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Splizwarf posted:Careful with that Pfft, you know we're all going to have to sit through another lecture about how iTunes works and how we are all plebes. I'm pretty disappointed with most of the tabbys shown off so far at MWC. The Transformer Infinity is nice but beyond that not much else piques my interest. I was really hoping to see something about the Asus 7 inch tablet but I'm sure they'll end up telling us we all just imagined it.
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Chances are I'll upgrade the Xoom to a Transformer Infinity for school this fall. While the whole PadFone platform looks really cool, I don't need a new phone for the time being. What would be cool is if Asus put out a Transformer Phone that wirelessly synced stuff between the Infinity and the Phone, so you get all the benefits of the Padfone concept but without having to only use one device or the other at a time.
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Kirk posted:So I've decided to give the Android world another shot. I picked up a used Motorola Xoom (i know I'm really hooked on this one: https://market.android.com/details?id=net.hexage.radiant.hd&hl=en It was the Free App of the Day on Amazon a few days ago
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Samsung is also working on sCloud but its been delayed till august? i think.
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Clouds and data caps are ideas at complete odds with each other. The friction will only get worse.
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lamentable dustman posted:Asus has some kind of cloud app for syncing. Called My Cloud I think I assumed it was crappy bloat and froze it. Is it actually worth using?
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Feb 28, 2012 22:02
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Probably not unless you don't want to pay for Spashtop. The cloud thing could be done with dropbox (it is unlimited storage for 2 years if that matters) and the radio stuff looked bad. The storage cloud does have android phone and iphone phone apps along with the desktop clients
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Feb 28, 2012 22:04
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Just noticed the Samsung Galaxy 7.0 Plus just dropped $50 to $300 at Best Buy. The only thing stopping me from pulling the trigger is ICS. Do you think it'll ever get an ICS update?
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lamentable dustman posted:Probably not unless you don't want to pay for Spashtop. The cloud thing could be done with dropbox (it is unlimited storage for 2 years if that matters) and the radio stuff looked bad. What does "works with splashtop" mean then. Did he mean to say that it's a Splashtop alternative?
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Super Aggro Crag posted:Just noticed the Samsung Galaxy 7.0 Plus just dropped $50 to $300 at Best Buy. The only thing stopping me from pulling the trigger is ICS. Do you think it'll ever get an ICS update? Don't ever buy a device hoping it will be different/better later on.
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^^^^ What he said though. I love mine even though its on HC. Super Aggro Crag posted:Just noticed the Samsung Galaxy 7.0 Plus just dropped $50 to $300 at Best Buy. The only thing stopping me from pulling the trigger is ICS. Do you think it'll ever get an ICS update? I love mine and it will, eventually. Probably. Samsung has said it will. Take that as you like.
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Codiusprime posted:Samsung has said This needs to be the IYG forum title.
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But they've chaaaaanged!!! I bought my Tab Plus knowing it was on HC and knowing what that meant. Any upgrade it sees is a bonus.
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Secret Sweater posted:What does "works with splashtop" mean then. Did he mean to say that it's a Splashtop alternative? I mean it literally has a splashtop in it. There is a skinned version of splashtop that normally costs like 10 bucks or whatever that works with the free splashtop server you get on the website
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Maker Of Shoes posted:This needs to be the IYG forum title. To be fair though, Samsung's international stuff is fine. Its only the customized bullshit that the American carriers insist on that gently caress things up.
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Feb 28, 2012 22:51
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randyest posted:iPad2 launched on 3/11/2011 at $729 for the 32G 3G model and on 3/13/2011 iSuppli tore it down and put the BOM at $326 for the 32G/3G model. That's a cost of $403, or ~55% profit. Add in manufacturing and that's only another ~$7. That's a strong analysis, it's only missing the costs for Apple to design, distribute and market the iPad, the costs to develop the operating system, build retail stores, billion dollar data centers, and a couple other things that somehow lead to Apple's net margins being somewhere in the 23% region instead of 55%. That's only a 140% error though, so kudos, by IYG standards that's a bullseye!
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Tornhelm posted:To be fair though, Samsung's international stuff is fine. Its only the customized bullshit that the American carriers insist on that gently caress things up. Yes and no. Sure the international SGS2 should be well supported, but you can't say the same for the Galaxy R, or Galaxy S Advance or a lot of the other numerous variants. Same thing will likely happen with their tablets
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So I got a new C2O Prime came back from ASUS from an RMA. It's currently on the charger and I'm going to leave it there for about 5 hours. There aren't any visible physical defects on it. The shipping box had a hole, about the size of a screw driver, in it on the top and the Prime's box doesn't have a snug fit like my other one did. I think they re-shrink wrapped it at the RMA center after testing it. I'm really hoping that they have eliminated the WiFi Antenna that they were using in the C1O I had and the earlier models. Over at XDA no one seems to have opened one up yet. Though here are some interesting things they are doing to get GPS and WiFi to work better( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1520642 ). Has anyone else gotten a C2O through either a purchase or RMA and what are your impressions of it so far? Edit: This is bullshit! The back light on the new unit won't turn on at all. I can see the word ASUS come up when I turn it on and the table gets REALLY hot on the bottom right corner while it is on. Luckily I am on the phone right now with ASUS and I just learned that they are going to pay for the tablet to be shipped back to them and I will get priority RMA processing. Photos for this bullshit http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4784673/Pictures/Photos/Prime/DSCF2060.JPG http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4784673/Pictures/Photos/Prime/DSCF2061.JPG http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4784673/Pictures/Photos/Prime/DSCF2062.JPG http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4784673/Pictures/Photos/Prime/DSCF2063.JPG Edit 2: I kind of wish I had never bought this thing now. SlayVus fucked around with this message at 02:01 on Feb 29, 2012 |
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Internaut! posted:That's a strong analysis, it's only missing the costs for Apple to design, distribute and market the iPad, the costs to develop the operating system, build retail stores, billion dollar data centers, and a couple other things that somehow lead to Apple's net margins being somewhere in the 23% region instead of 55%.
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dissss posted:Yes and no. Not really, the only fragmentation we'll probably see is similar to the Asus Infinity having two different processors depending on whether its LTE or WiFi, other than that theres only really a few models so they'll get updated.
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Tornhelm posted:Not really, the only fragmentation we'll probably see is similar to the Asus Infinity having two different processors depending on whether its LTE or WiFi, other than that theres only really a few models so they'll get updated. I think you underestimate Samsung's propensity for cranking out devices. They're already considering variants with stylus and I'll bet we'll see different chipsets too (isn't the 10.1 2 supposed to be Exynos?) depending on demand and what they can cram in the cheapest.
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Internaut! posted:That's a strong analysis, it's only missing the costs for Apple to design, distribute and market the iPad, the costs to develop the operating system, build retail stores, billion dollar data centers, and a couple other things that somehow lead to Apple's net margins being somewhere in the 23% region instead of 55%. Craptacular! posted:We have no idea what the iPad's price structure will be like, we've heard one Retina SKU and one without, etc. What we do know about the iPad is that it's margins at launch are extremely tiny, with Apple basically selling them for the cost of parts and manufacture, rolling in dough with their software distribution and their phone business of course.
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randyest posted:You're so right, as long as you completely ignore context and consider 23% margin to be "tiny" and agree with the claim that ipads at launch are sold "for the cost of parts and manufacture" which is the claim to which I replied. Here it is again so you can revel in the awesome IYG claim you're defending: So let's say they spent at least ten billion USD on the iPads so far. I don't know any exact numbers and I don't really care. That's a net revenue of $12.3b and net profit of $2.3b. I wouldn't call that tiny at all... Hell, a local company I was working for made a net profit of $10.00 for the whole year. Now that's tiny. SlayVus fucked around with this message at 03:10 on Feb 29, 2012 |
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I know someone asked about it before, but I'm too lazy to find the post. The new Asus Transformer Infinity and 700 series will have keyboard docks, and my personal guess is that they will not be compatible with the older version keyboards from the OG Transformer or the Prime as the sizes are just slightly different (based on this comparison chart). I could be wrong, but I guess I'll be looking for a discounted keyboard dock now that the Prime is discontinued and the docks are only good for the Prime.
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Secret Sweater posted:I think he was looking for Android exclusive apps, of which most (all?) of those are not. A quarter (more if you include the Tegrazone stuff) is Android exclusive  .
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Dodoman posted:A quarter (more if you include the Tegrazone stuff) is Android exclusive Yeah I've been slowly sorting through the list, some of this poo poo is pretty radical. I also had my first  android!! moment when i realized i could use it as mass storage to bring a couple movies over to my girlfriends house and play them on her TV with ease instead of having to worry about software poo poo.
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randyest posted:You're so right, as long as you completely ignore context and consider 23% margin to be "tiny" and agree with the claim that ipads at launch are sold "for the cost of parts and manufacture" which is the claim to which I replied. Here it is again so you can revel in the awesome IYG claim you're defending: You replied to that post: randyest posted:iPad2 launched on 3/11/2011 at $729 for the 32G 3G model and on 3/13/2011 iSuppli tore it down and put the BOM at $326 for the 32G/3G model. That's a cost of $403, or ~55% profit. Add in manufacturing and that's only another ~$7. This is wrong and dumb all on its own, no matter how wrong and dumb the original post was as well. Readers can't be expected to follow the chain of wrong and dumb for every post in this thread all the way back to its roots.
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Internaut! posted:This is wrong and dumb all on its own, no matter how wrong and dumb the original post was as well. Readers can't be expected to follow the chain of wrong and dumb for every post in this thread all the way back to its roots.
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Kirk posted:Yeah I've been slowly sorting through the list, some of this poo poo is pretty radical. Can't tell if you're being serious or not, one of the USB modes is called 'mass storage.'
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Secret Sweater posted:Can't tell if you're being serious or not, one of the USB modes is called 'mass storage.' Well I hadn't actually plugged it into a PC until yesterday 
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Hey android people I was browsing deal extreme and this made me think of you: http://www.dealextreme.com/p/android-mini-collectible-series-action-figure-doll-android-04-black-white-71608  Look at that poo poo, theres sick black flourishes all over it. EDITED FOR FLOURISHES blackflare fucked around with this message at 00:28 on Mar 1, 2012 |
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Those are flourishes. And who the gently caress would buy that piece of poo poo?
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Slow night in YOSPOS? Jesus Christ. Anyone with a Google TV; check out Able Remote. It has really intuitive gesture support and voice command support. I haven't tested the voice stuff since I feel silly talking to inanimate objects, but reviews are favorable. The free version is good enough, but the pay version lets you edit button layouts and such. Not tablet native, but it resizes gracefully. I use the hell out of Evernote, but the "make notebooks available offline" feature won't automatically download attachments. Anyone know of a workaround?
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Kynetx posted:Slow night in YOSPOS? Jesus Christ.
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:What are you even on about now? Sorry, misread.
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I wish Samsung would get the hell on with things and announce their next-gen tablet that isn't the Galaxy Tab 2/Note. The longer we don't hear any clarification or updates about a next-gen Sammy tablet, the more I suspect those 2560x1600 screens that were being made are actually for the iPad.
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I was out buying an SD Card for the Xoom today, and I got to play with a Transformer Prime at the store. There were actually two, but one couldn't turn on. The other one was AMAZING. Holy poo poo that thing is fast, and I thought the Xoom was smooth with ICS. I was extremely tempted to buy it right then and there, but I'm holding out for the Transformer Infinity... which has no release date announced. drat you Asus.
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ClubmanGT posted:I wish Samsung would get the hell on with things and announce their next-gen tablet that isn't the Galaxy Tab 2/Note. The longer we don't hear any clarification or updates about a next-gen Sammy tablet, the more I suspect those 2560x1600 screens that were being made are actually for the iPad. The iPad3 is already confirmed to have a 2048x1536 screen. The 16:10 aspect ratio is more of an Android thing, anyway. Where are you reading about 2560x1600 panels?
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