How do you like your Prime? I've got the first Transformer, and had briefly considered upgrading. But I've heard some people have had issues with weak WiFi reception, due to the aluminum body interfering with the RF signal.
Banshee
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How do you like your Prime? I've got the first Transformer, and had briefly considered upgrading. But I've heard some people have had issues with weak WiFi reception, due to the aluminum body interfering with the RF signal.
Banshee
Relique du Madde
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Motorola is finally beginning their soai test of thier ICS build for the Xoom WiFi. Here's to hoping I get my copy next week (assuming it doesn't broke Xoom WiFis).
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Well, even Windows has freeware, or cheap-to-license shareware. That "ghetto" software just doesn't get much love from Windows users because we tend to just go ahead and get a full-featured application. But when I view media, it's usually on GOM Play, VLC Viewer, or Irfanview.
By the end of the year, Android will most likely be confined to the budget-model devices, while Windows becomes the premium OS of choice. The only thing that will really keep Android going is the lack of OEM license fee. That's why I would recommend folks think twice about getting something like the Transformer Prime at this stage of the game. As sweet as it looks now, there's going to be some regret about the expenditure not too far down the line.
I don't know about that. the freeware/shareware movement started on DOS and windows machines over BBS and FTP sites like wuarchive.wustl.edu
Right now, in my work, I use:
- Paint.NET
- Adobe Reader
- iTextSharp or PDFSharp
- some free barcode scanner API my intern just found
- 8-Zip
- WinMerge
- MySQL Workbench
- Virtual CloneDrive
- some Hex editor that I misplaced but use when I need it (or googla another free one)
- Skype
The MS App Marketplace is likely to be overrun with free apps to do things. Just like the iOS AppStore. And there will be plenty of them that are good, in amidst the crap.
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I predict that not only will this not happen by the end of the year, it won't happen ever. It will be interesting to review a year from now.
Microsoft makes $5-15 off of 70% of Android devices sold due to patent licenses. While Google might not charge device builders, they certainly pay.
Relique du Madde
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It's not in MS's best interest if Android fails. I'm certain MS views Android as being a lawsuit deflection shield since MS knows they can never be first to do ANYTHING since then the Anti-trust sharks would start circling.
According to Slashgear, ICS is rolling out *today* for the Xoom WiFi, if you're in the U.S. The article announcing that has a bunch of comments from people confirming they just downloading it, and basically going googoo over how much better it runs on the Xoom than Honeycomb did.
FYI, Opera doesn't have typing lag on forums...not sure if you're aware of that.
From everything I've read, ICS, performance wise, is WAY better than Honeycomb, and really makes the Android tablets perform almost as smooth as iOS 5.......but ICS has a few problems in that, being a unified OS for phones and tablets, some things like app lists are laid out more for phones, even on the tablets.....rather than being a grid.
I'm looking forward to trying it out, but ASUS has delayed upgrading the TF101...probably because there have been some people reporting severe issues with upgrading the Prime....not all people. Seems like it works for most people, but for a select few, it REALLY messes things up.
Banshee
Given that MS makes more money from Android than from Windows phone, I'd think they don't want to see Android fail
At the end of the day, it's no in anyone's interest for there to be only one or two smartphone "flavours"....as much as the Android or Apple fans believe otherwise!
Banshee
To be clear, that was a tablet-specific comment. The tablets will have a full-featured Windows OS option. Smartphones won't.
Yes, but they don't pay for the license, and that's s surcharge that gets passed along to the cutomer when they buy a computer with Windows pre-installed.
It's not MS who's going to relegate Android to the budget tablet market. It's going to be manufacturers who embrace a Windows OEM for their performance tablets.
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Those are a lot of assumptions.
Microsoft hasn't been able to develop good performance tablets since....well, since they were developing tablets running Windows, with short battery life, before the iPad was a gleam in Steve Jobs' eye.Maybe the Windows 8 tablets will be all that, and maybe they won't. There is a sizable base of customers who I suspect will want to stick with an environment compatible with their smart phones. And, well, Windows phones aren't very popular....never have been.
I'm not saying it can't happen.....I just don't think it necessarily WILL happen.
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