"How is this Kindle Fire any different than the Nook?"
A lot of people know about iPads, a lot of people know about Amazon, not that many people know about Android. For a lot of people, when the word tablet is mentioned, iPad jumps into your mind first. Now it's going to be Fire and iPad. Just like when you think of an eReeder, you don't think of a Sony ebook or a…
"there's literally one way to do it, and THAT'S IT! Funny. "
There maybe some shady parts when comparing the Galaxy Smartphones with the iPhone but most of those, such as the icons, are just your generic icons that you would use. Showing a microphone to indicate that it's an audio recording app has been done for years for example.
You would get away with it if there weren't many design options. If you want the lightest, thinnest tablet, it's going to look like the Galaxy Tab and iPad.
There you have it, you can't have a phone with a black face.
It's not a twin of the iPhone icons. What gesturing are you talking about? I've never seen the icons shake in TouchWiz. I just watched a video on TouchWiz 4 just to make sure I wasn't crazy and nope, no icon shake.
It's using 2.3. As for ICS, it probably won't get it immediately but if a future release comes out where apps run better, then I see Amazon updating it. They want people to buy apps from their store so they HAVE to keep up with any big Android updates.
7 inches isn't too little. Zoom in on stuff if you can't read it, they would have to do that on the iPad also.
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"Yeah, I don't understand why an e-book (and other media) reader must be seen as a competitor to the iPad just because it's a rectangle with a touchscreen on the surface."
"I doubt anything running android would have been as easy for her, or have been something she would have been able to adapt to. "
But if one does 98% of what the other would do, then why would you spend $500 for that last 2%?
Isn't it like 500k apps vs 600k apps. I'm fairly certain that most of the widely used apps are on both systems.
I think his point was that the Fire doesn't have cameras so there's no way to do video chat.
Yeah, the Incredible has a crap battery. There's an aftermarket battery out there for it that's the same size but gives you 30% more juice.
Absolutely, apps geared specifically towards tablets can add more functionality. I think Andy Rubin's statement was correct though because of how Android handles it. I'll explain a little bit. There's three methods to making a tablet app on Android.
Ok, but you are comparing a first generation product with a second generation product. What did you really expect? The first iPad sold 15 million in 8 months, if you take out the Xoom which sold like 500k, you're looking at 5.5 million Android tablets being sold in 5 months. So it seems that sales are on the rise. …
"ICS. Honeycomb is frankly shitty because of no apps, lag, no fragmentation, etc. ICS fixes those problems."