One thing I've never understood about the Chumby is the whole "app/content sponsorship" / "promotional widget" thing. They advertise that all of the content is free but then they push promotion widgets to the device. Can anyone who owns a Chumby describe what this is really like? Thanks.
It's not a huge deal -- in fact, if you don't have too many widgets in your channel, you never see them. If you do see them, they don't really last any longer than a normal widget, and can be skipped instantly if you want to. I use mine for mainly the music features, and a couple ticker apps, so I don't really see them; When you've got 15 little widgets cycling through at 30seconds per, it'd be easy to miss the ad widgets anyway. The chumby's more of a passive device (to me, anyway).
The Galaxy Tab 10.1, much like its Limited Edition sibling that we reviewed last month, is ever-so-slightly thinner than the iPad 2, a slate that most sane individuals (and competitors, for that matter) would confess is the market leader today.
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One thing I've never understood about the Chumby is the whole "app/content sponsorship" / "promotional widget" thing. They advertise that all of the content is free but then they push promotion widgets to the device. Can anyone who owns a Chumby describe what this is really like? Thanks.
It's not a huge deal -- in fact, if you don't have too many widgets in your channel, you never see them. If you do see them, they don't really last any longer than a normal widget, and can be skipped instantly if you want to. I use mine for mainly the music features, and a couple ticker apps, so I don't really see them; When you've got 15 little widgets cycling through at 30seconds per, it'd be easy to miss the ad widgets anyway. The chumby's more of a passive device (to me, anyway).