Which tablet?
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- Hombre_Lobo0
I'm considering a tablet for Christmas and I have been looking round.
Firstly an 'ipad alternative' is a tricky thing. The major selling point of the ipad (and iphone) is its operating system, which is quite different from android and choosing between them comes down to personal preference and what activities you like to do on a tablet.
I'm currently choosing between the asus eee pad transformer and ipad 1/2, but obviously they are massively different.
For android I was leaning towards an Asus Eee pad transformer -
Great value. Best screen on any tablet (its IPS and on par with the excellent screen of the ipad, but higher resolution which is the case with android devices). smoothest of the android bunch too.
I'm an android fan, love open source, I love being able to install whatever i want from wherever i want with android (i have a bunch of install file apk's on my phones hard drive), and love being able to install apps that don't need to be given the go ahead by apple.
I like being able to back up my android phone completely with a few key presses and a reboot. I like being able to use it plug and play style, like a usb drive, then access and easily browse the files.
(these things may be possible with the jail broken ipad, but I currently dont know)
But also think the ipad is great, its well built, looks nice and minimal, and interface is smoother than android and has more apps (classic arguments). But no flash support, you have to use itunes and doing everything 'Apples way' is quite annoying for me. Great well built products though. (the fan boys and arrogant keynote speeches are another negative factor, but they shouldn't really be a consideration as the products are great)
One thing that does annoy me about android tablets though is that even with dual core they are still not as smooth as the ipad, BUT BUT BUT the most annoying thing is, I could buy an android tablet, take it home and install a much smooth operating system on it created by some random developer. Why the hell cant the interface be smooth by default? My single core phone is smooth as hell and gorgeous.
This does piss me off. if the power of android has doubled recently, why is Honeycomb still a bit laggy.
Tough choice for me. But if i were you i'd go with the asus eee pad transformer. Gets great reviews, and seems to be the best android tab at the mo.
- I like to be able to backup my iOS device wirelessly without any rebooting, and without jailbreaking.monospaced
- *like being able tomonospaced
- you couldn't just write "you can do that on ios too". its clear you love apple, just reign it in a bit mmmkay.Hombre_Lobo
- no, if I wrote that themonospaced
- then I would be saying that Apple's product sucks dick. instead i pointed out how superior it ismonospaced