My personal recommendation would be to wait. The gTablet ships with Android 2.2 which was not designed with tablets in mind. The first Android OS version to be designed for tablets was Android 3.0 (aka Honeycomb) and it often feels like a prolonged beta test. Honeycomb was a nasty hack to get a tablet out to compete with the iPad2 and will never run on a cellphone. Also Google intentionally never open sourced the Android 3.x codebase. Thus any third party replacement ROMs for your tablet will either be based on Android 2.x (bad) or horrible hacks of binary "ports" from a Honeycomb tablet (worse).
Android 4.0 (aka Ice Cream Sandwich) will be coming out in the next couple months. It has a new UI that is a more refined version of ideas introduced into Honeycomb and is intended for both tablets and cellphones. It makes major changes to the Android UI and the videos of it would seem to make Android feel much more polished than before. A propaganda video showing off some of the new UI feel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrYZDWuBptI If you can afford to wait to buy your next tablet or smartphone I'd wait and make sure it runs Android 4.0+ out of the box. Plus Google has announced that Android 4.0 will be open sourced much like Android 2.x is. The tablet experience is all about the UI. If you wait you get a better device with a UI and API set that's had a good year to bake in some new toys. -- Bruce A. Locke [email protected] _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Nov 2 - POV-Ray and The Relativity Train Dec 7 - An Intro to Chef Jan 4 - Recovering the Brownfield: Revitalizing Open Source Projects
