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ClubmanGT posted:Samsung: That price seems insane to me especially when the wifi only version is ~$560 from the same site.
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dissss posted:That price seems insane to me especially when the wifi only version is ~$560 from the same site. Yea I can't figure it out either, but thanks to Samsung being relatively dire at promoting anything but the Galaxy S2/S3, I have no idea if anyone else is even going to stock them here. Then again, PB's price for the Galaxy S3 went up a month before Vodafone announced pricing and it's still the same so maybe that's the actual price they're running with.
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...! posted:So in short: if you're going to buy an Android tablet, just stay the gently caress away from the Kindle Fire. I bought a refurb fire for $140 and a ipad 1 off ebay for $240 and ended up returning the fire. The ipad 1 was 10 times the tablet of the fire, I could not recommend staying away from the fire more after playing with an ipad 1.
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Jun 20, 2012 15:00
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Jerk McJerkface posted:I live in NJ and work in NYC. I take public transportation for an hour each way, and transfer trains. I also right a lot of other public transportation (subways, buses, metro trains) to and from clients, so I see a decent cross section of people, in an environment where a tablet is really handy. I sort of make it a point to look around and see who has what tablets and make a mental note. I've very rarely seen a 10" Android tablet though.
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Jun 20, 2012 15:19
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I'm in DC and ride Metro all the time and I see lots of iPads, Kindle Fires, and an occasional Nook Color. I saw a Xoom once, but not on the Metro. I don't think I've ever seen any Samsungs, and there's one guy I've seen a couple times with a Playbook. And I have a friend who got a firesale Touchpad.
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Jun 20, 2012 15:22
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The 1080p (1920x1200) Acer Iconia A700 is now in stock in Black and Silver.
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The Merkinman posted:I live/work in NYC and see quite a few 7" tablets (not counting basic black and white e-reader), maybe slightly more than I see iPads. I can't tell what 7" tablets they are since they're usually in a case, could be Kindle Fire, Nook Color, Galaxy Tab, etc. Maybe because on a crowded train standing up the 7" is easier to hold? That's very odd. I see an overwhelmingly larger number of iPads. I'm going to start keeping track and writing it down.
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I've seen all kinds of devices on the subway and the PATH. I even saw someone using one of those Dell Streak things, and someone with the Coby Kyros. Mostly though I see people reading a regular e-ink Kindle device or maybe a nook e-ink device, with occasional iPads.
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Jun 20, 2012 16:17
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I've legitimately never seen anyone with a tablet in public. I've never seen an android phone that's not a droid X either.
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Mister Snips posted:I've legitimately never seen anyone with a tablet in public. Only time I've seen tablets in public has been at the airport.
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Jun 20, 2012 19:49
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My local restaurant has an arcade machine that drops electronic gizmos as prizes, the 4th prize is a kotoyo froyo tablet. The first prize is an ipod nano. Never seen anyone go for the easy tablet prize.
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Stick100 posted:I bought a refurb fire for $140 and a ipad 1 off ebay for $240 and ended up returning the fire. The ipad 1 was 10 times the tablet of the fire, I could not recommend staying away from the fire more after playing with an ipad 1. gently caress that noise; I'm gonna get an iPad 3.  Just found another complaint about the Kindle Fire: apparently it absolutely will not allow you to ever change the cover image of an e-book. I don't like how the cover of one of my books looks, so I set out to fix it today. Thirty minutes later, it's still not fixed and I'm tearing my hair out in frustration. I changed the cover in Calibre (and even converted it from mobi to mobi to make sure the change "stuck") but the Fire still only shows the original cover even though it's been deleted in Calibre. I even removed the book from the Kindle and resynced it but it still shows the old image. This is something that should be simple but would probably take a factory restore or jailbreak. I should be surprised but I'm not. 
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Changing ebook cover images is the #1 feature I look for in an e-reader.
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Jun 21, 2012 00:42
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...! posted:gently caress that noise; I'm gonna get an iPad 3. I think this is a problem with the Kindle software. I managed to do it in Calibre though. First I changed the book cover, then converted it to mobi (again). Lastly I opened it in the Kindle desktop reader (I don't know what this changes, but this step makes it work correctly). Also make sure the Kindle software on the Fire is up to date before you re-load the books.
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I've only seen a tablet once in the wild. It was a guy at Walmart using his iPad 1 to grocery list with the Notes app. That was the one and only time. If the Google tablet is good, I'll probably be doing the same thing. Or playing Dungeon Raid and roaming the forums with tethering which is much more likely.
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ThermoPhysical posted:I've only seen a tablet once in the wild. It was a guy at Walmart using his iPad 1 to grocery list with the Notes app. That was the one and only time. Excluding air travel, the grocery store is the #1 place in public that I see people using tablets. Which seems like a place that a phone would actually be better, but whatever floats your boat, I guess.
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Where do you guys live, the middle of nowhere?  I see at least 10-15 people using tablets on the train to work every day. Most of them iPads. Though I did see 1 Galaxy tab and a Playbook.I mainly use mine for Kindle books and Google Reader. Wish AT&T would hurry up and get LTE in Philly though Also I wish there were more than like 10 good (non-game) tablet apps. Is there any reason we can't use this thread as an Android Tablet app thread since it's android-specific now? Not like there's any amount to post about as to need their own thread 
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There's a 24hr coffee shop in the foot of my office building, with a university library across the street, a technical college down the block, and a film school within two blocks. So I see a lot of tablets is what I'm saying.
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GoodApollo posted:I think this is a problem with the Kindle software. I managed to do it in Calibre though. First I changed the book cover, then converted it to mobi (again). Lastly I opened it in the Kindle desktop reader (I don't know what this changes, but this step makes it work correctly). Either I'm really loving retarded or this Kindle desktop reader is the least intuitive program in the history of mankind. I can't even figure out how to add a book to it and there's nothing in the help file.  This just makes me want to ditch my Kindle quicker. It's becoming an awful loving lot of work for something that should be simple and straightforward.
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...! posted:Either I'm really loving retarded or this Kindle desktop reader is the least intuitive program in the history of mankind. I can't even figure out how to add a book to it and there's nothing in the help file. Or you could just read the books and not sperg about the cover.
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golgo13sf posted:Or you could just read the books and not sperg about the cover. Some people like having a neat and organized library with all of the proper covers on them, myself included. Also as far as book covers go on Kindle, I can get mine to recognize whatever book cover I give it in Calibre, but I am using the Kindle app on my Galaxy Tab, so maybe they do things differently? Porkchop Express fucked around with this message at 16:10 on Jun 21, 2012 |
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I guess you guys don't go to a lot of coffee shops? I only see iPads in those, though 
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Around here it's either iPads or cheap chinese knockoff stuff sold under local russian brands for people who don't want an iPad for whatever reason. Those mostly run Android 2.3 with vendor-specific horrible skins on top. I'm yet to see at least one proper 10" android tablet in the wild, tons of them in the shops, but I guess not many people buy them.
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I only see macbook pros and hilarious dell laptops. In fact I've really never seen anyone with a mac laptop that wasn't a pro. But I know more than a few people who bought the 17" macbook pro simply because they wanted a bigger screen so i think people don't even consider the old plastic macbooks/airs as real computers  Living in civilized podunk countryville is pretty weird
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That is weird, since I probably see 13" Macs most of all Macs (though that's split up among Pro, aluminum non-Pro, Air, and plastic), but probably see work-issued Dells more often than anything else.
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I've never seen an Android tablet in Boston in the wild, never seen a portable video game being played either, thankfully.
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Quick question for you ereader app users. Do any of these ereader apps have an autoscroll function? I've been using this because it's the only one that I've found with an autoscroll function. Everything else about the program is pretty terrible but autoscroll has spoiled me to the point where not having it is a deal breaker.
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got dat wmd posted:I've never seen an Android tablet in Boston in the wild, never seen a portable video game being played either, thankfully.
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I've only seen old psp's in the hands of very very awkward and dirty looking teenagers and rarely playing games. I mean like, they're listening to music on their psp-1000 or browsing the internet. iPod touches literally go for $50 at this point. Jesus christ.
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EgillSkallagrimsson posted:Quick question for you ereader app users. Do any of these ereader apps have an autoscroll function? I've been using this because it's the only one that I've found with an autoscroll function. Everything else about the program is pretty terrible but autoscroll has spoiled me to the point where not having it is a deal breaker. I haven't used it and I don't know how to activate it but I just checked and Moon+ Reader has autoscroll with five different scrolling options.
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...! posted:Either I'm really loving retarded or this Kindle desktop reader is the least intuitive program in the history of mankind. I can't even figure out how to add a book to it and there's nothing in the help file. If you're using the actual book files just right click, open with. Mobi files automatically open in Kindle reader for me. If you have Calibre set up to just send the files over to the device there's a link on the side bar (when you have a book selected) that says "Path: Click to open."
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The Kindle reader application for Windows/OS X has nothing to do with adding books to your Kindle or Kindle app on a phone/tablet, if that's what you're trying to do.
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Vykk.Draygo posted:I haven't used it and I don't know how to activate it but I just checked and Moon+ Reader has autoscroll with five different scrolling options. Yeah, this app seams to have everything I was looking for. Now if I can just figure out how to activate the autoscrolling function. It sure would have been nice if their website had a manual/faq or, really, anything more than a feature list.
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Kazy posted:Is there any reason we can't use this thread as an Android Tablet app thread since it's android-specific now? Not like there's any amount to post about as to need their own thread Apps I use a lot: Work: Evernote Skitch - for annotating photos. ezPDF Reader Dropsync (Dropbox client that actually loving syncs files) Astro (file manager) for navigating my work-related files. CoPilot USA for offline GPS. Traffic Cam Viewer - in case I need to dodge Seattle area traffic. Thumb keyboard - since Swiftkey X for tablets blows, this is a drat good keyboard. DTMF - handy if you're in telecom, useless if not. Not work: 3D Earthquake - not all that useful, but pretty and fun. Chase app so I can see how little money I have. Screen Filter - dims the screen beyond the stock slider - useful for keeping the wife happy. Screebl Pro - keeps the screen on as long as I'm holding the tablet at an angle other than horizontal. Taptu, Distro and Currents - eMagazine apps Dolphin browser - sucks less than stock, has excellent plugin support for Lastpass and Xmarks and can run Flash, unlike Chrome. Jewellust, Angry Birds, GTAIII, Dead Space, World of Goo, Minecraft PE, Osmos and Netflix for time killing. EDIT: gotta add Shortyz for crossword puzzles when I'm feeling like an old man. Kynetx fucked around with this message at 02:49 on Jun 22, 2012 |
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There is an Android tablet-specific app thread but it's kind of dead.
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EgillSkallagrimsson posted:Yeah, this app seams to have everything I was looking for. Now if I can just figure out how to activate the autoscrolling function. It sure would have been nice if their website had a manual/faq or, really, anything more than a feature list. Click in the middle of the screen to bring up the options bar then click on the play button.
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Kazy posted:Where do you guys live, the middle of nowhere? If you don't take public transportation, it is pretty drat rare to see a tablet in public. In fact, unless I took public transportation, I wouldn't buy a tablet. The only ones I see usually are the ones bought by the military, 64 gigs to hold 150 megs of tech data for training reasons...
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TLG James posted:If you don't take public transportation, it is pretty drat rare to see a tablet in public. In fact, unless I took public transportation, I wouldn't buy a tablet. The only ones I see usually are the ones bought by the military, 64 gigs to hold 150 megs of tech data for training reasons... Actually, I'd feel safer using a tablet in public than on public transportation here. On most of the public transportation here, no one even takes out their smartphones or iPods for fear of it being stolen.
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Are there any Tegra 3 tabs that have an IR port out now or due out in the near future? I do a lot of electronic repair work on the side and sometimes I need an IR remote to access various settings/menus, etc. I'm looking to upgrade my tablet and it would be super if I could also retire the ancient PDA that I keep around for this purpose, too.
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I haven't heard of any with IR built in, but the Irdroid module ought to work with any of them.
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