the tablet war is heating up

[Banshee16]

First I wish you and your family well. Second a dog story now and then is good for the heart. I lost mine about 5 years ago.
Though knowing me I would be working on a harness for her to hold the ipad.
That way I could pet her and play on the Ipad at the same time.

Thanks. Dogs are definitely family members. Ours is lovely.....but the barking can be annoying...particularly since some people are already scared of German Shepherds. I had him bark at one woman....one single bark, and she started crying.

Incidentally, I'll have to use that crow recipe you supplied. My wife just got back. She got to the store, put our baby in his little car seat on the counter, started to explain to the guy at the Apple Store, and he "got" it. He said the iPhone 4 is one piece, and they can't just replace individual panels, so they replaced the entire phone, free of charge.

That's very good customer service.

Banshee

 

[IronWolf]

Incidentally, I'll have to use that crow recipe you supplied. My wife just got back. She got to the store, put our baby in his little car seat on the counter, started to explain to the guy at the Apple Store, and he "got" it. He said the iPhone 4 is one piece, and they can't just replace individual panels, so they replaced the entire phone, free of charge.

That's very good customer service.

Excellent! Glad that worked out for you!

 

[Fast Learner]

Incidentally, I'll have to use that crow recipe you supplied. My wife just got back. She got to the store, put our baby in his little car seat on the counter, started to explain to the guy at the Apple Store, and he "got" it. He said the iPhone 4 is one piece, and they can't just replace individual panels, so they replaced the entire phone, free of charge.

That's very good customer service.

Excellent, glad to hear it. For all its faults, Apple does tend to be very good at customer service (though the exceptions are usually very bad).

 

[falcarrion]

Thanks. Dogs are definitely family members. Ours is lovely.....but the barking can be annoying...particularly since some people are already scared of German Shepherds. I had him bark at one woman....one single bark, and she started crying.

Incidentally, I'll have to use that crow recipe you supplied. My wife just got back. She got to the store, put our baby in his little car seat on the counter, started to explain to the guy at the Apple Store, and he "got" it. He said the iPhone 4 is one piece, and they can't just replace individual panels, so they replaced the entire phone, free of charge.

That's very good customer service.

Banshee

A new phone thats awsome.

 

[Felon]

Consider all the potentially great threads that wither on the vine in this forum, and then consider how much of the last couple of pages we've spent gabbing about a crack in one guy's iPhone screen. Insane.

 

[Relique du Madde]

I just think that there haven't been any major new news in the realm of tablets beyond MS arm ringing a bunch of Android makers to give them royalties.

 

[falcarrion]

I think we have done very well with this thread. Helping a fellow person who's wife's phone got busted, isn't insane but being decent to another person. I just hope we have been helpful and imformative to those who are concidering or have purchased Tablets. Where else can you get people going out, checking out new tablets and coming back and give there honest opinoin on it. We have avoided the typical apple is better than android or android is better than apple war. Unlike the edition wars we see ruin a good thread.
I don't have any android products but thanks to those who do I have learned what they like and don't like about them. And I and others who have an Ipad have tried to do the same for them.

 

[Felon]

I just think that there haven't been any major new news in the realm of tablets beyond MS arm ringing a bunch of Android makers to give them royalties.

Well, the HP Touchpad reviews are starting to roll in. And if we're going to talk about the iPhone, why not the 4.7" screen smartphone that HTC announced? That's almost a tablet!

 

[falcarrion]

The only report I have read on the HP Tablet has not been great. But that's only one report.

 

[Felon]

The only report I have read on the HP Tablet has not been great. But that's only one report.

Here's CNet's, which gives it 3.5 starts (they gave the iPad 4, and pretty much every other major tablet effort 3.5): HP TouchPad Review - Watch CNET's Video Review

Here's Engadget (7/10): HP TouchPad Review - Watch CNET's Video Review

Lots of reviews out now. They're pretty much all praising the potential of WebOS rather than the actual device.

You ask me, if you're making a tablet that's not the iPad, you oughta make darn sure you either have a port for USB or an SD card. Micro SD card is OK, but micro USB is not (because it alienates thumb drives). Ports and Flash capability form the basis of what makes any given tablet more desirable than the iPad. Everything else is gravy.

So, as far as the Touchpad goes, why am I not better off just running Android off of a nice, cheap Nook?