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Hey xda´s!
Today I´m getting my own HD2 from england and I can´t wait to hold it in my hands
But I have some questions about the phone.
The first one is...Will the HD2 be upgradeable to Wiindows Phone 7 or if it will not be official upgradeable will the xda´s can do it? I know its early to ask about WM7 because there are not really many specs out about it yet but I would like to know what you think about that
And my second question is...Will the HD2 with it´s capacitive screen have full "multitouch" aahh sorry "pinch to zoom" support on WM7?
...or will the xda´s enable more multitouch gestures in the next weeks or months?
There have been tons of queries about this subject, please use the search before posting. It's probably safe to say that HTC won't be giving us WinMo7 the official way, but I'm sure the XDA community will find a way getting it to our beloved HD2 "the other way"
it will be possible congrats for ur new mob you'll love it
Yep! Thats right! If not Officially, you can bet that Win Mo 7 will be made available on the HD2 by the talented devs here. And not just that, we might even get Android to run on it!
Congrats on your purchase!
Tanmay® said:
..., we might even get Android to run on it!
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Thats a point i never got...
Why do people want to port Android on Wimo Phones? I you like Andorid, why don't you directly buy an Android phone which was designed for the operating system. I guess thats better than having a bad ported version running on a phone desigend for windows mobile.
actually this subject is non sense.
LordK said:
Thats a point i never got...
Why do people want to port Android on Wimo Phones? I you like Andorid, why don't you directly buy an Android phone which was designed for the operating system.
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People do it because, in the case of the HTC Leo/HD2, there's not one piece of hardware quite like it being sold with Android installed.
I guess smartphones are quickly becoming the new PCs & Laptops of the age. Some people buy a PC with an OS installed as default, they like the hardware but not the OS (usually Windows, maybe OSx) so they just format the HDD and install say Ubuntu etc etc.
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People do it because, in the case of the HTC Leo/HD2, there's not one piece of hardware quite like it being sold with Android installed.
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Yeah but you will never get a well-performing port until an OEM makes a device with the same hardware. Who's going to make the drivers for you?
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Yeah but you will never get a well-performing port until an OEM makes a device with the same hardware. Who's going to make the drivers for you?
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That's true. Though the Acer A1 and Xperia X3 both use snapdragon so drivers (or partial drivers) will undoubtedly make their way to the porting project.
Yes but then you will have Android devices with the same level of hardware as HD2! So the initial question remains - why not buy them instead of coping with inevitable problems with ports?
It's not like drivers instantly start working when you copy them from one device to another, even with the same hardware platform - check out the video drivers thread to see what I mean. You're doomed to have problems like battery drain or calls dropping or poor performance in some areas or what not.
Then there will be some problems with applications - I don't know about the new devices, but all the current Android ones have low-res screens.
In addition to that, you really want 2.0 with Sense, and there's no port of that available AFAIK. Plain Android is just dull, it's nothing to fret about, IMO.
I understand the fun of porting and making things work, but using that as your primary device? It's guaranteed to be worse than what you have now.
Neither of those devices have 4.3 inch touchscreens. Also The HD2 has a look and feel all of its own.
The only thing spoiling it for me is Windows Mobile and the terrible onscreen keyboard so if we could port Android to this device I would be elated as it has a much better marketplace (Windows Marketplace is really a sack over overpriced crap), less cludge and better built in apps - the Youtube app for example supports user subscriptions and favourites viewing, and I'm a big online video fan.
The fact that Android was built from the ground up for capacitive touchscreen devices rather than being a patched up ropey old operating system with a shell interface on top makes me drool at the idea of it being on the HD2, and YES we could buy an Android device of similar specification BUT where's the fun in that??? Check the name of this site.........................
Well, I'm not on the Google/Android hype bandwagon, I do admit that the UI out of the box there is much more finger friendly and the notifications are implemented in the best way among all the mobile phone OSes, but otherwise Android's greatness is blown out of all reasonable proportion. An Android crippled by driver incompatibilities/incomplete implementation is something that totally misses the concept of attractive in my terms...
That said, I'm sure I'll install it myself one day (via haret or otherwise) just out of curiosity, that would certainly serve to satisfying the geek in me. But to expect that your experience from using the device would improve is somewhat unrealistic.
I am happy with the HD2 and figured I would decide what platform to go with at the time of my next phone purchase. This report should mean I can try out Windows Mobile 7 on the HD2 and take that into consideration as well.
http://msmobiles.com/news.php/8793.html
CAH000 said:
I am happy with the HD2 and figured I would decide what platform to go with at the time of my next phone purchase. This report should mean I can try out Windows Mobile 7 on the HD2 and take that into consideration as well.
http://msmobiles.com/news.php/8793.html
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nice, i can't wait
MSmobiles is full of **** as usual. They post BS to get hits every once in a while.
I found this rather bad article whilst going through some arc pictures on Flickr.......
http://zomgitscj.com/2011/05/15/analyst-wp7-to-beat-android-by-2013-not-2015/
while i thinks it's quite possible because of Nokia's humongous market share in asia,wat do you guys think???
nah....i thinks is a joke....not overtake....
the term is compete.....i think people will prefer "free"
than all that WP have is "paid"....my opinion only...
forever android for me....
Android for life, no matter what.
I don't think WP7 will overtake android as WP7 is made out of mostly high end devices, and android has all sorts of devices. So the situation is like android vs iOS.
Won't happen...
Wp7 has none of the appeal of android, it will stay a niche product...
Wp7 sucks imo.
Just because Nokia decided to plump for WP7 doesn't mean their market share will help boost the market share of WP7. Let's be honest here, WP7 is a pile of **** so if anything it will just give Nokia a slap for making the wrong choice of mobile OS. I'd say by 2015 Nokia will have taken a pounding as their customer base leaves in droves to one of their Android competators.
there is no change in hell
google does knows exactly what to do
2013? Considering that Nokia won't have their first WP7 phone until late this year or early 2012, I doubt it.
But will WP7 make a dent by 2015? I'm sure it will. Nokia has said that they will start pushing it out to mid level devices (which will probably be the current scorpion chipset on smaller sized/res screens with the high end phones using a newer chipset). And if there's one thing Nokia can do, is flood the market with multiple phones.
Their developer tools are really good, xbox live mobile games are very good, the eventual inclusion of Ovi maps and Nokia hardware appears to be a good combination. The number of apps haven't been great but I was browsing their marketplace a couple days ago and found 3 new apps that i've been using on my x10.
Also, google hasn't been the white knight here and have appeared to irritate motorola and samsung (skyhook thing). Those documents showed how reliant moto is on Android - it doesn't surprise me that they're working on a lower end OS like Samsung (w/ their Bada OS).
However, Android will continue to get better (we'll see how the phone interface looks for 3.1) and iOS is branching out to more providers (coming to tmo usa and sprint soon). Not to mention that RIM is really pushing hard.
In all honesty, if Nokia releases a WP7 with the N8 12 mp sensor/optics/xeon flash (but no bulge)... I may have to follow my wife's lead and switch. It helps to remain subjective. Either way, if WP7 starts doing great, it just means that Android's improvement will accelerate.
Once WP7 starts releasing phones with better cameras and better video recording....goodbye to android for me in a heartbeat.
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Once WP7 starts releasing phones with better cameras and better video recording....goodbye to android for me in a heartbeat.
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the big long drawn out animations to cover up lag don't do it for me..
I think android, especially once it matures a bit more, will probably be a frontrunner for a very long time
Unless they support usb mode for file storage needs and no mandatory tethering to zune for media upload on the device I'll stay away. This is my biggest gripe with iOS currently. iPhone 4 is ready to be sold as soon as sgs2 hits Canada.
But I have more faith in MS+Nokia compared to Apple. If WP7or WP8 does open things a little bit, I won't mind. Nokia makes great hardware. It's Apple I think who will stubbornly stay on their old ways forever.
fiscidtox said:
the big long drawn out animations to cover up lag don't do it for me..
I think android, especially once it matures a bit more, will probably be a frontrunner for a very long time
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I wouldnt doubt that for a second. But for my personal preference, WP7 is excellent and I find it more enjoyable than android....just need Nokia or someone to bring out some good cameras before I would ever leave android.
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Currently WP7 doesn't have 3G hotspot support while X10 will get it in 3 months.
Moreover, WP7 is extremely picky on memory card, so this is NOT an option for me.
mingkee said:
Currently WP7 doesn't have 3G hotspot support while X10 will get it in 3 months.
Moreover, WP7 is extremely picky on memory card, so this is NOT an option for me.
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I had no problem at all with my sdcard in my samsung focus. The people who didnt seem to format them properly before inserting them did have issues however.
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Currently WP7 doesn't have 3G hotspot support while X10 will get it in 3 months.
Moreover, WP7 is extremely picky on memory card, so this is NOT an option for me.
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Possibly
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Currently WP7 isn't ready for me because:
No 3G hotspot: though I don't use it much, it's handy when I use laptop on the bus or the main internet is down.
Limited audio format support: more than 80% of my music library uses ogg vorbis format and currently I don't see any 3rd party player support this; in addition, other than streaming wma/wmv, I don't see any streaming mp3 application yet.
WP7 can display Far East language out of the box like iphone and Android, but I have to wait a couple more years to see the evolution (and probably Android 4 Jellybean will be out by then).
I got a used HD2 just for the purpose of testing WP7 and GOD NO, I hated just about everything about it. Having to use PC software to put any files on it just sucks. I flashed WM6.5 back on it but then decided that I might as well have two Android phones. So, X10 with Froyo MIUI and the HD2 with GB MIUI. Love them both.
I think this will never happen if WP7 won't change its whole structure.
I can just speak for Germany, but if you see which devices are preferred by ppl:
Just smatphones:
1.) Android & iOS
2.) BB RiM
3.) still Symbian
4.) WP7
WP7 was nearly dead before it was published. Also many Germans don't like Nokia anymore after they closed the fabrics here: many ppl lost their jobs and nokia built new factorys with the money they got from the country :'(
But thats just another point which leads me personally to the decicision that "I WILL NEVER BUY A NOKIA AGAIN"
Let's think this way: Nokias smartphones are nearly dead and simply not serving what ppl want this days.
WP7 is nearly dead too and doing just the same, ppl want to customize their phones and install many many apps etc. etc. They want a cute homescreen, big displays and the variety of devices. (Or they want a Apple product, just because it's apple )
So if you put this 2 products together:
Nokia + WP7 = "dead" + "nearly dead before release"
what will you get ?
dead + dead != superb
dead + dead == really dead
But that's just my point of view! Let's see what the future brings.
But what i can say is that i always see people looking at different devices in Shops and i see them mostly buy Androids.
On Saturday i was in the shopping mall and in one of the bigger electronic shops.
I saw a woman playing with an HD7, after a short while she took the DHD and said: "Wow this is much nicer, but it's almost the same device" !! And this is not the first time is see a behaiviour like this between WP7 and Android.
So now you can think yourself, if a standard customer behaves like this, how they want to be big together on this base ?
Also a nice point PRO Android: The german government decided to take a special customized Android System as the new platform for secure communication between members of the higher government levels!
The choice was between: stay with Nokia, go to WinMo or Android. They decided for Android.
You can read yourself, but you must take a online translator, because this article is in german (of course)
http://www.zdnet.de/sicherheits_ana...n_android_handy_story-39001544-41549815-1.htm
That's all from me now
Regards
Bin4ry
I love android, don't get me wrong, but WP7 will very likely pick up a nice chunk of the market..
WP7 and the various other versions that will come after will only keep getting better.
The operating system is actually good and getting better, and the minimum specs that WP7 requires of the manufactures insures that you won't get a lemon.
Updates are "supposed" to cover all the phones at the same time and make it seamless for the customers.
It's also Microsoft that were talking about, even if they lose money year after year, they'll just keep going! So is WP7 dead? Right now, perhaps.
But it'll get better and it's backed by Nokia and Microsoft, two HUGE companies with loads of cash.
I'm still rooting for Android!
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I got a used HD2 just for the purpose of testing WP7 and GOD NO, I hated just about everything about it. Having to use PC software to put any files on it just sucks. I flashed WM6.5 back on it but then decided that I might as well have two Android phones. So, X10 with Froyo MIUI and the HD2 with GB MIUI. Love them both.
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The storage partition on the device is only hidden and there is a registry hack that unhides it so it can be accessed just like any other mass storage device, but this is far from an ideal solution when it should be implimented as a matter of course. Only caveat is that you must have Zune installed but this would likely be the case anyway.
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I wouldnt doubt that for a second. But for my personal preference, WP7 is excellent and I find it more enjoyable than android....just need Nokia or someone to bring out some good cameras before I would ever leave android.
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same here. wp7 makes you realize how peiced together android really is.
Let's get some developers in here!!
So far we have!
$60 from me
$30 from chrisrotolo
$60 from jitin02
$20 from zinqzinq
Maybe $60 from Revin lol
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I will throw 60 in lets get some developers motivated
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+1...........................................................m with u
If it will be usable (so I guess we will have to wait for HC 3.2 anyway) then 60 USD will still be much cheaper than buying new device (not to mention that there is no other 5 inch screen smartphone and no, I am not buying anything with smaller screen ).
So, count me in
Put me down for $30, maybe more for full RC, no bugs.
count me too
My 60us$
and mine 20 cos im student
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count me too
My 60us$
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+10... As it makes total of 7(6+0+1+0) and lol its my lucky number
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chrisrotolo said:
Put me down for $30, maybe more for full RC, no bugs.
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For me even if its lil buggy ... will donate more for improvements
And GUYZ I THINK WE SHOULD DO THIS FOR CYANOGEN TOO .. WHOZ WITH ME.........
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Ill post up 100.00 if they can fix the volume for bluetooth and aux jack. of all the phones ive tested the bluetooth volume and syc suck along with aux volume output.
id like ice cream or the latest stable build
30USD OR 2 Bitcoin (that should make 200USD now in total paypal alright?) for any honeyc build that has
a) usable, everyday speed
b) Bluetooth phone communication is working
(yes I am happy to wait for whatever 3.x version is workable or available)
question / suspicion tho: in the streak 7 forums I read the insane increase in DPI needed, to make the high res apps usable... the streak 5 might not be able to supply the minimum res....
and AMEN to "I wont buy a smaller screened phone"
DJ_Steve wrote on twitter that he had to set DPI to 80 on Dell Streak 5 to make google apps work in Honeycomb. Streak has default 160, so you can imagine how small everything was
However, I heard that Honeycomb 3.2 should support smaller tablets, so I guess we just have to wait for HC 3.2
And another thing - does somebody now if HC is supporting phone functions at all (call, messages etc.)? I hope that I will be able to make calls with my HoneyStreak
Count me in. 30$, more if it is working well!
Isn't this a bit tacky to say the least? You give what you can most of developers could charge us from the get go and don’t. Plus a bounty for something that does not exist is useless anyways.
GB, HC, etc are dependent on propriety software that Dell is not authorized to release (Dell recently removed GB from their open source web page). Are there ways around it, sure, but a couple hundred bucks for someone to sit down with a blank screen and write the audio code is not going to do it. Have supervised projects that require specialized code to be written; 1. Does not happen overnight 2. More than one writes the code for minimum 8 hours a day for weeks on end. 3. More errors than successes 4. Alpha’s can and will brick your device 5. Beta’s can go through multiple iterations (just think Windows, which version ever came out without constantly needing patches) 6. Just when you think you have it right a life event happens to your key developer. 7. When you release it, people still piss and moan it is not right/what they wanted/what they expected and demand their money back. 8. Could go on, but you get the gist of my discussion.
In closing for this to ever become reality, will require complete HC Alpha (or better) for the Streak 5 from Dell as the start point. Am I crushing dreams, no, just telling you how it is.
Damn audio drivers, if we at least know who is the owner of them.
I see, that HC 3.2 is out and there is support for 7-inch displays (maybe usable on Streak?) and support for Qualcomm chips... maybe it can be ported?
Is there even code for honeycomb that would work on arm?
most of whats been hacked together by steve for s5 is from the sdk, emulator images..
there is no phone support in HC
rather than a silly fund, why not spend the time investigating how to do this for your selves, its android the information is out there for you to find and read..
To tell the truth, I am thinking about it, I have some spare time right now and I just want to try it. But I am not sure if it is even possible or if there is some insolvable problem like with porting MIUI/CM roms (no audio drivers from Dell).
It's threads like this that make you wonder what Dell is thinking. Even with all their screwups, if they got on the stick and provided decent support for this phone they could sell a ton of them. As it is, with this as an example, who would ever buy another Dell phone? I'll nurse this one along simply for the screen real estate and because I love the Google freebies, but I won't ever buy another of their phones.
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I see, that HC 3.2 is out and there is support for 7-inch displays (maybe usable on Streak?) and support for Qualcomm chips...
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I didnt know that they now support 7inch... now I am just more sad 'n anoyed
argh
Any one done or know if its possable to get the new windows 8 tablet software running on a nexus 7 ??? Or know a good cheep android tablet that will dual boot it ??? Ty
Only want to have a little mess around with it and see how well it runs with an xbox before wasting money on buying one as already have a few tablets.
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Any one done or know if its possable to get the new windows 8 tablet software running on a nexus 7 ??? Or know a good cheep android tablet that will dual boot it ??? Ty
Only want to have a little mess around with it and see how well it runs with an xbox before wasting money on buying one as already have a few tablets.
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What exactly do you want it to do with an xbox? It does no more than the SmartGlass app for Android can do.
Does a lot more then what smart glass does, music and video sync on the go sync to mobile phone and so on so many ways to link up the device all to work together. Also be nice to have a play with the new setups see how it runs and feels, what they actulay changed and what they just took from the windows 7.5 mobile edition
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Not going to happen for a handful of reasons, not the least of which are it being closed source, no drivers existing for our hardware, too much of a legal liability for anyone who tried, etc.
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Not even with as OEM copy of the software. I've seen things
Like the acer tablet on eBay with dual boot android and windows.
Looks like I might just need to invest in a windows tablet as well as my android
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No no no no no no no no no no
There is another thread that talks about this in VERY DEEP Details..
First there are two versions of windows 8
Windows 8 x86/x64 . Runs on tradition computer cpus
Windws 8 RT .. the tablet version Runs on Arm (TEGRA CPU) Similar to what nexus 7 has..
Windows 8 tradition version. The one you can buy will not run on ARM CPU
Windows RT is A ROM VERSION OF The os. NOT FOR SALE. Its Protected with boot-loader security beyond anything in the past. Beyond that Microsoft says NO.. You can only get this version From Windows 8 DEVICE PRELOADED..
So if you were to get a raw copy .. Making it work would be VERY ILLEGAL..
THE SHORT ANSWER IS Absolutely NO YOU CAN NOT DO IT..
Look for the other thread if you need to know more on the subject...
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No, you CAN do it, it's possible. It's just insanely difficult.
There are no drivers. There is no source code. You'll need to write a UEFI bootloader - which is also possible: it was done with HTC HD2.
And don't give me that bull**** about Microsoft suing you - if somebody wants to do this, they'll do it, and no legal department will stop them.
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No, you CAN do it, it's possible. It's just insanely difficult.
There are no drivers. There is no source code. You'll need to write a UEFI bootloader - which is also possible: it was done with HTC HD2.
And don't give me that bull**** about Microsoft suing you - if somebody wants to do this, they'll do it, and no legal department will stop them.
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The intellectually dishonest correlation to the HD2 needs to be put out to pasture as it really bears no relevance.
And you're absolutely right... laws don't deter thieves, or anyone else who is determined to act in a particular manner. Anything and everything outside of the law can get rationalized by someone determined to do it. If laws were alone were an adequate deterrent, then there would be no need for punitive measures. In the case of MS, they have a proven track record of aggressively litigating worldwide when it comes to whatever they consider to be their flagship software at that given time. Far from "bull****", it's quantifiable and qualifiable.
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The intellectually dishonest correlation to the HD2 needs to be put out to pasture as it really bears no relevance.
And you're absolutely right... laws don't deter thieves, or anyone else who is determined to act in a particular manner. Anything and everything outside of the law can get rationalized by someone determined to do it. If laws were alone were an adequate deterrent, then there would be no need for punitive measures. In the case of MS, they have a proven track record of aggressively litigating worldwide when it comes to whatever they consider to be their flagship software at that given time. Far from "bull****", it's quantifiable and qualifiable.
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No, this time they are making a new bootloader for UEFI to work. Just because it's a phone that used to run Windows doesn't mean that it's any easier.
I just hate that this place keeps telling people that things are impossible. Impossible and very difficult are two different things.
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No, this time they are making a new bootloader for UEFI to work. Just because it's a phone that used to run Windows doesn't mean that it's any easier.
I just hate that this place keeps telling people that things are impossible. Impossible and very difficult are two different things.
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I don't believe it was ever stated to be impossible. At least I know I never termed it that. It is, as I've said, unfeasible for the aforementioned reasons. If someone's determined enough and is able to essentially build a the necessary drivers, bootloader, etc, they would have licked half the problem. The other half being the likely consequence of their endeavour.
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I'm looking for a Tablet with a RFID-Reader in the front (like the Nexus 10 Tablet from Samsung). It must have the RFID-Reader in the Front because i'd like to code an App for it which reads RFID-Cards. I hope you guys can help me.
Sincere regards Marcus
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first of all, are you talking about actual RFID or NFC ?
secondly, I dont think youre going to be able to find one.
thirdly, theres no reason you cant use one with the reader on the back of the tablet.
And lastly, in my personal opinion Unless the app you wish to develop is specifically for tablets, it would be much cheaper to go out and get an old, maybe second hand phone or even a nexus 4 because of how cheap they are in comparison to a tablet
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first of all, are you talking about actual RFID or NFC ?
secondly, I dont think youre going to be able to find one.
thirdly, theres no reason you cant use one with the reader on the back of the tablet.
And lastly, in my personal opinion Unless the app you wish to develop is specifically for tablets, it would be much cheaper to go out and get an old, maybe second hand phone or even a nexus 4 because of how cheap they are in comparison to a tablet
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The Tablet have to read Mifare Cards and the RFID reader must be on the front because the tablet will be mounted on the wall so a reader at the back won't work anymore.