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I beg to differ on that last part... I think Android (with froyo's glaze) can challenge the iPad, especially due to its 'better' multitasking and generally more open design (memory card friendly, less restrictions on the apps, etc) and a competitive finger friendly ui.
They might also support cutting edge stuff like usb and flash.

None of that is as important as a good ui, but that's pretty much a solved problem at this day and age.
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By tablets, just to clarify, we are talking about always on, possibly always connected, fanless noiseless slates that can also be carried to use on the couch to read newspapers etc and are incredibly light such that they are almost weightless in your bag.

We are not talking about slate PC's. Which are just glorified laptops complete with all their deficencies.
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Originally Posted by schettj View Post
So this post was just flamebait?

I don't get it. Did Nokia release a product in the same space as the iPad?
Wait.. was THAT flaimbait?
 

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Originally Posted by gerbick View Post
I find irony in how no other tablet maker this year has the sales numbers of Apple. Mind you; it's not saying it's a better product - it's not - but that now it's a wide-open market and nothing has come forth that... well, has sold well.
I don't find it too ironic. iPad is the first tablet that people are actually expected to buy (and marketed accordingly, with cheap price). Not some expensive proof of concept, corporate gimmick or a hacker toy.
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Originally Posted by vivainio View Post
They might also support cutting edge stuff like usb and flash.

None of that is as important as a good ui, but that's pretty much a solved problem at this day and age.
It's funny if you consider who solved the problem and ended up leading in terms of UI in 'this day and age'. I wouldn't take good ui for granted. It seems like such a simple thing, but many have tried and failed.

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By tablets, just to clarify, we are talking about always on fanless noiseless slates that can also be carried to use on the couch to read newspapers etc and are incredibly light such that they are almost weightless in your bag.

We are not talking about slate PC's. Which are just glorified laptops complete with all their deficencies.
Uh, they're welcome to join the fray if they want to; sure they'll win on spec and sheer strength... but they'll run out of juice before the battle starts.
(This is coming from an ex-tablet PCs owner).
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Originally Posted by schettj View Post
So this post was just flamebait?

I don't get it. Did Nokia release a product in the same space as the iPad?
A bit of reverse psychology.......

The point I was making is that if Nokia don't get their act together soon - they will only be selling low end phones in the future leaving others to sell the high profit devices. Look what HTC has done in the last few years never mind Apple in the smartphone sector once 'owned' by Nokia. I wonder how many n900 & n97 have been sold since launch compared the n95
 

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I don't find it too ironic. iPad is the first tablet that people are actually expected to buy (and marketed accordingly, with cheap price). Not some expensive proof of concept, corporate gimmick or a hacker toy.
Ironic because the established tablets, UMPC's, MID's et al have not sold in higher numbers despite "being better" by all of their fans.

Ironic because the iPad is honestly a rather flawed device yet it's selling like hotcakes.

Ironic because it's crossed over from luxury item and/or hacker toy into computer that savvy and non-savvy folks use.

Ironic because the competition is floundering whereas it is not.

I'm on the side of finding a tablet myself... but my requirements are a bit different. I don't even need root. I just need to be able to use what I need to use (cbr/cbz, web, IM, video IM, e-mail, ability to view flash based webpages)... and it falls short in this iteration and yet no other sizable tablet outside of the Dell Streak (not yet released in the US) does what I want.

Nokia left the tablet market at the wrong time.
 

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I have several Win tablet UMPC's with battery life around the 7 hour mark and I guess I would call them slates albiet not all day use and relatively heavy ones and they are all from niche producers that make only a few thousand devices worldwide Viliv, UMID etc.
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ipad sucks anyway, even my netbook is more powerful
 
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ipad sucks anyway, even my netbook is more powerful
I think our trolling standard has raised considerably the past few months. That's pretty weak.

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