• Google eyes Apple in tablet war
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Watch out Apple, Google is stylin' on you.
Honeycomb is gonna be awesome
Looking forward to this.
It'll be cool if this results in a decent tablet for just general computeresque usage. The iPad just feels like a large iPhone and has a real restrictive vibe to it.
to the shops! il buy a honeycomb
Man, it's crazy how Google went from being just an efficient search engine to being a huge company that makes tablet computers and operating systems for them.
[QUOTE=Murkat;27849436]Man, it's crazy how Google went from being just an efficient search engine to being a huge company that makes tablet computers and operating systems for them.[/QUOTE] What I've found amazing is that they've become a verb, 'yeah just google it'
If it won't fit in my pocket its not worth while.
Wait, apple made a tablet? All I keep seeing are iPhones and iPod XL's
I can't wait till this "Tablet" fad dries up.
I hate tablets [del]that runs a proprietary or a mobile operating system[/del] in general.
tablets are the bridge between a mobile phone and mobile computer they'll become both in a bit, so they won't be going away
[QUOTE=Giacomand;27876496]I can't wait till this "Tablet" fad dries up.[/QUOTE] Agreed. They're like netbooks, but less practical and more expensive.
fuck im high
[QUOTE=09'er;27876743]If google somehow looses this, they will just buy Apple and shut them down.[/QUOTE] what did you even think about that sentance or what [editline]5th February 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=09'er;27876743]fuck im high[/QUOTE] no you're just dumb
iOS needs a big redesign for tablets if it's going to be anywhere near as good as Honeycomb, they can't just slap on a bigger screen and go :smug:
[QUOTE=smurfy;27879468]iOS needs a big redesign for tablets if it's going to be anywhere near as good as Honeycomb, they can't just slap on a bigger screen and go :smug:[/QUOTE] Unfortunately they can, with the kind of people buying their products. I still remember it, [i]"NOBODY is going to buy an iPad"[/i].
As soon as 3.0 tablets drop to around the £150 mark, I'm buying one!
I hate touchscreens for anything remotely related to typing, so I'm not a tablet person. Unless they make one with a slide-out keyboard based on the IBM model-M. But then it wouldn't be a tablet anymore.
I have my Cr-48. I would rather have that over a tablet.
I love how apple called the Android OS on a tablet like a phone without the phone. That's pretty much a double edged sword if iOS is the exact same thing on the iPad as it is on the iPhone. However with Honeycomb things the tide has changed.
[QUOTE=Xion12;27885746]I love how apple called the Android OS on a tablet like a phone without the phone. That's pretty much a double edged sword if iOS is the exact same thing on the iPad as it is on the iPhone. However with Honeycomb things the tide has changed.[/QUOTE] It isn't nearly as noticeable with an iPad though, because you have tens of thousands of apps made specifically for the iPad, which make good use of the extra real estate. When you get an Android tablet though, really all you have is phone apps blown up to a bigger size.
[QUOTE=Veers;27887332]It isn't nearly as noticeable with an iPad though, because you have tens of thousands of apps made specifically for the iPad, which make good use of the extra real estate. When you get an Android tablet though, really all you have is phone apps blown up to a bigger size.[/QUOTE] If you actually watched the press release video, you would see that Honeycomb introduces several new UI systems specifically for tablets, and allow for that same system to appear just fine on a smaller phone. (application fragments, those new widget views, most rendered things being hardware accelerated, etc.) I don't know if the iPhone/iPad SDK has any iPad-specific graphical systems, so I can't actually draw a comparison myself. But do remember that for a while when the iPad was first released, apps would literally be blown up to a larger size until the developers released an update. They mentioned in the video that if you followed their style guidelines, your app would scale up and look decent on a tablet. And Android OS on a tablet is like a phone without a phone, but with google talk/google voice built in instead, giving it phone and video chat capabilities. iOS on the iPad is like a phone without a phone, and without any built-in alternative.
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