Thread: Tablet Computers, which one and why?

Originally Posted by Butterfly

The Kindle B&W seems better for reading, not sure about the purpose of the Kindle Fire

(1) Colour.
(2) Video.

Although if you read what I posted in the Kindle Thread, there is a Kindle Colour reader mooted.

Persoanlly I use an AVR 328 to do the cleaver stuff round the house, fully operational computer, no screen but, only costs about 220B, 500B with ethernet

Originally Posted by hazz

500B with ethernet

some more info maybe ?

PoE ? what other interfaces do you have to play with ?

arduino

Essentually its a 28 pin microcontroller which can flash its own flash. Its allowed this group to construct a programming environment which allows people who are surprising ignorant of both programming and electronics to do surprisingly advanced shit... even artists!

At the moment I am using a mix of ethernet, and serial. But I am planning to migrate to use some 2.5G transever modules based on chips seem to be available in china for about 2-3 GBP. There is a library that allows you to build a wireless mesh network out of these modules.

Originally Posted by Butterfly

The Kindle B&W seems better for reading, not sure about the purpose of the Kindle Fire

I own both, and I'm still trying to figure out the purpose of the Fire- it sucks for reading, and is marginal for web browsing.

agreed about the fire

seems like just marketed on the back of the Kindle

but not really better than anything else

It's an Amazon Delivery device, pure and simple, with a couple of extra bells and whistles to attract the tablet newbie.

Why do you think Apple are talking about coming up with a 7" ipad at a knockdown price?

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Why do you think Apple are talking about coming up with a 7" ipad at a knockdown price?

because the the 7-inch ASUS Eee Pad MeMO ME370T is ready to go

wifi , quad tegra processor , sub $250 USD and android - rumor is it may end up as googles nexus jellybean tablet

Originally Posted by baldrick

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Why do you think Apple are talking about coming up with a 7" ipad at a knockdown price?

because the the 7-inch ASUS Eee Pad MeMO ME370T is ready to go

wifi , quad tegra processor , sub $250 USD and android - rumor is it may end up as googles nexus jellybean tablet

No, because the Kindle Fire is easily the best selling Android tablet out there, and every Android tablet sold is an ipad not sold.

Fifty-four per cent of all Android tablets are Amazon Kindle Fires, according to research from ComScore. The second most popular tablet, Samsung's Galaxy Tab, has 15.4 per cent of the market.

Although Amazon's Kindle Fire runs on the Android operating system, it uses a 'forked' version of the OS, meaning that it has been customised by Amazon and looks very different from a standard Android installation.

Other Android tablets making ComScore's list include the Motorola Xoom, which was the third most common tablet, with 7 per cent share, the Asus Transformer, with 6.3 per cent, and the Toshiba AT100, with 5.7 per cent.

Amazon has not said how many Kindle Fire tablets it has sold but it does say that the device, which was launched in the US November, is the most popular product the company offers. The 7-inch tablet sells for $199.

^ Have you look for the Kindle secrets, like how to select the network and shit?

They sounded very put out when I phoned to moan about their inaccurate 3G maps, and told them I knew exactly what it was seeing because I knew where to look.

^ nope; the Kindle Touch is a device for ordering content and reading - it's inaqequate for anything else, but performs its primary functions well.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Fifty-four per cent of all Android tablets are Amazon Kindle Fires, according to research from ComScore. The second most popular tablet, Samsung's Galaxy Tab, has 15.4 per cent of the market.

Although Amazon's Kindle Fire runs on the Android operating system, it uses a 'forked' version of the OS, meaning that it has been customised by Amazon and looks very different from a standard Android installation.

Other Android tablets making ComScore's list include the Motorola Xoom, which was the third most common tablet, with 7 per cent share, the Asus Transformer, with 6.3 per cent, and the Toshiba AT100, with 5.7 per cent.

Amazon has not said how many Kindle Fire tablets it has sold but it does say that the device, which was launched in the US November, is the most popular product the company offers. The 7-inch tablet sells for $199.

Above is for USA market share. Somewhat different with the rest of the world.

Fair point.

Amazon.com’s Kindle Fire was the first credible threat to the iPad’s dominance. In the fourth quarter, IDC estimated that Amazon sold 4.8 million Fires, gobbling up 17% of the worldwide tablet market to Apple’s 55% share. But sales collapsed in the first quarter says IDC, to somewhere in the neighborhood of 700,000. The Fire’s share? Just over 4% compared to 68% for the iPad.

But having said that, a lot of the Amazon services like Prime don't work much outside the US yet.

The Kindle Fire sucks for reading because it is back-lit and causes my eyes to tire in a very short time, where I can read from the standard Kindle for hours without a problem.

It's the drink that causes my eyes to tire. Have you tried adjusting the brightness?

The Viewsonic tab is quite good in that regard, I can read for hours, no problem

^ fuking 'ell, will you shut up with that Viewsonic shite... otherwise me and Stoker will hold you down while Kwang rodgers you senseless until you apologise.

Tabletwise, what has CM done about it? Should've gone for a nice cheap iTard 2...

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Fair point.

Amazon.com’s Kindle Fire was the first credible threat to the iPad’s dominance. In the fourth quarter, IDC estimated that Amazon sold 4.8 million Fires, gobbling up 17% of the worldwide tablet market to Apple’s 55% share. But sales collapsed in the first quarter says IDC, to somewhere in the neighborhood of 700,000. The Fire’s share? Just over 4% compared to 68% for the iPad.

But having said that, a lot of the Amazon services like Prime don't work much outside the US yet.

That's the thing for me, maybe i'd get one if all the services would be available and the connections fast and reliable enough to stream/download movies etc to the devices.

For now i have to do with movieberry.com not free as torrents but not that much and no hassle and you get proper full HD quality.

Originally Posted by FailSafe

The Kindle Fire sucks for reading because it is back-lit and causes my eyes to tire in a very short time, where I can read from the standard Kindle for hours without a problem.

I use coolreader app on my phone to read and use the night mode which is brown background with white writing

I have found previously on my axim x50v that black background and white writing is good for outside reading - should conserve power also

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

and told them I knew exactly what it was seeing because I knew where to look.

that fooled them

No, it pissed them off. But it got my refund pretty fucking quick (even though I couldn't use it in the end).

There are quite a few hidden Kindle bits and pieces, this is just some of them:

Link

And there's more

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

me and Stoker will hold you down while Kwang rodgers you senseless

So, a normal night out for you four then?

Originally Posted by Gerbil

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

me and Stoker will hold you down while Kwang rodgers you senseless

So, a normal night out for you four then?

Depends, did he mention KY?