the tablet war is heating up

[IronWolf]

i hate not having arrrow keys on iThing as well. You are suppsosed to tap on the text to move the cursor. Except it only moves to the end of the word. Not the middle. where the typo is. So you have to delete darn near the whole word and retype it.

Tap and Hold. You will get a zoom window which lets you move the cursor to exactly where you want it.

 

[Janx]

Tap and Hold. You will get a zoom window which lets you move the cursor to exactly where you want it.

this is the kind of quality information I like to get from these discussions.

Thanks!

 

[catsclaw227]

I just received a Galaxy tab 10.1 for my birthday/Christmas. (Actually I received it a couple weeks ago.) Typing this on the tablet is mildly annoying. Why aren't there cursor keys on the virtual keyboard?

Outside of the virtual keyboard, how do you like it? This is the one I am looking at, though I am thinking I will wait just a little longer until next gen of Android tablets are out.

 

[Alan Shutko]

We've begun deploying android and iOS devices in our large and rather regulated Fortune 100 corporation. Here's some comments from our experience. We mostly use Good and Citrix rather than the built-in apps so that we can both add additional control and sandbox corporate data. This allows "Bring Your Own Device" to work for us. My comments are mostly based on iOS, since I haven't used Android.

Now, if Apple allows software firewall installation

No.

, a BES style e-mail environment including encryption of emails to and from the server

SSL can be used for POP, IMAP, and Outlook accounts. Add-ons like Good do it by default.

, the ability to silo personal information and contacts added to the phone from business contacts etc., as well as the ability to remotely wipe all business related information without affecting personal information (or vice versa),

If you are using the built-in functionality, you can't silo, and a remote wipe will affect everything. If you are tied to an ActiveSync account, the corporation can do a remote wipe.

We use Good for Enterprise, which silos the corporate data within the app and allows additional controls, including a remote wipe that just affects the corporate data.

force strong passwords as opposed to 4-digit unlock, then it would allay some of my personal concerns.

If you are tied to an active sync account, the administrator can enforce that. Good for Enterprise can force password policies to get into its specific app, without requiring passwords for the rest of the device.

As someone who's done deployments of iPhones before, can you confirm whether or not a company can build custom apps for the iPhone that can be deployed to that company's iPhones, without having to pass through the Apple vetting process for the App Store?

Yes. You get an Enterprise account with Apple which allows it.

On my Blackberry, if I get an e-mail delivered to me (which happened much quicker/more reliably than on my iPhone), once I've read it and/or replied to it, I had the choice to delete it from my Blackberry, or delete it both from my Blackberry and from the server at the click of a button.

That's correct. BB acts like a combination of POP and IMAP, where there's a looser link between the mobile inbox and the server inbox. The iPhone tries to make everything act like IMAP, where what you see on the mobile device is the same as the server. Good for Enterprise actually works the same way.

On my Blackberry, search worked very well. On my iPhone, I can send an e-mail yesterday, and put in keywords from that e-mail into a search I conduct today, and it *won't* find the e-mail....even if I tell it to look on the server also.

iPhone mail search only searches to, from, and subject. It does not search body. That sort of sucks.

If I create an event on my calendar on my desktop, it gets pushed to my iPhone. Which is obviously important. But if I'm at a client's office, and I make a meeting with them on the spot, and book it on my iPhone calendar, it *doesn't* push over to my Google calendar.

I don't use a google calendar, I use iCloud (and formerly used MobileMe), and my entries do push to everything else I have. When I use Good for Enterprise, the same thing happens for my corporate outlook calendar.

It could be something as simple as the default calendar being set to a calendar that's only on your device, or there might be something in the way you have Google Calendar set up. There are several different ways to set up google calendar, and I'm not as familiar with the limitations of each. I'm reasonably certain there's a way to get it to work, but I'd definitely agree that Google's calendar works better with Google's apps. Are you using the calendar via Google's exchange setup or via caldav?

The final problem I have is how contact backups are done. After going through the default wizards with iOS, I have found that if I make a change to a contact directly on my handset, and later sync, and my backed up copy has older information on it, the older information actually replaces my corrected information on the phone.

How are you syncing your contacts, and what are you syncing them with? Are you syncing with your local Mac Addressbook via iTunes, with Google via its Exchange support, or some other setup?

 

[jmucchiello]

Outside of the virtual keyboard, how do you like it? This is the one I am looking at, though I am thinking I will wait just a little longer until next gen of Android tablets are out.

It's nice. I haven't gone to work yet with it so I haven't tried reading long term with it yet. This is the first time I'm casually surfing with it. Looks like I'm going to need to find a new keyboard. I use too many contractions and the apostrophe is not on the letter screen. but this smiley is, go figure. Just switched to the Android keyboard with its more annoying beep but it has the ' right there.

One annoying thing is going to websites that assume I'm on a phone and send me to the wap version of their site.

Samsung announced an 8.6 inch Galaxy tab. That might have been worth waiting for but this was a gift so I'm not complaining.

 

[JoeGKushner]

Got my mom an Amazon Kindle Fire.

She doesn't need the hoops and other things that my Toshiba Thrive has. Although as I've seen a few fireside sales on the Thrive I've had to swallow a lot of buyer's remorse on that end.

She is really diggin the books, movies, and few aps she's tried like Pandora. Good stuff for her.

 

[IronWolf]

Got my mom an Amazon Kindle Fire.

Almost bought my Mom one, but settled on the Kindle Touch. I didn't want to overload her with features and she is primarily interested in just reading. She really likes the Kindle Touch though.

 

[TarionzCousin]

I see that the Asus Transformer Prime is finally available... somewhat--unless you want the 64 GB model, or want it with Ice Cream Sandwich.

My Google-fu was too weak to determine what the story is with the 64 GB versions. Are they for sale now also--but not at every location (like Amazon.com and Best Buy)?

 

[Rabulias]

I pre-ordered my 64GB Transformer Prime back in November and I got it on Tuesday, Jan 3. I think they are still filling the backlog of preorders. I got mine from B & H Photo and Video. Their site now says the 64GBs will be restocked later this month and more 32GBs will be in in February.

 

[JoeGKushner]

I think memory on this devices will continue to creep up. On RPG.net one of the posters had a link to a 256 memory card.

And another was talking about 8 gig hard drives. (or is that tetra? I get 'em confused at that size.)