Resolution is better (160 dip), however, I did notice that the colors seem faded when comparing the same app on various tablets and phones with similar settings..
That's interesting. I'd likely have to test by taking some photos where I could be assured of colour correctness, and load them onto a few devices, and see which look best.
At least in the TV world, particularly with LCD TV's, I find that default settings often seem over saturated and over bright, because that attracts the eye, which helps sell TV's....even if it's not true to life. I wonder whether the same thing happens with tablets? I suspect the truth is somewhere in the middle.
Out of the tablets I've looked at recently, the ones that seemed the most vibrant were the Playbook, then the iPad 2, then the Iconia, then the Xoom....but the Xoom's resolution is a lot higher than the overall vividness of the colours.
I've read in reviews that there's a visible grid on the screen of the Iconia, but I don't see it....I don't think....I *did* see, very faintly a tiny grid of cells, but we're talking millimeters here....Unless you really look hard, it's not really noticeable.
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I actually just downloaded QuickPics to check. There's a slight difference in coloration between the standard app and Quickpics. The images in Quickpics look slightly more saturated.
Yes and no. I've played some flash games and flash movies that were not laggy what so ever as well as others which were so laggy that they crashed the browser.
Unfortunately, what makes it difficult to evaluate between a pc/laptop the xoom and a phone of course is the device's RAM size. For instance one AIR game I made was unplayable on my Droid2 (too laggy), but played perfectly on my Xoom.
Most of the Xooms I've looked at in the stores don't even have Flash configured. So it's been hard to really see it. I found one that had Flash, and I played a video about that NHL player who died last week, and it seemed kind of choppy....but then I went and viewed Flash videos on other sites, and they worked fine....so was it the Flash on the Xoom, that individual unit, or something with the video coming off that site? I wonder.
Things were pretty seamless on the Iconia I looked at....but that was at Staples, and they don't carry iPads, so they seem to take proper configuration of all their other tablets more seriously than Best Buy/Future Shop, so it could have been as simple as that. As I understand it, both have the exact same OS, the same processor even....so the performance should be pretty much the same.
I haven't yet.
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They are installed on the device, I just don't know whats on the full list of viewable codecs.
Let me grab a digital copy of a dvd and test it out, but it should be possible.
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I'd be very interested in hearing what you found out. I've been waiting to download a bunch more off my disks, if that would prevent me from using them on a tablet (ie. if I brought them into itunes). I'd much rather have them on something like a tablet than on my iPhone. That's nothing against the iPhone....it's just if I had a choice between watching a movie on a 3" screen and a 10" screen, I'd take the 10" screen.
I've tried them on my laptop, but it becomes a chug fest, an I don't have enough battery life to get through a movie anyways.
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From what I seen/read, I would have gotten either a Xoom or a Galaxy 10.1; however, the fact that the Xoom is a Vanilla Android and doesn't require a special usb adapter is what would have caused me to pick that device over the Galexy 10.1.
Yes, connections are important to me as well. Apple's proprietary connections are one of the things that turned me off there.....and the initial reviews of the limited edition Galaxy 10.1 seem to indicate it doesn't have the plethora of connections that the Xoom and Iconia have. I having to buy a bunch of proprietary cables just to use a device. I've got more USB, micro USB etc. cables than I can shake a stick at, so I'd rather stick with them. Even HDMI cables. A good one is what...$10?
I haven't heard a final answer regarding the Galaxy 10.1 though....I'm not sure whether reviewers looking at the limited edition one just haven't found those outputs because they're simply well hidden, or if they're just not there. And if they're not there, is that because these are limited edition units? Or will they also not be there on the consumer Galaxy 10.1?
I'm all in favour of light......but I lugged a 17" desktop replacement laptop that probabl weighs 5 lbs around Paris and Rome for hours on end in the fall....I'm really not scared of a 1.5 lb tablet.
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