I would love to have the new Motorola Xoom, but it is just too rich for my blood, at least at this point. I heard a rumor that Sam's will be selling the Wi-Fi version for $539 and I might pop for that, but I'm playing the "wait and see" game to see what happens as more Android based tablets come to market. For now, the Nook Color is taking care of my tablet wants.
Ed From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jonathan Roberts Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 10:00 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Android tablets? tabloids? tabdroids? We just got a few Galaxy Tablets at work (the 7" ones). The IT guys went crazy and seem to love them. I'm still thinking about the Nook myself.. Jonathan On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 7:18 AM, Richards Jr, Edward C. <[email protected]> wrote: I bought a Nook Color, rooted it and installed a pre-release version of Honeycomb that one of the XDA guys packaged. It seems to work just fine. I use it every day for work and pleasure. For $250, it is a steal. You may want to look into roming the gtablet. Wish Google would go ahead and release the source to HC. Ed -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brad Bendily Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 9:33 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Android tablets? tabloids? tabdroids? So. I did buy an iPad2 (for the wife). It's cool, speedy, screen is decent (could have been better). Aside from iOS, it's probably the best tablet on the market. However, i decided i wanted an Android tablet for myself. And, if so, honeycomb was/is the way to go. A buddy of mine bought a Xoom. It's really nice, also speedy, nice screen, honeycomb is nice, cool widgets that iOS doesn't have. But the 3g model was more than i wanted to spend and I don't think i'll use the service. So, i was going to wait for the wifi only model. Then woot came along with the Viewsonic gtablet for $280. Which as Tim said previously, is the tegra2 dual core chip. Same hardware as the xoom just about, except for the screen. I don't have the gtab yet, supposed to be here tomorrow, but for that price it seemed like a really good deal, considering the hardware. Also, as Tim said, there is a pretty big modding/following at xda. There are about 6 or so different roms all of which claim to be more speedy/responsive than the default OS. So, even though it won't be honeycomb, it's still android and is pretty quick. regarding the 3 links below. Apparently the Adam Ink has shipped, but there seems to be a lot of questions surrounding that tablet.They're still not taking orders and a lot of folks had concerns about the ones that did ship, and I think people are still waiting for some of their orders. I've never noticed before, how there was so much talk and hype at the trade shows and then all of these tablets never show up. sucks for the consumer. but hey, there is always duke nukem forever to look forward to! bb On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Brad Bendily <[email protected]> wrote: > I've found a few mid price range that I like. Maybe given some time these will > be solid viable options. > > http://www.openpeak.com/OpenTablet10.php > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_tablet > (this one is supposedly shipping. not sure how long new orders will take) > > http://www.innoversal.com.tw/en-us/products/lattice.aspx > (this one is cool cause it list Ubuntu as an OS) > -- Have Mercy & Say Yeah _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
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