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How Google Can Make Android Truly Tablet-Worthy

Posted by timothy on from the is-tablet-worthy-a-high-goal-or-low? dept.

With an Android armada on the horizon (or at least expected), reader androidtablet plugs this piece on ways Android could be truly tablet-friendly. Armchair engineering may be easy to knock, but I like the ideas presented here, such as aggressively using the inactive (locked) screen state to display useful information.

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  1. Features Android tablets need by symbolset · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I was thinking I would offer some features an Android tablet might need. I made a list:

    Share screen - for educational purposes

    Ebook reader.

    Internet browser

    Citrix client

    IRDA capture/replay (media remote control apps)

    Skype

    Apparently I'm not very creative. Those things and many thousands more are available in the standard package. Truly inventive stuff is offerred in the app store.

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  2. Re:Focus by TouchAndGo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I believe they're capable of working on both goals simultaneously, and it's entirely possible ideas developed in the creation of a tablet could lead to a better phone OS. Also, it's in no one's best interest for Apple to become entrenched as the only game in town for a decent tablet.

  3. Re:Wrong by Stan+Vassilev · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Apple's "fuck whatever you're doing and quit" key is stupidest UI decision ever made.

    If you ask most people, they wish they had that button on absolutely every device they have to use.