As for PDF readers for the Android, I'd highly recommend buying the RepliGo Reader. It's a pay-for app but worth it. It has all the features you need for PDFs: Highlighting, Notes, freehand writing, bookmarks and it will actually save your modifications in native PDF format. Combine that with my dropbox account and it's been working quite nicely.<div>
<br></div><div>-- Jon Miller<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Greg Sidelinger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gate@ilive4code.net">gate@ilive4code.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I have a first gen iPad and an HP Touchpad running ICS. I love them both and honesty can't decide which I like better. Granted my Touchpad is running the community supported cyanogenmod which is alpha quality software but other than a few quicks is very stable. I still find myself going to the laptop for anything that involves much input as pecking at a screen to type anything other than a login is kind of annoying. I have never looked into getting a keyboard for either as I already have a portable computer that comes with one built in. <div>
<br></div><div>A lot of it comes down to which tablet has the better applications for it. I love GoodReader on my ipad and wish I could find a PDF reader on Android which was even close to it. I even like how I have all of my PDFs only available to just that application, no browsing an SD card to figure out where I left a file at. Granted that does mean I have multiple copies of some files on my iPad which is a trade off. And of course getting the files off the thing is next to imposible without using some kind of cloud storage.<div>
<br></div><div>One nice thing (maybe the only) about the Sony tablets is they are opening them up to their Playstation brand and putting some older playstation games out on it along with a few of their newer games. I guess you can even use your PS3 controller over bluetooth on some of them. It's mostly their feeble attempt to try and stay relevant in the new mobile gaming market where we spend less time on the dedicated consoles thanks games like angry birds.</div>
<div><br></div><div>A friend of my got the transformer prime a few weeks back and he was not having any WIFI issues.</div><div><br></div><font color="#888888"><div>Greg</div></font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><div><br>
On Saturday, March 10, 2012, Vince Herried wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
The ASUS transformer prim has had some complaints because of the metal case. GPS not so great.<br>the Prim 2 is supposed to fix that.<br><br>-------<br>Sent from anything but an apple iXXX.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Shane Zatezalo <span dir="ltr"><<a>lottadot@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Someone brought the Transformer 2 to our last NSCoder night. It was impressive, and quite fast compared to the other Android tablets that were there. If I were going to write an Android-tablet app and needed an Android tablet to test with I'd not hesitate to purchase it. That would, however, be my only use for it ATM.</div>
<div><br></div><div>We have iPad's (my wife and myself) and love them. In-fact I just ordered two of the new ones to replace ours. She uses hers for everything, hardly ever uses her laptop. I use mine for everything except writing code. If I've got to do development, graphic design, server maintenance (term/ssh), whatever, I will generally use a laptop or workstation (multi-monitors++). I find creating a lot of content on the tablets to be more difficult then a good laptop. But each iteration of tablet devices and their OS's seems to lessen that.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Shane</div><div><br>Sent from my iPad</div><div><div><div><br>On Mar 10, 2012, at 11:31 AM, Travis Hines <<a>mthines@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><p>I have the asus Transformer with the dock, and I love it. I got a heck of a deal on it for black friday last year, so I can't speak to the typical cost of them; I spent less than 400 for the tablet and dock. The transformer 2 is out as well, so I also can't speak to the availability of the original.</p>
<p>I use the tablet for web surfing, reading (love the kindle app), gaming, and some videos. I have netflix (for now) for streaming video, and upnplay to connect to my mediatomb server internally. Both work very well and I could connect the tablet to my tv if it didn't already have the same capabilities.</p>
<p>Another advantage of this tablet is the storage expansion abilities. The tablet itself has a micro SD slot to supplement the included 16GB. The dock also has an SD slot as well as two usb ports. </p>
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