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When I first got my iPad, and I voiced my protests to my wife over the typical Apple OS, she said "You got an Apple when you wanted an Android."
That's still true. I would ditch the iPad in a heartbeat if there was a semi-comparable Android device to switch to.
Now Gizmodo is asking the question:
Would you choose an Android tablet—something like the rumored Samsung Galaxy Tab—or would you go with an Apple iPad instead?
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Right now Android is winning 56% to 44%, but lets make it a landslide!
Go cast your vote!
http://shop.ebay.com/?_from=R40&_trksid=p3907.m570.l1313&_nkw=apad&_sacat=See-All-Categories
or
http://shop.ebay.com/?_from=R40&_trksid=m570&_nkw=epad
android tablets for 100-200 dollars. idk about specs, but i think they're made in china
Last-Chance said:
http://shop.ebay.com/?_from=R40&_trksid=p3907.m570.l1313&_nkw=apad&_sacat=See-All-Categories
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http://shop.ebay.com/?_from=R40&_trksid=m570&_nkw=epad
android tablets for 100-200 dollars. idk about specs, but i think they're made in china
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Yeah, Engadget had an unboxing video kind of showing off how bad those are. I would not recommend them to anyone.
Sirchuk said:
Yeah, Engadget had an unboxing video kind of showing off how bad those are. I would not recommend them to anyone.
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link?
actually interested in what it looks like
Last-Chance said:
link?
actually interested in what it looks like
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Here it is, just did a search on Engadget for "android kirf"
http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/ensos-android-based-zenpad-4-ships-gets-unboxed-and-politely-b/
voted. and damn, we're more then 4,100 votes ahead. sweet!!
60% / 40% in favor of Android now. Just voted.
Also if you're actually looking to buy a tablet 'right now', then I wouldn't suggest most of those random ones made in China. I bought an aPad when it first came out, and I've picked up a few of those random ones off eBay, and they're all junk. I've immediately returned them all.
The only Android Tablet that I'll run right now is my Archos 7 Home Tablet. It's not exactly meant to be the fastest, but it's meant to be at home. I'm waiting on the Archos 8th gen tablets to come out, then I'll be picking up a 10" tablet.
I just can't wait for the Notion Ink Adam to launch. I probably won't be able to pick it up when it launches, but it will probably be on my list shortly thereafter. Looks great. So far, it sounds like they might have it in the States by Christmas. And for a current estimated range of $400 and $600 depending on the model. I'll pay the extra for for the Pixel Qi display.
I am guessing that HP is going to sell the touchpads for practically nothing. Anyone thinking about picking one up just or the hell of it?
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Depends how low might get in he missus one lol
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I might get one at $200 for my mother...
No more than that...
I really want one!
I will only get one of they decide to Open Source the OS. Otherwise I won't because I don't think there will be any developer support for it and new apps coming out.
I hope you live in a supported country.
I had one and sold it within a week.
It really sucks, and its slow.
My advice save the 200 and get something else.
There's a lot of great android tablets available for 200 usd.
The touchpad has done nothing for me except make me use webos gestures on my sgs2 and the xoom......
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HP's biggest mistake was putting WebOS on it. I guess they learned nothing from the failed attempt called the Palm Pre.
Hey speaking of which, the Touchpad sounds like it will be pulled from the market completely. I suppose they were embarrassed when WebOS ran faster on the iPad when they gave it a test run. They are said to be working on another tablet, a 7 inch tablet I believe. Since it most likely will not be running WebOS, and since the only open source OS is Android... I think I know what will happen next! Hmmm...
I would personally never touch any tablet that isn't running the Android OS. Not the Playbook, the Touchpad, and definitely not the iPad!
Open source+Android+Google=Win.
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Hey speaking of which, the Touchpad sounds like it will be pulled from the market completely. I suppose they were embarrassed when WebOS ran faster on the iPad when they gave it a test run. They are said to be working on another tablet, a 7 inch tablet I believe. Since it most likely will not be running WebOS, and since the only open source OS is Android... I think I know what will happen next! Hmmm...
I would personally never touch any tablet that isn't running the Android OS. Not the Playbook, the Touchpad, and definitely not the iPad!
Open source+Android+Google=Win.
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+1 We think alike.
Android on Touchpad
Those tablets have an open bootloader, they can run android. It might be time to start a forum for doing just that?
The official line is that only the hardware side is dead, and the platform will continue for development & licensing. But no doubt an outright sale is preferred, given the strategic direction change with the $10B+ planned acquisition of Autonomy. Either way, WebOS will be mothballed for the foreseeable future, with no dev support.
The common line among pundits is that HP muffed the tablet & phone launches, with mediocre hardware and half-baked software, and decided to cut its losses. IMO, WebOS never had much of a chance, even if the launches went off well. On one side, there is the iPad with its polished UI and many apps. On the other, you have a legion of low-cost Android tabs. There is no breathing room.
HP's announced strategy for WebOS adoption was to piggyback on Windows as a shell in HP PCs & printers, where its vast market share is a strength. But WebOS' chance went from slim to none the moment MS announced that Win8 would encompass tablets, has a touch-friendly GUI, and run on ARM. The rationale to include it as a Windows touch-GUI was no longer viable. Thus the sole chance of WebOS penetration rests on the tablet doing well, which it didn't. But the tablet was never the main plan for WebOS, the PC was.
The bigger impact by far to HP's stock walloping is the announcement of exiting the PC market. Not sure what the thinking is here, to announce it way before it had a deal lined up. HP PC sales will suffer, especially going into the all-important back-to-school and holiday shopping periods. Apotheker has a lot to answer for.
The other shoe left to drop is when RIM would cry uncle with the Playbook.
HP should license the OS or certain features in it if they arent going to make it Open Source. The OS is awesome but they didn't put any money into hardware. Can you imagine a 4 in+ HTC device running WebOS? That would be awesome. The software is awesome but the hardware, marketing and acquisitions direction was horrible.
The purchased may have been for the patents since it was a steal. If we are lucky Google makes an offer they can't refuse on those patents.
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$99 new price starting tomorrow
I should buy like 3 and give out 2 for christmas.
Wow Epic Fail. Maybe I should buy .one for modding purposes.
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Funny that the processor and gpu are great, seriously. It's a slight variation on the Qualcomm in the HTC Sensation/Evo3d, and I'm not sure there's anything in the mobile market (released) that outdoes the Adreno 220.
TouchPad fire sale at $100 (sold out for now)
http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?t=3220862
In the thread, people are buying them by the dozens, no doubt to fleabay them afterward. If you want one, be fast.
Does anyone know if Netflix is on this (homebrew/exploit/etc.) this would a partial dealbreaker (although I already bought it)?
I ended up ordering two 32gb TouchPads, the total cost came to $269, I could not go wrong for $134.50 for a device priced at $599 not even a year ago? It looks like they are all gone on HP's site now though.
the specs of the touchpad are not that impressive plus it boots very slow.. and its webOS not Android..and its the heaviest slate around !!
you can get an Android based tablet with the same specs for a better price.. unless someone ports Android to touchpad and HP will sell it for $150 or lower then it would worth spending the money on it.
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..and its the heaviest slate around !!.
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You mean theres a slate heavier than the Xoom??
HP said it's going to try to find something to put WebOS on now that it's halting all device development (death of TouchPad, Veer, Pre3, et al). Did anyone see this coming? /sarcasm
This thread is as dead as WebOs LOL!
I just took a look at a german distribution shopping system, there are thousands of devices at the storage sites ... I think we will see them in a soon future on ebay wow on a bargain
yes a bargain! $149 32gb, $99 16gb
I just picked one up for $90 shipped...I'll take that all day long.
The rumor is that HP has a licensing deal already in place and the quarter million TouchPads sitting at Best Buy are going to be picked up by all the "geeks" (me) for $99 looking here for a way to wedge android on it...at least it's a flash player.
Personally, I'd love for Samsung to buy WebOS and start putting out awesome hardware to go with it.
But I love conspiracies.
Vote Ron Paul. lol
Picked one up. I hope that they give the ability to load an alternative OS, but it is doubtful.
I wonder if we can use the base code from the new Evo3D and Sensation on there because of the similar parts.
Hello, I couldn't find any ... where did you find that price that still in stock ..?
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Hello, I couldn't find any ... where did you find that price that still in stock ..?
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here:
http://www.futureshop.ca/Search/Sea...re%20Site&pcname=MCCPCatalog&AllowSecure=True
or here:
http://www.bestbuy.ca/Search/Search...re%20Site&pcname=MCCPCatalog&AllowSecure=True
so what is going on in terms of development? is there any real hope for having custom firmware and running AOSP android on this or is that a pipedream without source code? Does source code even matter anymore if you completely replace the OS?
I have to say for the price, I am very much happy with my HP touchpad, just got a 32gb one for 150 at staples. I hope something does come of web os with some developers or maybe android someday but I am happy as it is for the price.
Well, opensource.palm.com has parts of the OS. Maybe someone can use that as a start?
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WebOS + MeeGo = awesome os!
But seriously they're very close/related systems that it wouldn't take as much work as some would think.
Then they could probably name it Maemo
Which would allow Google to rename "ChromeOS" to "WebOS" like it implies.
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I have to say for the price, I am very much happy with my HP touchpad, just got a 32gb one for 150 at staples. I hope something does come of web os with some developers or maybe android someday but I am happy as it is for the price.
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I agree! I got this today thinking "with a community this motivated, surely they'll have android on it soon enough!". Now that i've used it, I like it a lot. The core apps are great! I love the e-mail and calendar apps and bing maps works very well for me. I have a samsung captivate so android is something I know fairly well but I don't feel like i'm missing too much with this tablet as it is. I think this is a diamond in the rough OS and if they open source it, it will really take off.
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The rumor is that HP has a licensing deal already in place and the quarter million TouchPads sitting at Best Buy are going to be picked up by all the "geeks" (me) for $99 looking here for a way to wedge android on it...at least it's a flash player.
Personally, I'd love for Samsung to buy WebOS and start putting out awesome hardware to go with it.
But I love conspiracies.
Vote Ron Paul. lol
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This is true. I talked with my HP rep and htc/samsung/ect went to them Doyle web OS. In order for this HP had to get the HP logo off its tablets.
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Would just love to get Netflix to work on it. Everything else is nice stocked.
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I my self picked up (1) $99 16GB unit today one of the last on amazon. For the price its a steal come on people even a few years ago $99 for whats in this is crazy.
My buddie also picked up the $99 16GB unit also from amazon
I hope that the system get fully ripped apart. I bet a few people that work on the android phones have grabbed one for $99 aswell i dont think anyone with half a brain would let this pass by for that crazy price.
To all the people that work on stuff i hope u have one if you dont i hope you are some how getting some loot up to get one or some one will give u one for working on.
- Hope to see something come from this great tab soon
Is sold out. So lets take bets... the preorders were already inflated from $315 to $399
I'm betting that stock will be found on eBay/Amazon during the holidays or early 2013 starting at $699
I wont be paying that much.
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And... what does this have to do with the Atrix?
i try to pre-order from china from official site xiaomi.com the mi2 but the first mobiles are the beta version, final version pre-order is not yet.
Oh, no xiaomi sub-forum and u put it in the atrix, thanks
aaron.a said:
Is sold out. So lets take bets... the preorders were already inflated from $315 to $399
I'm betting that stock will be found on eBay/Amazon during the holidays or early 2013 starting at $699
I wont be paying that much.
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1. it's cheap and a power monster.
2. it's not sold out. it's just "booked out". like restaurant is booked fully does not mean all booked customers will go there for sure. i expect 50% people who got the mi phone bookings will place the order.
3. no use for non chinese user. cause few english based developers will have the phone. and a lot of translations, localizations need to be done.
4. quality and delivery time are unknown.
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3. no use for non chinese user. cause few english based developers will have the phone. and a lot of translations, localizations need to be done.
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I suspect (or rather, hope) that the Mi2 will manage to find popularity, and maybe even official distribution outside China. There really isn't anything comparable coming to the RoW market at this kind of price point at the moment, so there will be a lot of interest from developers abroad.
I, for one, don't even like Miui, but if I could have that hardware running ported CM10 I'd be happy as a pig in s**t - especially given it's a 4.3" phone at 720p, and AFAIK the only other option is the Sony which is far more expensive and doesn't have the horsepower of the Mi2. I'm not really a fan of big screens, but I do like having all the pixels
Hey, maybe somebody will want to swap a Mi2 for my One X one day :victory:
Thread closed. Please stay on topic about the Atrix 4G in these forums.
Hey Nexus 10 people..I was scouting around trying to find a Walmart or Staples that actually had a Nexus 10 in stock and.
http://www.brightsideofnews.com/new...let-at-mwc-2013-quad-core2c-gpgpu-inside.aspx
^ That was in the news.. It's claiming Google is going to release an identical Nexus 10 to the one you have except replace the core with a 8 Core T628 GPU.
It reeks of B.S. but I have to ask if anyone else has heard this none-sense? Obviously the reason I ask. I'm not blowing $500 if Google is just going to play the shell game with internals.
styckx said:
Hey Nexus 10 people..I was scouting around trying to find a Walmart or Staples that actually had a Nexus 10 in stock and.
http://www.brightsideofnews.com/new...let-at-mwc-2013-quad-core2c-gpgpu-inside.aspx
^ That was in the news.. It's claiming Google is going to release an identical Nexus 10 to the one you have except replace the core with a 8 Core T628 GPU.
It reeks of B.S. but I have to ask if anyone else has heard this none-sense? Obviously the reason I ask. I'm not blowing $500 if Google is just going to play the shell game with internals.
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It smells like BS because it is BS. Part of the appeal for the Nexus devices is, you get one a year. We wont see another 10" tablet until next fall. Google isn't going to screw over developers like that, the Nexus line is a reference line and thus by definition needs product stability.
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It smells like BS because it is BS. Part of the appeal for the Nexus devices is, you get one a year. We wont see another 10" tablet until next fall. Google isn't going to screw over developers like that, the Nexus line is a reference line and thus by definition needs product stability.
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Hehe, yeah I agree it's 99% BS, however I would like to see a Nexus 14 with 3840x2400 resolution (about 330ppi), and with 8-core Exynos CPU and Mali T678 GPU. Optional keyboard dock, dual boot Android 5.0 and Chrome OS...
Thanks. I 99.9% knew it was B.S. but I had to just throw it out there for the final .1%
I sit now with my new N10 32GB in hand.. :good:
Does seem like fake, but since I wasn't keen on buying the tablet after so many issues people encountered, but I think I wouldn't mind waiting another month see what's new @ MWC.