[Paul B]

Quad core
720p res
"War on Lag"

....Sounds like it'll pretty much eliminate the issues that the Sumvision has (for double the cost, but that looks justified).

[Obi-Wan is lost...]

Now ordered. 

[cofe]

Looks really good. Might get one.

As an aside, interesting to compare Google's product announcement (price given, product available to order immediately after), Apple's typical announcements (price given, product available to order immediately after) and Microsoft's (no price or availability date given, not available to order).

[tommytwotone]

Just put my order in as well - reckon they've hit my tipping point for performance / functionality / storage / price...roll on the delivery date!

[Jaspersharpe]

Yeah it was never going to take long. Once my netbook finally dies I will be able to justify buying one.

[slackline]

Lacks [micro]SD slot for expanding storage (16Gb won't get you masses of 720p video) and HDMI for playing them back on bigger screens.

Hope they aren't following the fruity model of getting people to buy something and then releasing an updated version which is what it should have been in the first place.

[dave]

Only 7" screen? No wonder its cheap.

Word on the street is apple are releasing a mini-ipad (probably 7" ish) this autumn at a loss-making price to counter the ubercheap android postcard-tablet market. Should be one to keep an eye on.

[Obi-Wan is lost...]

Word on the street is apple are releasing a mini-ipad (probably 7" ish) this autumn at a loss-making price

Apple? Loss making? I'll believe it when I see it. Which street?

[dave]

http://www.techhunter.co.uk/gadgets/ipad-mini-in-october/0571/

[Bubba]

That's still a rumour though, nothing concrete.  And I doubt it would appeal to a lot of Android fans anyway.

[tommytwotone]

Yeah, all well and good but then I'd have to own an Apple device!

Loss-making or not, it'll take a lot more than that to make me leap over and into the walled garden.

[Jim]

have just taken delivery off my cyclone astro+ tablet. For £80 I recon its pretty amazing

[Paul B]

have just taken delivery off my cyclone astro+ tablet. For £80 I recon its pretty amazing

Do me a favour and make an out of the box backup of the distribution it comes with... 

[Jim]

how do you do that and why?
point me at some sites, I want to hack this thing

[Paul B]

how do you do that and why?
point me at some sites, I want to hack this thing

because if you screw it up the Android image it shipped with isn't available elsewhere. Well it is, but the manufacturer never has any bandwidth. Like I said previously, the image you need depends on which camera it has.

My post on here:
http://tabletrepublic.com/forum/iview-760tpc-ployer-momo9/iview-760tpc-k-ployer-momo9-official-thread-883-63.html

shows the steps I followed. Go to the first page for the driver links etc. and a video that tells you how to boot into recovery and flashing mode.

As yours is potentially a newer version I'd check if you actually need to flash anything (will Calendar sync, what can't you get on Play?).

The script didn't seem to work on my out of the box ROM, in fact it screwed it up.

[Jim]

(for paulB)
have discovered mine is the one with the 0.3 meg camera but 16 gig storage. I presume it the same as the 4/8 gig version just with more storage.
What keyboard do you use or recomend (one with swype?)

[Paul B]

I haven't done anything with the keyboard but I should as its s-l-o-w to type with.

As you now know which one you've got, does this mean you've started tinkering? I still find mine a little frustrating; if it hasn't been on for a while, syncing takes an age and its pretty laggy until its done.

[Jim]

haven't started tinkering yet but am about to start.

[slackline]

Samsung Galaxy SIII launcher ported to any ICS ROM


HTC Sense ported to Samsung Galaxy SII

[schloosh]

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.mobilej.btgps&hl=en

Good little app here that lets you use an external bluetooth GPS device rather than the internal GPS on an Android device.
Gives much better GPS accuracy and draws significantly less power.

[slackline]

Kind of defeats the point of having an all singing, all dancing phone though doesn't it?  I could carry a phone, a GPS, a camera, an MP3 player to do dedicated duties, but I generally don't, I take a phone which does most of these things pretty well instead.

Plus Bluetooth can be just as much of a drain on power as GPS, so its not really going to save you anything (and dedicated GPS devices can be expensive).

(BTW, this thread is more about general Android stuff, There's an app for that thread is for applications).

[schloosh]

I only really use the GPS for car navigation so keep the Bluetooth device, £20 from ebay, in the car anyway from a previous phone/sat nav combo.
With most car chargers the drain of using internal GPS with a sat nav app will actually drain the battery (or at least not recharge) so there is some benefit.

incorrect thread noted....

[slackline]

I just use a map most of the time, long journeys are easy, complete waste of time sitting on motorways having a GPS navigation system telling you to keep on going and then three hours later to turn off.  Its only in unfamiliar towns that GPS navigation is really of any use (to me) and thats a short term thing so drain on battery (whether its a phone or GPS device) will be minimal.

On an old Nokia N95 tracking a walk the battery died after ~4hrs, on the Galaxy SII I've not actually noticed a huge drain on GPS usage and its easily tracked an eight hour walk without using more than 50% of battery.  Guess it boils down to the frequency of polling GPS location that applications are programmed to do.

[Dolly]

Just got a Nexus 7 in the office.
First impressions are positive.
Looks good and feels nice to hold because of the slightly stippled back.

One of the first things I noticed was how fast the thing is compared to all the other android and iOS devices

[slackline]

One of the first things I noticed was how fast the thing is compared to all the other android and iOS devices

Mostly likely down to the improvements in Android 4.1.