I have a work Blackberry. If I had the option of using another phone, I would. I would not pay $0.01 for a Blackberry. It is a POS. I imagine its tablet is also a POS just like its "touchscreen" phones.
I moved from BB to the Galaxy. Both of which are getting tablets soon. BB is the most reliable and easy to use phone I have ever owned. But I wouldn't trust it for a tablet. Tablet is about media.
Every time I've used a Blackberry (which is pretty frequently) I'm amused by how clumsy, flimsy and outdated it feels. I helped a client switch from his BB to a new Droid the other day. He remarked that it was like he'd 'gone into the future'. lol The tablet looks nice though. App store, battery life and what kind of UI RIM can actually put on it are all that really matters.
right when the evo came out, it had numerous problems. screen lifting in the corner, grounding issues..etc previous phones like touch pro etc had many other problems. one of my good friends just got the Evo a month ago. he has a macbook pro, ipod touch but his family is stuck with sprint. now the earpiece doesnt work anymore. HTC is more about wowing with features than build quality. I had Sprint for 8 years before I switched to the Iphone last year. P.S. I hate ATT. I dislike Apple's arrogance but doesn't mean I don't want to use a good phone.
Talking about ipad killer check this out http://www.gadgetsdna.com/android-powered-apad-to-counter-apple-ipad-launched/2993/ Basically, China is rolling out a gadget called a-pad, :grin: , cost less than $200.
The Kno Tablet -- Courier like. Too bad that Microsoft decided to cancel the Courier. <object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/uL-2Egqc1qc?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/uL-2Egqc1qc?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object>
Antenna issue, proximity sensor, overheating/browning back of the 3GS, etc..? All phones will have reports off problems. HTC generally has a good reputation for hardware, unlike some companies like LG. Chinese KIRF's are terrible at any price.
For $132, I can make people think I own an Ipad when I travel. I am tempted. The Chinese clone doesn't look that bad for $132.
No joke. I'm loving it. I decided not to get an iPad or any of the other current similar products simply because I have no idea what I'd be doing with it that I couldn't do with my smart phone (iPhone - hopefully to be replaced in the next 2-3 months). Now everybody and their mother has a tablet coming out. iPad, Slate, Galaxy Tab, etc. On top of that, it seems there are 50 new smart phones coming out every week. Gonna be sweet when these prices fall.
It's up to you. Just make sure it works. It doesn't show the "back" and "menu", buttons you'd need for Android. Just the one "home" button from the iPad. It says it has Android 1.5, and yet it shows some pictures of Android 2.0+ and it will probably not have Google apps and the Android Market included.
What makes these devices are the application, which no way RIM can compete with the app store right now. If you want a device that does true multitasking, just get a netbook.
Oh my god this guy again. We get it, you don't know how to operate a sprint bill (I mean being that its about 20 times less paper than any other company's bills), and you are a fan of apple. But considering the fact that you have to buy a rubber bumper just for your iPhone to work properly, shouldn't you kinda shut up on that? So what happens in your world, when 99.99 percent(I beileve HTC Evo has a much lower return rate than the new iPhone - which actually has more returns than its older 3gs counterpart) of customers who have no problems with their HTC devices? What your left with is just, as you put it, Tons of great specifications. So by your own account, HTC is superior in almost all cases. Thanks for reminding us.
by the time this pad comes out, the IPAD 2 will be out. Which will have cameras and looks like they will have a 7 and 10 inch version (1st quarter of next year).
That is not how I have seen the cell phone market work recently though. When a product gets old, the price does not truly fall. It just stays at that price, because they company made so few of them that they have to make back all the development money it took to make them. The exceptions to this of course are the ones that make it big and sell well like the iPhones', Droid, etc. because their popularity means that even at a lower price the volume will make up for the price. However, even for those phones, the prices are by no means super low, just tad lower than they when they came out. I really wonder how long this market style will last with the smartphone. It is similar to the market style of the desktops about 10-15 years ago. That method sort of fizzled out a bit because most people decided not to pay so much for a new computer or realized they did not need all the new things with each iteration. However, most smartphones are such bad quality phones lifespan wise compared to the ones made even 5 years ago (forget the ones 10 years that would really last). Plus it is not like you can take apart a phone and replace the RAM or fan (or even re-install the operation system) as easily as you can on a computer, so even smaller problems end up with people getting a new phone instead of fixing what they have. Lastly, they suck you in with insane contracts and data plans that it last a while. As a result, it may take some time for the smart phone market to saturate like the desktop market appeared to do.
