The iPad pretty much has the tablet market all to itself at this point, since no serious competitor has yet been released. We've been teased to death with the first real competitor, a device from Samsung called the Galaxy Tab. It has been officially unveiled today, and it indeed looks like the first serious competition to the iPad. It runs Android, naturally.
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I came across this guy's rant in a slashdot comment that came out when Apple announced new iWhatevers.
http://pineight.com/mw/?title=Android_pod_touch
For price... I'm sure it'll be over $300.
I skimmed the article (ctrl-f) and couldn't find any mention of android market; probably won't have it.
Is this because Market / gmail / youtube / maps is only for Google blessed devices? Has Google blessed any android device yet that is not a phone?
Oh well... at least this one isn't stuck on a 1.X release.
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"...By virtue of running Android 2.2, it also includes all the Google apps like Navigation and Latitude, and can access software from the Android Marketplace."
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2010/09/samsung-announces-galax...
it has the android market
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As a new iPad owner, the purchase glow still hasn't worn off for me, but I find mine quite useful. I use it at work and at home all the time, I ride the bus too and from work, so I use it then, too. The onscreen keyboard has taken about a week to get used to, and as a hundred word per minute touch typist, it does feel a little slow to me, but that'll probably come with more practice. It's certainly not meant to replace a full time computing device like a notebook or a desktop, but it's still pretty cool.
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For me the big thing is weighing up getting this or a Kindle once it is made available internationally - I hope that we'll see this made available internationally instead of the usual rip off programme by so many vendors where they refuse to sell to small countries like New Zealand :-(
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It seems the upcoming German MeeGo tablet "WeTab" is outselling iPad in preorders (in amazon.de):
http://www.geek.com/articles/gadgets/wetab-pre-orders-outpace-ipad-...
http://liliputing.com/2010/09/neofonie-wetab-now-runs-meego-linux.h...
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Ze Germans will often go their own way when it comes to tech.
They had a majority Firefox share years before the EU declared that IE dominates because it is bundled with Windows. Ze Germans were buying Windows just as much as their neighbors which made this explanation sorely lacking.
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Can someone explain how "Full HD video playback" can be achieved on a 1024x600 display?
If it can't display 720P I wouldn't call it HD video playback. There should be a lawsuit.
The resolution isn't there.
With this logic someone could sell any tv as a HD tv because the cable box will downsample the HD signal.
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For all the complaints about apple there are a few things that they have got right. The biggest in my view is their strength against the carriers... what do you I mean? The answer is simple. On all the apple wireless products there is no bloatware, no carrier cruft, they don't hold back updates waiting for some monkey to check that the bloatware works at a satisfactory level.. When I look over the fence at ALL of the competing mobile platforms they are all suffering from the same poor reputation with users for the simple fact that the carriers and handset manufacturers are contaminating the experience with either bad software that they install, holding back the software updates required to fix stuff... the list goes on and on and on.. Now we have the Galaxy tab and all I can see it offering is a bigger screen to install more bloatware... The carriers are going to love it.. 300 pieces of bloatware running on the same screen at the same time... intead of the usual 50 pieces. AWESOME!!!
Common Samsung, HTC, Motorola, Nokia.. Get a grip users don't want the carrier to install software, hold back updates until it suits them.. we are not talking about phones here.. we are talking about SMART Phones.. they are more PC than phone.. </end rant>
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Well, I'd rather see this problem being solved by people buying handsets from the manufacturer or from carrier-agnostic stores, instead of buying "carrier-blessed" phones.
The advantages are many and obvious :
-No more bloatware
-Updates for everyone
-People have a better understanding of how much each device costs
-Carriers can't use "but we reimburse the handset" as an excuse for forcing people to stay 1-2 years with them
-Carriers can't use it as an excuse for their pricing either
Edited 2010-09-06 08:29 UTC
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