Hi guys,
I’m gonna buy one of these
Just wanted to hear your thought on them, so please mention if you already own one of them
I’m setting my sights on Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 but the fact is I don’t trust Samsung that much (proven over time actually!)
I see that xoom and 10.1 are pretty much the same except that 10.1 has a better camera rec (1080) and on the other hand xoom is HDMI ready with no converter!
They are powered by the same processor so I’m willing to hear your thoughts
I would go for the transformer if what you said about Samsung is true. I heard Xoom is a bit over priced and samsung apparently is the king of android market now. Lots of androids are made by Samsung. But i think Asus would be more stable. Transformer looks pretty solid too.
I have a Xoom as a test device and I do not recommend it. The specs sound good on paper, but it’s sluggish in actual use, and the display quality is inexcusably bad. Color accuracy is simply terrible, and any kind of motion on screen leaves a very nasty “ghosting” behind the moving object in question, an effect that is more pronounced if the pixels in question are darker or black.
Thanks guys!
So, I’m scratching the Xoom from the list for now!
@MikaMobile,
So you say that the refresh rate of the screen is at terrible rate, well, that’s not good to hear, because some of those tablets are gonna be our customer somehow, damn Motorola
There are a lot of choices coming out everyday, so it is getting harder and harder to choose!
Is there any other tablet that you guys have had any experience with?
I’m specially curious about 10.1 since it looks so nice as well
Ghosting is not caused by the refresh rate (which is nearly always 60 anyway) but by the screens reaction time. Anything beyond 8ms and you get ghosting on fast things, especially if their “to black” reaction time is bad as thats the worst case of ghosting (color on black is just sooo visible)
And no not really hard aside of LG where its a bid of case to case (avoid the 3D and you are fine normally): If Samsung or HTC is written on it, its fine. If Motorola is written on it, you deserve any punishment for buying it, but happily the device will take care of that already as Android 3.0 and 3.1 on the xoom have shown very well (might sound hard but they like RIM just missed the whole trend for too many years and lack that far on the required experience and knowhow that they just better would vanish for the customers sake)
HTC at the time just has no Android 3 tablet (flyer is Android 2.4 wich a seriously overclocked Snapdragon 2 in it that really makes the competition fear it. To kill something like a Xoom it does not even need to go all out) likely cause they are not willing to not use HTC Sense and with the deep modifications (and resulting also long time to update to new android versions) they might just not get Android 3 certified at all for the time being.
Any but those 4 brands is to be avoided anyway out of my view, cause they don’t represent anything “major” which normally goes hand in hand with not enough qualified staff to maintain the hardware and platform, often that then are cheapo asian stuff (huwai for example) or in case of Arcos just something you should generally avoid if the target was android gaming and development of games. (they didn’t get market certified for a long time by google, for really good reasons!)
You will not be able to get around the transformer for the time being.
Xoom at court, Galaxy Tab at court - good thats in europe where apple can’t lock them in court for many months to years just cause they have cash like stupid
ive tried all 3, i recommended the galaxy tab it just feels light weight and slim, but all 3 are basically the same… all perform the same in my opinion.
