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| Thread ID: 126850 | 2012-09-21 02:53:00 | Android tablets | QW. (15883) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1302531 | 2012-09-21 02:53:00 | Just been looking at some Android tablets on Trademe. Are Android tablets any good? Looking at purchasing one to see what Android is like to use. |
QW. (15883) | ||
| 1302532 | 2012-09-21 02:58:00 | Go into a shop and have a play on a display model. They are very similar to the fruity tablets to use and more open. I'm using an android tablet to post this as it happens. Just avoid the no name brands and resistive screens, try to find one with android 4 (ICS) or newer. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1302533 | 2012-09-21 03:13:00 | Yes, they are good. As dugimodo said, avoid the really cheap ones. My advice would be to forget about trademe, and pick up a new nexus 7 unless you really want a 10 inch screen. The nexus 7 is cheap, fast, light, thin, very slick to use. For $439 (for the 16gb model from Noel Leemings) it will give you a great android experience. Also it has the latest software, and being a nexus will get updates quickly. Just my :2cents: |
Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1302534 | 2012-09-21 03:41:00 | I love my Samsung :) | Zippity (58) | ||
| 1302535 | 2012-09-21 03:46:00 | SWMBO - just got one of the lenovo 10.1 Tablets. This one here - gallery shows more views (shopap.lenovo.com) Its the end of line model, but the new ones are coming out soon, SHE wanted it NOW - so she got it ("Read as " told me to order it), Got it at a good Dealer price :) - She loves it, esp the pen options, can write on it like a piece of paper. Its running ICS (4.0) | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1302536 | 2012-09-21 03:46:00 | I take a couple of tablets every morning, no robots so far....:D | KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1302537 | 2012-09-21 03:55:00 | Personally I'd suggest avoiding the el-cheapo no-name brand ones and get yourself something from a reputable brand. As mentioned get something running at least Android-4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) or ideally look at something like the Nexus 7 (Android-4.1 Jellybean). I imported my Nexus 7, landed for around NZD$270. Go have a play with them at your local Harvey Norman store or similar. I had that Lenovo one for a week or two at my last job, they were pretty cool, though the stylus felt a little bulky. Definitely was oriented towards more business / corporate / document usage. IIRC it was running Honeycomb when I used it, just before ICS came out. Probably one of my more fav tablets back when I was reviewing them all! |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1302538 | 2012-09-21 04:09:00 | I have had my Asus Infinity TF700T for a week now and really like it. | CliveM (6007) | ||
| 1302539 | 2012-09-21 04:30:00 | I am very happy with my Nexus 7 . My wife recently bought an iPad, but I definitely prefer the Android OS (the Nexus 7 is running the latest version 4 . 1 . 1 - Jellybean) to iOS . I get really frustrated with her iPad but find the Android OS quite intuitive . I nearly rejected the Nexus 7 because it does not have an SD slot, but there are a couple of apps you can use now called Nexus Photo Viewer and Nexus Media Importer that allow you to connect a pen drive with either an OTG cable or adapter . I am using one of the latter ($US2 and free delivery to NZ for a pair) and a micro pen drive . I also tried it out this am with our USB camera card reader attached and could import all the photos on the SD card into the Nexus, which will be handy when we are next overseas . This system also means that I can expand the memory capacity of the Nexus 7 - at the moment I am using a 16Gb micro pen drive (just because it is smaller), but if I use a standard pen drive I can use a larger stick (I have one that is 32Gb) . I also use Dropbox, so I can keep media there, and access them from the Nexus . If you want to use your tablet as an ebook reader, the Nexus 7 works very well - to my mind it is just the right size for a reader . The Nexus 7 does not show up in your PC as a drive with an assigned letter, because it operates on MTP - it shows up like a camera instead . This used to mean that Calibre would not recognise the Nexus and deliver books to it, but the Calibre developer has recently released an update so that they now play nicely together . The developer has tested it with Win 7 and Vista, and supports both of those OSs, but he will not support WinXP . However, it worked straight away for me on WinXP . There is only one problem with the form factor of the Nexus 7 - quite a number of apps still haven't been re-developed to work with that size screen . Two are Libanywhere (which our library uses for searching the catalogue and managing our account) and the newish National Bank app doesn't work . Those are the only two I have found thus far that irritate me . |
John H (8) | ||
| 1302540 | 2012-09-21 05:40:00 | I imported my Nexus 7, landed for around NZD$270. Go have a play with them at your local Harvey Norman store or similar. DSE have the Nexus 7. Same as what you have got? www.dicksmith.co.nz |
QW. (15883) | ||
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