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Originally Posted by pphilipp
My three Android tablets this year had OS 1.6; 2.0; and 2.2. All were exceedingly buggy. I had to constantly go online to update firmware... which normally would correct one problem and cause another problem in the process. Because the OS were all developed for phones, they utilized worthless phone features in the system. Guess what this does to a device?? It eats up the battery with features that aren't even needed! Also, the app market is flooded with mediocre apps which in no way do justice to a tablet device.
To make it worse, the two with resistive screens had poor screen response and even the one with capacitive screen didn't fare much better... not all capacitives are created equal. (Just because it's capacitive doesn't mean it's any good.)
I found out that being an early adopter, I spent far too much time trying to get the dang thangs to operate the way I wanted them to. Not worth it. I also found out that I was practically living in the Android forums, along with all the other folks trying to overcome our buggy tablets.
Hopefully by 2012 these problems will be a thing of the past.
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Actually I think your case is a bit different. The fact that buying Android tablets that are running 1.6 and 2.0 can only lead one to believe that these are basically the bottom of the barrel Walgreen type of tablets . I wouldn't judge android as OS based on Craig, Hansui or Viewsonic etc.
Android being an open source OS is both a blessing and a curse. The curse part being any manufacturer can obtain any of the Android OS and throw crappy hardware and slow processors and crappy screens and then add the "Android" name to it for recognition.
Kind of like buyign a Blu ray player, the tech can be used by any manufacturer but If I bought a Craig Blu ray from CVS and it was a piece of crap I wouldn't say that all Blu rays especially by Samsung, Sony, Panasonic were crap..
So I don't think your case is as much as being an early adopter as it to choosing poor brands.
Before the Xoom and to a certain degree the Nook color, there really has been only one Tier 1 Android Tablet and that was the Samsung Galaxy Tab running 2.2. And really the only across the board knock on that device was it's initial pricing which was through the roof, otherwise, it's a high end performing tablet.
Everything else has been just cheap junk.