To Tablet... or Not to Tablet..

[Freakatola]

What's your pick and why?

[Gizmokid2005]

None really...I can't find them useful in my daily stuff...either I've got my phone which can do anything pretty much, or I'm by my laptop...they're too limited in my opinion, to be useful

[Freakatola]

weeeeeelp, I picked up a Blackberry Playbook at launch.
At first I was wowed by the vivid screen, the built in games, and well.. I'm an an avid blackberry user so I just had to have it... So far, I feel like it's going the way of the BB Storm, lots of fun at first but now the buyers remorse is starting to set in. I beat the games that came preloaded, I beat a few games that I downloaded aswell.

Blackberry Bridge has been a nice treat, but it is slow, and browsing with the Bridge Browser is excruciatingly slow.

3,000 apps at launch? are they hidden?!?! Because all I see are about 100 apps, most of which just half-baked "ideas". Most apps are advertised as unfinished or as a work in progress. Not cool RIM!

I ignored the haters, looked past the bad reviews, and got up early to get my hands on this thing. Great piece of hardware, but as it turns out this is far from where it needed to be for an official Launch.

You have until Monday to show me why I should keep my tablet and never let go. Otherwise this thing is going back to collect dust at the store.

[Freakatola]

also... incase anyone is wondering, the forum looks perfect on the PB

[Gizmokid2005]

I've heard some pretty ****ty things about the Playbook. Namely that it can't do email unless tethered to a BB, among other things.

I just sent back an LG Quantum running WP7 that I got from ATT for free as an upgrade, not worth it at all yet.

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I'm using an HP touchpad with android on it... far from ideal but the price was right and I'm dual booting android and webos currently

[XXWoodmanXX]

Got a Nook Color for real cheap on CL, rooted it, and put CM 7.0 OS on it, and it's beautiful. A beefy Nook Tablet for around $90 ( not including the 32Gb sd I have in it)

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Got a Nook Color for real cheap on CL, rooted it, and put CM 7.0 OS on it, and it's beautiful. A beefy Nook Tablet for around $90 ( not including the 32Gb sd I have in it)

I'm a huge fan of the cheap tablets. As much as I'd love to have a transformer 2 there's just no way its worth 3x more than my HP 32gb. I'd really like to get one with an SD reader at some point but having 32gb internal and es explorer to copy things over the wifi makes it as good as having an SD card.

[punkrkr52]

I got my dad a Nook Tablet for Christmas, with the intention of rooting and putting CM7 on it. Apparently however, B&N shipped it with some new firmware which is locked up tight. Only a matter of time until the geniuses at XDA figure it out though. As a side note, I freaking love Android.

[Freakatola]

Well I ended up keeping the Playbook, and the right apps did come out to keep me interested, I got a VNC client to remote into my file server and my work laptop, so I don't leave the couch very often, which is quite nice.

Hopefully RIM doesn't **** the bed in February and they finally release PBOS 2.0 with email and calendar, they really are the only things missing for me. Unfortunately the prehistoric BB's we're running at work don't bridge too well with the PB as the installed memory is too low to keep things running smoothly on the BB causing a dozen crashes a day. New Bold 9900's being shipped out shortly, so that should fill all the gaps for me.

All in all, relatively happy with the device, just wish I would have waited it out for the price drops, seeing my 16GB model go for $199, versus the $499 I paid for it is a huge slap in the face.

Tried out the OS 2.0 beta, which is very nice, and I like where they're going with it, but decided to revert back to OS 1.0 as the android apps available (Converted from crackberry forum members and sideloaded) eventually started to crash more often than not and just lead to headaches while trying to go about my daily routine.