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Scaramouche posted:Have more details on this. It must be the A501 because my friend is saying that it's SIM card based and there was no rocket stick. I talked him around and he got the Galaxy Tab instead; to tell the truth he didn't need much convincing he just had to had to lift them. Thanks for the help guys... now to figure what the hell I'm going to get... I watch a lot of video so I'm thinking the Prime will be better but I can't even think of affording it for quite a while anyway. Luckily they're in stock all over finally in Canada.
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Just chiming in with my $.02 on the Transformer Prime I received as a late Christmas gift. It has inspired a lot of thought in me about technology and the future. For one, ICS is god damned amazing. The tablet actually ran noticeably faster after the update, which is new to me. The motions required to interact with the OS not only make sense, they come naturally. Visually, there's something about it all that just makes it beautiful. I can't quite pin it down. But then I used my parents' iPads. They both bought iPad 2s about a month after it came out. I quickly found that the iPad is almost always nothing more than an iPhone with a magnifying glass over it. There's literally a button to control what level of magnification you'd like. It's pathetic. ICS doesn't have that. There are many apps that weren't designed for use with a tablet, but you'd never know it by the way they're displayed. You can switch between the standard "Stretch View" and the iPad-like "Zoom View" if one works better than the other. I know dick about Android development, but I know that most menus are coded in XML, which might explain why everything scales better. All in all, I'm just loving amazed. I'm still not sure exactly where a tablet fits into my lifestyle, but I'm excited to find out. Also, games on Android are awesome: 
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Gorilla Salsa posted:But then I used my parents' iPads. They both bought iPad 2s about a month after it came out. I quickly found that the iPad is almost always nothing more than an iPhone with a magnifying glass over it. There's literally a button to control what level of magnification you'd like. It's pathetic. Gorilla Salsa posted:I have long hated Apple products for a variety of reasons that will be saved for another post Star War Sex Parrot fucked around with this message at 00:52 on Feb 7, 2012 |
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Feb 7, 2012 00:43
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Gorilla Salsa posted:I just knew I was going to rue the day that I would walk into an Apple store and reluctantly ask for an iPad. The smug douche of an Apple employee that I imagined would grin and offer me AppleCare, and I would just hate it all. quote:Also, games on Android are awesome:
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Feb 7, 2012 00:59
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:Almost every app that matters has a universal or iPad-specific version now, so your opinion is pretty skewed by year-old impressions. Star War Sex Parrot posted:No one cares.
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Gorilla Salsa posted:An any apps that aren't planning to support iPads or are abandoned will look like poo poo forever because the technology isn't there to help with that. The same isn't necessarily true with Android. Pretty much the only apps I've found that don't scale too well are select games that weren't really good looking in the first place.  If that looks good to you, then to each their own.  Gorilla Salsa posted:Well aware, I didn't say that I was going to post any of that soon, but glad you can get off on being a jerk.
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Feb 7, 2012 01:08
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:Almost every app that matters has a universal or iPad-specific version now Dear Apple fans: We are not impressed by your ability to buy separate iPad-specific versions of your apps. In the Android ecosystem, every app runs on every form factor, which means we don't have to buy our apps twice. Love, The Android Tablet Thread
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Feb 7, 2012 01:10
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Neither do iPad owners. Most apps are universal, meaning they run equally well on both phones and tablets.
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:
Haha, you've got me there. Skype tends to suck on every platform I've ever used it on, though, so I'm not exactly surprised. That said, I guess I should amend my claim to say that they look alright compared to what I had seen on the iPad before. This video seems to demonstrate what I had experienced.
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Rastor posted:Dear Apple fans: You're an android user: you never paid for the app in the first place. OR You're using android: obviously you aren't impressed by apps. Pick one.
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Plenty of phone apps look like absolute poo poo when I try to run them on my tablet, regardless of what scaling/stretching/whatever I set. If being able to sell it again was what spurred developers into making properly functioning and looking tablet versions of their apps, I'd be fine with paying for that.
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zachol posted:Plenty of phone apps look like absolute poo poo when I try to run them on my tablet, regardless of what scaling/stretching/whatever I set. If being able to sell it again was what spurred developers into making properly functioning and looking tablet versions of their apps, I'd be fine with paying for that.
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In my experience as someone who had an Android phone until fairly recently, there are more high quality universal (iPhone and Android) iOS apps than there are decent quality (tablet optimized or not) Android apps total.
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El Duke posted:I can post ill informed comments based on either out dated information or gross exaggeration too: Both, that's ~*~freedom~*~ (something you wouldn't know anything about)
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Rastor posted:And I thought the "I don't mind being ripped off, I'm supporting the platform!" thought pattern was only found among deluded BlackBerry fans. I don't care about supporting the platform. If I'm going to use an app, I don't want to be distracted by how it looks like poo poo. I'm willing to pay money for it to not look like poo poo. How is this a hard concept to understand?
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Feb 7, 2012 01:27
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Dred Cosmonaut posted:Neither do iPad owners. Most apps are universal, meaning they run equally well on both phones and tablets. Not always true
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Man i'd hate having to pay that much twice.
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"Apple is great because most apps are universal apps. Some apps you have to buy twice for phone and tablet, but that's also great, because it looks great and I don't mind giving Apple even more of my money! We have always been at war with Eastasia!"
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I have to agree that I wouldn't care about paying twice for an app that was properly formatted. But decent scaling makes it so that an app that was developed in some teenager's basement while high doesn't look like total loving garbage until the end of time.
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Gorilla Salsa posted:I have to agree that I wouldn't care about paying twice for an app that was properly formatted. But decent scaling makes it so that an app that was developed in some teenager's basement while high doesn't look like total loving garbage until the end of time.
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:“lol skype.jpg“ seems slightly better on my Touchpad. Seems they've updated it since then. Phone in landscape for comparison:  Touchpad: 
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El Duke posted:why would you give a poo poo about an app like that in the first place? Users get attached to all sorts of dumb things. Whole corporations run apps that are completely abandoned and incompatible with software released even just a year or two after development. Things happen.
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Vagrancy posted:Touchpad:
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Rastor posted:"Apple is great because most apps are universal apps. Some apps you have to buy twice for phone and tablet, but that's also great, because it looks great and I don't mind giving Apple even more of my money! We have always been at war with Eastasia!" I too hate it when people get paid to put considerable effort into a app designed for tablets instead of just not giving a poo poo about quality instead.
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Gorilla Salsa posted:I have to agree that I wouldn't care about paying twice for an app that was properly formatted. But decent scaling makes it so that an app that was developed in some teenager's basement while high doesn't look like total loving garbage until the end of time.
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nmfree posted:All I want is to use a Bluetooth headset Skype, is that too much to ask for? Works for me on my evo. I'm wondering if that's a device fragmentation thing.
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Gorilla Salsa posted:I have to agree that I wouldn't care about paying twice for an app that was properly formatted. But decent scaling makes it so that an app that was developed in some teenager's basement while high doesn't look like total loving garbage until the end of time. Scaling doesn't always work, you know. In fact from my experience, scaling is often the worst solution.
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I helped my buddy set up the Galaxy tab he got. It's really nice; far easier to handle than my Xoom was and now (unlike last August when I had the Xoom) there's actually working RDP apps!  I'm tempted to jump on this generation now maybe since it seems to do everything on tin now, as opposed to then.
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Vagrancy posted:“lol skype.jpg“ seems slightly better on my Touchpad. Seems they've updated it since then. Phone in landscape for comparison: 
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Did you just link to an app that has a free iphone-optimized version and a free ipad-optimized version to explain why it's better to have one single app that looks like these sparse and ridiculous-looking skype-on-android-tablet screenshot examples? What is going on in here? Every one of these skype screenshots looks ridiculous even the ones that people are apparently posting as examples of not looking horrible. I'm so confused
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:That's because the Touchpad is 4:3 so there's not as far to stretch it in landscape mode compared to some other tablets. Skype hasn't done anything. Ah, forgot about that. Probably down to a 16:9 tablet owner to post a screenshot then. At the very least they went out of the way to disable to Stretch/Zoom toggle, so maybe they've tweaked their .xmls since to make the elements bigger. randyest posted:What is going on in here? Every one of these skype screenshots looks ridiculous even the ones that people are apparently posting as examples of not looking horrible. I'm so confused I didn't say wasn't horrible, just marginally less horrible. 
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Vagrancy posted:Ah, forgot about that. Probably down to a 16:9 tablet owner to post a screenshot then. At the very least they went out of the way to disable to Stretch/Zoom toggle, so maybe they've tweaked their .xmls since to make the elements bigger. Android Tablet Thread: The next one is just marginally less horrible.
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My Linux Rig posted:Works for me on my evo. I'm wondering if that's a device fragmentation thing.
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At the rate you people are going this thread is going to be force-closed more often than my phone.Henry Meowlins posted:Android Tablet Thread: The next one is just marginally less horrible. Also this.
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Cakefool posted:At the rate you people are going this thread is going to be force-closed more often than my phone. Android tablet thread: force closes more than a kyocera android.
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The fact is that Apple devs essentially have 2 resolutions to worry about, while Android? poo poo, who knows, it's at least half a dozen and it's only going to get higher once the rumored "super-res" tablets start hitting. So it's inevitable that Android apps are going to be worse at phone/tablet portability. It's no shock that even major app makers go with the mindset of "eh, not offensively horrible, ship it".
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So glad we have such a ruthless and efficient iPad defense force in this thread. Gots to keep those uppity Android users in line, God forbid they enjoy the product.
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Something's been bugging me; why the rush to retina displays? I have a 15" Toughbook with a 1900x1200 display and the pixel density is too high. I find myself leaning in and squinting all the time. A 10" or 7" tablet would be miserable.
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