We just got a few Galaxy Tablets at work (the 7" ones). The IT guys went crazy and seem to love them. I'm still thinking about the Nook myself..
Jonathan On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 7:18 AM, Richards Jr, Edward C. <ecricha...@fbd.com>wrote: > I bought a Nook Color, rooted it and installed a pre-release version of > Honeycomb that one of the XDA guys packaged. It seems to work just fine. > I use it every day for work and pleasure. For $250, it is a steal. You > may want to look into roming the gtablet. Wish Google would go ahead and > release the source to HC. > > Ed > > -----Original Message----- > From: general-boun...@brlug.net [mailto:general-boun...@brlug.net] On > Behalf Of Brad Bendily > Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 9:33 PM > To: general@brlug.net > Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Android tablets? tabloids? tabdroids? > > So. I did buy an iPad2 (for the wife). It's cool, speedy, screen is > decent (could have been better). Aside from iOS, it's probably the > best tablet on the market. > However, i decided i wanted an Android tablet for myself. And, if so, > honeycomb > was/is the way to go. A buddy of mine bought a Xoom. It's really nice, > also speedy, > nice screen, honeycomb is nice, cool widgets that iOS doesn't have. But > the 3g > model was more than i wanted to spend and I don't think i'll use the > service. So, i > was going to wait for the wifi only model. Then woot came along with the > Viewsonic gtablet for $280. Which as Tim said previously, is the > tegra2 dual core chip. > Same hardware as the xoom just about, except for the screen. I don't > have > the gtab yet, supposed to be here tomorrow, but for that price it > seemed like a really > good deal, considering the hardware. Also, as Tim said, there is a > pretty big > modding/following at xda. There are about 6 or so different roms all > of which claim to be > more speedy/responsive than the default OS. So, even though it won't > be honeycomb, > it's still android and is pretty quick. > regarding the 3 links below. Apparently the Adam Ink has shipped, but > there seems to > be a lot of questions surrounding that tablet.They're still not taking > orders and a lot > of folks had concerns about the ones that did ship, and I think people > are still waiting > for some of their orders. > I've never noticed before, how there was so much talk and hype at the > trade shows > and then all of these tablets never show up. sucks for the consumer. > but hey, there is always duke nukem forever to look forward to! > bb > > > On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Brad Bendily <bend...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I've found a few mid price range that I like. Maybe given some time > these will > > be solid viable options. > > > > http://www.openpeak.com/OpenTablet10.php > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_tablet > > (this one is supposedly shipping. not sure how long new orders will > take) > > > > http://www.innoversal.com.tw/en-us/products/lattice.aspx > > (this one is cool cause it list Ubuntu as an OS) > > > > > > -- > Have Mercy & Say Yeah > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General@brlug.net > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General@brlug.net > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
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