Android Tablets

[Wild Banchi ACE - Master]

Does anyone own/played around with an Android powered tablet, yet? I think they're actually pretty cool. Today I went to Staples and noticed the Motorola Xoom and Dell Streak 7 tablets on display.

I went with trying out the Streak 7 because it was the closest to me. You know, that thing is actually pretty cool! A good size and pretty easy to work. I didn't know it had a camera, so that was kind of cool. And it's pretty much just like my phone, so there's more Android at it's finest!

[JFizDaWiz]

100% of my posts are posted from my xoom since I've gotten it back in March. it replaced my netbook

[Wild Banchi ACE - Master]

Sweet. I'm using an iPod Touch to post here, but it's not Android, unfortunately. The Xoom is also neat-looking. I thought it would be much larger in person than when I saw it in commercials/advertisements, but it actually didn't look very big yesterday - almost the perfect size for a tablet.

[JFizDaWiz]

yup perfect size. heavier than the other honeycomb tablets but its built tough and not flimsy at all.

[Ann154]

The Samsung 10.1 Tab looked pretty nice too. Especially the ones that were given away at Google IO 2011. Or the Asus Transformer tablet.

[Rounin]

I saw that ATT is suppose to be getting a 10" HTC tablet w/LTE this summer. It's got the code name Puccini and is based on the HTC flyer which has the stylus.

PhoneArena has more details.

[Wild Banchi ACE - Master]

Interesting... Sounds Italian?

[RicoLX]

How did i miss out on this good topic? I was in Detroit over the weekend (my grandmom funeral)..... WB, you know my take on the android tablet Dell Streak Tablet/Phone!

[Wild Banchi ACE - Master]

Yes. It has a good compact size for a phone, while it has nothing to hide and lots to offer as a "tablet".

[RicoLX]

Yep, even today it still feels new! Then again all androids are just as customizable. I tried playing with my old tilt and the screen does seem way too tiny.

[Ann154]

This Android tablet is looking tempting now too. Choices, choices.

http://www.androidcentral.com/toshiba-talks-about-thrive-latest-101-inch-android-tablet

[RicoLX]

I am drooling.... Very nice.

[Wild Banchi ACE - Master]

Not too bad looking. It looks sort of like the Xoom and iPad, in a way.

[RicoLX]

Yeah, like a combo of the two. Its got the hugest screen, I like it. They keep up the size war and we will be back to the laptop

[Ann154]

I like the Toshiba tablet because it's smaller model has a nicer price point and includes a full size sd slot and other ports. Things that are still missing officially from the Xoom.

[RicoLX]

Toshiba has good products too, so they will do well in the tablet arena

[Ann154]

I am beginning to think I need to hold my urge to get a tablet until at least the months before Christmas. There should be quite a selection then and hopefully some lower prices.

All I know that I want for sure is the sd card support, dual core, decent ram, min of 8 GB internal memory, wifi and as close to stock Honeycomb as I can get. It can be a 7" screen and I would be satisfied. 10" would be better of course.

[RicoLX]

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Ann154 wrote:
I am beginning to think I need to hold my urge to get a tablet until at least the months before Christmas. There should be quite a selection then and hopefully some lower prices.

All I know that I want for sure is the sd card support, dual core, decent ram, min of 8 GB internal memory, wifi and as close to stock Honeycomb as I can get. It can be a 7" screen and I would be satisfied. 10" would be better of course.

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"That thing got a HIMI?.. Vrrrrrooooom! " I do agree, that would be the ultimate tablet, with all that juice! By December, some tempting devices should be available!

[JFizDaWiz]

my xoom has all ofthat. granted I had to root and use a custom kernal to access the sdcard slot but it works lol

[Ann154]

And I would prefer to not have to root every android device that I own.

[RicoLX]

I havent rooted the streak yet....... But starting to get tempting

[Wild Banchi ACE - Master]

I would never root my Captivate or any other future Android phone I may have. Sacrificing the warranty is too risky as a prepaid user if my phone ever were to conk out on me unexpectedly. Leave the roots in the ground!

[Ann154]

I only did on the my first android phone because it was going to be stuck with Eclair (2.1) and it was easy to do. I waited until I had it for over a year, too. I was considering it on the Aria if I had kept it. The current phone is stock and staying that way until I get Gingerbread for sure. I will re-reevaluate at that point and research the exact process then.

[Ann154]

Oh! I think someone just upped the ante on the tablets wars.

http://m.androidcentral.com/archos-announces-pair-g9-android-honeycomb-tablets

Price Point! internal memory size! Need more details, but I love it!

[RicoLX]

Ohhh no they dihh-int try and out do MYyyy Dell streak! But looks like they did, and THEN some . How come other countries get these new toys long before we get to see one in any US stores? I is mad

[Ann154]

Yeah, my jaw dropped when I read the price and the availability of that size of hard drive. Now if it has memory card support and usb drive support... *rubs palms together* so tempting

[RicoLX]

I am about to defect over

[Ann154]

Defect over? Huh?

[RicoLX]

Lol, with a nice screen size as that, and the specs along with thag great price? Id probably make an easy defect from the streak to one of these. But I just love the phone/tablet combo of the streak

[Ann154]

You can always use the Streak as your main device and get a wifi version of those tablets.