and motoblur isn't 2.1+ ? idk what you're trying to say
yes it uses Motorola's UI overlay. and ?
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Motorola Teases New Tablet in Teaser Promo, Disses the iPad
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and motoblur isn't 2.1+ ? idk what you're trying to say
yes it uses Motorola's UI overlay. and ?
Uhh, no. Not sure where I'm from has anything to do with my question.
Holy crap. So that WAS his hand. I thought it was a woman's!
He needs to seriously cut his nasty nails.
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It was a great ad, entertaining with a dose of humor. Nothing can really be said about the teased product since it's not out yet. And, Motorola doesn't exactly have a sterling record in the cell phone business.
I love reading comments from the "Apple gooood, everybody else baaaad" Apple fanboys. Steve could introduce a blob of poo with a headphone jack and a number of mindless fanboys would applaud it as innovative and untouchable. It's funny how the fanboy drone sort of goes away a bit when you read the Mac Pro forum. Hmmmm.
I love reading comments from the "Apple gooood, everybody else baaaad" Apple fanboys. Steve could introduce a blob of poo with a headphone jack and a number of mindless fanboys would applaud it as innovative and untouchable. It's funny how the fanboy drone sort of goes away a bit when you read the Mac Pro forum. Hmmmm.
Motorola was the first to come out with a portable cell phone. You don't remember StarTac? The RAZR phenomenon? Motorola was the Apple of feature phones back in the day. Motorola's been in the cell business for many decades. C'mon guy, lets not forget about our mobile industry history now.
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Could he? Tell me one apple product that really sucked which got that high praise from the so called "fanboys" you're talking about.
So true, and i have read that someone has actually hacked a Samsung Tablet so it can be used as a phone.
Those tablets are nice i guess but i personally have no use for one. Maybe id get one if it didnt cost so much to have data on it rather than just wifi. But i dont need one.
I watched the video where he demos the tablet, but I'm not really impressed with what I saw. The map scrolled choppily, the accelerometer orientation transition is slow and reminiscent of my first generation iPod Touch, and the thing's an eyesore. It's almost 2011, and this is what they're hyping? Come on.
I'd really like an Android tablet to pose as a reasonable competitor to the iPad, since competition is always good, but I don't think this is that competition, based on what I've seen.
I'd really like an Android tablet to pose as a reasonable competitor to the iPad, since competition is always good, but I don't think this is that competition, based on what I've seen.
No, let's forget the has-beens... history has it's place but Motorola has done very little in the mobile space besides cutting tens of thousands of jobs and generating oceans of red ink.
The third Galvin wounded it, Zander tossed gasoline on it and lit the match, and Brown has been cutting up the remains with a hatched.
Yeah, something will come out of it in the end, but it will be a ghost of what it once was. They're beholden to GOOG now, even if it kills them.
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Since when? Apple loves the home button. I love the home button. In all doubt, it is your sure fire way to get you home ... Why would they remove that, and why would they want to? That seems silly to me. Tell me the benefits of removing one physical button that takes you home, and only home.
In all honesty, having a home button, still requires one to hold it a certain way.
Honeycomb will do away with all physical buttons, and the home button will be touch-based on the screen. you can hold it any way you want, and you will always have that home button in the correct orientation.
now im not sure if this is the best idea, but its all about the implementation. lets wait and see how it goes.
So, the best shot they could take at the iPad is that it's a bigger version of an amazing product. Good job, Motorola. You have Palm (HP) do that commercial for you? Seems like it. It's as stupid as those creepy Palm Pre commercials.
StarTac, really?
It's been 15 years since it. Way too long to compare its quality to they're quality today. (In perspective, 15 years after the launch of the Macintosh was the iMac, which means that it was less than 15 years after Macintosh that we had already dealt with the proliferation of Performas and PizzaBox Macs and of Apple trying to brute force its way into every semi-major or buzzword hardware market.)
As for RAZR, that's been about 5 or 6 years now, which was enough time for Palm to blow up. Besides, neither the PEBL or the ROKR were able to recreate even a portion of RAZRs success, and the only smartphone success they've had are various Droid models, which is as much Verizon's and Google's success, if not more. (There would have been very little difference if HTC had made the Droid and had Verizon's backing instead of Motorola, or even Samsung.)
I doubt that they'll have any luck without carrier backing, and I doubt either Sprint or T-Mobile have the ability to give it the Verizon level of exposure, nor the ability to accept heavy subsidies. (Remember, Sprint wasn't enough to save the Palm Pre, nor was T-Mobile able to make the G1 a huge success, not even Google was enough to push the Nexus One by itself [Edit: Yes, Google really didn't put much of its weight behind Nexus One, but they've never had great luck with non-Internet ads, name recognition being their single biggest competitive advantage], or, for that matter, AT&T and the Blackberry Torch or its current Windows Phone phones. In an interesting comparison, Apple's managed to push the iPhone and iPad largely on its own. Sure, they've gotten some benefit from prominent placement in AT&T stores, but it's the major reason people were even going in.) And I really don't see Verizon pushing a tablet under the Droid brand yet.
It's been 15 years since it. Way too long to compare its quality to they're quality today. (In perspective, 15 years after the launch of the Macintosh was the iMac, which means that it was less than 15 years after Macintosh that we had already dealt with the proliferation of Performas and PizzaBox Macs and of Apple trying to brute force its way into every semi-major or buzzword hardware market.)
As for RAZR, that's been about 5 or 6 years now, which was enough time for Palm to blow up. Besides, neither the PEBL or the ROKR were able to recreate even a portion of RAZRs success, and the only smartphone success they've had are various Droid models, which is as much Verizon's and Google's success, if not more. (There would have been very little difference if HTC had made the Droid and had Verizon's backing instead of Motorola, or even Samsung.)
I doubt that they'll have any luck without carrier backing, and I doubt either Sprint or T-Mobile have the ability to give it the Verizon level of exposure, nor the ability to accept heavy subsidies. (Remember, Sprint wasn't enough to save the Palm Pre, nor was T-Mobile able to make the G1 a huge success, not even Google was enough to push the Nexus One by itself [Edit: Yes, Google really didn't put much of its weight behind Nexus One, but they've never had great luck with non-Internet ads, name recognition being their single biggest competitive advantage], or, for that matter, AT&T and the Blackberry Torch or its current Windows Phone phones. In an interesting comparison, Apple's managed to push the iPhone and iPad largely on its own. Sure, they've gotten some benefit from prominent placement in AT&T stores, but it's the major reason people were even going in.) And I really don't see Verizon pushing a tablet under the Droid brand yet.
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iPad is still superior
I still think that the iPad is the best option out there. It is a little like a massive iPhone but the best part is you can buy tons of accessory products to customize it however you want. When interacting with the product, I still want a large enough screen size to do my work. That's one reason I bought the TabGrip for my iPad - it makes using it easier. It's things like that which make the iPad a superior choice.
I still think that the iPad is the best option out there. It is a little like a massive iPhone but the best part is you can buy tons of accessory products to customize it however you want. When interacting with the product, I still want a large enough screen size to do my work. That's one reason I bought the TabGrip for my iPad - it makes using it easier. It's things like that which make the iPad a superior choice.
Grow up. You haven't even seen the product and you're already dissing it. Are you really that jaded?
lol burn.....
its a fact that this tablet will be featured at CES 2011 come January 6, 2011.
Winnie the Pooh: 'oh bother'
He has a good point on the advert. It has the same HP slate bring-the-hype effect, and eventually is going to be another tablet with nothing new that already the iPad and other tablets already have.
If it has any good feature, I would acknoledge that.
aw, come on, it doesn't look bad, it just... I don't know what is going to offer that the competitor don't have yet.
Beside, it takes a lot of effort to make a tablet which is just a surface of glass to look bad...................with the exception of the Joojoo
Just saw the video -thanks- and I feel sorry for him a bit, because they keep bashing on "Apple already done that", which is true, but I don't think is a good point because they should focus on what he has to present.
However, he hasn't presented anything new beside the dual core nvidia and the fact that the device doesn't have phisical buttons [hopefully it has a turn on/off button at least].
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I think I might be crazy but I don't see the bee in the picture, can someone point it out.... lol