*** Nexus 10 Tablet ***

spoffle said:
I'm not buying the sAMOLED rumour, but I would absolutely love for it to be true. You can't beat the look of a sAMOLED display, dat high dynamic range.
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I can believe it may well be AMOLED - it's one technology that Apple doesn't have access to at the moment, so it's a great selling point - but will probably be a standard SAMOLED panel (ie, a Pentile matrix like the GS3) rather than the superior SAMOLED Plus RGB matrix version.

Which would be a shame as RGB AMOLED is all sorts of amazing.
 
~300 ppi sAMOLED will still look the dogs on such a big panel. Pentile hate is blown well out of proportion sometimes.
 
DrBombcrater said:
I can believe it may well be AMOLED - it's one technology that Apple doesn't have access to at the moment, so it's a great selling point - but will probably be a standard SAMOLED panel (ie, a Pentile matrix like the GS3) rather than the superior SAMOLED Plus RGB matrix version.

Which would be a shame as RGB AMOLED is all sorts of amazing.
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I think its really funny, when the SGS came out no one had no idea about pentile and everyone just loved it. One day someone said something about being pentile and now everyone hates it. The S3 at that res looks amazing, when the ppi is high enough pentile doesn't matter as much. The Note II is full RGB and it looked just as good as the S3.
 
Indeed, pentile isn't as bad as what it use to be i.e. the desire.

The one S screen looks great, personally only notice the pentile when I really look for it and with the mobile straight in front of me but with the desire I can spot it extremely easily.

One advantage of pentile is that it is suppose to be more power efficient.
 
Nexus18 said:
Indeed, pentile isn't as bad as what it use to be i.e. the desire.
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No question Pentile has improved as over time. It's hardy going to cause people to run away screaming or anything, but the Nexus 10 is (from what we know so far) a high-end tablet and it would be nice if they took a no compromise approach and fitted it with a standard RGB panel like the Galaxy Tab 7.7, not Pentile or the odd C-shaped RGB matrix from the Note II.

But I expect the cost of doing that would be just too high.
 
kona786 said:
~300 ppi sAMOLED will still look the dogs on such a big panel. Pentile hate is blown well out of proportion sometimes.
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Agreed.

On a smartphone at ~250ppi I can believe that there's a noticeable difference between the two - given the typical distance you hold it from your face.

But on a 10" tablet at 2560x1600? No way... Pentile will be just fine thanks! :)




DrBombcrater said:
...it would be nice if they took a no compromise approach and fitted it with a standard RGB panel like the Galaxy Tab 7.7, not Pentile or the odd C-shaped RGB matrix from the Note II .
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You should get used to the "C-shaped" RGB matrix from the NoteII as being standard for RGB OLED screens. It's due to the different sub-pixel requirements (specifically relating to the blue sub-pixel - see here for a little more info). A "striped" arrangement with equal sized sub-pixels is not ideal for OLED.
 
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Great specs, ugly design but the biggest drawback with this and all Android devices is Google Play, it's simply not a patch on on the App Store and I do use both (iPad + SG3)
 
thecremeegg said:
I'm intrigued to know as well. There are so many apps on there and the design is fine? :confused:
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Content:
  • You can't buy movies
  • You can't buy music
  • Quality and quantity of Android tablet apps
  • The Play Store itself on tablets - App has an update and want to know what's new? Well you don't get told on the update screen, you have to click onto the application icon and read the change log and then go back to update it

Android on tablets is just a bad experience, my TF201 is the biggest waste of money I've ever made.
 
Just to add to what Mekrel as said..

Apps on the App Store are in general cheaper with many more offers like free for a limited time. I've had so many genuinely great games for free this way. Apps are also better made and supported on iOS as next to Android there's virtually no fragmentation! Oh yeah and there's a hell of allot more choice ;)

The difference between the stores is day and night and I think this needs more attention than just increasing tablet specs!

Like I said I already have a iPad 3 but my wife also wants 7" Tablet (she also as a SG3) but she is so impressed/jealous! of the App store she want's a iPad Mini to be in the Apple ecco system and would rather pay more for a lesser spec tablet than be limited by Google Play.
 
Google still has a long way to go with tablet apps specifically, I think they really need to some how punish or ban developers that simply stretch their phone apps to fit tablet displays, this is very common with android and really hampers the quality and feel of apps.

The app store for phones though is pretty functional, and in general has a good selection of high quality apps obviously it's far from perfect however it's good enough to keep me from straying into apple land thankfully, android is definitely my mobile OS of choice.

I'm starting to think more and more that Windows 8 actually has the best tablet UI and possible ecosystem. While I dislike metro UI on phones as it's all sort of cluttered for tablets the UI seems to work very very well. I also think Windows 8 will get higher quality tablet apps then what android is currently getting.
 
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I dislike the new iOS app store due to its lame search were it gives u 1 card at a time (on phone not sure if this carries to tablet) its totally useless and stupid :@
 
m4rk84 said:
Google still has a long way to go with tablet apps specifically, I think they really need to some how punish or ban developers that simply stretch their phone apps to fit tablet displays, this is very common with android and really hampers the quality and feel of apps.

The app store for phones though is pretty functional, and in general has a good selection of high quality apps obviously it's far from perfect however it's good enough to keep me from straying into apple land thankfully, android is definitely my mobile OS of choice.

I'm starting to think more and more that Windows 8 actually has the best tablet UI and possible ecosystem. While I dislike metro UI on phones as it's all sort of cluttered for tablets the UI seems to work very very well. I also think Windows 8 will get higher quality tablet apps then what android is currently getting.
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Well, they are trying to get people to create better Tablet apps.

Tablet App Quality Checklist

It's laziness vs following Google's guidelines on Tablet & Phone apps.
Most of the good Phone apps use the Holo theme, introduced in Ice Cream Sandwich, where as some others clearly just mimic what's found on iOS devices.

Google along with it's partners has the Phone down, they just need to sort out the tablet experience.
 
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