Samsung to Show off Froyo Tablet Next Month?

[pwnagehobo]

[citation][nom]scook9[/nom]Frankly this is NOT impressive in the least.....what does it offer that the phones do not have already? ...[/citation]
To me, that sounds a bit like what people were saying about the iPad. Samsung need to get a marketing team as good as Apple's (admittedly, quite a big ask). Their biggest obstacle would be that they can't bank on the same ignorance from Android fans as you'd see in the typical iPad owner... you know, the kind of person who buys something because it's shiny, curved, has an 'i' out the front, and because Steve Jobs tells them to.

 

[vectorm12]

I got myself a Galaxy S about a month ago and I've been waiting for the Froyo update ever since. If the tablet is shipping with it preinstalled there's at least some hope for an update. And to those who consider Samsung slow in terms of software updates should have a look at Sony Ericsson. My old X1i never even got an official winmobile6.5 update and their "flagship" Androidphones still run 1.6. One thing is for certain I'm never buying another S/E phone despite being Swedish and having a slight tendency of buying Swedish products.

 

[Guest]

@Alchemy69 - Who cares about AMOLED? SLCD FTW (that's Super LCD). If not SLCD, Super AMOLED. Plain AMOLED is crap.

 

[Guest]

What does it offer over a phone ? A bigger screen ! And before you spit out the nonsense about the same res as phones, yea sure, but you still get a bigger screen, if you somehow have a 1920x1200 res on a 1 inch screen, it's hardly the same experience as the same resolution on the 24" inch screen. The DPI is still great at this size, it's 7 inch, so it's like having a 14 inch laptop with a 1600 x 960 resolution, most 15 inch laptops have worse resolution than that and they still look fine. The resolution is an unfortunate limitation of the android, we'll see better things when ginger bread comes out.

 

[seboj]

[citation][nom]vectorm12[/nom]I got myself a Galaxy S about a month ago and I've been waiting for the Froyo update ever since. If the tablet is shipping with it preinstalled there's at least some hope for an update. And to those who consider Samsung slow in terms of software updates should have a look at Sony Ericsson. My old X1i never even got an official winmobile6.5 update and their "flagship" Androidphones still run 1.6. One thing is for certain I'm never buying another S/E phone despite being Swedish and having a slight tendency of buying Swedish products.[/citation]

Hop on over to XDA-Forums and see if there is a FroYo port for yours yet. I have a HTC Aria, which was released w/ 2.1 around June 20th, and I've had a working 2.2 ROM through CyanogenMod 6 since July 27th.

 

[ohim]

[citation][nom]icepick314[/nom]no HD screen?[/citation]
Don`t get me wrong about it but what HD do you want on those dimensions ? HD has a purpose to look good on big screen TVs (huge TVs 100+ cm in diagonal) The purpose of having HD quality on a thing so small makes no sense. Is like those commercials from nvidia that Tegra is able to play 1080p on mobile devices .. on a screen the size of your palm ... so who cares about that ? you`re not even beeing able to see the level of detail.

 

[exodite]

[citation][nom]icepick314[/nom]no HD screen?[/citation]
IIRC the current incarnation of Android, including 2.2, doesn't support any screen size larger than 800x480.

That's something 3.0 is supposed to rectify.

I'm not impressed by tablets in general, I fail to see the point of such a device at this time, but while Android might make sense for an ARM-based tablet I don't get why manufacturers are pushing them before the OS is ready for that usage scenario.

 

[exodite]

[citation][nom]exodite[/nom]IIRC the current incarnation of Android, including 2.2, doesn't support any screen size larger than 800x480.[/citation]
And yes, 854x480, before someone points that out.

 

[dgingeri]

that's a pathetic screen res for a tablet. it needs to be 1280X800

 

[TunaSoda]

How about an Android tablet with a GPS chip?

 

[kartu]

[citation][nom]Ehsan w[/nom]I really don't get the hype around this special update "froyo".And I have an Htc legend myself....just before people call me fanboy -.-*[/citation]
It comes with JIT (just in time compiler) which could improve performance by orders of magnitude.

 

[Guest]

Trying to find the sweet spot between a netbook and a cell phone.
Having a bigger display area then a cell phone makes a lot more sense for e books, games, steaming video, maps, photos......etc.
While still emphasizing portability, and not looking like a geek sitting in Starbucks typing into a small notebook.