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Originally Posted by JAcheson
The one negative is that the buttons in the bezel are disabled in favor of a more conventional placement at the bottom of the screen.
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Yes, I dislike the fact that I can no longer run any of my apps in full screen mode because those applications now have to share the screen with those on screen buttons.
I tracked down the exact number of pixels lost to the buttons that were moved into the screen to be 73 or 9.5%. Instead of 1024x768 you will end up with a usable screen of 1024x695 instead and I still can't figure out what purpose it served Google to place the buttons into the screen when they didn't cause any problems where they were at.
But the three things that quit working with the update to Honeycomb make me very mad.
1. Try to play a youtube video by going to m.youtube.com. You can select the video but when you tap on it to play the video all you will get is black where the video should be.
2. Starting from m.youtube.com go down to the very bottom of the page where it says desktop. After you tap on that select browser, select a video and select browser again and the video will start. You can pause the video with just one tap but to restart the video it will require more than just one tap and if you keep tapping on the video itself it will never restart unless you accidentally tap on one of the buttons right below the video.
3. Web pages with embedded youtube videos are a pain in the rear. You can start youtube videos but that is about all you can do. You will have trouble pausing them and forget about clicking on the 'x' to close an advertisement that covers part of the video because I can't do that anymore with my Honeycomb Vizio Tablet. And if the embedded youtube video is down on the page when you zoom in on the page the youtube video will not stay where it was on the page, it will end up much further down that you would expect it to.
Conclusion: I think Vizio upgraded the OS to Honeycomb but they are still using a flashplayer that was written for the Gingerbread since two of the three problems listed above use the Adobe 10.3 Flashplayer when Adobe is now distributing version 11.x of that program.
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Added a day after posting the above:
Since I suspect the version of the Flashplayer Vizio is using on their Honeycomb Tablet to be the biggest problem with their update I ran another test only to find out the updated(?) Vizio Tablet failed there too.
What I did was:
1. Install the Dolphin Browser HD.
2. When I ran the Dolphin Browser HD for the first time I set it up to always use Flash and to look like a Desktop browser.
3. I then went to iheart.com and picked any radio station to stream.
4. When I went to zoom in on that page the items didn't zoom in as if they were connected and not only that when I tried to move the player itself all that moved was the background. That is further proof for me that it is the version of the Flashplayer that is behind 3 of the 4 problems I've seen with the Vizio Honeycomb Tablet. God I wish I could go back to Gingerbread and watch youtube videos in full screen again.
And when I called up Vizio today to make sure my complaint had all the facts I found I was told that they plan to have a fix for the problems in a week. But my concern there is will the fix involve doing what Apple did and write their own version of the flashplayer that removed a lot of options you get with the Adobe Flashplayer.