Turns out the update that gave as slew of new phones access to streaming movies also indirectly opens it up for
other Honeycomb tablets as well.
Other Honeycomb tablets have user interface tweaks, and Netflix has been available on the iPad for more than a year.
Display and Speakers The Lenovo IdeaPad K1 display suffers from the same quality issues as the Toshiba Thrive, Motorola Xoom, and virtually
all other Honeycomb tablets before it, sans the Galaxy Tab 10.1.
So, in an attempt to distinguish the K1 from the Galaxy Tab 10.1, Motorola Xoom, and
other Honeycomb tablets, Lenovo added a custom skin, a boatload of apps, and perhaps most notably, Netflix support.
With few tweaks to differentiate the Xoom 2 from
other Honeycomb tablets, Motorola have turned to pre-installing some apps.
Assuming the S1 isn't the highest or lowest priced Honeycomb tablet we'll see this year, we can only cite the same issues that dog all
the other Honeycomb tablets out there.
And
these other honeycomb tablets are crazy priced, same hardware as NI, but not better, they are selling at over 400 pounds!
In other words, it will be a lot like
the other Honeycomb tablets on the market, sans the Netflix.
Most of
the other Honeycomb tablets like Motorola's XOOM and Acer's Iconia Tab seem to be designed more like the chunkier original iPad.
Internally driven by NVIDIA's Tegra 2 SoC, performance and battery life were similar to
other Honeycomb tablets we'd reviewed.
There's also a screenshot app at XDA called Screenshot ER that is known to work with the Motorola Xoom and
other Honeycomb tablets.
I'm sure Samsung's Galaxy 10.1 tab will ship with its Media Hub service, but that doesn't do much good for people using
other Honeycomb tablets.
Our Softweg benchmark test suite, which applies scores to CPU, Memory, Graphics, and File System performance, ranked the Thrive higher than the Xoom and most
other Honeycomb tablets for Graphics, and about the same for all other tests.
In actual use, there wasn't an obvious processor performance difference between the TouchPad and
other Honeycomb tablets.
Nor did the unit have a shortcut on the desktop linking directly to Adobe's Flash Player on the Android Market, as
other Honeycomb tablets have done to handle the Flash installation conundrum (Flash is not native to the Android OS).
Like
other Honeycomb tablets, the Xyboard has several Google apps that take advantage of its wider display.
That has nothing to do with iPad 2 and everything to do with what
other honeycomb tablets willl hae.
Like
other Honeycomb tablets, the Tab 10.1 runs Nvidia's Tegra 2 platform, with a dual - core 1 GHz processor and 802.11 a / b / g / n Wi - Fi.
Other built - in apps include a calculator, the Google Books e-reader app, a desk clock, Google Maps with free GPS driving directions, YouTube, and Google Talk with video chat (but it only works with
other Honeycomb tablets and PCs, for now), although software loads vary by device.
As with
other Honeycomb tablets, the system bar at the bottom of the screen is persistent.
Nevertheless, the Tab 10.1's light weight makes a huge difference, especially when compared to
other Honeycomb tablets such as the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer or the Motorola Xoom (1.4 and 1.6 pounds, respectively).
On paper the ThinkPad Tablet looks a lot like
other Honeycomb tablets.
Maybe when Asus mentioned it was a 3D tablet it could do 3D effects like you see in
some other Honeycomb tablets, such as the Viewsonic ViewPad 7X.
As for the Slider's specs, it isn't anything new and shares a lot of similarities with
other Honeycomb tablets in general and the Transformer in particular.
While the Tab will handle 1080p video, there's no HDMI output to mirror to an HDTV, unlike many
other Honeycomb tablets such as the Asus Eee Pad Transformer TF101 ($ 399 - 499, 3.5 stars).
As with
other Honeycomb tablets, a Recent Apps button displays open apps in a thumbnail view so you can switch between them easily.
The light weight makes a difference, especially when compared to
other Honeycomb tablets such as the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer or the Motorola Xoom (1.4 and 1.6 pounds, respectively).
This sets the Tab 7.7 apart from most
other Honeycomb tablets which use Nvidia's Tegra 2 dual - core CPU which runs at 1 GHz.
In keeping with
other Honeycomb tablets, the bottom of the screen displays a persistent system bar with software keys for Back, Home, and Recent Applications — all of which look like futuristic line drawings.
Like
other Honeycomb tablets, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 forgoes physical buttons for an ever - present system bar on the bottom of the screen.
Now they've revamped the Tab's design to make it thinner, lighter, and more of a direct contender to the iPad, not to mention
every other Honeycomb tablet on the market.
Performance Because all Honeycomb tablets thus far have shipped with the same Tegra 2 CPU inside, our system test results (on the BenchmarkPi or GUIMark2 Flash tests) for the Galaxy Tab 10.1, even after the TouchWiz update, are very similar to those for almost
every other Honeycomb tablet.
So the next time, you fire up the Kindle app from your Xoom or
any other Honeycomb tablet, make sure you ring in the change.
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Of course like
the other Honeycomb tablet, the Liberty Tab 10.1 inch tablet also has full access to Google Mobile Service, includes Gmail, Google Maps, G - Talk, Picassa, Search and download more than 250.000 usefull apps via Android Market.
Not exact matches
Adobe Flash Player 10.2 is now available for Motorola XOOM and
other Android 3.0 (
Honeycomb)
tablets.
This new Google Maps 5.0 was demonstrated on a
tablet for the first time by Andy Rubin on the Motorola prototype running
Honeycomb at D: Dive Into Mobile — but no
other tablets enjoyed Google Maps 5.0 on a big screen.
Other devices by the company are expected to receive the Android Gingerbread upgrade after the «Galaxy S», with the Ace, Gio, Fit and Mini where the «Galaxy Tab»
tablet will also gain the new OS — although Android «
Honeycomb» 3.0 is much more suited to the larger touch screen products.
And at time when it feels like we handle a new
Honeycomb Android
tablet every
other day, these at least usher in some pretty unusual form factors.
Just as with all
other first - generation
Honeycomb tablets we've tested, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 rocks a 1 - GHz Nvidia Tegra 2 processor backed by 1 GB of RAM.
Just as with all
other first - generation
Honeycomb tablets, the Acer Iconia Tab A500 rocks the 1 - GHz Tegra 2 processor backed with 1 GB of RAM.
A positive factor with the Streak 7, though, is that there is an active hacking community associated with the
tablet and it has already proved its worth by getting Android 3.2
Honeycomb on to the
tablet along with a few
other tweaks.
This along with the fact that the Flyer still continued with Android 2.3 Gingerbread while
others in the fray were moving on to Android
Honeycomb can be considered another important factor that led to the 7 inch
tablet record dismal sales.
The court in Germany has specifically banned the German division of Samsung from selling the Tab 10.1
tablet, which means there is no stopping Samsung from sourcing the 10 inch
Honeycomb tablets from its headquarters in Korea or any
other place for sale in Germany.
Other than the fact that each
tablet will run Android
Honeycomb, we don't yet know anything else about what each will offer.
While
other 7 ″
Honeycomb tablets have so far been released with 1024 × 600 screens, the Thrive 7 has been fitted with a 1280 × 800 LED backlit display.
What's more, the
tablet running
Honeycomb will be launched in its 3G avatar while the company's
other Honeycomb offering, the Eee Pad Transformer — featuring a detachable keyboard — will also be made available during the same time with 3G capabilities.
Other features of the
tablet include a 1.2 GHz Qualcomm dual core processor along with Android 3.2,
Honeycomb as the OS.
Looks wise, the
tablet seems well built and while it looks like any
other 10.1 incher running Android
Honeycomb, the brushed aluminum finish at the back does spice things up a lot.
Also, to have
Honeycomb right out of the box will make the A100 one of the selected few among the 7 inch class of
tablet where most
others are either in the process of upgrading to
Honeycomb or are thinking of doing so.