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  • codedivine - Friday, August 12, 2011 - link

    Yet another Tegra 2 powered Honeycomb tablet. Where are the other SoC makers? Archos (which uses OMAP4) is the only non-Tegra2 Honeycomb tablet that I know of. Any others?
  • melgross - Friday, August 12, 2011 - link

    I think that for the first round of tablets, Google spec'd the Tegra.
  • JasonInofuentes - Tuesday, August 16, 2011 - link

    Soon.
  • teng029 - Friday, August 12, 2011 - link

    I like the form factor and the hardware, but 329 is still more than I want to spend on this. Make it sub 300 and now were talking.
  • kylesama - Friday, August 12, 2011 - link

    The price doesn't matter if Apple bans selling it
  • Pirks - Friday, August 12, 2011 - link

    Who cares when you have Playbook

    *yawns*
  • JHBoricua - Friday, August 12, 2011 - link

    The real question is, who cares about Playbook?

    We just had our VMware reps. do a presentation on future roadmaps for view 5, their VDI product. They will release clients for several Operating Systems and tablets. Guess which? iPad and Android. When asked about the BlackBerry playbook all they could do was chuckle.

    So much for an enterprise tablet.
  • kylesama - Friday, August 12, 2011 - link

    +1
  • Pirks - Friday, August 12, 2011 - link

    -1
  • Pirks - Friday, August 12, 2011 - link

    Doh, VMWare had no iPad apps either when iPad was just released. Hehe, one solid "argument" here :)) Is that all you got?
  • melgross - Friday, August 12, 2011 - link

    It's more than the fact that they didn't have those apps before, because now that they do, it's goi g to e difficult to convince business to buy something non iPad. Too many industries are beginning to standardize on the iPad, and it's cheap enough so that there would be no reason for them to go to something else.

    GE just came out with an application, and when asked, said that they had no plans to port it to anything else. We'll see that a lot.
  • Pirks - Saturday, August 13, 2011 - link

    Nobody "standardizes" on iPad 'cause only the Playbook got government grade FIPS security certification in the US and other countries. Stop pretending that a few koolaid drinkers are "the industry". A few idiots will adapt insecure iPad, sure, but most will go where the security is ==> Playbook.
  • melgross - Saturday, August 13, 2011 - link

    Forget that crap. Too many industries have already gone to the iPad. Even the FAA has tested the iPad, and approved it for cockpit use. Like it or not, this looks like the early days of the IBM PC. If other tablet manufacturers don't get their act together soon, it will be too late.
  • Pirks - Monday, August 15, 2011 - link

    I'd suggest you forget those few lunatics from FAA, these mean nothing. If anything, your IBM PC reference means business, not consumer, since businesses adopted IBM PC which eventually almost killed consumer orIented Apple. Look for the history to repeat itself - watch business stronghold RIM pwning consumer Apple stuff yet again. I like your business and IBM PC reference actually, very appropriate given the current market situation. I'll enjoy watching Apple stuff kicked out of enterprise by the companies who specialize in enterprise computing, i.e. MS and RIM.

    The sad fate of (discontinued) Apple rack servers who nobody was buying is another proof that Apple has no place in big business and your references to a rare lunatic in FAA are easily overwhelmed by all these news about governments certifying Playbook for internal use, police cars being equipped by Playbooks in various countries, Russian government banning iPad because of security concerns and so on and so forth. Hate to burst your bubble but... all these facts speak for themselves.

    Posted from my BlackBerry Torch.
  • JHBoricua - Saturday, August 13, 2011 - link

    Cause your *yawn* was solid proof enough right? Keep playing with your paperweight, hoping it will catch up. To each its own.
  • Pirks - Monday, August 15, 2011 - link

    Paperweight is actually your empty head, and my Playbook is my primary web surfing/emailing device when I'm on the run and Starbucks or some other free Wi-Fi is nearby. Way better than lame toy browser on iPad that you and your idiot buddies use 'cause they are too dumb to compare and pick the best tablet out there. Hoping iPad 3 will catch up but not hollding my breath.

    Posted from my BlackBerry Torch.
  • Leonick - Saturday, August 13, 2011 - link

    Well if you'd use those eyeballs for ten seconds you'd see Acer doesn't have to worry about their tablets the slightest, neither does HTC.
    Samsungs newer Galaxy Tabs where kind of similar in design, these clearly have their own look.

    That doesn't really help this tablet when it has the price point it does and a battery weaker than that of the Galaxy S 2...
  • seamonkey79 - Sunday, August 14, 2011 - link

    Apple can sue because it's still a rectangle with a screen and a button.
  • Bownce - Friday, August 26, 2011 - link

    +1

    Glad I snagged one of the HP Touchpads.
  • Black1969ta - Friday, August 12, 2011 - link

    Wonder when the tablets sporting the Tegra 3, Kal-El will be released. Nvidia first said Tablet could be out by August, but still not even rumored models sporting the SoC. Wonder if they will even come out by X-mas.
  • melgross - Friday, August 12, 2011 - link

    There seems to be a problem with this Rez screen and Honeycomb. Google has stated that a higher Rez is required for a device to be called a tablet. 1280x800? I don't remember for certain.

    But another site had done a hands on with this "tablet", and found that the Kindle app, and one other, worked, but weren't usable. Apparently, the apps use a fixed Rez, and the screen controls, which are at the edges of the screen, weren't visible, making the apps unusable.

    If this holds true for a fair number of apps, this screen Rez is doomed. I'm hoping to see some reviews soon, because if this is true, then the question of how a manufacturer could be so stupid is one that will have to be asked.
  • JasonInofuentes - Tuesday, August 16, 2011 - link

    So, Google has been fighting this fight for a while. I'm no programmer but I get what they're trying to get across. The easy way to design an app is to make it for one device and program it to that devices specifications (iPhone 2G/3G/3GS, for example). But when new devices are added with differing specs there needs to be a framework to blow it up. Apple did this before launch for the iPad and iPhone 4. Google is doing this with the 3.2 update. But that's an end around solution. What GOOG really wants developers to do is build their apps with no specific resolution in mind. Instead they want targeted densities. They have the framework intact, but it's still a hassle for developers, especially knowing that Ice Cream Sandwich will change that framework again. If Google rolls out ICS and the next generation of tablets follow suit shortly there after then we might see the rush of app development that the market needs for this to be successful.
    So, is this Rez doomed? No, but until app developers start to use the tools available to them we'll all pay the price.

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