08-10-2012, 03:25 PM | #121 | |
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08-11-2012, 11:23 AM | #122 | |
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MAYBE if it were $150 ($177.00 after tax and bus fare), and then only because it's available locally and I'd be impatient to get it. |
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08-12-2012, 01:33 AM | #123 |
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Quite the thread I started. I'm going to be sticking with the Vox as my 7" device for the foreseeable future.
The big city daily newspaper will be cancelling newspaper delivery at the end of the month. So now I'm looking at a 10" tablet so I can still read the paper, aka browse the news websites, while eating meals. While I have a spare Windows laptop the keyboard will be in the way and a food and drink magnet. A local library has licensed PressDisplay so can still read the comics on a daily basis. Right now the Acer A200 is the current favourite as it has the right combination of brand name and features such as Bluetooth and screen resolution. But I'm still poking about. And I need to buy some kind of case or device to hold it at an angle. Last edited by TonyToews; 08-12-2012 at 01:34 AM. Reason: Changed 10' to 10". |
08-12-2012, 11:08 AM | #124 |
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Tony, I use one of these for my 10" tablet. I can highly recommend it.
http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Aluminum-meta...item4ab8529ad6 |
08-12-2012, 12:03 PM | #125 |
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Depending on the tablet you end up choosing, Digitals on Demand has great kits with a large number of accessories for about 40 to 60$. Quality is acceptable, I've been using the leather case every day for the past 7 months and it's still in excellent condition. The 6ft cable and usb chargers for the car and house alone make the kit worth the price!
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08-12-2012, 08:43 PM | #126 |
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So I'm thinking about this and I realize that I have a spare laptop and why restrict
myself to a 10" tablet. Why not just buy a 22" or 24" touch screen monitor and use it and the spare laptop? Like this one for $270. http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applicatio...147&CatId=1449 |
08-13-2012, 03:41 AM | #127 | |
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I expect that the next iteration of the Vox will have all of that, but for now, I don't regret making the change and i find I am reading on it more than I expected to. |
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08-13-2012, 07:19 AM | #128 | |
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Considering I've used one every day for months now, I think $200 is a great price though $150 would be better. There is bad viewing in one orientation, but since it's a handheld device it's easy to flip it over. HDMI out for the times you're showing a movie or photos to a crowd (when I'm feeling super lazy, I use the HDMI out to read in bed ). 8gig, expandable with SD card (I've got a 64GB one in mine). Where did you hear there was no ICS? Acer put out an Over the Air upgrade in late May, early June. I've been running ICS for almost 3 months now, automatic update, no problems installing. Personally, I think it's a great little device. |
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08-13-2012, 07:42 AM | #129 |
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Okay, I'll give you that one - most everywhere I looked (including FutureShop) still lists it as Honeycomb and I guess I was mixing up the no-upgrade with a different Honeycomb tablet... Too lazy to go look up which one it might've been, though. :P
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08-13-2012, 02:27 PM | #130 | |
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EDIT: Kobo ate a bunch of my side loaded books for the last time 2 days ago. Went to BestBuy after work yesterday and started playing with 7" tablets. This enticed me to get on the internet when I got home and do some research on the Nexus7 Vs. Samsung Tab 2 7". An ad has now been placed in my local classifieds to sell my Kobo. If I can get it sold it will be replaced sooner rather than later - if not I will wait to see if either of these tablets go on sale during the back to school madness. Right now I'm leaning more towards the Samsung as it is expandable whereas the Nexus isn't - but that decision is yet to be made. Last edited by renee0986; 08-17-2012 at 07:46 AM. |
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08-28-2012, 12:45 PM | #131 | |
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Renee, the SoC (Tegra-3) will thrill you with its speed and ability to run ANYTHING you ask it to. The display on the N7 is stunning, whether you watch videos, view static pictures, and of course text/font rendering. I get a constant 7-8 hours of use, actually no matter what I combine of the above activities. You do NOT need to disable one feature or radio on the device to see this battery life. Three (3) hours to fully charge it up from low-warning with the included Asus adapter. I have had this for a month, and it is a complete knockout! I actually enjoy to watch (laying in bed before sleep) Netflix and other downloaded movie content, whether HD or not. This was the best usage of under 300.00 that has been spent so far in the portable tablet realm. The feature/power for the dollar ratio is totally loaded in the user's favor. If you decide upon one, and want to use a headphone (great sound BTW) with the N7, I just want to comment that the first time you put the plug into the socket at the bottom of the N7, it is a good fit, and so make sure that you use enough force to completely see/feel the plug seat itself into the socket. Some new users thought there was something wrong with their unit when they had 'thought' it was fully seated and only got sound from the right channel. I also did that when using the socket for the first time...but knew that I obviously had not fully seated the headphone plug and pushed a little more to overcome the good fit, and felt the plug travel that little more to fully and truly be seated. I then had full left and right channels being sent to the headphone. I just thought to comment. Last edited by Reader Paradice; 08-28-2012 at 12:52 PM. Reason: ...added content |
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08-28-2012, 03:04 PM | #132 |
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I know people who store their whole library on the external SD card. Not only does it take forever to load, but like you say, you can lose it in a flash. I keep books I'm likely to read in the near future on Dropbox and the rest on my desktop PC.
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08-28-2012, 03:07 PM | #133 | |
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08-28-2012, 07:44 PM | #134 | |
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08-28-2012, 08:44 PM | #135 |
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Yeah, if you have to go through so much trouble to enable a feature that there is no reasonable excuse for not including (and "to make people more dependant on our paid cloud services" is not reasonable), the device isn't worth it in the first place.
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