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Decent 10" Android tablet for around $300? Is it possible?

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Donkbaca:
Wait, so you got an iphone because you figured it was better than an android phone I am guessing, but then you didn't get an ipad because "you don't need a giant iphone" but instead you opted for a giant android phone?

markronz:
Very funny.   But no, I got an iPhone 3G because back when I got it, they didn't have Android phones yet.   Or at least I had never heard of one at that point.   Irregardless, that's not the point.  All I was saying is that I have an iPhone, I know that experience.  I've played with an iPad and it's very similar. Cooler, mostly because its bigger, but still very much the same.   I have no experience with android, so that is why I got an Android tablet.   I prefer to experience all different forms of technology out there.  The android tablet I got was a honeycomb OS, which is slightly different than a normal Android phone OS, or so I'm told.   My point is that everyone just assumes that iPad is the best, and it may very well be, but that does not mean it's the only viable tablet option out there worth experiencing.   You can't just crap of an Android just because it's not an iPad.

scofthe7seas:
Well, right now the Ipad/phones are optimized to a higher degree because they've had kind of a long time to work out all the kinks. Also, they have a much larger software base.
But, Android is catching up, and developers are getting super sick of the restraints that Apple puts on the development process. Market rate estimates predict Android phones/devices will overtake the market in not a very long timeframe.
Annnnyways, onto the topic. There are a number of reasonable priced Chinese model Android tablets out there. I can't attest to the quality, but there are reviews for these models also.

Donkbaca:
Without getting into an android flame war... I-whatevers have three distinct advantages: 1) bigger user base - this attracts more developers; 2) vertical integration; one of the reasons its hard for tablets to compete is that Apple is very veritcally integrated, right through retail with its apple stores.  This gives them an advantage on price, since there isn't as much profit taking along the way for components, licensing or retail markups.  3) The app store - a centralized, safe place to get software that any idiot can use and understand.

The "open source" advantage is the biggest load of crap I have ever come across. People largely don't develop stuff to "express themselves" they do it largely to make money and they will conform to some censorship and are more than willing to jump through hoops to have access to a a bigger market to make money.  If people cared that much about "open source" we would all be running linux.  Don't give me that "i am running linux" BS, the overwhelming majority of people don't, and have no interest in it.  Read the reviews, every tablet has the same headline "Is this the gizmo that will give the I-whatever a run for its money?"  The answer is always no, its either more expensive, has inferior guts, or has a major content disadvantage.  Those are just facts.

Generally the argument between the I-whatevers and the I-wananbes is this: The I whatvers are doing a lot of cool stuff RIGHT NOW, where as the I-wanabes sell on some promise that at some point in the future, they will be able to do things the I-whatevers can't.  Its about what something does versus what it can do.  I used to buy the "what it can do" stuff, until I realized that what I care more about is what it does right now, because by the time the what-it-can-do stuff gets realized, if it ever does, the thing is a couple generations behind

AtomSmasher:
Haha.  It's always entertaining to see how passionate fanboys get either for or against apple products.

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