blackberry playbook worth looking at?

Post #373,226 by boxley 4/1/13 12:35:26 PM Reply	blackberry playbook worth looking at? Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 57 years. meep
Post #373,228 by pwhysall 4/1/13 1:04:12 PM Reply	Not unless it's spectacularly cheap
Post #373,232 by boxley 4/1/13 1:41:28 PM Reply	it is compared to other tablets Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 57 years. meep
Post #373,235 by Another Scott 4/1/13 2:57:30 PM Reply	I think Jake thought it was a great bargain. Search around in here for his comments. Cheers, Scott.
Post #373,248 by boxley 4/1/13 10:58:14 PM Reply	thats what started the conversation. he said wait for the new one. The new one isnt happening so wondering if the existing one is useful at $129 Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 57 years. meep
Post #373,251 by Another Scott 4/2/13 12:05:06 AM 4/2/13 6:37:13 AM Reply	There are a lot of complaints at Amazon about it. Apparently there are/were issues with it being unable to charge when the battery got to 0% and/or there are issues with the microUSB connection for charging. See the 1 and 2-start reviews. http://www.amazon.co...eviews/B004UL34EY I haven't seen anything about SSH. There were some complaints about it working poorly with Citrix. It's an orphaned product. You're taking a risk unless you know that it will work well for you. For a little bit more you can get a Nexus 7 that would likely have much better options - http://www.amazon.co...ition=refurbished (~ $180). HTH a little. Good luck. Cheers, Scott. Edited by Another Scott April 2, 2013, 06:37:13 AM EDT Expand All History
Post #373,243 by lincoln 4/1/13 3:58:49 PM Reply	Depends what you're going to do with it Can you do what you want with something cheaper? Or does this have something unique that you really want? Satan (impatiently) to Newcomer: The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here; whereas you are merely the most numerous. - - - Mark Twain ÂPuddÂnhead WilsonÂs New Calendar,Â 1897
Post #373,249 by boxley 4/1/13 10:58:56 PM Reply	websurf, email and notepad, ssh would be nice Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 57 years. meep
Post #373,253 by pwhysall 4/2/13 1:52:29 AM Reply	Get the extra few bucks together, Nexus 7.
Post #373,284 by jake123 4/2/13 7:05:42 PM Reply	Re: websurf, email and notepad, ssh would be nice I use it for all of the above, and it works fine. There's a port of putty in the app store, I believe it runs about four bucks. When I'm out and about and have to get into my production systems, it works very well using the wifi connection sharing feature of the iPhone 4 that my company provides me, along with a SIGNIFICANTLY better onscreen keyboard for use with terminals. The price is pretty awesome, and as far as I know, there will in fact be more tablets coming; they actually have the hardware and my folks in that firm tell me that they're waiting to finish backporting BB10 to the tablets to release them. The downside is that there aren't a great deal of ooh shiny apps in the app store. I'm seriously hoping that changes over the coming year; I really want there to be three or four viable options for mobile computing to prevent situations like the quintupling of OEM windows licence prices that happened after MSFT got control of the desktop.
Post #373,291 by boxley 4/2/13 9:03:20 PM Reply	thx, sounds good Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 57 years. meep
Post #373,298 by jake123 4/2/13 10:10:58 PM Reply	I should add the web browser beats the crap out of safari and dolphin, imho of course. It's very standards compliant; our web apps Just Work on it with no tweaking required. It's also the only mobile browser I've seen that handles the full facebook site with no problems... other than the fact that shit's just tiny on its screen.
Post #373,314 by Another Scott 4/3/13 10:05:34 AM Reply	If you can, you might want to wait a bit. http://www.androidpo...able-around-july/ It seems that no company can keep a secret for very long. With I/O fast approaching, Google and ASUS are in the spotlight again as details creep out about a pending refresh to the Nexus 7. According to Reuters, two undisclosed sources have leaked plans for a likely release date around July with pricing as low as $149. The tipsters also let slip that the revised tablet will be packing an unspecified Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and that Google hopes to ship 6-8 million units before the start of 2014. Rumors are often wrong, etc., etc. But if the new ones are going for as little at $149, the old ones will be even cheaper. HTH. Cheers, Scott.

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