{"id":2958,"date":"2010-05-06T17:17:33","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T01:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/?p=2958"},"modified":"2010-05-06T17:17:33","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T01:17:33","slug":"playing-with-the-android-tablet-alpha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/playing-with-the-android-tablet-alpha\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing with the Android tablet Alpha"},"content":{"rendered":"

Actually, I’m not even sure I should call it an Alpha.\u00a0 The folks at Adobe basically hacked together this device to run android so that they can show Air displaying a magazine.\u00a0 Now.. WHY would someone take a CLEARLY hacked device to a show?\u00a0 Perhaps because they are so pissed at Apple they were willing to do anything to show Flash running on a tablet?\u00a0 I would think so.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And it was running.\u00a0 Its was buggy as all get out, but most of the fail was around the digitizer and display.\u00a0 I pulled up this website and it rendered fine, including the flash ads. So my impressions?\u00a0 Ignoring the alpha state of it, I can see the value just as I would with the iPad.\u00a0 Size is everything.\u00a0 Having a nice large display that I can directly interact with is a big plus.\u00a0 And since Android is basically the iPhone \/ iPad open source, I would expect the same trade offs.\u00a0 More flexibility in exchange for a smoother user experience.<\/p>\n

The fun bit was just how hacked this thing was.\u00a0 Have a look at the images below. I had to press one of the black buttons on the side just to navigate back!!\u00a0 Same thing for home!!\u00a0 And actually, that was kinda cool.\u00a0 The whole makerfaire feel of it. \ud83d\ude42\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Anyway, the takeaway here is, yes Virgina, there IS an Android tablet.\u00a0 But I think we have a number of months more to wait for its ready.<\/p>\n

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