10-06-2011, 07:27 PM | #32 |
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So what are the 10 preloaded apps? Good grief talk about half assed details!
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10-06-2011, 08:48 PM | #33 |
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Man, this is a long hard slog.
I just checked Amazon, and no tablet. Little bitty steps all the way!! |
10-06-2011, 11:57 PM | #34 |
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1. The sale of the A1 on the Lenovo site is to Oct 12.
2. Estimated ship date is Oct 27. The picture on the Lenovo site is one I saw 2 or 3 weeks ago and even made a page copy, and then it disappeared Then as X said, they reduced the Storage to 2GB. They say hard drive, but I am pretty sure that they speak solid state drive. For this they want $199. Earlier they were talking 8GB for $199 but not in the USA. In the USA they were talking 16GB and 32GB (not mentioned now) and the 16GB was $249, the 32GB was $299. I would never buy 2GB and put an SD card in though that might be cheaper than buying 16GB for $249. I want to see what configuration Amazon will carry. I assume that Lenovo will get the early adopters now, and then either on Oct 13, or Oct 28, 1 day after the dates they are citing, give the product to Amazon for mass sales. Anyway, with 16GB at $249 the A1 compares to the Galaxy 5.0 WiFi 5 inch at $269 with 8GB and a release date at Amazon of Oct 16. It is already in my shopping cart. [[I do worry that they seem to keep changing the size of the pixels on the Galaxy screen. I think it is 800x480 but 480x480 keeps popping up, thought I think that is for the 4.0 (4 inch version). The decision tree is leafing out. I am feeling much better. I don't mind making hard decisions when all the decisions feel good. I am going to leave the Kindle Fire with those folks that want to live in Jeff Bezos's cloud, and good luck to them finding a WiFi spot to connect with that cloud. Last edited by frahse; 10-07-2011 at 12:02 AM. |
10-07-2011, 01:28 AM | #35 |
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Looks like a nice little device. I like Lenovo.
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10-08-2011, 08:59 AM | #36 |
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i heard that is got a good battery life
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10-09-2011, 08:42 AM | #37 |
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O.K.
I have had time to mull over the Lenovo A1 Ideapad and though I am waiting to see the configuration that will appear on Amazon with regards to internal memory and pricing, one thing has gnawed at my gut and I have seen a few of the writers on this kind of equipment also raising questions. The Question is the Android Operating System. Why GingerBread? Why GingerBread? Gingerbread was made for phones. Why not HoneyComb which was made for 7" Tablets. We are just about to see the introduction of IceCreamSandwich the next OS which will combine Gingerbread type stuff with Honeycomb type stuff, and yet Lenovo decided to go with what is most commonly a phone operating system: GingerBread. Why oh why? It gives me pause. It slides me toward the Galaxy 5.0. On a different note, the Lenovo K1, a 10" tablet is going on sale at Best Buy for two days at 330USD. This is 120USD down. http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/10...r-only-329-99/ |
10-10-2011, 12:41 PM | #38 |
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It's now $229 for the 2GB and the ship date is Nov. 8 now. Which probably means they've taken a ton of orders and are now seeing how much money they can continue to squeeze out.
But that's been my dilemma, too. $200 for 2GB? Really? Granted, Lenovo tends to make good stuff, but does that balance out with the specs and price? |
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As for worth, that's one own opinion. I will say that for me this is still a good deal and a better deal than the Kindle Fire. With the Kindle file I get only Kindle services. With the A1 I get all of Googles and all of Amazon services. From a hardware standpoint they are very similar. The fire has gorilla glass, the A1 has more memory, two cameras, GPS, bluetooth and an expandable memory slot. =X= |
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Still you might want to also want to consider the Galaxy wifi 5.0 5" player. A little more portable and in landscape mode will be similar to the 7" tablets in portrait mode. |
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10-10-2011, 05:33 PM | #42 |
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At the moment no body knows.
What is known is the Lenovo A1 has TI OMAP3633 1GHz / GPU* PowerVR SGX 530. The Amazon Fire has a dual core TI chip but the speed is not known, nor is it known if the Fire comes with a GPU. Some bloggers are speculating each chip is 1GHz and comes with a GPU but those are just unconfirmed speculation. *GPU = Graphical processor(kind of like a graphics card for PC) |
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I can go cheaper, deal with a resistive screen (I'm fine, but I have to listen to the other half gripe whenever he nicks my toy), root it to get Market and other stuff, so maybe getting Market, Netflix, and Lenovo is worth the extra money. But the $200 8GB would've been just right. *dramatic sigh* |
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but at least I've been able to play with my new toy for 2 months already by then! Well, time for him to get his own toy if he gripes on yours! |
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10-11-2011, 09:54 AM | #45 |
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He's got an iPad2 he gets to use from work and never uses it, says he can't really justify it, doesn't see the point, etc. But the moment I have a tablet, he has to play with it as well as tell me what I should've got instead. It's the classic case of not wanting it until he sees someone else with it. I guess my fiance is 4?
Drove him nuts when I locked the tablet and wouldn't tell him the password. He's also the one who swore up and down I should get this Zenithink tablet that gets terrible reviews, but it was "a deal" that all these other dealsters were going nuts over on a deals forum. |
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