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I'm just a little curious wheat everyone is using their Iconia for?
Is it strictly business? All about the games? Are you a social media star? Or is it a little bit of everything?
And what are your must-have apps?
For me, I've found it's a very usefull tool. I'm a chef, and to be able to have all my food costs, invoices, budgets and recipes at my fingertips is invaluable. I'm liking Polaris for this, it's a way better layout than Docs to Go, and it's way more powerful. It's really helped me out at work!
As far as games, I'm mostly playing galaxy on fire 2. Really takes full advantage of the accelerometer, and I've always liked flying games. It's not really what I had in mind for a flying game, but I'm keeping my eyes peeled for something more realistic (anyone working on a flight sim???)
Other than that, I watch youtube, and the occasional movie on here. I'm using TubeMate to grab videos off youtube, and Drive Mount keeps my movie selection fresh between the tablet and my external hard drive. There's an app I found here called Mizuu Movies that has a really slick interface that displays your movies using the DVD covers. Way more eye friendly than a file browser.
Ummm..... I also have the Ultimate Guitar app and mobile metronome for when I'm strumming my guitar, plus the usual tools like quickboot and titanium backup. Oh... And McAfee is my security suite of choice. I like having site advisor on my tab!
So world, what's your tablet for?
vanisleguy1976 said:
So world, what's your tablet for?
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I find myself using it mostly for browsing, movies and reading. None of the available games really appeal to me, I like my games with rich storyline and well, no one seems to bother with such on devices like these..
mostly media, basic web browsing and such(big loud gaming rig can be off for paying bills), I also use it to remote into my HTPC to run conversion and update things and get some movies downloaded
i use mine for uni mainly. Its great in lectures and far more convenient than a laptop to lug around campus all day.
i use it for games here and there but not so much
I use for casual browsing and media but mainly for my Med school studies. I can easily throw this and a book under my arm and get to a coffee house or library and not worry about finding an outlet. My laptop is getting dusty.
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I use mine for communicating away from my office, reading, jotting down short (but important) notes and as an awesome alarm clock
When I step away from computers for lunch or just to hang out and watch tv, I'll turn on IRC/eBuddy and I'll still be available. Having a collection of books and Magazines is nice for lounging in bed or out back etc... and the bonus to all that, I can carry it easily to a friends and hop on their WiFi.
From time to time I'll use it for reference - like say, I'm playing a game on the desktop (even thought I also have a laptop beside me) I'll often kick up the tablet and have walk-throughs or other assorted helpful information on it.
I store ALL my art and pictures on it and a large chunk of (about 6gb) of music. So I have a concise portfolio of my work available anytime and music to play even if I have no connection.
I don't game on it. Except a little Solitaire.
I use mine in sales to bring up and show customers products via PDF files and PPT presentations (Polaris or OpenOffice... haven't settled on either yet). I do use EZPDF for bookmarked PDF files as I find it much better (although it doesn't do landscape scrolling or else I haven't figured out how...).
Browsing and some lookup during the day while using the WifI hotspot on my phone. News360 is nice.
Used to carry a netbook but now carry the A500 + portfolio and leave my HP Laptop in the bag. If you put it in sleep mode it turns on really fast to show a customer stuff.
Also, use it for pricing lookups via Dropbox.
One game I use is Pinball.
The two Iconias in our house are used mainly for keeping up with newsfeeds, web browsing, and watching video. That might make them sound like toys, but the benefit is that my partner \and I spend far less time in front of our computers- the tablets (along with the Android phones that came before them) are freeing us from our desks.
It's more of a toy to me than anything, although.. It is used as an e-book reader as well.. I mean, books aren't toys right? =P
Mind's about equally tool & toy. I e-read, browse the web, remote desktop into work, email, Netflix, and PhotoShop (lite).
It started out as a toy, mainly to function as media player, net surfing and light gaming but its evolved into more.
Not only has it replaced my notebook for most light work and play but its also replaced books and magazines. Its a tool for me in the kitchen when I feel adventurous. I use it at my bedside, paired with bt speakers for soothing music to lull me to sleep. Apart from all this, its also managed to put everything at my fingertips more comfortably vs. my smartphone (in terms of a bigger screen). I can get by without it but at this point, its as much a daily tool as my smartphone and I would rather not.
Toy or tool? Both I'd say.
vanisleguy1976 said:
I'm just a little curious wheat everyone is using their Iconia for?
Is it strictly business? All about the games? Are you a social media star? Or is it a little bit of everything?
And what are your must-have apps?
For me, I've found it's a very usefull tool. I'm a chef, and to be able to have all my food costs, invoices, budgets and recipes at my fingertips is invaluable. I'm liking Polaris for this, it's a way better layout than Docs to Go, and it's way more powerful. It's really helped me out at work!
As far as games, I'm mostly playing galaxy on fire 2. Really takes full advantage of the accelerometer, and I've always liked flying games. It's not really what I had in mind for a flying game, but I'm keeping my eyes peeled for something more realistic (anyone working on a flight sim???)
Other than that, I watch youtube, and the occasional movie on here. I'm using TubeMate to grab videos off youtube, and Drive Mount keeps my movie selection fresh between the tablet and my external hard drive. There's an app I found here called Mizuu Movies that has a really slick interface that displays your movies using the DVD covers. Way more eye friendly than a file browser.
Ummm..... I also have the Ultimate Guitar app and mobile metronome for when I'm strumming my guitar, plus the usual tools like quickboot and titanium backup. Oh... And McAfee is my security suite of choice. I like having site advisor on my tab!
So world, what's your tablet for?
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I use mine for my businesses. I have an IT and web development / marketing companies.
For IT I use logmein and an rdp app.
For web I use it to show customers websites and review their website. Most of my marketing apps are online base so everything works with a browser.
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vanisleguy1976 said:
As far as games, I'm mostly playing galaxy on fire 2. Really takes full advantage of the accelerometer, and I've always liked flying games. It's not really what I had in mind for a flying game, but I'm keeping my eyes peeled for something more realistic (anyone working on a flight sim???)
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X-plane (one of the best light simulators out there) works great on my A500. Although, I must admit that the flight Sim experience is that it reduced on a tab compared to a full computer. Perhaps is better as a companion device?
100% toy.
Web consumption, media of all kinds, movies music books, gaming, and ironically enough surfing the various Android tablet forums for the latest information on my tablet.
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100% toy.
Web consumption, media of all kinds, movies music books, gaming, and ironically enough surfing the various Android tablet forums for the latest information on my tablet.
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+1 exact the same
I've only had mine for 5 days, but it's definitely proving to be a toy. Mostly games and emulators thus far.
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Mainly used for itself, meaning browsing xda forums and testing different roms (hope virtuous team will continue their excellent work).
My children love the iconia for playing angry birds, talking tom and other games. I use it for work, too but only reading, sometimes answering emails. Most of the time its fun, but i don't want to live whithout my new toy.
My lovely Thinkpad isn't happy because it is used fairly about 40% of its former usage
kolaf said:
X-plane (one of the best light simulators out there) works great on my A500. Although, I must admit that the flight Sim experience is that it reduced on a tab compared to a full computer. Perhaps is better as a companion device?
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Funny you'd mention X-plane! I found it yesterday. Played a bit, and I'd agree, it's not quite the same as PC, though still a cool novelty. And I see two companion apps to fsx in the market, if that's what you mean! Cool
Tool and toy. I do some word processing, movies, and games. I try not to use it for work but I cant resist becasue its more effecient then my netbook.
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I think I would have to answer this as Toy if I wanted to answer honestly. As much as I would like to think otherwise mine is 99% a leisure machine.
I take mine to work daily, but purely for reading ebooks at lunch or keeping in touch with my social world via facebook. At home it is my armchair companion. Once again reading ebooks, surfing the net, playing a few games (words with friends / Shanghai / pool), and a mobile facebook interface. I also watch movies/TV shows on it.
Post your favorite tablet optimized games with screenshots and price
Acer Iconia A500 Rooted Running Flexreaper R7 ICS 4.0.3
there is a tegra zone app that does keep a list of tablet games even has a price and screen shots. Also android police does quarterly stories about tablet apps/games just go check out their site
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You can also get some ideas from this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1056754
I use google reader and droid comic viewer the most, but I still like angry birds, dead space, dungeon hunter 2, spiderman, and samurai 2: vengeance.
for music, I use Iheart and Pandora.
As the topic speaks for itself, what do you guys use your tablet for? Been several months since I bought it now it seems to be of a bare use. Gaming device, multimedia( movie & photo collection) or education? I wanna use my device at its best
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My wife has complained how much I use my Xoom. Maybe i'm a tech junkie, but I love this thing.
Most favorite uses:
1. Watch movies/tv shows
2. Read books
3. Read comics
4. download torrents
My primary uses (and the apps I use) are:
* Web browsing (browser, Chrome, Boat)
* Reading Comics (Komik)
* Watching saved movies (MX, RockPlayer)
* Streaming movies (Netflix)
* email (Gmail)
* Twitter (TweetCaster)
* Backup (second string) laptop using keyboard case (Splashtop, iTap)
I have plenty of content/apps/etc. to (but don't necessarily want to): Read books (Google Books, Kindle), Read magazines (Play Magazines), Do light gaming (Madden, Crosscourt Tennis, Temple Run, Angry Birds, etc.), Attend lectures for online classes (Flash Player), Listen to music (Mortplayer), Edit images (Photoshop Touch)
Mine gets used for everything at the moment, as my laptop destroyed itself lmao
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Stream TV from my dreambox, look at movies, surf the web, play games and alarm-clock
lots of stuff..... the list goes on and on!
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I use my Xoom for just about everything these days. It lets me get away from my desk. Most important uses are e-mail on the go, connectbot to log into and administer servers from the road, web-browsing, callendar, contacts list, note taking, etc. The only thing that I really wish it had was a better word processor, but I even use it for editing documents when I am away from the office with the apps that are available.
The other thing it is good for is eating up a day or two of time every now and then when I decide to try to upgrade to a new rom. I don't do it often enough and it atkes me a while to catch back up on what is going on in the rom world :silly:
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lots of stuff..... the list goes on and on!
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That's not helpful ~_~
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Gaming, surfing the web, twitter, fb, instagram, news, reading books, gaming again
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I mostly used it to reddit while i am in the potty
zerocrack said:
I mostly used it to reddit while i am in the potty
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When does the narwhal bacon?
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Mine gets used for everything at the moment, as my laptop destroyed itself lmao
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Same here.
I use mine for e-textbooks for school. They run about $80 vs $300. Also for games and YouTube.
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I'm trying to use mine as a desktop replacement, but I find there are some limitations that hiner that, in particular I seem to have issues with dropbox sync and quick office pro seems to have a number of limitations when working with large documents and spreadsheets. Great for kindle, evernote and wasting hours on Great Little War Game though
Unfortunatelly I did not use my Xoom much, so I just sold it a couple of weeks ago. I only had it for about 7 months.
Thought I would use it for surfing the web from the sofa or while travelling. Indeed I just wasted some time with crappy games or left it switched of for days. Some of my tasks required a pc so I did all my surfing and stuff there. I was a little sad giving it away but it was just too expensive and has a too high loss of value for leaving it in the box. Now I got an ultrabook wich fits my requirements better.
Reading books, gaming (CS FTW!), surfing the web, watching movies and soon to be used in university
I use it to look at p0rn LOL!!
Ok on a serious note, I barely use it. Only when I read manga, which the XOOM outdones itself for that simple task.
Gaming, YouTube, and browsing/emails.
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Maybe i'm a tech junkie, but I love this thing.
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+1
Use my xoom for everything;
browsing,
email,
GPS (can mount it in my 4wd)
maps (live in outback Australia and go bush a lot),
videos,
movies,
work (download, fill in and upload about 150 pdf files a week),
lately getting into e-books,
the list goes on but I won't ,
my laptop is gathering dust in the corner (only used when I need to use adb).
Because of the great work of Team EOS I also get to update roms and this satisfied the geek in me.
Also love the portability; on a flight last week I could hold the xoom up to the window and get a GPS fix and then see what we were flying over on a map.
My Nexus 10 arrives tomorrow morning and I can't sleep, it's like I'm waiting for santa. It was a tough choice between this and the iPad 4 (it still is, if I should keep it or send it back and jump ship to Apple). Most of the reviews say it's a great device, but the number 1 complain seems to be app support, as they aren't optimized for the screen resolution or there aren't enough of them.
How is the situation today? I am mostly interested in watching movies and surfing the internet, I don't care for games, really, maybe something very casual while I'm on the toilet.
Some apps and games look bad on Nexus (because of high resolution). But you can try the game in my signature It should work fine on Nexus 10.
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My Nexus 10 arrives tomorrow morning and I can't sleep, it's like I'm waiting for santa. It was a tough choice between this and the iPad 4 (it still is, if I should keep it or send it back and jump ship to Apple). Most of the reviews say it's a great device, but the number 1 complain seems to be app support, as they aren't optimized for the screen resolution or there aren't enough of them.
How is the situation today? I am mostly interested in watching movies and surfing the internet, I don't care for games, really, maybe something very casual while I'm on the toilet.
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Some of the apps are amazing. If your a Twitter user, drop the $2 and buy Falcon. Its an amazing interface. TapatalkHD with its bugs is useful as well. Pocketcasts has a great tablet interface, amazon looks good, flipboard is nice as well. Its really not as bad as everyone says the apos are.
The biggest shortfall of the Nexus 10 is the screen (if you get one w/o lightbleed do a dance) and the battery life. If you can look past those your golden. Having features like HDMI out and OTG make it an ultimate media device and the front firing speakers beat anything on the market. (With some fine tuning). The experience I'd say is phenomenal, if you can look past the reboots on occasion and the slowdowns that can occur with Android.
Edit - to expand I cannot say I regularly use any app that isn't tablet/holo optimized. Pandora is the biggest offender, along with Tasker and Root Explorer, its sad how they refuse to optimize the apps. Otherwise Google Music, G+, email, gmail, keep, mantano, falcon, YouTube, pocketcasts, notes, mizuu, flixster, Imdb, fandango... All have nice tablet interfaces. Google voice also sucks, but they aren't updating it because it will be replaced soon.
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Probably not a whole bunch of fans of Bigfish games but I love them What I am wondering is if it's possible to get the same Bigfish Game Manager on my Fire 7", 9th Generation? I looked around after reading about downloading from Google Playstore, which of course I have on my tablet, but all they have as an app is not the same as the Game Manager on my Windows 10 Desktop. So, I can't even download one of my games I've purchased online and own now.
I know Kindle can download from outside source, but I am thinking only Android versions of apps, and not the full version of Bigfish Games.
Hope this makes sense as I really haven't a clue. Thanks in advance for any help Here's a link to the bigfish website that might be helpful, although no info on getting the "actual" Game Manager, only Big Fish Casino:
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