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Originally Posted by kennyc
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kennyc,
right now Amazon Kindles rule. That is not to say that people that favor Sony won't use the Sony T which is a good machine though I can't compare the operations of it against the Kindles. Many Nook people will still stick with Nook, Kobo will be likewise, but people will slide from the other tablets to the Kindles and new people will go Kindle mainly, and heck they were already doing the best.
The only question will be how much Kindle (Fire) and the next bigger table after it, cuts into Apple. The 7" size as well as the price is a good selling point for me and many others, but those that like 10" sizes and love Apple will stay put, but it's market share will diminish. Sure the Apple is a great piece of hardware, but just as it enjoys the Apple mystique, it also is burdened down by the Apple straight jacket. Personally, I don't think it necessary for most people, at least most of the time to have a barn burner tablet. How fast do you want to turn a book or magazine page? Come on now. And when I watch movies occasionally I like at least a medium size TV to watch them on. I can feed anything I get online right over to my TVs.
I want a 7" Fire with the free limited 3G. I don't think I will buy a 9 or 10" Kindle with the free limited 3G. When I have access to a sofa to lay back with a big 10" tablet I am usually home and I will walk into my home office and belly up to my 23" ViewSonic, or fire the file over to a TV. And I am hankering after an even bigger monitor. (I do a lot of Autocad.)
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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
8GB and no card slot. I wanted the Fire, but lack of storage is a big problem. I'm not sure I'll get it now. Have to see what B&N comes up with.
My iPod touch was originally 8GB, but I exchanged it for the 32GB model when I realized that 8GB wasn't going to be enough. I'm currently using about 12GB.
My Nook Color is 8GB; but it has a card slot, so I don't care. I can easily add more as needed.
There are no 10" tablets in my future; unless they're $99 each, like my HP TouchPad.  |
tubemonkey,
I agree that 10" tablets aren't a great need or desire unless you can get them in a yard sale.
You are right about the memory. It was the one problem I saw today with the Amazon vision, besides the lack of 3G on the Fire. Sure cloud in the sky is a great idea, but what can you put up there. Just Amazon stuff? You can get free storage online all over the place and more storage for a few dollars, and I pay a web siting company over $100 a year for a zillion GB that is readily available to me.
But all that is for backup or emergency storage.
I like what I am running to be right with me if I am out of WiFi range or 3G is not available or slow.
Maybe the USB2 port can be used to hook up a flash drive and use that kind of storage. That would be my first choice of looking for additional storage.