the tablet war is heating up

[John Crichton]

iBooks renders PDFs way to slow for my liking.

On a different but similar topic I picked up Notes Plus today and used it in two meetings. I like what I've seen so far. We'll see how it goes when I get a stylus. With any luck I'll be able to scrap paper notebooks at work.

 

[IronWolf]

iBooks renders PDFs way to slow for my liking.

On a different but similar topic I picked up Notes Plus today and used it in two meetings. I like what I've seen so far. We'll see how it goes when I get a stylus. With any luck I'll be able to scrap paper notebooks at work.

I have heard good things about Notes Plus, haven't picked it up myself.

I did pick up Atomic Web Browser. Very much prefer it to Safari so far.

 

[Banshee16]

Does anyone have the Xoom? I was looking at it at Future Shop today, and several features in it compared fairly favourably in comparison to the iPad 2. I liked how the Home, back buttons etc. were interface buttons, as opposed to a physical button like on my iPhone.

I also liked the tabbed browser, and the ability to use Flash, which I tested with a few websites, that in turn didn't work well with the iPad, in terms of Flash not being supported. I thought the interface itself was attractive as well.

However....reviewers have generally said the hardware is good, but the tablet was feature incomplete, due to missing support for various features (Flash, micro SD reader support), lack of apps etc. But this was back in February. And, it now being mid-April, Flash was definitely working on the copy I looked at.

If anyone has this tablet, I'm curious what it's like now.....has it improved significantly since launch date? Unfortunately, reviewers seldom update their reviews after the fact.

Banshee

 

[Banshee16]

I have heard good things about Notes Plus, haven't picked it up myself.

I did pick up Atomic Web Browser. Very much prefer it to Safari so far.

I have Awesome Note, and it's pretty good.

Banshee

 

[IronWolf]

Does anyone have the Xoom? I was looking at it at Future Shop today, and several features in it compared fairly favourably in comparison to the iPad 2. I liked how the Home, back buttons etc. were interface buttons, as opposed to a physical button like on my iPhone.

I also liked the tabbed browser, and the ability to use Flash, which I tested with a few websites, that in turn didn't work well with the iPad, in terms of Flash not being supported. I thought the interface itself was attractive as well.

However....reviewers have generally said the hardware is good, but the tablet was feature incomplete, due to missing support for various features (Flash, micro SD reader support), lack of apps etc. But this was back in February. And, it now being mid-April, Flash was definitely working on the copy I looked at.

I do not have a Xoom, but Consumer Reports is ranking the iPad2 at the top of the stack:

iPad 2 top tablet says Consumer Reports - SlashGear

They do rank the Xoom at the same level as a Gen1 iPad.

You can get tabbed browsing on the iPad, though you do it through a browser bought from the AppStore. I am not a huge fan of flash, so I do not mind having it on m iPad. I have seen mixed reviews of flash on the Android tablets so far, but no experience with it.

 

[IronWolf]

I have Awesome Note, and it's pretty good.

Banshee

I will have to check that one out. Thanks!

 

[John Crichton]

I have Awesome Note, and it's pretty good.

Banshee

What do you like about it compared to other note taking apps?

 

[Fast Learner]

My favorites are:

PlainText: Continuous Dropbox syncing as you make changes to the document, which I love because I don't have to manually sync (or more likely, forget to).

Textastic: Programmer's text editor with extended keyboards (tabs, arrow keys, etc.), syntax highlighting for dozens of languages, FTP and Dropbox support, built-in WebDAV server, etc.

Nebulous Notes: Modifiable extended keyboard, Dropbox support, and (big for me) Markdown, Multi-Markdown, and HTML preview.

 

[Relique du Madde]

Does anyone have the Xoom? I was looking at it at Future Shop today, and several features in it compared fairly favourably in comparison to the iPad 2. I liked how the Home, back buttons etc. were interface buttons, as opposed to a physical button like on my iPhone.

I also liked the tabbed browser, and the ability to use Flash, which I tested with a few websites, that in turn didn't work well with the iPad, in terms of Flash not being supported. I thought the interface itself was attractive as well.

However....reviewers have generally said the hardware is good, but the tablet was feature incomplete, due to missing support for various features (Flash, micro SD reader support), lack of apps etc. But this was back in February. And, it now being mid-April, Flash was definitely working on the copy I looked at.

If anyone has this tablet, I'm curious what it's like now.....has it improved significantly since launch date? Unfortunately, reviewers seldom update their reviews after the fact.

Banshee

I have one. It's a pretty good tablet. I just personally wish that the android store had a better way of organizing apps so you know which ones are tablet apps. (Only seeing a list of about 50 really bites).

I'm still pretty sure it doesn't have micro SD reader support yet (because Sanjay Jha is the worse CEO ever). But since I haven't filled my original 32gigs yet and tend to use could services (when near wifi) I haven't needed the expansion yet.

 

[Relique du Madde]

I do not have a Xoom, but Consumer Reports is ranking the iPad2 at the top of the stack:

iPad 2 top tablet says Consumer Reports - SlashGear

They do rank the Xoom at the same level as a Gen1 iPad.

You can get tabbed browsing on the iPad, though you do it through a browser bought from the AppStore. I am not a huge fan of flash, so I do not mind having it on m iPad. I have seen mixed reviews of flash on the Android tablets so far, but no experience with it.

Tabbed browsing is DEFAULT on Xoom because it uses Chrome for the browser (and it comes with the ablity to sync with your chrome account).

How well flash works on the Xoom partially depends on the action script code that is put into it. I yet to have flash kill my Xoom... but then again, since my Xoom is wifi only, I rarely use it to view the web only.

However, what I have noticed is that the Xoom sucks at viewing some sites that rely on popups, but this is due to chrome's built in popup blocker (I yet to figure out how to turn it off).

On minor annoyance I have as a result of the xoom using chrome is that there almost is no way (currently) to reorganize your links beyond moving them into folders. I pretty much have been relying on my pc's chrome to get the folders in their proper order of importance. Ideally you should be able to drag and drop, but that doesn't seem to work (or a least I haven't figured out how-to if you could).