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Old 12-19-2010, 12:33 PM   #31
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Just ordered the Galaxy Tab here in Germany (as of today lowest price approx. 560 Euro).

You mentioned the lack of a "right" app for reading pdf: does it mean there is no app or not the right one . I cannot imagine that pdf is not known to Android. Btw: these are my first steps into this world.
There are numerous apps for reading PDFs on Android. I just haven't found the "right" one yet. Quite frankly, I didn't look very intensively though. I'm not that much into PDFs. But for "professional" documents (contracts, SLAs, proposals, text books, ...) results of most apps are far from perfect.
Either they use reflow, which simply "kills" the original layout and looses lots of details (graphs, pictures, formulas, ...). Or they use very basic zoom functionality. I'd like to have "smart" zoom, for example identifying columns and such...

Congrats to your Galaxy Tab. You certainly won't regret it.
But you shouldn't have mentioned the price, will cost me some hours of sleep.
I've paid € 720 or something like that 6 or 8 weeks ago...

BTW: First app to install on Galaxy Tab should be "Spare Parts" from the Android market. It allows for full zoom (= full screen, even if the app has been designed for non-HD units) of all apps. Else you'll have the "iPhone" effect for maybe 60% of all apps.
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Congrats to your Galaxy Tab. You certainly won't regret it.
But you shouldn't have mentioned the price, will cost me some hours of sleep.
I've paid € 720 or something like that 6 or 8 weeks ago...
Yes - I am rather not an early adopter - but also do not belong to the sort of people who buy the product shortly before EOS (end of support) . I hope the stuff arrives before Xmas so to play a little bit with Android and see if it can be used as ereader when my PRS-650 is not around.
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CW reviewed 4 tablets and chose Galaxy as with "winner:"

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Thanks for all the info on the Galaxy Tab, very interesting. I am thinking of buying one soon. Looks great except for the battery life? But I am not a big reader, 5 ~ 8 hours is probably OK for me
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I'm using my Galaxy Tab quite frequently as a phone.
(both using the very same provider, same Multi-SIM).

Last week, on Tab, in the hotel I've done for example:
Downloading a movie and a TV episode from the usenet. Directly on the Tab, no jailbreak or anything like that needed. I've unrared, again directly on the unit. And I've watched the DivX movies without any problems.
I've downloaded in the background of course, while multi-tasking.
I have to ask

What is Multi-SIM?

What Apps did you use for usenet stuff? Very interesting. Didn't know it was possible on the android.

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Old 12-31-2010, 06:55 AM   #36
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I have to ask

What is Multi-SIM?

What Apps did you use for usenet stuff? Very interesting. Didn't know it was possible on the android.

Thanks

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Multi-SIM means, I've got the "old" T-Mobile tariff from 2007. I've got a data flatrate for my iPhone and can add another 2 SIMs without costs. So I'm using the same flatrate on iPhone4, Galaxy Tab and iPad. Unfortunately, it's limited to 3 SIMs. In 2007, it was up to 8 SIMs.

There are numerous apps for the usenet on Android.
Just search for "nzb".
I've got 2 apps: 1 for downloading the files and another 1 for searching and downloading the NZBs (directly integrated in the other app).
I wouldn't download tons of data.
But it's great for downloading a TV episode while stuck in a hotel for example.
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Old 12-31-2010, 06:57 AM   #37
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Thanks for all the info on the Galaxy Tab, very interesting. I am thinking of buying one soon. Looks great except for the battery life? But I am not a big reader, 5 ~ 8 hours is probably OK for me
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Without WiFi and other battery hogs, you probably can make 10 instead of 7 hours (if you only want to read for example).
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Thanks for the review and the comments.

While I currently have an iPad, I'm looking closely at Android Tablets and the Samsung Galaxy Tab in particular as a potential replacement as I find the iPad too big and unwieldy to carry easily when out without a bag which is not always an option.

I was pretty sold on the Tab despite some to the limitations, but am holding back till at least CES to see what's on the near horizon, as I don't want to shell out for a tablet and immediately regret it.
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Speaking of CES, I'm hearing all the bloggers screaming about "the year of the tablet", but have so far heard very little substantiative about any.

Is anyone here actually at CES, and have any early breaking news for us? Is there anything out there better/cheaper/faster than the Galaxy Tab?
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You might check here:
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I wish I had skipped the cheaper 7" tablets and gone straight to the Galaxy Tab. It is well worth the price difference. I haven't even picked up my Kindle since I bought this little LCD tablet. Considering that I only paid $100 less for the first Kindle three years ago, the Galaxy Tab is almost a bargain.

Samsung is introducing a wifi only version this quarter.

The biggest con is that the current Galaxy Tab will not be powerful enough for Honeycomb (Android 2.3) but honestly the Tab allows me to do everything I want or need to do with a 7" tablet and it's running 2.2.

If only the US version had the phone enabled I would drop my phone and use the Tab exclusively. It's possible to root the Tab for phone functionality but I'm with Verizon (no SIM chips).
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The biggest con is that the current Galaxy Tab will not be powerful enough for Honeycomb (Android 2.3) but honestly the Tab allows me to do everything I want or need to do with a 7" tablet and it's running 2.2.
Can you quote your source? I have read in a German IT journal of even moving it to Android 3 (http://www.computerwoche.de/netzwerk...eless/2356788/)!
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I think we're getting our names crossed. Android 2.3 is Gingerbread. Android 3.0 is Honeycomb.

There was a story going around recently that Honeycomb would require a dual core processor, but at this point, I'm pretty it's not true.

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Oops, sorry! I was multi-tasking and mistyped. I meant 3.0, of course. Everything I've read in the last day or so has stated that 3.0 requires dual processors.

Honestly, right now the Galaxy Tab does everything I was looking for in a tablet.
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