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7-inch Google Tablet Coming From ASUS
First time accepted submitter Sez Zero writes "Google and ASUS have been collaborating on a co-branded 7-inch Android tablet, with a launch as early as May, according to sources, challenging low-cost rivals and the iPad with a $199-249 price tag. The fruits of the partnership, whispered to the runes readers at DigiTimes by industry sources, will take on the NOOK Tablet and the Kindle Fire, with ASUS selected for its willingness to flex to Google's requirements."
Which hurts the quality of the product and hardware. This has been a huge problem with Android - customers don't really know if they get a good product or not. When they get iPad or iPhone they know exactly that they will love the experience. Android ecosystem is a complete mess.
Android needs Horsepower and memory. 1 gig ram, dual core 1.2ghz processor, and at LEAST a 1024x768 screen res to be any real competition.
If this does not have all of those, it is a failure as I can buy one of the other android tablets from a better company name, you can get the Samsung or Motorola tablets at Staples for $299-$399 right now and I know that hardware is better than ASUS.
Come on ASUS, you guys used to know what you were doing. Now it's a year late and a processor core short.
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Count me in for four at least for my own house, and as many for gifts for Christmas.
I'm ot sure where you're going with that 1984 rhetoric though. This stuff works for us, it delivers modern innovation - and yet it lets us do with it what we will. That's not the same thing at all as the dystopian vision you portend.
Have you some credible source, some study or even some analyst to call dire outcomes? Surely you must. Your fear, show me it.
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Actually it's quite the opposite. Every device Google has had a personal hand in designing has been one perfect experience after the other. It is typically the handset manufacturers who are unable to code decent software, then the carriers who load the devices up with junk that ruin the experience.
I have an ancient phone, yet I run CM9 on it. It is far smoother than phones twice as expensive, rather new, and spouting features like dual core processors depending on who had a hand in making the software.
I for one am excited about what google can come up with in this partnership.
Has anyone seen an Android vs Linux performance comparison?
Android on tablets may actually be a nice sneak gate to native Linux usage on tablets.
Maybe I'm weird, but aside from not caring until they hit <$200, the main thing missing from tablets that I might otherwise be interested in is GPS. If I buy a tablet, I want to be able to use it as a portable map (with better resolution than "you're somewhere within a mile or so of here") and maybe the occasional "augmented reality" application (e.g. Mixare). That's not ALL I'd want it for, of course, but its lack drops a tablet below my level of interest. Am I the only one? (And am I mistaken, or would adding GPS add no more than perhaps $2 to the marginal cost of each tablet these days?)
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Android OEMs have struggled by themselves but with Google's help and Asus' engineering they could come up with something really great at a price point that is easily palatable by people not well off enough to afford 4 and 5 hundred dollar plus devices.The naysayers should wait until something is delivered before throwing irrational hate at a piece of circuitry and glass they've never even touched.
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It can't take on the iPad with Fire-like specifications.
Actually it can and for two reasons. First of all, it isn't competing in the same price range as the iPad and judging from the success of the Fire and Nook, there are millions of budget conscious tablet buyers and there are likely many millions more. Secondly the specs of the Fire are fine. It's just loaded down with Amazon's UI gunk and an older build of Android that doesn't have the modern features of Ice Cream Sandwich and soon to be released Jelly Bean. The biggest issue being lack of video acceleration in the Fire. My Nexus s has this and with inferior specs to my GF's Fire it runs rings around it. Some people have installed ics on their Fires and reported marked improvements in performance. With the right mix of marketing, hardware and price here Google and Asus could have a very compelling proposition for the consumer and I'm excited to see what they will do.
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Are they going to make it part of the Nexus series? Lemme see... Nexus Slate? Nexus Tab?
There many things to worry about in this world all the way up with the existential things like war and famine. Getting ads that might actually show me something that appeals to me in exchange for the great things Google provides I'd pretty far down on my list of fears. Matter of fact I'll have to check but I'm pretty sure it didn't even make the cut.
The soylentnews experiment has been a dismal failure.
You could always just not buy it. You could probably completely ignore it and be just fine.
The soylentnews experiment has been a dismal failure.
Oh no I'm being overwhelmed with choices!
Apple got one thing right on ipad3 ... high res. High enough for movie playback to have acceptable quality at last. Manufacturers figure it out: there is a large segment of the population waiting for tablets that do at least 1080p natively so they can be used to watch movies.
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Choices can be good in concept, but a market flood of them just dilutes things and you end up with a lot of crap with nothing being of any real value.
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Mod parent up. If you've lost root, well, erm, whoever has the password has full control, why bother installing a trojan?
Seems silly to me - just install whatever payload you need, customize it to the compromized box.
The tablet with the best battery life is running Android. Try to keep up so you don't look silly next time.
The soylentnews experiment has been a dismal failure.
Well... If that's your problem, you have bigger ones...
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It's rarely about preferring Android phones. And even where it is, it's mostly an uneducated preference. When Android owners are asked whether they will buy another Android in future, most say no. Amongst iPhone owners, most say they will buy another iPhone.
This is just not true.
"83 percent of current iPhone users intend to buy an iPhone again this holiday season; 81 percent of Android OS users said the same."
Source:
http://allthingsd.com/20111212/youth-is-wasted-on-the-young-and-so-are-consumer-electronics/
Too small for useful use and too large to be portable. Awesome.
Maybe 2-8 choices are cool, but a flooded market is a nightmare to navigate.
You must go apoplectic in the cereal aisle.
The soylentnews experiment has been a dismal failure.
If those are the actual effects _on_you_, I strongly recommend suicide as you are wasting useful oxygen.
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...with ASUS selected for its willingness to flex to Google's requirements.
Maybe I'm missing something here but didn't google purchase Motorola not so long ago?
Does Motorola not make tablets themselves?
How can ASUS be more willing to flex to Google's requirements over Motorola?
Unless perhaps Google has others plans for Motorola?
I wish the article had said something in regards to this.
It's not about android, that's been around for a while and lots here use it. It's the android fanbois on top of the idea that... It's an Asus hardware. I mean, seriously... We all see their quality and flare for superior hardware design, right? (/tongue-in-cheek humor)
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Such an accurate source.
If those are the actual effects _on_you_, I strongly recommend suicide as you are wasting useful oxygen.
He's not wasting useful oxygen, he's converting it into much more useful CO2.
We need a "+1 -- nice sig" moderation.
Don't bother replying to him. There's a reason why he gets modded into oblivion every time on Slashdot.
He's off his meds again.
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Ha ha ha. Hey, stupid. I just got around to bothering to check your links. Have you even read them? In all of them I'm owning you and getting modded up while you are sitting at 0 and -1. What a jackass. That's your problem Alexander. You don't check your work. That's why you are the host file and secunia "troll". When people fact check you you're always wrong. That must do terrible things to your psyche.
The soylentnews experiment has been a dismal failure.