the tablet war is heating up

[Relique du Madde]

Someone needs to smack Sanjay Jhu in the face. As far as CEOs are concerned he's the worse planner EVER.

Motorola *JUST* announced a 16gb Xoom Wifi and 16gb Xoom 3g/4g today. Someone shoudl have taught him something about sales when he was recruited from QualComm's R&D department.

 

[IronWolf]

I finally picked up a tablet as well. 1st generation 32GB WiFi iPad from the Verizon store discounts. Would have been happy with a 16GB but they were sold out of those. I had been hoping for an android tab but nothing seemed to come into a price range I wanted with the features I wanted. So for this time around I decided not to fight the flow and went with the iPad.

I like it so far. Makes reading my Paizo PDFs very easy and easy to keep with me as well. I have an init tracker for game night which is cool. Non-obtrusive browser access at the game is col as well for PFSRD access for fast rule lookups. Still getting used to the keyboard, but not too bad for an onscreen keyboard.

My biggest disappointment so far s simply the lack of an ad blocker in the browser. I tend to use an ad blocker and element hider to deeply customize certain websites for a more pleasant browsing experience. Small gripe though for the other things the tab brings to the table.

 

[falcarrion]

No matter which you like android or IOS. It will be the consumer who decides which will be at the top. The battle between tablets will go on until something better comes along to replace the tablet.
Some people complain about the lack of memory on the Ipad. This will lead to new and creative ways of tranfering data. For instanst I can forsee memory cubes that you just need to touch to the screen or be reconzied by the camera. Then be able to transfer the data. No need to plug in or have special slots to do it. Touch, transfer, done. Can this be done? Yes, it already has been done with some cameras and other things. It is only a matter of time before you start seeing this type of tech in tablets.

 

[John Crichton]

No matter which you like android or IOS. It will be the consumer who decides which will be at the top. The battle between tablets will go on until something better comes along to replace the tablet.
Some people complain about the lack of memory on the Ipad. This will lead to new and creative ways of tranfering data. For instanst I can forsee memory cubes that you just need to touch to the screen or be reconzied by the camera. Then be able to transfer the data. No need to plug in or have special slots to do it. Touch, transfer, done. Can this be done? Yes, it already has been done with some cameras and other things. It is only a matter of time before you start seeing this type of tech in tablets.

Tech along those lines isn't fantasy anymore but it's nowhere close to being available to the public at an affordable price.

 

[falcarrion]

Tech along those lines isn't fantasy anymore but it's nowhere close to being available to the public at an affordable price.

I disagree. We right now have the Eye-fi Wi-fi cards for cameras.

The Eye-Fi card: the only memory card with Endless Memory | Eye-Fi

 

[John Crichton]

I disagree. We right now have the Eye-fi Wi-fi cards for cameras.

The Eye-Fi card: the only memory card with Endless Memory | Eye-Fi

How is that something you can touch to a screen to transfer data?

 

[falcarrion]

First lets look at the A.R. Drone. The A.R. drone generates it's own wifi network.
Thus you can use it anywhere you want.

Second lets look at the seagate D.A.V.E. This unit shows that wifi hard drives are possable.

Third we can look at fiducials. These are markers that can be reconized by a camera lens. Take a look how the microsoft surface can reconize an object placed on it.

Then there is the app to control the transfer.

touch was just something I threw out there.

Now if your intrested in a personal cloud solution. You might want to check out the POGOPLUG. You take this unit attach a external drive, and you connect to the Ipad through wifi. So a wifi connection is needed. So it is possable to have a terabyte of cloud storage for the price of the pogoplug unit and the hard drive.

 

[John Crichton]

First lets look at the A.R. Drone. The A.R. drone generates it's own wifi network.
Thus you can use it anywhere you want.

Second lets look at the seagate D.A.V.E. This unit shows that wifi hard drives are possable.

Third we can look at fiducials. These are markers that can be reconized by a camera lens. Take a look how the microsoft surface can reconize an object placed on it.

Then there is the app to control the transfer.

touch was just something I threw out there.

Now if your intrested in a personal cloud solution. You might want to check out the POGOPLUG. You take this unit attach a external drive, and you connect to the Ipad through wifi. So a wifi connection is needed. So it is possable to have a terabyte of cloud storage for the price of the pogoplug unit and the hard drive.

Yes, these are all reasons why it's not fantasy. How long until something is created that will be affordable is the problem. 5 years? 10 years? That's a long time.

 

[Fast Learner]

If NFC becomes popular here (which is looking extremely likely) and the standards chosen by Apple, Google, etc. handle more than just payments (there are several NFC standards, most of which support more than payments), then you could have touch-based (or just "very-near-based") data transfer later this year.

 

[John Crichton]

If NFC becomes popular here (which is looking extremely likely) and the standards chosen by Apple, Google, etc. handle more than just payments (there are several NFC standards, most of which support more than payments), then you could have touch-based (or just "very-near-based") data transfer later this year.

Well, there are already cards that do that at gas stations (and the like) that do swipe payments. That's something I'd like to see more of. But also quite different than transferring music files and such.