On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Bruce A. Locke <[email protected]> wrote:
> My personal recommendation would be to wait. The gTablet ships with > Android 2.2 which was not designed with tablets in mind. The first > Android OS version to be designed for tablets was Android 3.0 (aka > Honeycomb) and it often feels like a prolonged beta test. Honeycomb > was a nasty hack to get a tablet out to compete with the iPad2 and > will never run on a cellphone. Also Google intentionally never open > sourced the Android 3.x codebase. Thus any third party replacement > ROMs for your tablet will either be based on Android 2.x (bad) or > horrible hacks of binary "ports" from a Honeycomb tablet (worse). > Thanks Bruce I had run across this review on Amazon<http://www.amazon.com/review/RVECOCVGBVJ3X/ref=cm_cd_pg_oldest?ie=UTF8&cdForum=Fx17HABORV328Z2&cdPage=1&asin=B004EPV7TK&store=pc&cdSort=newest&cdThread=Tx2OOK8L6VEQCMO#wasThisHelpful> - he mentions that system was pretty bad out of the box, but a ROM update made the system work well and notes that Gingerbread is "on the way". What I don't know is - will Gingerbread be an entirely different device, or a flash to the existing system? If a flash, then it could be worth jumping a little early. If not, I certainly can wait. > A propaganda video showing off some of the new UI feel: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrYZDWuBptI Very nice. Thanks. I have a Thunderbolt now - generally really like it (hey - I am comparing it to a Storm 1, so my standards are low!), but while watching a CNET review of the 6" ViewSonic device, it was amusing to see that they just splatted the Android system on a 6" device with no phone, and didn't bother to take out the phone bits :-) Apparently, the gTablet is a bit more refined - no indication that it has any phone bits left in. (There's an amusing bit in the video with the reviewer trying to use the thing as a phone....) My home PC is getting quite old (10 years?) and my Linux system is a (free!) Thinkpad of similar age - both starting to show their age. I'm in a position where I could pick up something new, have been kind of wondering if a tablet would be reasonable and this one certainly is at a very nice price point. Other thoughts on the gTablet or advice/suggestions otherwise are welcomed. JackC > -- > Bruce A. Locke > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > Nov 2 - POV-Ray and The Relativity Train > Dec 7 - An Intro to Chef > Jan 4 - Recovering the Brownfield: Revitalizing Open Source Projects > -- Eschew obfuscation and pompous prolixity. Light a man a fire, he is warm for the night. Light a man afire, he is warm for the rest of his life.
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