Android Tablets

[gingerjedi]

Like previous posters have said the Nexus 7 rocks, who needs 3G when you can tether it to you phone without the need for an additional SIM/Contract.

Another Nexus 7 vote here, very happy with it.

I took me a couple of days to get iPlayer to work due to the lack of flash support but it's all up and running now and the TVcatchup android app (beta) works like a dream, it had all 24 channels of the BBC 'red dot' Olympics coverage.

[carlosLondon]

thanks a lot, I will wait a bit and check the galaxy note 10.1 - I've read couple of reviews and it looks pretty good, but price seems to be a bit too much.

Cheers
C

[Platypus]

Good afternoon

I'm thinking of getting a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (the 10.1 inches one), and I was wondering if any of you has one or has been playing with one, what you think of it, if you have any other recommendations, etc etc

Cheers
C

I'm late to this thread, but after a recent disastrous time (on holiday) with my Android phone being next to useless when I actually wanted to do anything useful with it, I've decided to ditch Android and go Apple. Can't decide if to get an iPad or iPhone first.

[The Spartan]

Which Android phone would that be and version?

[Platypus]

Which Android phone would that be and version?

Android 4.1.1 ? Anyway it's Jelly Bean on a Google Nexus S (made by Samsung) so vanilla Google.

Some I'll admit was pilot error but talk about not integrated. My biggest bug-bear was Trip Advisor app not linking to Navigation properly, constantly 'forgetting' where I was or where I wanted to go. And Maps. Urgh! Took me ages to discover there was a 'navigate' option which was sometimes there and sometimes not, I can't say how or why. And find somewhere on trip advisor, go to maps and it can't find the address, suggesting an address in outer mongolia rather than its slightly misspelled version of the place I'm 1km from.

All in all a very unhappy experience. iPhone 5 for me and maybe an iPad in the next few days just to cheer myself up.

Right from the start I felt you had to be a bit of a hacker to get Android to do anything useful and I wasted so much time faffing around with it last week I just give up. I know many Android users who don't work in IT who basically can't get their phone to do anything useful whatsoever. Yet iPhone is used successfully by total morons.

I know two happy Android users: GingerJedi on here and a bloke at ClientCo.

[Spacecadet]

Android 4.1.1 ? Anyway it's Jelly Bean on a Google Nexus S (made by Samsung) so vanilla Google.

Some I'll admit was pilot error but talk about not integrated. My biggest bug-bear was Trip Advisor app not linking to Navigation properly, constantly 'forgetting' where I was or where I wanted to go. And Maps. Urgh! Took me ages to discover there was a 'navigate' option which was sometimes there and sometimes not, I can't say how or why. And find somewhere on trip advisor, go to maps and it can't find the address, suggesting an address in outer mongolia rather than its slightly misspelled version of the place I'm 1km from.

All in all a very unhappy experience. iPhone 5 for me and maybe an iPad in the next few days just to cheer myself up.

Right from the start I felt you had to be a bit of a hacker to get Android to do anything useful and I wasted so much time faffing around with it last week I just give up. I know many Android users who don't work in IT who basically can't get their phone to do anything useful whatsoever. Yet iPhone is used successfully by total morons.

I know two happy Android users: GingerJedi on here and a bloke at ClientCo.

Make that 3

and my wife who wouldn't even know where to begin hacking!

[SantaClaus]

I'm no Apple fan, but slight problem here...

BBC News - Adobe Flash Player exits Android Google Play store

then again, Apple could never do flash in the first place.

[gingerjedi]

I'm no Apple fan, but slight problem here...

BBC News - Adobe Flash Player exits Android Google Play store

then again, Apple could never do flash in the first place.

You can still get it working if you must, I think they dropped a clanger by blocking flash based stuff from installing on jelly bean devices without alternatives in place (most noticeably for me was iPlayer).

Still seriously impressed with the way Android/Google is evolving despite the little hiccups you can't avoid with so many different vendors.

[Platypus]

You can still get it working if you must ... the little hiccups you can't avoid with so many different vendors.

Prosecution rests.

[gingerjedi]

They only seem comparable now because Apple stole a march but ultimately Android will rule the universe... especially when iPhone 5 will be more of the same for £600!