Comments on: Schmidt tips Google tablet incoming

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 09:59:00 +0000

nice. more choices.
although i most likely will move from my ipad1 to an ultrabook/macbook air.
as i now think a very good smart phone + a very light notebook can probably be enough.
although i might buy an ebook reader to fill the gap.

By: plunder

plunder — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 21:30:00 +0000

Dear Drew. I want to see superb Ice Cream Tablets spinning out of CES in two weeks time (consider the Transformer-Prime); but they need great applications and effective marketing, to make them flourish. 2011 felt like the wilderness for Android on Tablets.

By: FB Stalker

FB Stalker — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 20:53:00 +0000

This is gonna be so boss. I was really set on the Transformer Prime for Christmas, but I’m so glad i held out. Nice device, but it’s not quite a fully 2nd gen Android tablet (same old 1280 x 800 resolution, same old 1 GB of RAM, a really weak GPU, etc.). My favorite phone right now is the Galaxy Nexus (so wish I had one), and if they can come out with a tablet that’s similar, I would love that.

2012 is gonna be amazing for Android tablets. First tablets that will be able to compete with the iPad.

By: Counsel Dew

Counsel Dew — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:53:00 +0000

Was Apple considered a aerious threat before launch? One year after launch, Jobs, on stage, bragged about having over … 500 apps! When first released, the “apps” were web connections else where…

Anyone can succeed, and anyone can fail. Just look at … Apple!

Seriously…

By: Counsel Dew

Counsel Dew — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:49:00 +0000

Same issue with iPhone on AT&T… AT&T pointed at Apple, and Apple pointed at AT&T… Happened to me.

By: Kemikos

Kemikos — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:11:00 +0000

” If there are hardware issues you go to the manufacturer (Samsung for Galaxy Nexus). For service issues you go to the provider (Verizon). Or if there are OS issues you contact google, who are notorious for pushing out fast fixes to their systems.”

Yes, that’s how it’s supposed to work, but let’s say your device isn’t staying connected to the network (a very real problem with the original Nexus). How do you tell whether it’s an OS issue, a hardware problem, or a service glitch?

What actually happened is that everyone involved claimed that the issues were the fault of one of the other parties, and nothing was ever really solved. Now you’d think, since Google was the one you actually purchased the device from, that they’d be responsible for finding a solution, but they apparently had no interest in providing support beyond occasional OS updates.

By: bambila

bambila — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:42:00 +0000

Samsung Nexus

By: plunder

plunder — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:31:00 +0000

Even I find Eric Schmidt’s statements about Tablets laughable. I like Android and chose it for phones, but Apple seem to be 18 months ahead on Tablets!

Even with ice-cream . . . success in this sector demands serious investment and a focused priority effort. Tablet users demand better key applications and iOS developers seem well ahead there.

Google need to fix both issues immediately, or pull out. For now, the real threat to Apple’s Tablet dominance in this sector is Microsoft, possibly in Q4 2012 or 2013. Can you see Microsoft being a serious threat at this point?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 16:44:00 +0000

presumably it will get direct OS updates from google like nexus phones, instead of having to wait for the OEM to skin the lates OS releases.

and keep in mind honeycomb tablets are vanilla only because google never released the honeycomb code, so OEMs couldn’t do anything with it. Google has released ICS code, so expect ICS tablets to be skinned just like phones are.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 15:31:00 +0000

Google approaches things a little differently than Apple by releasing information early, which means that they are announcing nothing that innovative or distracting from something that is..Hopefully they will enable the SD slot this time

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 15:29:00 +0000

I don’t get it, how is this going to be any different than the current vanilla Android Tablets? I like what they do with the Nexus line keeping skins and crap off, but what are they going to do differently than say Asus with the quad-cpre vanilla ICS tablet?

By: timbox100

timbox100 — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 14:57:00 +0000

This news is very old now, was it missed by SG before or is there something new in there.

BTW the Galaxy nexus team was made up of Samsung and Google engineers, it was not all designed by Google.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 14:05:00 +0000

debating whether to cancel my ASUS transformer preorder… *sigh*

By: Zachary Koterba

Zachary Koterba — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 13:59:00 +0000

Haha, yea, what a broad and uninformative statement… If you are basing this off their Nexus line of cell phones, they didn’t manufacture or sell them. They simply provided specs to the manufacturer, and provided the stock operating system.

If there are hardware issues you go to the manufacturer (Samsung for Galaxy Nexus). For service issues you go to the provider (Verizon). Or if there are OS issues you contact google, who are notorious for pushing out fast fixes to their systems. Any delay in OS updates are either due to the manufacturer OR service provider.

Apple is good at supporting consumer products because they actually BUILD them. There is no telling what Google’s support of a consumer product will be like because they’ve never had one, but based on their software support, I would have to say that it will be very good.

By: AW Smith

AW Smith — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 13:55:00 +0000

Explain what you mean?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 13:42:00 +0000

Google does not know how to support a consumer product.

By: Kedar

Kedar — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 13:21:00 +0000

should be good