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Android Tablets Were Born Too Soon
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."
Seriously. It reads like an Apple fag whine.
1) Tablets are NOT being adopted by many tech companies because they are worthless for doing actual work on.
2) Most Android based tablets kick the crap out of the iPad, hardware and software-wise.
3) Resistive touchscreens are superior to capacitive touchscreens in many ways.
4) Calling the Samsung Galaxy Tab a glorified Android smartphone when the iPad is just a glorified iPhone is ridiculous and hypocritical
Even trying to watch a film on the iPad is painful, what with its obsolete 4:3 aspect screen. adeelarshad82, go back to using your iPad for the only thing it's good for, posting what you had for breakfast on Twiitter.
what motorola or sony handset hasn't been rooted? I can see you're a bit of an apple minded individual, which tells me that we're not talking on the same level of consciousness.
what android phone hasn't been rooted by now? hint: all phones have. Unlike apple's "you have to jailbreak and lose features to gain features", doesn't happen that way with android. You think the original iphone 3g can run the latest OS? Oh right, nope. Meanwhile, how is the original android phone doing? Running cyanogenmod latest version just fine.
I agree that all tablets are a bit of a joke at this moment. I mean look at the xoom. $800? anything above $400 for a tablet is a fucking joke.
Meanwhile, ipads are equally crap, not worth their money, and who really wants something on iOS? Ipad was simply first, but that doesn't mean they are better, just that they had a lead. People who buy an ipad simply don't know better, that no tablet that exists right now is in good shape for use. I mean really, reading, board games? get a laptop/computer to do it better and cheaper. There's pretty much nothing that a tablet does better at the moment other than simply being in a different form factor.