Comments on: Is Android Ready for Samsung’s New Tablet?

By: Jake Gilla

Jake Gilla — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 20:06:09 +0000

I'm sorry, but it's just going to be too expensive. To actually compete with Apple you have to hit them where they hurt, price.

A Galaxy S Phone is $550 without a contract. There's no way this tablet it going to be in the $300 to $400 range that it has to be in, and in reality should be below.

By: markus wallett

markus wallett — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 08:58:43 +0000

7 inch will be the sweet spot for tablet devices. I wouldn't be surprised if Apple release a smaller version of the Ipad in the coming years. The Samsung tablet looks an interesting device, but so too does Dell's 7 inch Looking Glass tablet. Most people will use these devices to watch films and surf the net, so I think Android 2.2 will suffice.

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 06:21:01 +0000

It is no longer about hardware, the battle is shifting to software+services and android has a good chance of winning a lot of customers(iOS is still better in software+service, but the gap is narrowing fast)

By: Comcastic

Comcastic — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 15:29:38 +0000

R U kidding me ? Next to the iPad this looks like total crap. Android needs to step it up a notch if they really want to compete in the tablet space. This is definitely not a good start. Steve will sleep very well tonight. :-)

By: bluespapa

bluespapa — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 10:51:47 +0000

Naw, Kevin's smarter than those guys, which is why Samsung's most recent Q1 iteration was a giant step backward, and a commercial dud. Samsung's experience as a handset maker doesn't transfer to all their years of making tablets because even that didn't transfer into marketing them. As a handset maker, they let the carriers do the marketing. If they take the same approach I they'll be sitting on a bunch of Android tablets next to the pile of Windows UMPCs.

Their latest devices still have XP and Vista, for heaven's sake.

@ Ben, the highest selling Archos on Amazon doesn't make it high selling.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 10:32:28 +0000

Notion Ink is releasing shortly with Android 2.2 and 1024*600 with a pixel Qi screen. Should be interesting.

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 04:40:04 +0000

Archos 7 has sold more than any other archos device in the past(check top ranked Archos products in amazon.com). If a crappy product like that can so well, I can only imagine Samsung Android tablet to sell better. Samsung tablet will be atleast 5 times better than Archos 7.

By: Lorie Ghamy

Lorie Ghamy — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 02:19:19 +0000

Another question Kevin :

What about resolutions for the apps ? Classic iPhone sized AppS are not really Good on iPad : blurry rendering, menu and keys so big.....

Is there too HD apps like for iPad ?

Important for good user experience !

Thanks to Share your feeling...

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 01:13:08 +0000

I'll take a picture of one today, if I have a chance to go to the local AU store (Japan).

By: Lucian Armasu

Lucian Armasu — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:58:10 +0000

Android tablets will be no good until Android 3.0 shows up on them - which makes the Motorola upcoming tablet the first real Android tablet.

Notion Ink Adam has some potential, because they are also designing their own interface, but they still won't have access to the Market, which is very bad.