Not intending this to be a nightmare thread. Im new to both the tablet and android world. Ive been spending a lot of time reading on here, and going through apps on the marketplace.
So im curious to see what most of you use your tablet for? casual internet browsing? emails? how much usage do you give it? Is it a replacement to your laptop/netbook? How have you integrated it other gadgets in your life?
My goal here is to learn of other possibilities, things which im sure im missing.
Since I'm not in school currently, I'm not using it for what I bought it for... which is taking notes/having an easier internet ready device (I have a droid but web browser just isn't the same and my laptop isn't the fastest thing in the world to boot up).
Right now I'm using it mostly for checking news (RSS feeds)/reading comics/browsing the web.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1071653 Maybe you can find inspiration there?
using on the go... really handy when on long journeys for doing work, playing games etc etc
9.00am try to get it off the wife and kids
10.00am try to get it off the wife and kids
11.00am try to get it off the wife and kids
And so the day goes on
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A dose of RSS before I even get out of bed. Then some reading before I go to bed. Used to be my iPhone for this Now I begin and end my days with a tablet.
oh yeah i forgot in bed is prime tablet use time!
Typical day
5 a.m.: Come downstairs for breakfast to find my mom using it.
6 a.m.: Ready to leave, but it's MIA and so are my parents. Throw my 10 lb. laptop into my bag & leave for the day.
7 p.m.: Come home & find one of my parents using it.
8 p.m.: Ask my parents if they need to charge the TF; they say no, it was charged during the day.
9 p.m.: Ask my parents if they're still using it; they are too engrossed with whatever they're doing on the TF to respond.
10 p.m.: Search amazon and other sites to see if they have any in stock for MSRP.
11 p.m.: Plot evil ways to kidnap TF.
11:30 p.m.: Determine its best to just buy another TF, if any store gets them in stock. Turn to EVO to get RSS feeds before going to bed. *sighs*
7:00 AM - Wake up + brush teeth
7:15 AM - Check Email on it
7:30 AM - Check news via Pulse while on the bus
8:00 AM - Play a game or read a book while on the subway
9:15 AM - Show a coworker the TF while trying to get work done
10:30 AM - Show a coworker the TF while trying to get work done
11:30 AM - Show a coworker the TF while trying to get work done
12:00 PM - Check email while lunch
1:40 PM - Show a coworker the TF while trying to get work done
3:00 PM - Show a coworker the TF while trying to get work done
6:00 PM - Play a game or read a book while taking the train
8:30 PM - Sit in front of TV and surf with TF
11:30 PM - Dock the TF, put it on charger and go to sleep
I read news using News several times a day (it's an addiction, really ) and try to find more time to write applications for it (but I made the first steps, Hello World and displaying some graphics works, rest should be easy, the documentation for Android API is quite good).
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So my wife and I decided to look for a summer home in the White Mountains of AZ. Not yet ready to enlist a realtor, my wife drove around the neighborhoods we liked while I used the Zillow App on my Xoom, toggling between the awesome map view on the app which uses GPS and Google maps, and the Google Navigation app, and straight up Google search when needed. The battery lasted all day, we found about 40 houses to drive by, and I Gmailed myself links to the houses we liked.
BTW, this data was all fed to the Xoom via wireless tether app on my Droid Incredible that I bravely rooted last weekend, courtesy XDA!
So while I'm still bummed at reconverting videos for the Xoom and no SD or USB drive support yet, this thing worked very well for this purpose, and kept me super productive. I just don't think I could've done it on an iPad or even a laptop as well without extra hardware.
PS I'm hoping soon to see a post titled-"Guy driving next to me was using a Xoom".
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My birthday was this friday and my dad asked me what i wanted. I did want a dog but i guess it was completley out of the question. So i said i wanted a tab. So wala. Im a full time student in college and im a junior. When i first started to play with the tab, i quickly realized it was kinda like a super sized samsung vibrant for shrek. I do like it though. I dont have data and this is a straight up wifi device. So far ive just been video chatting with it. What else can i really use this for? Also should i root it? Sorry if this has been asked before
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I too am a college student,
I use my tablet almost daily, I did root, mainly to change the WPA file to be able to connect to ADHOC wireless signas, primarily from my phone (HTC Touch Pro2)
Things i do:
1. Watch Videos (movies or youtube)
2. Read PDF's and DOC; i use DROP BOX which allows me to sync 2 gigs of data between my MAC and PC, and allows me to browse that content from my tab, its pretty neat, it doesnt 'sync' the tab, it downloads files as you open them.
3. I installed this cool GPS app called NAVIGON, check around on forum, pretty interesting,
4. Email and web surfing when too lazy to sit at the desk!
If you want more questions, ask, if you want to set up Drop Box, let me know i'll give you my link, that way i'll get some POINTS
Enjoy!
Well, the Galaxy S appears to just have gotten set up for an update to Froyo, so we may not be without an official update at some point.
Just keep checking back to see what people are able to come up with on here. It is very well-built, and just has stock software issues. Battery = pretty great. Data plans on T-Mobile ... awful.
But yeah, we will see.
Enjoy.
lilguy227 said:
My birthday was this friday and my dad asked me what i wanted. I did want a dog but i guess it was completley out of the question. So i said i wanted a tab. So wala. Im a full time student in college and im a junior. When i first started to play with the tab, i quickly realized it was kinda like a super sized samsung vibrant for shrek. I do like it though. I dont have data and this is a straight up wifi device. So far ive just been video chatting with it. What else can i really use this for? Also should i root it? Sorry if this has been asked before
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Check out Gun Bros. It's free in the Marketplace. My Tab is used with Wi-Fi only as well. I use mine for email, reading, posting on XDA. I have a Slingbox at home. When we travel my son uses the Slingbox app on the Tab, which I tether to my Nexus One. It works FLAWLESSLY!
Get a GV account+SIPDroid then you will be able to make & receive call! Quality is sometimes somewhat not on par with regular cell phone tho.
I've been using Pulse and Google Voice the most, sometimes hourly. Pandora, Kindle, Email, and Miren Browser I use daily. Cache Cleaner NG for maintenance. My latest game addiction is Speedx 3D Free.
i use mine for porn, its like a portable jerking device
ur a funny guy..
check out gun bros definately and also get a game called air attack hd.
Best game on android imo.
Sure you will love your tab
How long did it take your guys' music to be uploaded into the cloud. I have a little over 1000 songs and its taking FOREVER. I have a slow internet connection, but this just seems ridiculous.
It takes very long to upload.
From engadget:
engadget.com/2011/05/11/google-music-beta-walkthrough-what-it-is-and-how-it-works-vide/
The bandwidth problem
And this, folks, is the elephant in the room, and it's the same one seen in Amazon's closet. A near-limitless cloud of music sounds stellar -- particularly while it's still priced at $0.00 -- but the toll it'll take on your broadband limits cannot be ignored. 20,000 songs is a ton of information, even if every last one is encoded at a measly 128kbps. Let's say each of your tunes is 3MB -- that's most likely a conservative figure, but we'll use it for the sake of this example. 20,000 of those lands you at around 60GB. For the average broadband user, it'll take days -- if not a full week or so -- to upload that much material, and if you're using a vanilla Time Warner Cable connection, it'll paralyze your web surfing all the while. Granted, you can manually throttle your Music uploads within Music Manager, but doing so will greatly increase the time it takes to get your library in the cloud.
About 5 days
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4-5 days for 30GB
I have over 20,000 songs and quite honestly I didn't pay attention to how fast it was going. I just started it and forgot about it.
Can someone pm me for an invite? I'm really interested in this Google music, but I heard its invite only.
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It's invite only from Google directly if I'm not mistaken. I think I put my name on a list that I was interested a long time ago.
Only took me about 14 hours to upload about 1,200 songs. Started it right before bed, woke up, and went to a class and by the time I got back to my house it was done.
I have 24,000 songs.. just started uploading earlier today using my work computer. Our network is pretty fast, so we'll see. It uploaded about 300 songs within the first 10 mins tho.
Is it a google server thing or the limit of user's broadband? I have Verizon FIOS 30MB upload, haven't used the app yet, but was considering it. Maybe I'll pass.
You dont neet a invite just goto
www.music.Google.com and sign up for a account took about a week for my account settings to get emailed to me
As im from australia i had to.register using a proxy but once registed its working fine with no proxy
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Thanks for the responses. My internet speeds with at&t are pathetic right now so it makes sense for it to be taking so long i guess. Im probably going to leave at&t. Also, I dont want to leave my laptop plugged in overnight while uploading the music because i dont want to mess up my battery.
it took me a couple days to upload my library (2500 songs) to the amazon cloud player... it sucked, but eventually got done... I have an invite to Google music, but I'm not sure if I want to go through the pain of uploading all that again... (I'm running plain old at&t DSL)
I dumped AT&T DSL for cable. Its so much faster.
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As im from australia i had to.register using a proxy but once registed its working fine with no proxy
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I did the same thing to get into the Music Beta, but I can't connect my 10.1v to the same network I used to get into the Beta, so I haven't been able to update the app on my tablet.
Is there any way to get the app updated (APK maybe?) short of getting my tablet onto a North American proxy?
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I'm searching for the APK, have found multiple hits but I mainly see APKs that might be a bit out of date.
I simply attach an HDD to my router and stream stuff over wlan / internet.
Here we have the so called fritz.box , it can do that.
no need for google spyware
RaindancerAU said:
I did the same thing to get into the Music Beta, but I can't connect my 10.1v to the same network I used to get into the Beta, so I haven't been able to update the app on my tablet.
Is there any way to get the app updated (APK maybe?) short of getting my tablet onto a North American proxy?
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I'm searching for the APK, have found multiple hits but I mainly see APKs that might be a bit out of date.
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PM your email address and ill send u it
http://www.4shared.com/file/85Gfqef7/comgoogleandroidmusic-1.html
Took my music hard drive to sister's place with 20mbit FIOS upload ;P 30GB in a few hours
If you have crap upload, consider getting iCloud music for $24.99/year. It will mirror your itunes library online without having to upload anything.
I finally got to put the TF tethering to the test. I went to the mall with my wife and she wanted to look in a boring store so I fired up the TF...fired up Barnacle on my X10 and surfed my email while I listed to groove shark radio, and sent a few text messages telling my wife to hurry up (via textplus)....it worked like a dream.
I'm using MagnusSupreme rom with Netarchy's kernel and the TF WIFI found the connection and connected without intervention in about 10 seconds....it was fabulous!
There was no lag, no issues....it ran flawlessly.
Way to go TF!
nice to hear that, have X10 and TF too
I have been doing a bit with my TMO MT4G and the TF to read the news and such when at Gym (like right now)...
As you can tell works well...
I can't tell you how many times I have thought to myself "I wish I had thought/heard of that!" when hearing what someone has conspired to make their smart device do. For example the guy who discovered you could use a PS3 controller, or the fact that Splashtop even existed in the first place. Or THIS GUY. Post the awesome things you have figured out how to do with this or any other Nexus! It can be simply through Apps you have found, or all out customized craziness! I'll start, though it's hardly amazing, I installed Splashtop on my mums PC, I have saved SO MANY TRIPS to her house this way. She is one of those who calls at midnight to say that while she was using Internet Explorer she discovered that her PC is infested with a virus and needs to be repaired, and asks if should she click the box that tells her so?
porn
xnifex said:
porn
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^that post
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1. Web browsing
2. Gaming
3. Tinkering
4. Porn(Yes the first answer applies to me as well.)
I bought it for the idea of showing off, editing my pictures from my camera, I could see them, but I can't view them and zoom in out. The only thing that could be done is import them. I have it connected with a regular use cable from my camera to the usb dongle to nexus.
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Retro console emulation on the go...
Flash-o-aholic treatment device.
Need to leave my phone alone as a daily driver, but I plan to experiment with this device like no other.
So far? Watching low quality streaming video. Really loving that 1200p screen. /s
Also its great for textbooks. 2 full pages in landscape mode and it still looks great.
I bought the 2012 N7 when it was released and used it probably 3 times. One day it died and I couldn't turn it back on so I threw it in my night stand and forgot about it for over 9 months. When this new one was announced I told myself I would get it and force myself to utilize it for reading books and tech blogs on the train to/from work. I also started traveling more for work so I imagine it will come in handy on the plane as apposed to staring at the small N4 screen or dealing with my laptop.
Last week I pulled the old one out of the night stand, ADB'd it back to life with stock 4.3 and sold it for $130 on craigslist. Then I ordered the new one and since receiving it I've stuck to my plan and now use it to read books and tech blogs every morning on the way into work and every evening on the way home.
When the Chromecast arrives I'll use the tablet to stream netflix and other stuff as well.
Kind of ordered by most used.
Home
eBook reading (Kindle App)
Lot of reddit in the crapper
Netflix / Dish (sling) / Local streaming on occasion
Casatunes (whole house audio control)
Monitor house cameras to see if my latest Amazon purchase arrived
Use it or my phone to control Boxee Box / Roku on occasion
Work:
OneNote (syncs my work/home notes) Allows me to call up crap I did in meetings since its always synced
Jump Desktop (RDP into my desktop from meetings) and/or Logmein from remote locations if required.
Juice SSH to connect to Servers.
Web browsing around the house or in bed
As a monitor for my DSLR
Reading tech blogs
YouTube videos
And XDA of course!
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Browsing
YouTube
Games
Geeky stuff
Ingress
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xnifex said:
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Get a life
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AdamLechowicz said:
Get a life
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Get a sense of humor, geez.
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Ingress
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Get a life
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Ingress.....get a life
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Ingress.....get a life
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Lol still on the first mission
News reading, forum reading, sports checking, toilet time wasting, and travel companion for media consumption. Its better than those seat built in displays.
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Pr0n !
News and forum reading, to keep up on the next Nexus release
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In addition to all the completely normal and healthy stuff already pointed out in this thread (mostly midget lesbian amputee prison pr0n) I also use mine as a remote control for my Odroid U2 thanks to Droidmote.
I guess I'll answer this question truthfully: my nexus 7 replaces my phone & laptop when I'm at home. I use it for browsing online, email, texting, music, video, etc.