Comments on: Could Success of Galaxy Tab Drive a 7-Inch iPad 2?

By: Giorgio

Giorgio — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 22:32:05 +0000

Excelent!

By: Roob

Roob — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 09:18:10 +0000

You are all forgetting one major thing: everybody in Star Trek were using 7″ tablets. Nuff said.

By: mac jones

mac jones — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 06:07:13 +0000

I just got a Galaxy Tab for use. I didn’t think I would like it. As a matter of fact, I just started fooling around with it just out of boredom really.
Now I really like the size. It’s actually portable whereas the iPad is not.

I think i’ll be carrying it everywhere. I sort of happy about this as I never wanted to lug anything Internet before. Be nice to be abel to check little things on the fly. :)

By: Sumit

Sumit — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 23:11:23 +0000

I think there are many people who simply will not buy an iPad … and there are people who want a smaller tablet computer, the Galaxy Tab is catering to those people.

By: Reginald Winwright IV

Reginald Winwright IV — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 15:52:40 +0000

I hate to say this about my idol Mr. Jobs but he appears wrong about the 7″ tablet. Hopefully we will get a 7″ iPad 2 sometime next year to rectify this error. Also would welcome a 4.3″ iPhone if anyone in Cupertino is listening.
Wait, maybe Steve was just bluffing when he said that to buy some more time for him to perfect that form factor, yeah that was prolly it for sure cuz everybody knows Steve is never “wrong”, he just is sometime not “exactly right” if you knows what i meanz.

By: JAy.

JAy. — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 13:07:56 +0000

The problem with a 7″ iPad now is that the iPad version of iOS is designed for a 10″ screen. If you scale down the screen, but maintain the resolution, the screen buttons get smaller. I honestly am not sure if iOS is capable of doing PPI scaling as Durdok mentions. This is why users may have to “sand down their fingers” (still a stupid comment whether correct or not). However, since the Galaxy Tab was designed to be 7″, it works well, and scaling up will be easier than scaling down.

By: Baz

Baz — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 12:17:11 +0000

Yeah, well, Steve Jobs said Apple would never produce a netbook, either and yet there’s the 11″ Air with suspiciously netbook-like specs. What he seems to mean when he says “Never” is, “Until we figure out how big a financial premium we can get away with”.

Heck, even I’d be interested in a 7″ iPad, but let’s get real – anything over $400 for 32GB is nuts – but that goes double for Samsung, et al and their Android OS tablets.

By: Durdok

Durdok — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 07:27:06 +0000

i thought nobody wanted to watch video on iPods either? oh silly Steve, always being so hypocritical & relying on your fanbase to double-talk your way out of your own words “no no, what Steve REALLY meant was…”

since i have a real memory & not a selective memory like Apple fanboys, since Steve said “no” this almost guarantee’s that within the next 2 years we will see a 7″ iPad. especially after 7″ Android tabs begin to crush iOS in that market space as well.

the only issue i see is, if the resolution remains the same then all the screen elements will become smaller unless Dev’s reprogram their apps according to screen PPI & not just resolution.

By: jahan khan rashid

jahan khan rashid — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 07:24:42 +0000

Who says people want this device for productivity? Maybe they want an entertainment device with long battery life that fits in your coat pocket that you can also do light productivity things like the odd email,ebay,letter,blog post etc. Its funny reading peoples posts scrambling to defend Apples comments on 7″ devices. Face it the markets there! For me personally the pros of a 7″ device far outweigh a 9.7″ device (the weight, ease of use to hold and rear camera were the biggest factors for me). I have the tab and have used it fully for office work at home (with and without the official samsung keyboard and a vaio bluetooth mouse and i had no problems at all.) Im willing to have a sportsmans bet that the majority of tab/ipad users only use them for entertainment and light surfing and emails etc anyway!. I just thumb typed this in bed lol.

By: Apps for iPads

Apps for iPads — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 06:38:53 +0000

I already find that on extremely cluttered sites that use less than optimal font size that I need to pinch the page to make it large enough to insure correct URL link selection… think how annoying that would be on a 7″ screen… no thanks!

And can you fathom trying to tips on that small of a keyboard? Just not going to happen for anyone truly serious about using a tablet full time.