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Galaxy Tab 10.1 Judged 'No Match For iPad'
tripleevenfall writes "Clayton Morris reviews the Galaxy Tab 10.1, and finds it lacking, especially at the $400 price point, saying 'I can't in good conscience tell you to go out and spend $400 on this half-baked experience when the fully baked iPad experience can be had for just a few dollars more.'"
Who is Clayton Morris?
Of all the different reviews of the 10.1 on the net why is this short, incomplete article from some-one i've never heard of so important?
My favorite part was how he said he didn't like it. I also liked how all 65,000 apps were junk. Methinks there's an apple in his pocket.
Any reviewer who can say "Samsung has included about six apps of their own on top of the standard Android package. Subtract them and you're left with a bunch of shoddy applications that aren't really made for Honeycomb" and then never even discuss these apps is either a moron or an Apple fanboy. Since the review is on Fox News, I'd tend to the former. But I do tend to see this crap when ever somebody compares something to the iPad. One reviewer once said that the Blackberry pad was too small at 7" and then turned around and said another pad (I don't think it was the Tab, maybe the Zoom) was too large at 10.1". I do think Honeycomb is too soon and not ready, but these reviews are worse than useless.
This article sucked even by my nuthugging standards.
Ars Technica has a much more detailed review. All and all, it sounds like a nice device if you don't want an iPad.
The thing that struck me reading the review (and they commented on this very well) was just how much work seemed unfinished. A couple of times they mentioned "(blah blah blah) but Samsung says that will come in a future update." The amount of "it'll be here later" on the products launching lately seems horrible. How many features on the iPad were listed on the box and in the marketing material but didn't come out until a later software update? How many were there on the BlackBerry tablet? Even the Nintendo 3DS did this.
Comment forecast: Bits of genius surrounded by a sea of mediocrity.
If you want an iPad-like experience then OBVIOUSLY iPad is the way to go. Vice versa, if you want an Android experience Galaxy Tab 10.1 is a very good, solid choice.
Sheer flamebait article.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/08/samsung-galaxy-tab-10-1-review/
They griped about no SD card slot, but gave it a 8/10. I'd trust them a hell of a lot more than Clayton Morris...
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Coincidentally, I was just playing with one at Best Buy today, and I have to say that it doesn't suck nearly as much as other iPad competitors. But that's somewhat damning it with faint praise. The interface is still much more sluggish and choppy than an iPad. The screen still doesn't feel nearly as precise. Given that the price is the same as the iPad, there really isn't any reason not to get an iPad, unless you really just hate Apple. Yes, it does run Flash (and the Flash ads work very well), but other than that, I didn't see anything it did that the iPad didn't do better. And they STILL haven't figured out that widescreen sucks for this form factor because it makes portrait orientation useless.
That said, it doesn't give nearly the "They have got to be kidding me with this piece of crap" feeling that previous attempts at iPad competitors give (like the Playbook, for example. My GOD what the hell were they thinking? Absolute garbage.)
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
You must not be familiar with how Fox works. "Fair and balanced" is a slogan, not a description. Similar to how McDonald's could start calling themselves "the healthy choice", only for some reason people take Fox seriously.
or "news for nerds" or "stuff that matters".
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
FTFR:
...Samsung has included about six apps of their own on top of the standard Android package. Subtract them and you're left with a bunch of shoddy applications...
What the hell does that even mean? Why would you 'subtract them'? If they suck, say so. But to just toss out a part of the product and say what's left is bad is just moronic.
There are a bunch of other Android apps, of course -- 65,000 of them or so -- but very few quality ones, and there are very few application developers who are really sinking their teeth into this platform at this to date.
So, there are 65,000 apps, but few developers? Also, he keeps going on and on about apps, but doesn't give a single example of what is wrong with even one of those apps, or what critical apps are missing. Who let this guy on the internet?
I'd be happier if I could run windows 7 on it, and I'm sure there's a way
It's not as hard as you think. Just take the Windows 7 source code and recompile the whole thing for ARM. Sit back and enjoy a glass of root beer and let the compiler do the rest.
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I have nothing against Apple, in fact I love the Macbook Pro, but this is definitely a biased review. I bought a tablet a few months ago, and I set out for the store fully intending to buy an iPad2. After comparing all the tablets on hand, I came home with the Motorola Xoom. Honeycomb is awesome, and the hardware kills the iPad in every department. It also runs Flash, very well. You can jump on the bandwagon and bash Flash and pretend you don't need it, but the fact is that Flash is a very useful tool when used properly by competent developers, and there are plenty of things online I enjoy that require it. Now, I understand that the Xoom and the Galaxy are different devices, but the Xoom was SO much better than the iPad, that I find it really hard to believe that the Galaxy is as bad as this review tries to make it out to be.
Interesting story. Sounds like pure FUD since you are suggesting that you could not find a free FTP client under 20MB in size? Really? If you did not completely make it all up then it sounds like the network connection on your Nexus One kept on crapping out before it could finish the download. Blame your shitty carrier or your shitty android phone that cannot maintain a stable tether.
BTW, were you trying to get photos off the iPad? You don't need FTP for that, just email them from within the photos app.
I would guess that your post was pure fiction.
Jesus was a compassionate social conservative who called individuals to sin no more.
So fair and balanced would be where the reviewer raves about how awesome the Android tablet is while ignoring its shortcomings?
Jesus was a compassionate social conservative who called individuals to sin no more.
Why are you on /.? Windows 7 on ARM? Hand over your geek card, and good luck trying to get Honeycomb to run on your obsoleted Galaxy Tab.
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Personally, I think far too many people have got lost in all the hype & marketing over tablets without stopping to think about the possibility that maybe they're just gimmicks anyway, whether iPad or Galaxy Tab.
Smartphones provide a lot in the way of communications, IM and playing music, their weaknesses are down to the screen sizes if you want to play a reasonably good game or watch some video.
A notebook or netbook has the bigger screen to do that, plus it has they have tactile keyboards so you can do serious work on them - something a tablet is not very good at.
So whilst a tablet would fit somewhere between a smartphone and netbook, it clearly is unable to replace either which means it just becomes a third device to carry around with you. And I thought the whole premise behind portability was being able to carry around less.
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Wow, the article seemed a bit biased, but your comment has convinced me that the tab doesn't compete with the iPad at all.
If the experience is so bad that first you modded it, and then you thought "actually windows on this would be better", there's something seriously wrong. The thing that made the iPad a thousand times more successful than its predecessor tablets was that it didn't use windows (or any desktop OS), and wasn't handicapped by its UI being designed for people with mice, and accurate pointing devices.
If honeycomb is so bad that you'd rather go back to that shitty world, the iPad must be a long way ahead.