Tablets Before and After the iPad
In light of the recent ruling banning the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Germany it is important to remember what tablets looked like before and after the iPad. Also remember that the ban is based on a design trademark and not software patents. Thanks to ReiVersuri for the image.
Acer's Tablet Assault Strategy
Acer has announced that they’re taking on its tablet competitors head-on, with an “entire family” of tablets—including a dual-screen concept. And a platform-neutral app and music store of its own.
In other words they have no idea what is going to work so they are just going to throw crap against the wall and see what sticks. Good luck with that.
Gizmodo Galaxy Tab Review
If you take iPhone apps and simply scale them up for the iPad, most of them don’t feel right. If you take Android apps and scale them up for the Tab, the majority of them—Twitter, Facebook, Angry Birds—work perfectly. (Except for when they don’t, like The Weather Channel.) That’s because the Galaxy Tab is small enough that apps simply blown up a little bit still fundamentally work. Which means, conversely, that there’s almost no added benefit to using the Tab over a phone. It’s not big enough. Web browsing doesn’t have greater fidelity. I don’t get more out of Twitter. A magazine app would be cramped. Videos do look better than they do on a phone, but a bigger tablet would be even better.
Yep.
