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Originally Posted by jsfiller
To be honest, for tablet type devices 1.6 is not seriously outdated. 2.2. SDK was released in May 2010 (6 months ago-7 if we're talking the first part of May). This does not constitute "seriously outdated". Outdated, yes, just as Vista is an outdated Windows OS. There is only one significant tablet on the market that uses 2.2 (whatever there may be in other countries such as Japan-Alefor can speak to that), Samsung, and it just came out (and looking at it, I question its status as a tablet). Dell Streak just came out with 2.2 in November.
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1. The Archos 101 and Viewsonic gTablet are 10" devices that run 2.2, and are at least as significant as the Edge in the tablet world. It's not like there are a bunch of significant tablets that have struggled to make the leap from 1.6 to 2.2 as Edge has; there simply are no significant Android tablets right now.
2. If we're going to use the eink side as an excuse for sluggish OS updating, then we have to stop touting the Edge as an Android tablet plus e-reader. It would be more accurate to describe it as an ereader attached to an eternally behind-the-times tablet.