I have three Android tablets now, Galaxy Tab, Viewsonic gTablet and Nook Color. The Galaxy Tab is really nice, and definitely has the best Android integration out of the box. It also has the most hardware features like dual cameras, 3G, and GPS. The form factor is nice, but I wish they thinned out the edges a bit, it's kind of chunky, and is also the most expensive ($600, no contract.)
Next, I bought the Nook Color, rooted it, and like the form factor the best of all three tablets. When CyanogenMod comes out for NC, it will be great, but even the stock BN Android is not bad. Since NC can boot directly from the sdcard, dual booting stock and CM would be really nice. For the price, this thing is awesome. Last, I bought the Vewsonic gTablet to debug some native code that was segfaulting on tegra2. The CPU is great, and I love that it has a USB host port, but now I'm convinced I'm not a fan of the 10" form factor. The biggest drawback is easily the display, which has a weird viewing angle. I can't remember if it was that bad with the stock software, but I put CM 6.1 on it almost immediately, and the display looks wonky unless viewed at the proper angle, which ironically seems to be with the tablet oriented upside down and to a slight angle. Maybe it is some sort of 3D display, or maybe I need to get new glasses, but the NC and Galaxy Tab both have beautiful displays. The Nook Color is the one that I am really enamored with... possibly because it has a lot of homebrew Android possibilities, but also because of the price point and form factor. BN did a really good job on it. And with some rooting it is really a universal reader, working with BN, Kindle App, and Google Books. -Howard On Dec 9, 10:44 am, Jon F Hancock <[email protected]> wrote: > Doh! I failed to include the link for the market > fixhttp://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=861044 > > On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Jon F Hancock <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > Follow the first list of steps here: > >http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=827209to get the market > > and other Google Apps installed. > > > Here is a fix to get the market to show you all the apps. I just saw this, > > so I haven't tried it yet. > > > There are a handful of ROMs for the g Tablet. My favorite so far is > > CyanogenMod though. > > >http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=851657 > > > On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Brill Pappin <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> No Market? interesting. > >> I just ordered on of these things, so I guess I'm going to be doing > >> that hacking! > >> Do you have some detail on what you had to do to get it installed? > > >> By the way, the Samsung Galaxy Tab in Canada *does* have the market > >> installed, at least on the version I was able to test on. > >> However I have not been able to get my hands on one up here in Canada. > > >> - Brill > > >> On Dec 9, 12:54 pm, Jon F Hancock <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > With a little hacking, the market works fine on the g Tablet. There are > >> > some apps that are mysteriously missing from the market, but most of it > >> is > >> > there, and others can be side loaded. > > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > >> Groups "Android Developers" group. > >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> [email protected]<android-developers%2Bunsubs > >> [email protected]> > >> For more options, visit this group at > >>http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
