don't care what the official firmwares do (except when we need the proprietary drivers for the camera.... ahem...).
You were at Google IO and are complaining about waiting for official updates? People there were rooting the tabs during sessions and the roms came quickly after that. It was free and little was said from them about supporting it during or after the event.
I would abandon mine for a quad core Sammy with the Wacom digitizer in the Note but until then I'll just keep flashing.
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http://www.samsung.com/th/article/firmware-update-announcement/
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http://www.samsung.com/th/article/firmware-update-announcement/
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Well now, that is interesting! Watch that only be for the 6800.
well how about that. good news. i'll believe it when i see it but i believe it a lot more than i did before i saw this
....... read this
AUs
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....... read this
AUs
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Very nice. Im about to drop the hammer on a P6810 now that I saw this. After my journey with the Nexus7, I miss the quality of the Tab 2 7.0 I bought for my wife. The 6810 will be a welcome addition. Besides the fact that im not a hardcore gamer anyway.
Came from a nexus 7 because I needed mobile data and I can honestly say I'm happy I did. Now knowing we'll get JB hell yes!
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Sill no actual date, that Page doesn't do us any good without a date
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I wouldn't get too excited by one note on one Samsung country site, it could quite easily be a typing error of some kind.
If it's confirmed from 2 more official sources (and that doesn't include 'my friend whos second cousin works in the warehouse') then I'll start to believe it.
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I wouldn't get too excited by one note on one Samsung country site, it could quite easily be a typing error of some kind.
If it's confirmed from 2 more official sources (and that doesn't include 'my friend whos second cousin works in the warehouse') then I'll start to believe it.
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I 100% agree with you. I guess I should just start saving up for the 7.7 note
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Well, its on a Samsung corporate webpage so that is obviously a plus. Besides that, how can they only push a JB update to the lesser-specced device like the Tab 2 7.0 and not the 7.7?? Really??? The 7.7 is obviously selling, probably not as much in the US as it is across the pond, but its selling nonetheless and is still a viable device!
I don't believe it, google translate has this as the translated text
"Confirm the update" meaning there is no time for it, I'll see it when I believe it
It has nothing to do with specs, the S2 and Note I which are basically the same devices are supposed to receive the update, so the 7.7 could easily run JB from samsung.
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I don't believe it, google translate has this as the translated text
"Confirm the update" meaning there is no time for it, I'll see it when I believe it
It has nothing to do with specs, the S2 and Note I which are basically the same devices are supposed to receive the update, so the 7.7 could easily run JB from samsung.
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many products has confirm the update in front of it, and it did updated now.
and look at this article, there's still buzz going aroung 7.7, so samsaung won't forget it that easy, especially they will use a lot of common sw components from other similar devices, it will be configure and build and retest for them.
http://www.sammobile.com/2013/01/16/dutch-court-says-no-injunction-on-galaxy-tabs/
WTF! A month after this one comes out they are releasing a bigger screen?
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redstar299 said:
WTF! A month after this one comes out they are releasing a bigger screen?
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And so ? Samsung 10.1 tablet can not release normally , there is still no LTE 32GB version in black, original covers for 10.1 tablet...
Theres been rumors of this for a while, looks like internals will be identical, only difference is screen size and it'll probably be more expensive. I'd probably prefer a larger tablet to fit the size of a sheet of paper but i'm not sure if I'd pay extra for it since it'll be close to the size of a laptop screen.
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yeah, it's been known for a good bit and even mentioned in one of these threads here. seeing as the 10.1 is $600 i'm sure as hell not gonna spend that much more on an android device that i break a warranty if i want root access. i'll just get a wintab and put what ever os i want. if next year's samsung tablet jumps the $600 price, i'll just have to do with out the spen or just stick with some x64 tablets.
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WTF! A month after this one comes out they are releasing a bigger screen?
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You say that as if a larger screen is always a good thing. Personally, I much prefer a 10 inch. This thing is already hard enough to hold when reading. It's a different device for a different person.
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It's really just the point. I don't mind a year it even 8 months between upgrades but their saying a matter of weeks which is bull****.
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It's really just the point. I don't mind a year it even 8 months between upgrades but their saying a matter of weeks which is bull****.
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its not an upgrade, its a different model
I believe I will stick with the 10.1 as the screen is currently rounded up to 300 ppi. The 12.2 will have a lower ppi if it has the same resolution, and if it has a higher resolution then the extra processing power will have to accommodate that. The 10.1 is already a little sluggish as it is (hoping for more snappy updates).
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It's really just the point. I don't mind a year it even 8 months between upgrades but their saying a matter of weeks which is bull****.
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So the point is: they should release products slower?
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So the point is: they should release products slower?
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Then they'd be like apple
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Samsung's product releases are already shoddy enough. I'm perfectly content with just getting the friggin 2014 note 10.1, but it's not available yet in Canada despite it being out for 3 weeks and counting in the US. All Samsung Canada has to say is 'sorry we don't know lol'. Anyway if they really want to compete well with Apple, they should really have a shorter wait between announcement and release. Also release simultaneously internationally!
I have half a mind to just go get the damn iPad Air at the time it was announced (which I won't anyway). Apple announced it a month later than the new note and it's going to be coming out sooner here! Hell we don't even have a firm release date for the WiFi version here. Even in the US there's no word about the LTE version. Crappy logistics.
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Can someone get me a custom recovery already?
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So am I to understand that this 2014 device that I just purchased is already outdated in 2013?
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red321red321 said:
So am I to understand that this 2014 device that I just purchased is already outdated in 2013?
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It s not outdated..The 12.2 is just for different needs.
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It s not outdated..The 12.2 is just for different needs.
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Indeed, it is just like the 8" version that will be announced the coming months. From early tests it appears the 12.2 inch Note has much faster RAM but otherwise is similar. (faster RAM will improve overall performance somewhat)
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Can someone get me a custom recovery already?
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so you STILL haven't figured how to make one. you were even given a link on how to make your own the last time you started whining about this.
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Can someone get me a custom recovery already?
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Why don't you post this somewhere more appropriate? It has nothing to do with the 12.2. Developers do what they for fun and have real lives. I am sure some one will get a recovery for this.
They could have announced a 12.2 Version coming later in the fall at launch.
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I actually heard about the 12 before I heard about the refreshed 10.1. I debated over waiting for the 12 or getting the 10 and opted for the 10 since I have my 11.6 700t. I can easily dual boot a decent working version of android on it.
Coming soon maybe... I wonder how much it'll cost
http://androidcommunity.com/samsung...pe-spotted-at-fcc-and-bluetooth-sig-20131031/