Android Tablets Were Born Too Soon

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday February 6, 2011 @08:08PM from the before-there-time dept.

adeelarshad82 writes "When you look at the Apple iPad's sales figures, it's not hard to see why every technology company on the planet is jumping on the tablet bandwagon, a lot of which are Android tablets. Unfortunately though, some of these Android tablets were born way too early. They are haunted with a series of problems including flimsy hardware, low-quality resistive touch screens, serious display resolution issues, and old Android versions with limited or non-existent access to apps. Even the Samsung Galaxy Tab came well before its time. Even though it's fast, well-designed, and comes with a decent Android implementation, its functionality is limited to that of an Android smartphone. So here's to hoping that Honeycomb's functionality make up for the lost ground."

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Re:What's interesting about Android by supremebob · 2011-02-07 00:14 · Score: 4, Informative

No offense, but if you ever TRIED using an iPhone 3G with iOS4, you'll quickly find out that Apple would have been better off cutting off upgrades for that device at version 3.
The interface goes from being perfectly usable to damn slow, and applications running on the phone constantly run out of memory and crash.