And soon weāll all be able to enjoy tablets smeared with food and grease, courtesy of Chilliās and Applebeeās!
Oof: TI OMAP4430 SoC, 1366 x 768 display, and only 1GB of RAM? I feel like the sole selling point here is its size.
Then again, there arenāt many great Android solutions (or at least those from manufacturers with any name recognition) with this large a screen, so you take what you can get. Iām hopeful that Samsung could have a 12.2-incher out next year, but thatās yet to be confirmed. There are also rumors of a 12.9-inch iPad, if youāve swallowed the iOS Kool-Aid.
Do I get points for noticing that the screen image is from the 1950 cartoon āGerald McBoing Boingā?
You can get a full featured 15.6" Windows laptop with batteries and the same screen size for $300. All itās missing is the touchscreen. How hard would it be to reorient the display, I wonder?
Are people actually capable of experiencing ājoyā at Applebeeās? I thought that there was some sort of suppression field.
Also; only 15.6"? Bah!
Iām sure HP has HP-ed it up somehow; but theyāll sell you a Tegra4/1GB RAM/21-inch (1920x1080, IPS) Android all-in-one-not-really-a-tablet-at-this-size thing for $400.
Unless theyāve done something really ghastly (which would be in character; but I havenāt heard anything one way or the other), their mellifluously named āSlate 21-k100ā would seem to be a superior offering. Still not ideal, notably on the RAM front; but superior in most other respects to this one, and for $100 less.
I have an Acer Smart Display DA220HQL with a 21.5 inch display that sits on a movable arm in front of my exercise equipment. Itās not the fastest thing in the world and there seems to be quite a few apps that wonāt run, but it retails for $340 (here in Taiwan anyway). It makes working out a lot less monotonous.
ASUS TFT 100. with the optional keyboard/auxiliary battery/clamshell case. Holds a charge all day long.Finds the middle ground nicely. Like a Droid netbook, Iād say. Only drawback is that you need external speakers to get really good sound.
Panasonic has a very expensive 20 inch tablet that boasts ā4kā resolution.
I use my ipad in the kitchen as a cookbook.
Yeah, as a Galaxy Nexus owner who isnāt getting Kit Kat thanks to the TI OMAP division not existing anymore, Iām assuming the thing is dead tech. Does the thing have an HDMI port or an MHL-capable USB port? Apparently the chipset is capable of HDMI out. This thing uses the 4430; the GNex used the 4460.
I honestly wouldnāt mind such a beast. Even a 10" screen can be a bit small sometimes.
And Iāve got to get on a soapbox about the original writeup: if I were to unplug my pre-iPad flat-screen monitor, take it off the stand, and put it next to an Android tablet, one could argue that both look āiPad-likeā.
I really think this is the crowning use for a tablet. We keep a laptop in the kitchen but it only gets used for the odd recipe look-up. Everytime my aunt brings her iPod by for a dinner visit it ends up being used for the same, but spooling family pictures, music, and videos while we all cook together. Thereās nothing to jam up, its easier to work with when youāre wrist deep in turkey. So it ends up fitting into the flow of things incredibly seamlessly.
Hm. Iāve been pondering whether it would make sense to have a similar device for the workshop. Something low-enough power so it doesnāt need vents and can be sealed against sawdust and metal shavingsā¦ inductive charging and bluetooth audio so it doesnāt even need those contactsā¦ Doesnāt need apps; all it needs is to be fast enough, and have enough memory, to browse/stream/PDF/print via WiFi to my main machine and to the net. (Bonus would be to support virtual terminal to the main machine, so I could access apps there if needed.)
And it would help if it was relatively cheap, of course.
Something like that should be available off-the-shelf these days, right?
Personally, I like the idea of a house full of āterminalsāāif you want to sit down at a desk, and use a large monitor and keyboard, or lounge on a sofa and peruse a tablet, or if you want to use an oversized television like display, you should have seamless access to your applications and data-- sort of an idealized, more flexible, and more open version of how I use a iMac, iPad, and appleTV to do my home computing. Of course, Iām trapped in the apple ecosystem, so if some other company comes out with a really cool interface to my data, I canāt avail myself of that option. But iCloud does offer a glimpse of whatās possible when data isnāt tied to a specific piece of hardware.
My ājukeboxā machine runs a remote console server so I can open it in a window and fiddle with it remotely. Obviously the remote screen isnāt as responsive as working with it directly, but for most things short of games itās more than good enough.
Yes, you do.
Thereās already been independent/local chain restaurants here in California for several years that do the whole order/pay thing through tablets (generally modified iPads). Itās a neat gimmick and I can see how it is kind of the modern version of the automat, allowing the minimum of human contact. And my inner asocial geek enjoys it and awaits the final version where the food will be delivered by robots.
I have not yet become accustomed to signing my name with my finger. Then again, I still get irritated when badly designed credit card terminals translate my lovely scrawl into a frightening collection of lines at odd angles. Itās a formality, of course, but Iād wish the hardware at least try to mimic pen and paper.
The first time I signed on an iPad Point-of-Sale setup I thought it would look like those crappy scrawls I get on the credit card terminals. It looks perfect every time.
