|
randyest posted:iPads are 9.7" My wife has an ipad 3 and its a little large. I assumed it was 10" which is kind of a bummer since that turns me off from the Asus prime even more.
|
#
?
Jul 16, 2012 02:07
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 11, 2024 09:20 |
|
|
Horn posted:My wife has an ipad 3 and its a little large. I assumed it was 10" which is kind of a bummer since that turns me off from the Asus prime even more.
|
|
#
?
Jul 16, 2012 02:21
|
|
|
I know we've curtailed the nexus 7 preorder/retail/shipping talk but I just wanted to rant that I put my order in on the 27th a few hours after the reveal and I still haven't received any shipping confirmations at all =(. I wonder if it's somehow related to bundling it with the case. Not mad or anything, just annoyed.
|
|
#
?
Jul 16, 2012 02:51
|
|
|
Does anyone know when we'll get the TF700 in Canada? It should be the same as the USA but I can't find anything about Canada.
|
|
#
?
Jul 16, 2012 03:46
|
|
|
w00tazn posted:I know we've curtailed the nexus 7 preorder/retail/shipping talk but I just wanted to rant that I put my order in on the 27th a few hours after the reveal and I still haven't received any shipping confirmations at all =(. I preordered from EB and they were pretty forthcoming. Admittedly I canceled it now Because the Elf II is actually a pretty rear end kicking tablet for 1/3 of the price of a Nexus 7. If the Nexus had an SD card slot, HDMI and proper OTG support it'd still be on preorder.
|
|
#
?
Jul 16, 2012 04:13
|
|
|
Mister Fister posted:Macmall is ironically selling the Nexus 7 with free shipping and for many people no tax: It's only ironic if you had no idea they have also been selling things like PCs for years.
|
|
#
?
Jul 16, 2012 04:46
|
|
|
General_Failure posted:I preordered from EB and they were pretty forthcoming. Admittedly I canceled it now Because the Elf II is actually a pretty rear end kicking tablet for 1/3 of the price of a Nexus 7. If the Nexus had an SD card slot, HDMI and proper OTG support it'd still be on preorder. I totally want a Anal Elf Tablet. er, Ainol Hoppin Tin fucked around with this message at 06:12 on Jul 16, 2012 |
|
#
?
Jul 16, 2012 06:07
|
|
|
Finally rooted and installed JB on my kindle fire ,totally amazing...I underestimated the difference between JB and gingerbread. Tried out nova launcher, but was getting a weird lack of screen sensitivity on the dock so I switched back to the stock launcher. Anyone else experience this?
|
|
#
?
Jul 16, 2012 06:45
|
|
|
Hoppin Tin posted:I totally want a Anal Elf Tablet. Ainol Elf II. The II is the important bit. That is the dual core with dual Mali 400 GPUs. The Aurora II is the IPS touchscreen version and the Paladin is the MIPS based one, which apparently also utilizes a scary sounding program called Code Magic which can run ARM native apks on a MIPS platform. I did a writeup on the Elf II in the recommendation thread. It's really very good if you pussyfoot around the internal NAND. It's possible to corrupt it copying with USB which needs a wipe using the recovery menu to restore it to working again. I've had success copying files one at a time as opposed to Windows and Xorg's everything at once clusterfuck which brings a few devices to their knees. Only about an hour ago I was playing GTA3 on it. It was acting a bit choppy this time but I think it was because there was a few things running in the background and I didn't have the CPU set to performance. This week hopefully I'll be ordering another one. The first one was a birthday present that i keep stealing back to play with. It seems as though because that will cheapen the birthday present I'm getting her a quad core for xmas assuming they are pumping them out by then. Edit: Remember, "Enjoy life, Enjoy Ainol!" Seriously. That's their motto. Their logo even has an "*" prefix.
|
|
#
?
Jul 16, 2012 07:05
|
|
|
7 Bowls of Wrath posted:...I underestimated the difference between JB and gingerbread. Please do tell. I figured it'd be a few bugfixes ("Wrong SD Card. Error!") and GUI tweaks mostly. What does 4.1 have in store for the rest of us?
|
|
#
?
Jul 16, 2012 07:22
|
|
|
General_Failure posted:Ainol Elf II. The II is the important bit. That is the dual core with dual Mali 400 GPUs. The Aurora II is the IPS touchscreen version and the Paladin is the MIPS based one, which apparently also utilizes a scary sounding program called Code Magic which can run ARM native apks on a MIPS platform. For those of you who haven't been following the General's highly informative posts in the other thread you can start here to get up to speed. It is great to know I can get a couple of Ainol's for less than the cost of one nexus 7! My wife and I will be enjoying our dual Ainols instead of driving all over town or waiting for nexus 7's to ship!
|
|
#
?
Jul 16, 2012 07:42
|
|
|
randyest posted:Is that where the semi-native emulation kicks in? This stuff is so interesting to me so thanks for sharing your knowledge and understanding in a way I can understand it somewhat. I have to admit I'm not nearly as knowledgeable about the ARM architecture and emulation as you are so I really appreciate you sharing your expertise. Don't be mistaken that the nexus and the Ainol are two very different beasts, but the Elf II (and by extension the Aurora II) can really shine with some tweaks. No matter how tempting the Tegra 3 chipset is we're both more than happy with the Cortex / Mali combo especially because of the huge price difference and relatively minor performance payoff. With the ARM native stuff on MIPS, quite probably yes. I absolutely despised writing MIPS RISC assembler, but one thing I can say is such a simple architecture allows for some extremely neat tricks. I've been wondering if the Paladin has something to do with China's Loongson architecture which is an attempt to declare technological independence by utilizing their own MIPS based architecure for PCs and devices. I like MIPS as an idea, but it really needs a fast bus and RAM to go with it or it falls flat. Although I've had my heart set on a Transformer prime since the first time I heard of them and wanted one even more after trying them out, I realised recently that for a shade over $100 I can get something that outperforms most of the far more expensive TFxxx series, chuck a generic 7" keyboard case on it and I've got pretty much the same thing. Add a USB hub with either a BT or cable tether to my phone and I have 3G and GPS. So really I can't justify the far higher expense for a little bit of convenience. Anyway if a ~$110 Elf II gets broken by my kids I'll be a lot less miffed than I would be with a $300 Nexus 7 or a $500+ Transformer. Bonus being it played a 720p MKV without missing a beat. Connect this thing to my Aspire One and I have the cut down dev setup I've been wanting for when I'm stuck away from home "busy waiting".
|
|
#
?
Jul 16, 2012 08:20
|
|
|
General_Failure posted:Please do tell. I figured it'd be a few bugfixes ("Wrong SD Card. Error!") and GUI tweaks mostly. What does 4.1 have in store for the rest of us? Your tablet doesn't have Google search? http://www.android.com/about/jelly-bean/
|
|
#
?
Jul 16, 2012 08:23
|
|
|
Pyroxene Stigma posted:Your tablet doesn't have Google search? http://www.android.com/about/jelly-bean/ It's not my tablet  you wouldn't happen to frequent thesamba would you? A reply like that...I kind of wanted to know the perspective of an end user rather than a tarted up changelog. Not "it now has feature xyz" but rather "x is nice because it is a lot easier". "Y seems more responsive". That sort of thing. Thanks for the link by the way. No sarcasm. Didn't realise they had a page like that.
|
|
#
?
Jul 16, 2012 08:28
|
|
|
Google Now and voice search are pretty excellent, they're what I've used the most. It didn't automatically add a card when I searched for a flight number though. The largest improvement that can't be stated enough is how smooth everything is.
|
|
#
?
Jul 16, 2012 08:41
|
|
|
Pyroxene Stigma posted:Google Now and voice search are pretty excellent, they're what I've used the most. It didn't automatically add a card when I searched for a flight number though. Now that's good to know. I'm a big fan of smooth. Google Now is an interesting concept. I'm looking ofrward to giving it a ry for myself. back to the smoothness, I've found ICS to be pretty slick. Where are the improvements noticeable? -typos
General_Failure fucked around with this message at 09:12 on Jul 16, 2012 |
|
#
?
Jul 16, 2012 08:49
|
|
|
Pyroxene Stigma posted:The largest improvement that can't be stated enough is how smooth everything is. I wonder how well it carries over to older, less powerful hardware? ICS was a massive smoothness upgrade on both my tablet (A500) and phone (Nexus S) so I'm going to be blown away if its anything like as big a jump again. Not that I expect the A500 to get JB officially of course.
|
|
#
?
Jul 16, 2012 08:49
|
|
|
dissss posted:I wonder how well it carries over to older, less powerful hardware? According to a friend of mine that put JB on his Nexus S, it's much smoother than ICS or GB ever was. Granted he still wants to go back to his dual-core RAZR MAXX because he likes the larger screen and whatnot but he said JB on the Nexus S is pretty drat good. I asked him to do some tests and for 2 days, he never had any launcher redraws and the Browser was pretty decent as well. I don't think he likes Chrome so he hasn't tried it. It makes me think that less powerful phones and tablets should be able to run Jelly Bean just fine.
|
|
#
?
Jul 16, 2012 09:58
|
|
|
That's very good news. I like when updates are optimizations and not bloating. From what I can understand from the Ainol English site they are going to be doing a JB update along with the firmware updates so I suppose that's a net win. Incidentally just killed some extraneous apps and related services, bumped the CPU up to "Performace" for the sake of it and tried GTA3 again. No problems. Unfortunately the accelerometer is sideways in it so unless you use an app to correct for that it's pointless. From what I've read it's a GTA3 specific crappy accelerometer handling issue across multiple devices. After having another go I realised that about a decade on I still know the game back to front. Still one of my favourite games of all time.
|
|
#
?
Jul 16, 2012 10:31
|
|
|
General_Failure posted:Now that's good to know. I'm a big fan of smooth. Google Now is an interesting concept. I'm looking ofrward to giving it a ry for myself. With JB, its everything. Opening the app drawer, recent apps, notifications. Everything is lightning quick and extremely smooth. Ever had an HTC sense phone? They tried to have smooth transitions but it ate ram so it was disable-able. Now its all smooth and it doesn't slow down the phone. Literally everything is smooth
|
|
#
?
Jul 16, 2012 14:01
|
|
|
Horn posted:Are there any tablets available at retail that fall in between the 7 and 10 inch sizes? The xyboard at 8.2 or the tab at 7.7 & 8.9 are all I can find and they just seem to be wireless exclusives. You can get the Xyboard wifi only.. http://www.motorola.com/us/consumers/MOTOROLA-XYBOARD-8.2-with-WIFI/96381,en_US,pd.html It's a really well put together tablet, but I don't know if its worth $400.
|
|
#
?
Jul 16, 2012 14:13
|
|
|
General_Failure posted:Ainol Elf II. The II is the important bit. That is the dual core with dual Mali 400 GPUs. The Aurora II is the IPS touchscreen version and the Paladin is the MIPS based one, which apparently also utilizes a scary sounding program called Code Magic which can run ARM native apks on a MIPS platform. Hmm, i tried searching for 3rd party ROMs but don't see any (maybe i'm not searching right), i'd be interested if there was 3rd party support so i could see JB and other releases on it.
|
|
#
?
Jul 16, 2012 14:25
|
|
|
Watch out guys, the world is coming to an end: http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/15/omg-he-likes-it-he-really-likes-it/ MG Siegler: "I like the Nexus 7. I really like it."
|
|
#
?
Jul 16, 2012 14:45
|
|
|
Mister Fister posted:Watch out guys, the world is coming to an end: Siegler is a gently caress head for a million reasons, reasons that even aren't his usual anti-Google stance. http://www.realdanlyons.com/blog/2012/02/13/hit-men-click-whores-and-paid-apologists-welcome-to-the-silicon-cesspool/ He really should be hit by a bus.
|
|
#
?
Jul 16, 2012 15:04
|
|
|
Mister Fister posted:Hmm, i tried searching for 3rd party ROMs but don't see any (maybe i'm not searching right), i'd be interested if there was 3rd party support so i could see JB and other releases on it. I don't think there's much hope for excellent third party support for a cheap chinese tablet that's named "anal elf II".
|
|
#
?
Jul 16, 2012 15:11
|
|
|
Google Now sounds really amazing, and I'm just waiting for my Nexus 7 to arrive so I can test it out myself. Most everything I've read on Now makes it sound really amazing in that it adapts and "learns" how to be a better assistant based on things like usage and geographical position. It got me thinking, though - will its usefulness on the Nexus 7 be handicapped by the fact that the tablet relies on a WiFi signal for data?
|
|
#
?
Jul 16, 2012 15:29
|
|
|
Mr. Despair posted:I don't think there's much hope for excellent third party support for a cheap chinese tablet that's named "anal elf II". The thing is it's got instant brand recognition even if you've never seen one you'll know and love the Anal Elf II.
|
|
#
?
Jul 16, 2012 15:29
|
|
|
potentiometer posted:Nova works great on the Nexus 7, screen rotates and it seems all the other functions available on Google Nexus are available on the N7. What home screen layout does Nova Launcher use on the Nexus 7 in landscape? Is it the same phone-ish layout as the sock launcher, or does it switch to the HC/ICS tablet layout? I know people have gotten the tablet layout by changing the screen's DPI, but I'd rather not do that unless I have to.
|
|
#
?
Jul 16, 2012 16:32
|
|
|
Doesn't the anal elf ii have a resistive touch screen? - resistive screen - may corrupt your sd card - "hilarious" name "Buy, buy, buy!" - general_failure
|
|
#
?
Jul 16, 2012 16:52
|
|
|
So with the blessing of Thermopyle*, I bring you this news: I called Google today regarding my Nexus 7 preorder (ordered 28/06). According to them, the first set of preorders for the UK should be going out today and tomorrow. Hopefully this is true, and I wasn't just fobbed off. I guess we'll see. *For just this post. Don't go crazy, people. Rohaq fucked around with this message at 16:56 on Jul 16, 2012 |
|
#
?
Jul 16, 2012 16:54
|
|
|
Nostalgia4Infinity posted:Doesn't the anal elf ii have a resistive touch screen?
|
|
#
?
Jul 16, 2012 16:57
|
|
|
Rohaq posted:Not according to everything I just found on Google. I think his point is who gives a poo poo about a crap Chinese tablet? And I don't care how cheap it is, it's just not a good buy.
|
|
#
?
Jul 16, 2012 17:08
|
|
|
Duckman2008 posted:I think his point is who gives a poo poo about a crap Chinese tablet?
|
|
#
?
Jul 16, 2012 17:16
|
|
|
Karthe posted:Google Now sounds really amazing, and I'm just waiting for my Nexus 7 to arrive so I can test it out myself. Most everything I've read on Now makes it sound really amazing in that it adapts and "learns" how to be a better assistant based on things like usage and geographical position. It got me thinking, though - will its usefulness on the Nexus 7 be handicapped by the fact that the tablet relies on a WiFi signal for data? One good thing about Cablevision: Optimum WiFi hotspots everywhere. I think they have a deal with time warner and comcast for when I'm out and about. Otherwise I guess I have to wait for CM10 to be available for my Epic 4G or get a new phone if I need those features on the go. My main use for the N7 is reading on the train.
|
|
#
?
Jul 16, 2012 17:18
|
|
|
anyone else unable to connect their Nexus 7 to a corporate wifi network? Brought mine in to work this morning and it just loops from connecting to disconnected constantly. On 4.1.1. My Galaxy Nexus on 4.0.4 connects just fine, and has since I bought it. From what I'm hearing, this may be a 4.1.1 thing, but was wondering if anyone here had the issue and figured out a workaround.
|
|
#
?
Jul 16, 2012 17:24
|
|
|
theultimo posted:think of it this way: it's a Colby kryos with a capacitive screen. Battery life is useless and the display, at 1024x600, is not hd, and has terrible viewing angles in comparison to the nexus 7. It's 129.99 plus shipping I the us. Even with ghosting issues, the nexus 7 is infintimsilally better. I don't think you know what infinitesimal means. Or maybe you do 
|
|
#
?
Jul 16, 2012 17:24
|
|
|
theultimo posted:think of it this way: it's a Colby kryos with a capacitive screen. Battery life is useless and the display, at 1024x600, is not hd, and has terrible viewing angles in comparison to the nexus 7. It's 129.99 plus shipping I the us. Even with ghosting issues, the nexus 7 is infintimsilally better. poo poo, when you put it that way sign me up, it's only $129!
|
|
#
?
Jul 16, 2012 17:24
|
|
|
theultimo posted:Even with ghosting issues, the nexus 7 is infintimsilally better.
|
|
#
?
Jul 16, 2012 17:24
|
|
|
illcendiary posted:I don't think you know what infinitesimal means.
|
|
#
?
Jul 16, 2012 17:29
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 11, 2024 09:20 |
|
|
theultimo posted:darned you iPhone autocorrect! I was gonna put infinitally, but it came out wonky :/ Probably because infinitally isn't a word.
|
|
#
?
Jul 16, 2012 17:34
|
|
