guessing i am the first guppy to buy tablet, koi baat nahen baan jatay hain qurbani ka bakra.
No you are not the first guppy. We have Ipad2 and we are loving every minute of it. EVery now and then, our family goes through a fight on who would use it.
I know that you want Android tablet so cant say much but Ipad2 is awesome. Yes I know that you cant play Flash but I have not miss it at all and we have that from last 2 months now.
I'm in the market for a tablet this summer as well... I was eagerly awaiting the launch of RIM playbook - but haven't been able to convince myself that this is the device I want... I'm now waiting for the HP Touchpad to compare the two. One thing I know for sure is that the IPad isn't going to cut it for me since I'm looking for a productivity tablet and not a utility one.
The new Asus Transformer tablet is coming out next week. My eyes are on that one. Its one of the first Android Honeycomb tabs (Moto Xoom is a bust) out there. The best part is that for an additional $150 you can get a keyboard-dock which also has additional battery boosting the "play" time to 15+ hours.
16 GB, wifi only price is $399. Should be available at BestBuy, B&H, Microcenter etc by this weekend or early next one
PS: I've owned a Samsung Windows XP based tablet since 2005-06. Still going strong.
No you are not the first guppy. We have Ipad2 and we are loving every minute of it. EVery now and then, our family goes through a fight on who would use it.
I know that you want Android tablet so cant say much but Ipad2 is awesome. Yes I know that you cant play Flash but I have not miss it at all and we have that from last 2 months now.
TLK, when I say productive, I’m thinking of the following use cases:
carry the device with me to a meeting and take notes,
hook it up to a projector/TV and run a presentation,
edit a word document while listening to music on the bus/train,
video conferencing with colleagues.
Most of these use cases require true multitasking which the IPad does not support at the moment - partly due to it’s OS and partly due to the hardware memory limitation of 512 MB.
On the applications front, I’m a heavy user of mind mapping software apps online that require flash, so I can’t use the iPad. Lastly, I personally don’t find the IPad to be all that portable either and am looking for a somewhat smaller form factor where I can use my thumbs to type while holding the device in landscape mode.
Tofi… any updates on the ASUS tablet? did you get one? let me know…
it’s still not available in Canada, but I’m keeping an eye on this one since it can do double duty as a tablet or a netbook.
I’ve been doing a lot of that with my HTC Evo. On top of these it has direct access to my Google Apps, guides me with directions AND traffic info if I get stuck, podcasts, phoncalls besides.
Last I checked its still not on shelves and I was impatient. So I went and spent my money on a camera upgrade.
Nikon D5100 should be arriving at my door step any day now