Samsung's Galaxy tab 10.1 was launched in the company's headquarters in Seoul. Photo: Jo Yong-Hak/ReutersIPad ever since delivered, I have been waiting impatiently for a comparable Android device showing up – something of the like kind, size and capacity, but from a more open ecosystem Apple than one offers.
Like Apple, Google operates an Android App Store, it controls – If your app is not please Google, don't go in the store. But unlike Apple, Google allows you to apps install from unofficial sources, which means that you can download apps directly from their authors or buy them from stores that compete with (or complement) the Google store.
This is the kind of thing is important for me. A tablet software without is just a lyskasse with a volume of fragile and ill-reflecting mirror, so what I want to make sure of when I buy a unit is that I don't have to implicitly trust one Corporation judgment about what software I should and should not be using.
The introduction of the iPad launched a series of Android tablet launches, and none of them had sufficiently impressive specifications or-form-factor to conquer my desire until Samsung announced its Galaxy tab 10.1. Despite having one of the names stupidest and most awkward product in recent memory, boasted Galaxy tab 10.1 specifications met or beat iPad 2 on each axis, and came with the latest Android tablet OS 3.1, preloaded.
So I asked a friend who comes from Chicago to buy one for me and bring it with him (not the device is available in the United Kingdom until 4 August), and greedily unwrapped it, charged it up and got into the business with it I have used it on my own in the home and Office, given it to my three-year-old to test, and taken it in a quick overseas trip, and at this stage, I am prepared to make a judgment: the series.
It is true that the Galaxy is all tab 10.1 the fundamental things you like from an Android tablet, has a long life battery, weighs a little, and have a good, sharp screen and two very good cameras – a face you and one facing away. The camera is a joy – there is something really fun and right about using a large, 10.1 in screen as a viewfinder, especially when shooting video, and pictures are beautiful. Large, the operating system is easy and intuitive, and software offerings from Google's Android store and its competitors are fine as they go.
But there are a couple of irritation and a few awful mistakes in doing Galaxy to a tab 10.1 disappointment. First, and worst of all, there is the USB connector. Apple's iOS devices use famous a long, flat, proprietary connector that provides some easy cash for the company in the form of specialised cable sale and locks the competing units out of using the speaker-docks, and other accessories. This is one of my stay with Apple devices, and using standard, inexpensive, widely available mini-USB cables in Android phones (including the excellent Samsung Galaxy S, which I am pleased to own) is a major selling point for me.
But Samsung had tablets – without appreciable reason-uses a custom tip, there is no standard mini-or micro-USB ends. Instead, it is a broad, flat, like the one Apple applications, but of course it is not compatible with Apple's cables, either. I have already lost my, run down the battery, and now I cannot use the tablet again until I find another. I passed through three airports recently, and none of them had a store that stocked them.
I have phone charger cables in my Office, My Briefcase, my backpack and beside the bed. The last thing in the whole world that I need right now is the need to add a different kind of USB cable to any of these sites. The decision to use a proprietary connector on a device whose major selling point is that it is non-proprietary is the stupidest, on Galaxy tab 10.1 – even stupider than calling it the "Galaxy tab 10.1."
Also disappointing was the decision to omit the microSD card slot on the Wi-Fi-only version of the tablet. 3 G-equipped models come with a built-in microSD reader (handy to have, especially if you need to load some data on your device and you have mislaid dum proprietary cable). This is integrated into SIM Assembly used by 3 G devices, and rather than leaving it empty SIM Assembly in place and leave the IFD intact, Samsung removed it all.
Continuing on the theme of the transfer of data, the new versions of Android made fundamental changes to the system, which speaks volumes for personal computers. Android devices displayed on the desktop as a standard USB storage until now, and you can move files from or onto them by dragging them around in your file browser. This was a straightfoward, quick and easy, but it had some minor annoyance: When your Android storage was installed on your PC, it was not available for Android device, which means that you won't be able to work with the files on your Android at the same time as using storage in order to play the movie or sound.
You can resolve this by borrowed Android MTP, Microsoft technology designed for Zune, which in theory you can use your tablet files as you use your PC to transfer files from or to store in-built. It is a nice idea, and would represent a slight improvement of the experience of Android if it worked.
But it is not. When you connect your Galaxy tab 10.1 for your PC, automatically a Samsung launches Android file transfer app to fill the entire screen. This communicates with a desktop app for that, you can transfer files — very, very slowly. And if you try to start another Android app, while file transfer takes place, it disconnects the communication with your PC, cause file transfers fail. The system is supposed to let you use your Android while you transfer files requires, in other words, that you are not using your Android while you transfer files.
What's more, it means the adoption of the MTP, Android now requires a proprietary desktop app to effect simple file transfers – an app that, if it is possible, even worse than iTunes, and do not represent selling-point for those of us who want non-proprietary, "just works" mobile devices.
Samsung really does not seem to have the head around the concept of Androids strengthen its non-proprietary, open nature. They have preloaded device with multiple Samsung apps, provocative, cannot be deleted without "rooting" device, a process which voids your warranty.
32 GB, WiFi-only tab 10.1 will ship, Galaxy in the UK in August, to an unrevealed Prize, even though the online facility contains the pre-order on a crazy £ 899 (the comparable iPad 2 costing £ 479.00 and paid in United States $ 699 for the my Galaxy tab 10.1).
I am not giving up on my search for a great Android tablet – I underemployed up upcoming Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet. I love the Lenovo's ThinkPad Laptops and ThinkPad Tablet comes with a standard USB connector, video out and an SD card slot (it also has an optional stylus and carrying case with an integrated ThinkPad keyboard – my favorite keyboards in the world).
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