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Android Thread - 2011 Edition | Stuffed on Gingerbread, Hungry for Honeycomb!

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gkryhewy said:
It has one click root via a marketplace app! Root the damned phone.
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rooting itself does nothing noticeable though, you'd have to get into custom ROMs and what not which his GF might not feel like messing with.
 
RE: Honeycomb UI

Looks sleek and very nice. iPad owners have been expressing the point for a new interface for the iPad, however, for quite some while. Hopefully things like Honeycomb will accelerate development by Apple.
 
Cnet TV just said something about a Droid Bionic being leaked on moto's website, along with the tablet Motorola Xoom.
 
Marty Chinn said:
Form factor, possible battery life, weight.... It really depends what you want to use it for though too.
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Netbook is still so damn small and almost weightless, so I don't know why specifically college students would want touch screen tablets if it's not ideal for getting work done w/o the keyboard (someone I know bought an iPad with some extra money he had saved up, sigh I just don't get it).


So if I wanted the ability to have access to steam (not for graphically intensive games!), play HD video, have access to the microsoft office suite, listen to a lot of music, and being able to have physical keyboard to get work done, multitask at reasonably fast speeds (this is what current gen netbooks still lack), and doing all of this with excellent battery life (6+ hours on a full battery), what would you say is my best option in the future?

Wait until more dual-core netbooks with good perfomance and battery life come out and hope to get one at around $400?

Or should do you think that I should go for something like this: http://ces2011.asus.com/press-relea...viding-choice-through-innovation-at-ces-2011/

Hopping on the tablet wagon and getting the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer?
 
reKon said:
Netbook is still so damn small and almost weightless, so I don't know why specifically college students would want touch screen tablets if it's not ideal for getting work done w/o the keyboard (someone I know bought an iPad with some extra money he had saved up, sigh I just don't get it).


So if I wanted the ability to have access to steam (not for graphically intensive games!), play HD video, have access to the microsoft office suite, listen to a lot of music, and being able to have physical keyboard to get work done, multitask at reasonably fast speeds (this is what current gen netbooks still lack), and doing all of this with excellent battery life (6+ hours on a full battery), what would you say is my best option in the future?

Wait until more dual-core netbooks with good perfomance and battery life come out and hope to get one at around $400?

Or should do you think that I should go for something like this: http://ces2011.asus.com/press-relea...viding-choice-through-innovation-at-ces-2011/

Hopping on the tablet wagon and getting the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer?
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Well if you want to do all that then definitely a small laptop or a netbook. I personally don't think a tablet is well suited as your only computing device if you're going to college at this point. I also think it's very limiting if you want to use it for productivity. That could change down the road, but as it stands now, I think tablets are better suited for light weight, quick access consumption of media or Internet.
 
Futureman said:
rooting itself does nothing noticeable though, you'd have to get into custom ROMs and what not which his GF might not feel like messing with.
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ROMs are fairly simple. Messing with radios can get you into trouble though.
 
Ephemeris said:
I really don't want a Verizon exclusive* tablet : (


* aka one where it's only affordable through a 2 year contract.
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I can't imagine Moto not having a Wi-Fi only version.

P.S. Is it a law that every tech announcement press conference must start with Peter Bjorn and John?
 
gkryhewy said:
No?

Why don't you just stick with widgets. Widgets are a meaningful addition.
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Then that's a limiting factor if you can't set a third party browser as your default one. I open things in a browser all the time through other apps. But now I have to keep track of which browser app I was using for which content? That's better than by default Android 3.0 having tabbed browsing? You've gotta be kidding me. Why can't you just accept it's an advantage in favor of Android 3.0?
 
Meus Renaissance said:
Is that Google Chrome I see on Xoom?

https://www.motorola.com/worp/campaigns/coming-soon/USA/
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looks like the new version of music (if you're talking about that icon)

Honeycomb-Music-Player-For-Android.png
 
Marty Chinn said:
Well if you want to do all that then definitely a small laptop or a netbook. I personally don't think a tablet is well suited as your only computing device if you're going to college at this point. I also think it's very limiting if you want to use it for productivity. That could change down the road, but as it stands now, I think tablets are better suited for light weight, quick access consumption of media or Internet.
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Ok because it seems like the ASUS Eee Pad Slider and ASUS Eee Pad Transformer are really trying to bridge the gap here. I mean 16+ hours of battery on the transformer just sounds great to me.

Anyways, it probably will make the most sense for me to get a good netbook and smartphone to take care of all my media needs
 
The icon to the right of GMail's icon. Looked like Chrome to me
 
cnet has been seated

Maggie Reardon: Moto is verifying all registered press before letting them in so this could take a while. The room is big, but the line was long.

Meus Renaissance said:
The icon to the right of GMail's icon. Looked like Chrome to me
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i only recognized it because i've been using it on my nexus one :D
 
reKon said:
Ok because it seems like the ASUS Eee Pad Slider and ASUS Eee Pad Transformer are really trying to bridge the gap here. I mean 16+ hours of battery on the transformer just sounds great to me.

Anyways, it probably will make the most sense for me to get a good netbook and smartphone to take care of all my media needs
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The ASUS Pad and Slider both seem really interesting right now. But both are Android based. If you're interested in Steam, you're going to need something running Windows. Plus I'd like to see how both ASUS devices pan out too. Too early to say, so for now, I think something traditional is the safer bet if you need something sooner than later. I don't think a lot of this stuff will shake out in feasibility until Summer at the earliest with delays pushing a lot of stuff until the Fall.
 
Marty Chinn said:
Then that's a limiting factor if you can't set a third party browser as your default one. I open things in a browser all the time through other apps. But now I have to keep track of which browser app I was using for which content? That's better than by default Android 3.0 having tabbed browsing? You've gotta be kidding me. Why can't you just accept it's an advantage in favor of Android 3.0?
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Christ on a bike, dude. You are correct. Since safari is my default browser, I cannot link out of another app and then tab tab tab away from that link into other things. Of course, I can swing from browser to browser, app to app, etc., at my leisure. To me, this distinction is so subtle that it's giving me a headache, but if it's a big feather in honeycomb's cap to you, great. I'm looking for differentiation that would push Apple. Better external drive support, more robust printing, etc.

It's so hard to avoid being sucked into a completely vacuous debate with you. You originally said that iPad does not have tabbed browsing. It does. If you meant "the ability to change default browsers", you should have said that.
 
gkryhewy said:
I must be missing something. I don't see anything in that video that's superior to iPad in any way, aside from flash support. I mean, it looks great, but it looks equivalent.

(sent from my iPad, which I use as my primary home computer...)
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beaten
 
gkryhewy said:
Christ on a bike, dude. You are correct. Since safari is my default browser, I cannot link out of another app and then tab tab tab away from that link into other things. Of course, I can swing from browser to browser, app to app, etc., at my leisure. To me, this distinction is so subtle that it's giving me a headache, but if it's a big feather in honeycomb's cap to you, great. I'm looking for differentiation that would push Apple. Better external drive support, more robust printing, etc.

It's so hard to avoid being sucked into a completely vacuous debate with you.
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So you don't think making Safari tabbed based on the iPad would be a good step for Apple to take? How about taking the concept of differentiating the experience in a lot of areas to fit the thinking involved with doing something like tabbed browsing to begin with to fit the real estate in other apps.

What Google has showed is just a tease, not a full unveiling of it. I'm sure there is more we don't know about it. But the tease is a good one. I don't know if it'll fully be better than iOS or the iPad, but they certainly are showing how they're tackling the tablet space and it at least seems on the outside to be more compelling than Apple's approach. In practice, who knows what the real story is, but it sure is interesting.

But thank you for taking a clear valid point and trying to argue it for no reason. I didn't start that avenue, you did by trying to discredit it when there was no need. I always thought Apple's line of thinking was streamline, ease of use, etc. Seems funny you argue against that philosophy to try and discredit me by saying multiple browser apps is just as good as a single browser with tabs.

Edit: Replying to your edit. Your stance is almost as bad as saying the iPad or iPhone can do things like change your sound effects if you jail break. Sure there are avenues, but at what expense when we're talking about the base experience which something like the browser is.
 
Marty Chinn said:
Edit: Replying to your edit. Your stance is almost as bad as saying the iPad or iPhone can do things like change your sound effects if you jail break. Sure there are avenues, but at what expense when we're talking about the base experience which something like the browser is.
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a) my edit was about you being an unredeemable contrarian.

b) I don't agree with your analogy at all, but this is going nowhere.

Go tablets!
 
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