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5 years ago I was given an iPad 2 by a friend who had received it as a gift and was never going to use it (I think he had had it sitting in a box for a year at that point already). I have never updated the OS and I use it for reading. Sure, it is a little bit bigger than I would like, and the screen is low rez, but it lets me read books for the entirety of even the longest flights. I have looked at getting a newer an…
-better screens (oled? color e-ink, perish the thought?)
-better graphics processing (maybe sacrifice some battery or thinness)
-incorporate top of the line features ('truetone' display, pens, etc)
All I'm saying is car makers find a way to make it work every year.
The problem with tablets is they're incredibly limited. The hardware seems to improve with every generation, but specifically in the instance of iOS: the software seems to be stagnate. What's the point in having super fast storage, quad core processors and fast memory if the software is so limiting and horrible it doesn't let you take advantage of it? As a developer, I find iOS to be a horrible operating system and v…
The same thing applies for Android tablets, however I find Android tablets to be slightly more developer friendly But Android tablets are also awful. Although I am primarily an Apple user and my wife uses an iPad, we bought an higher-end ASUS tablet based on Atom for me and our daughter (to watch cartoons on long car trips). The tablet came bloated with all kinds of nonsense apps, of which more than half cannot be re…
Not a bonus: on Android, you can use MobileOrg+SyncOrg (which syncs to any git remote). Or you can use Emacs on the terminal and sync using a generic generic git client like SGit.
The problem with tablets is they're incredibly limited. The hardware seems to improve with every generation, but specifically in the instance of iOS: the software seems to be stagnate. What's the point in having super fast storage, quad core processors and fast memory if the software is so limiting and horrible it doesn't let you take advantage of it? As a developer, I find iOS to be a horrible operating system and v…
That's kind of a funny thing to say given that one of the hallmark features of Android 'O' is them locking down what developers can do with the operating system: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2017/03/first-prev...
Check out the very first feature mentioned, Background Limits.
For me the ideal tablet size is the 7 inch tablet. Easier to browse with than a phone (possible to use mobile sites and desktop sites), easier to read (it's paperback size), easier to hold than a ipad/10inch tablet. can ANYONE recommend anything at least as good as a nexus7?
I find reading on a tablet quite terrible. Your eyes get tired and use late at night delays melatonin production. I like the Kindle Paperwhite a lot more for reading non-technical books and magazines.
If you root Android, you can install F.lux (the real deal, not that fake red layer crap), which helps considerably.
"The iPad 2 is still in use today," IDC Senior Analyst Jitesh Ubrani tells TechCrunch. “The [original] iPad Minis and Air are all still in use today. They were being supported by Apple until very recently. People have been hanging onto these devices and they’re finding that they work just as well as they did when they were released" It's simply true. I have a iPad 2 and iPad Air 2, and both run fine. The former still…
Great comment. What you are saying is spot on. I had a 2009 17" Toshiba satellite dual-core I upgraded ~1.5 years ago to another Toshiba Satelite 17" with a quad-core haswell chip. Now my mom is looking to upgrade her aging 2010 Gateway 17" dual-core machine but for Intel's latest lineup, most i7 laptop CPUs are only dual-core and only a slight clock speed bump above the i5 models. I guess they felt quad-core mobile…
I use an ultrabook and a 6" phone. No need for a tablet. They are redundant.