http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/ Engadget Comments for Samsung's Q3-bound tablet to boast 7-inch display, Android OS http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/Jul 30th 2010 4:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/Jul 30th 2010 4:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/Jul 30th 2010 4:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/Jul 30th 2010 4:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/
Android is still in its growing phase. It will get better. Some of the iPhone cool factor has rubbed off on it even if it is inferior. It seems like it has single handedly resurrected companies like Motorola that were dying. Its making Verizon and Sprint money, and helping them add subscribers. Android will be to the cell phone market what Windows is to the PC market. It does not have to be good now. It just has to be good enough like Windows.]]>Jul 30th 2010 5:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/Jul 30th 2010 5:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/
You do make valid points, but you fail to realize UI is not everything. As someone else said, it's exactly what happened between Windows and Mac. Windows = productivity, Mac = niceness. Who won?

And, really, I have experience with both iPhone and Android. And yes, the iPhone's UI looks tons better, there's no denying that. But Android is tons more productive. And that's what ultimately matters.]]>Jul 30th 2010 5:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/@iPhone 4

Android OS and iOS are practically par with eachother with android maybe pulling a hair ahead because it isn't forced proprietary or Apple!

Furthermore, the only mobile OS that could in any concept truly be ported up from a phone is the WebOS. This is due to several general design points and a single major factor that the other mobile OS's don't fully support true multitasking. As a graphics design and animation hobbyist I find that when I wish to browse, reference my works, or present my portfolio I don't have to exit and restart.]]>Jul 30th 2010 5:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/Jul 30th 2010 5:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/
Not me. I'm fine with 7 inch tablets, but I'd prefer they cover the same range as laptop screen sizes. And 7 inches is on the small size in that regard. After using an iPad for a while I've not once wished the screen were smaller, only bigger... or at least a bit higher res. The tablet looks great, but I want something a bit bigger.]]>Jul 30th 2010 5:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/
It actually makes me wonder what you find attractive. The iPhone UI is the same garbage bubbly fisher-price toy it was in 2007. The initial 'wow' has died off and it's 'simple' interface is now dated and, dare I say, ugly too. That blue gradient with vertical stripes looks like a throwback to OSX 10.2.

However, I will agree that in it's initial stages, Android was a visual clusterfuck; but since 2.0 the UI is more refined, cleaner and easier to navigate. It's quick, responsive and helpful.. you just have to step out of your iBox to realize that not everything has to be 20 icons in a grid whacking you over the head with simplicity.]]>Jul 30th 2010 5:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/Just curious as to what things in Android are more productive than iOS? Isn't that what apps are for? I do agree that Android has more freedom in customizing, but I don't get how one or the other is better, when not talking about security. Seriously curious.]]>Jul 30th 2010 5:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/@ ok android whatever..

I just read your other post which was downranked into oblivion and I have to say you've furthermore proved your simplistic in the iBox views. Your view is, if it doesn't function like an iPhone, it's shit. I moved from being an iPhone user for 2 years to a Nexus One running 2.1 (now 2.2).. and while the initial stage was a little weird, I had to open my mind and release the old rotten habits I got from the fruitPhone.

I now work faster, with less distractions (ie, ever try doing something when a notification comes in on iPhone? you want a design disaster? there's your answer).. I use more of my monthly data now because I can multitask, do something, then move on.

The iPhone is a phone everyone. Android is a phone for everyone who wants to get shit done.]]>Jul 30th 2010 5:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/Jul 30th 2010 5:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/Jul 30th 2010 5:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/Am I the only person who noticed the Phone icon on it? Kickass. ]]>Jul 30th 2010 5:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/
Edit video? who cares? What a gimmick.. OMG I went to the bar, I got so wasted and took a video of Davey puking on a sidewalk. But I have to edit that out so my mom doesn't see it on Facebook.

Really.

I also write quite a fair amount on my phone too, use it as a mobile hotspot, play games that don't need an approval and never need to hook it up to iBloatware to sync.

If you're not an iPhone fan, what are you? Because BB is ugly. WM6.5 is.. WM6.5? WebOS is dead and Symbian is well.. fuck, it's Symbian.

If you're a WP7 fan, someone call the leg factory, you need something to stand on.]]>Jul 30th 2010 6:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/Seriously, you want a phone with an 8" screen and another 3G phone contract? It would be like walking around holding a slice of toast on your face.]]>Jul 30th 2010 6:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/
Windows phone 7 is already dead, nobody knows about it, nobody wants to know about it, and the only people who'll have it work for Microsoft. Haha keep flogging your dead horse idiot!]]>Jul 30th 2010 6:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/

Android is vomit]]>Jul 30th 2010 6:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/
So, you're saying the tablet PC had no influence in the idea of an Apple tablet?

At all?

Then the TouchBook started it all.

Shut up.]]>Jul 30th 2010 6:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/Jul 30th 2010 6:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/Jul 30th 2010 7:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/
Yes you are. While I did not say that android doesn't have multitasking. I did say it did not have true multitasking. Having the ability to remember where you left off in an app when you "re-launch" it. Having certain codes take advantage of or a hand full of apps that utilize running in the background isn't true multitasking. I use my phone for showing my portfolio and researching online too. The point of a tablet is just about the same as a netbook or laptop for that instance. To do more then your phone and almost as much as your desktop. Tablets built to do the exact same thing your phone is built for (without the calling part) is pointless.]]>Jul 30th 2010 7:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/And they somehow reinvented the fucking pop up..

Notification bar wins it ANYTIME over those popups. And multitasking is way faster on android. Anyway. android 2.1 is a draw with iOS 4. But android 2.2 blows the iPhone away.. it's such a great piece of software.

Android is way mature now. More of an Tablet OS then iOS.]]>Jul 30th 2010 7:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/It's ironic because I just emailed a Android developer about how much I loved his app (Handcent) because I was on the phone using a bluetooth headset, while I was playing a game and I got a SMS and the quick view/quick reply window popped up, pausing my game. I was able to quickly answer the text while I was still talking on the phone and go right back into the game without skipping a beat. I always loved the Handcent notification system. But hell, I guess I can email the developer again and tell him I was mistaken because...go figure...it's not TRUE multitasking. I guess the game should continue to play as the quick reply window blocks your view, then it would be TRUE multitasking. Or maybe just eliminate the quick reply window entirely and have users quick out of the game, drop the call and launch Handcent just to answer the text, then exit Handcent, relaunch the game, call the person back only to have...another text message come through. Now exit the game, drop the call, relaunch Handcent....

I see my error. Thanks again *jerk off motion*]]>Jul 30th 2010 7:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/
Wrong... iPhone is dying.
And Steve Jobs killed it with his need 4 total control.

...Sure the sales of the iPhone 4 are great now, much thanks to the effects of the hype. But the damage to Apple reputation when Steve Jobs forced the iPhone 4 out on the market with a faulty antenna and non-functional software for proximity sensors and signal measurement has cost them a lot more than you can even imagine. Just see how other phones like the Samsung Galaxy S, Motorola and HTC Droid's are selling now, because of the attention *other* options are getting, now that people realize Apple are as lousy as ever when it comes to actually bring that functional device they always claim they provide.

I would guess the Andriods has outsold the iphone 4:1 during the last month, globally, based on what you in the stores and on the street. And that's really just the beginning. When Android Froyo starts to become the dominating OS on phones within the next month or two, people will really realize how inferior and slow evolving Apple's walled garden is, just like we did in the mid 90's with Mac OS.]]>Jul 30th 2010 8:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/Jul 30th 2010 9:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/Jul 30th 2010 9:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/Jul 30th 2010 9:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/
I guess we just have different opinions of tablets. IMO they are a more convenient form factor for laptop type devices. Sort of how you can get convertible laptops... But these are just without the keyboards. At 7" I fail to see a big enough difference from a smart phone or iPod Touch. I want as close to a desktop web performance as possible in a convenient portable form factor. Laptops are fine, but still cumbersome for basic web browsing. Smart phones just don't have the physical size to make browsing easy... I don't want to scroll a hundred times on a single web page or have to zoom way in to deal with text. Thus, a larger tablet fits the bill perfectly.]]>Jul 30th 2010 10:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/
Let's be honest. The iOS is 10x better than Android when it comes to games.

For now iPhone also has the advantage of a better camera and better media player as well. Overall, iPhone is still better in my opinion]]>Jul 30th 2010 10:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/The galaxy s browser already has flash.. And its damn well good at it. I'm thinking that why engadget was having a problem with speed not being that good in their review. ]]>Jul 31st 2010 12:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/Jul 31st 2010 12:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/
I agree, not sure what it is but the layouts different (home screen etc.)]]>Jul 31st 2010 2:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/Jul 31st 2010 9:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/Aug 13th 2010 7:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/Jul 30th 2010 4:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/Jul 30th 2010 4:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/Jul 30th 2010 4:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/
errmmmm... that's what she said?

FEAR THE DOWN RANK!]]>Jul 30th 2010 5:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/
i personally would like to see a solid Win7 tablet, but I'm also happy seeing more android in the world]]>Jul 30th 2010 4:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/
Stock Android FroYo (or Gingerbread) + sub-$200 price tag = instant win.]]>Jul 30th 2010 4:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/Jul 30th 2010 5:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/Jul 30th 2010 5:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/I also think it looks a tad gaudy and simply overly colorful, but luckily that can be fixed very easily by using another launcher on top.]]>Jul 30th 2010 8:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/Jul 30th 2010 9:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/
Well you might see it $200 or lower, but only if your snagging a phone contract with it. ]]>Jul 31st 2010 4:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/
I think a 7" screen is the ideal size for a tablet. Also the screen looks to have a widescreen format which is a bonus. Why any company would make a media device without a widescreen makes no sense to me.]]>Jul 30th 2010 4:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/30/samsungs-q3-bound-tablet-to-boast-7-inch-display-android-os/
It apparently doesn't make sense to any manufacturer either because we have not seen 1 media player with a square screen. Non-issue]]>Jul 30th 2010 7:19PM