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Craptacular! posted:Some people on AVSForum called Sony to ask, and they had to contact the TV engineers because they didn't know either. They should have called the marketing department since I doubt the engineers even knew
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# ¿ Jan 22, 2012 02:53 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 21:59 |
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BonoMan posted:Definitely gonna see what's in store there, but I just have a feeling it's gonna be a tad more expensive than what I want. We'll see. Your time must be worth nothing then
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# ¿ Jan 28, 2012 00:58 |
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The time you spend making your purchase halfway usable X $0/hr = $0 edit: let me clarify I don't know about you but my time is worth at minimum $50/hr. If I spend 2 hours just dicking around on XDA, figuring out how to root the device, installing custom ROMs etc, that $100 worth of time (2 hours for the mathematically challenged) pays for something that none of that was necessary for. That's just for the basic Android fuckery that every one of you advocate when something invariably isn't working correctly out of the box. Then you get into this situation: SlayVus posted:Sending my Prime back for RMA... The only service center in the US that services Primes is the one in Grapevine, TX. After reading this thread I called ASUS back ten minutes after receiving my RMA email. Which is when I discovered the aforementioned fact about bing the only repair facility. How much is your time worth then? Because you're losing a hell of a lot more than 2 hours. Just-In-Timeberlake fucked around with this message at 14:44 on Jan 28, 2012 |
# ¿ Jan 28, 2012 14:26 |
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E2M2 posted:Thats a lot of charity work you're doing in YOSPOS Actually I post at work and get paid for it, owns. BonoMan posted:I'm not sure what you're on about. Here's what I mean, and I'm not trying to be caustic about it. If the base iPad3 is $100 over your budget (admittedly a guess) what is your time worth if you buy a tablet in your budget that takes you 4 hours to make usable? Or if it's defective, go through the runaround making a That is what I mean, what is your time worth? Is it worth the difference between your budget and a device that works as it should. Let's not even make this iOS vs. Android. Let's make it Android vs. Android. If by some miracle Google themselves unfucked Motorola Mobility and came out with an Android tablet that out of the box worked as it should, had good build quality and had some measure of quality control but it cost $100 more than any other Android tablet. Now is your budget still the deciding factor?
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# ¿ Jan 28, 2012 18:30 |
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Ciabatta posted:Every non-iPad tablet is not a Nook Color or HP Touchpad that needs to get hours of time put in to be fully functional. Even those are a one-time hit of maybe 30 minutes or an hour to get a super cheap, mostly full-featured tablet. For a more "real" tablet, I'm not sure why you think it takes four hours to open a box and turn the thing on. I think you're ridiculously overestimating the hassle this involves. I may be overestimating the time, but in all seriousness, how much time should be invested into wading through the very first page on XDA. I'm including that time in my estimate.
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# ¿ Jan 28, 2012 18:57 |
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Matlock posted:I'm really confused at the Acer A200's positioning. The screen looks nice, they bumped it from 1GHZ to 1.2GHZ, the back is a nice leathery vinyl texture, and there's a promise of ICS in February. Personally I'd rather they in put better front facing cameras. Note the general "they", as I mean every tablet manufacturer.
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# ¿ Jan 30, 2012 20:05 |
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hotsauce posted:This. Asus is capable of making a solid tablet like the original Prime was. The TF201 is the exception. Your sample size is 2, hard to call 50% the exception.
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# ¿ Feb 3, 2012 22:11 |
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The Angry Spaniard posted:Posted 18 minutes ago on FB by Asus. It's a typo, that should read "Twice the Attention TO Detail"
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# ¿ Feb 23, 2012 20:53 |
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randyest posted:Where did you get that idea? Wherever, it's wrong. Does iSuppli take into account the price Apple most likely gets or is that if you or I decided to build a tablet by going to Radio Shack?
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# ¿ Feb 28, 2012 02:50 |
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chocolateTHUNDER posted:I think at this point Android tablets in general need to step it the gently caress up. Cut the cheap hardware, shaky software etc and actually try and compete with the iPad. This won't happen as long as people consider the iPad overpriced.
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# ¿ Mar 1, 2012 21:10 |
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bull3964 posted:There has been evidence that ONLY LTE upgraded Xooms are going to get the update moving forward, so it would make sense for them to delay the push until all the upgrades are done. What possible reason could Motorola have for doing this. This is a serious question btw.
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# ¿ Mar 8, 2012 17:08 |
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Codiusprime posted:That makes sense. No it does not. God help me I am actually agreeing with Rastor.
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# ¿ Mar 8, 2012 19:27 |
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bull3964 posted:Maybe, but prior to the removal of Toro and Stingray images from Google code page (when they removed CDMA devices) only LTE upgraded Xooms would work with AOSP complied code. That is mental. I can see not including features that only apply to a tablet with 4g, but these are effectively the exact same tablets with 1 difference. It's absurdity on the level of Monty Python. Xoom owners should be livid. Are you guys seriously just that beaten down that you can't muster up any outrage anymore?
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# ¿ Mar 8, 2012 19:51 |
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Splizwarf posted:What has outrage accomplished so far? Nothing I guess, but a good yell can be very therapeutic
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# ¿ Mar 8, 2012 20:02 |
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bull3964 posted:Why should there be outrage? There have been 9 months send your Xoom into Motorola to get it upgraded to LTE and it's a quick 4 day turnaround to get it back. If you haven't done that, I doubt you are very interested in the ICS upgrade too. Really? I'm not trolling here, I am trying to figure this attitude out. Say you bought your Xoom sans 4g and then realized "poo poo, it's nice and all to have 4g I guess, but I don't really see myself needing it", so you don't bother with the upgrade. This does not dump you in the category of people who don't care about ICS, you might very much like OS updates without caring about 4g. And now you are poo poo out of luck? C'mon man, it's the same loving device. You write code for 4g and check if the chip is available.
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# ¿ Mar 8, 2012 20:18 |
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Super Aggro Crag posted:Just got my taxes back today. Unless you guys can point out a better tablet for $300, I think I may buy the Samsung 7.0 Plus this weekend, ICS be damned. This is just a bad idea, I'm not the guy to do it, but somebody else in here stop him.
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# ¿ Mar 10, 2012 14:40 |
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Everyone in here is giving that guy bad advice. The only advice he should be getting is "you cannot afford to pay attention, much less buy a tablet at any price. Save your money until you actually have expendable income"
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# ¿ Mar 11, 2012 18:32 |
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Codiusprime posted:And if this thread has taught me anything its that different price points don't matter because if you can't buy a 64gig lte iPad 3 your a poor and don't deserve to have electronics. Finally you guys are talking sense
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# ¿ Mar 12, 2012 14:08 |
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Netbooks are the worst answer to a problem in the history of computing.
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# ¿ Mar 12, 2012 21:27 |
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fondue posted:
Do you people ever recognize your cognitive dissonance or do you generally need someone to point it out.
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# ¿ Mar 16, 2012 13:57 |
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fondue posted:Maybe you don't know what cognitive dissonance is? It means that someone is holding two conflicting beliefs. My mistake, I read that as recommending an Asus tablet but cautioning against buying an Asus tablet.
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# ¿ Mar 16, 2012 14:36 |
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Take it to the Asus store
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# ¿ Mar 30, 2012 18:59 |
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Take it to the ASUS store. (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
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# ¿ Apr 2, 2012 20:31 |
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dissss posted:The restarting thing is, but the ports getting wonky after a while is normal with anything if you're not careful especially the headphone port. No, it's not. I've replaced plenty of headphones because the jack is a great source of failure but going over the multitude of electronics that I use headphones with I can honestly say the headphone port has never been an issue, even on my lovely Captivate.
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# ¿ Apr 23, 2012 12:57 |
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I hope you buy your mom that tablet and she disowns you. I'm not saying you have to go the iPad route (you should) but don't bargain-bin shop for your mom dude.
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# ¿ Apr 27, 2012 19:16 |
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Jizzle Drizzle posted:So I bought a Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 a few weeks ago, and I've found that if I don't use it for a few hours, it shuts off completely, requiring me to reboot it. No, just no.
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# ¿ May 11, 2012 01:01 |
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Radbot posted:Priceless. I think I'm quoting that word for word in the near future. Please do and report back to us about how you were laughed out of the party.
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# ¿ May 22, 2012 04:14 |
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Jerk McJerkface posted:Absolutely. I now have a Samsung galaxy tab 2 7.0 that I'm playing around with. I like the seven inch screen. It fits nicely in the pocket of my jacket or pants. I have a mile and a half walk each day to the train that I take to work, and I wear a suit two or three days a week so having my tablet fit in my pocket so I don't have to carry a bag is nice. I'm returning that this weekend though. I'm going to wait for the Galaxy Note 10.1 next. Since, you know, it has a stylus. I hope you get banned for life from every electronics retailer on the planet.
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# ¿ May 25, 2012 02:37 |
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Doctor rear end in a top hat posted:You can do better than that. How about this: Splizwarf, your ship has come in
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# ¿ Jun 4, 2012 19:46 |
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All those rare earth metals, gone, like tears in the rain
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# ¿ Jun 14, 2012 14:41 |
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Thermopyle posted:Correct. I imagine Sex Parrot deals with it by drinking a lot
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# ¿ Jun 14, 2012 20:23 |
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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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# ¿ Jun 21, 2012 13:04 |
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hypersleep posted:I'm not sure if this is a dumb question, as I don't keep up with Android stuff, but how long would it be before I could buy a Nexus 7 at a reduced price? iPads have really good resale value, I'm not sure if it's the same for Android tablets...? It's $200 dude, that's impulse buy money.
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# ¿ Jun 29, 2012 12:18 |
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Chas McGill posted:I've never had these problems with the Royal Mail, but whenever I buy something that's shipping with City Link/DHL/Fedex/DPD or whatever, I have the exact same bullshit problems that you lot just described. Privatisation seems to encourage poor service, rather than the other way round. I'm sure the bean counters at FedEx/UPS have figured out exactly how many deliveries need to be done per day and at what value point they can disregard needing a signature where the cost of replacing the item is cheaper than getting those deliveries done.
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# ¿ Jul 12, 2012 16:03 |
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Hoppin Tin posted:This is one of the most goony threads I've ever followed. You actually have a better than 2% chance of getting an official update.
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# ¿ Jul 13, 2012 20:34 |
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General_Failure posted:That's awful. I was expecting that it had a really high quality build. Please correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't it meant to have that Gorilla Glass stuff? If so then how are people applying enough force to re-adhere / pop back the screen? either way that's a pretty serious issue. You were expecting a high quality build from Asus of all companies? Your Ainol Elf is probably made better.
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# ¿ Jul 17, 2012 13:54 |
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kitten smoothie posted:Yes, and what's better is the serial number reported in the Settings screen is not the same as the serial number printed on the label. I just don't even know where to start here.
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# ¿ Jul 17, 2012 20:14 |
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computers posted:At what point do people stop buying from a company like Asus? Right after they stop buying from Samsung
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# ¿ Jul 17, 2012 20:31 |
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atehist posted:Apparently the screen on my Nexus 7 cracked on its own today. I was using it this morning, left for work, and came back home to find the screen unresponsive with a crack running diagonally. I have only used it for a few hours watching a few movies and browsing the web. Good luck convincing Asus/Google that happened.
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# ¿ Jul 19, 2012 23:52 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 21:59 |
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Rastor posted:I'm curious what your reaction will be if he has a wonderful customer service experience. I would be amazed even if Apple were to replace it without AppleCare
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# ¿ Jul 20, 2012 00:05 |