Just bought this

[N2CHX]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/321011997013...84.m1497.l2649

Not sure if I got a good deal or not. I'm not really interested in it as something to play with, really. It's going to be for developing apps on something other than the Droid 1 and Droid 2 and the emulators I already have. I've been wanting to develop some things for tablets but haven't wanted to spend the money until now. I've proven to myself I can write an app that people will actually download and use, so...

Anyway, the tablet emulator is so freakin' slow it's painful. Like, practically unusable. So it's either upgrade this laptop to something a LOT faster (It's a Toshiba Satellite 2.1 gHz with 6 GB of RAM and 512 MB of video RAM so a significant upgrade would be pricey!) or simply buy a relatively inexpensive tablet to test the apps on. For about $100, I opted for the tablet. There are a lot of things you can't do with the emulator anyway.

[KG4CGC]

Wait. What?

[N2CHX]

Wait. What?

Wait, what, what?

[KG4CGC]

Wait, what, what?

My brain is slowing down. I'm trying to read what you're doing but it isn't getting through.
What? Tell me more about this device. Too.

[N2CHX]

My brain is slowing down. I'm trying to read what you're doing but it isn't getting through.
What? Tell me more about this device. Too.

LOL sorry. I write Android apps. I made a LOT of money writing software in the past, mostly Windows software. I gave up on commercial apps after Vista came out. Usually what I wrote stemmed from a need that some radio station or stations had. After Vista, most of my tools were useless and I wasn't about to re-learn everything and spend all the money on development tools all over again. Microsoft pissed me off enough that I just gave it up. I've written a lot of stuff using LAMP, but only a couple of things I sold for money.

Since the advent of smartphones, I've become interested in programming again. So a number of months ago I set about learning Java, which really isn't all that different from C and even PHP, really. I wrote a simple little app that I put up on Google Play a few months ago just to see how it did, and people actually use it. So now I'm getting quite serious about writing some great apps for Android. People who bought my Windows software loved it because even if there was a similar application out there, I always tried very hard to make mine better and easier to use. I even sold software to PBS and a few universities. One of the PHP-based systems specifically written for a top-rated news outlet I wrote more recently, I was told it was absolutely the best system that he had ever used, by one very seasoned news guy. That's another project I'm actually working on porting over to market to other stations as well.

Anyway, what I bought was an Android based tablet PC. With the development platform I use for Android, my choices are to use one of the two actual Droid phones I have that do not have service activated on them presently (both have issues and were replaced but they're good for connecting via USB and testing software on) or use a software emulator. The Droid screen is way too small for a couple of the newer apps I want to work on and the emulator is just so damn slow I can't work with it. So I bought the tablet to test software on.

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LOL sorry. I write Android apps. I made a LOT of money writing software in the past, mostly Windows software. I gave up on commercial apps after Vista came out. Usually what I wrote stemmed from a need that some radio station or stations had. After Vista, most of my tools were useless and I wasn't about to re-learn everything and spend all the money on development tools all over again. Microsoft pissed me off enough that I just gave it up. I've written a lot of stuff using LAMP, but only a couple of things I sold for money.

Since the advent of smartphones, I've become interested in programming again. So a number of months ago I set about learning Java, which really isn't all that different from C and even PHP, really. I wrote a simple little app that I put up on Google Play a few months ago just to see how it did, and people actually use it. So now I'm getting quite serious about writing some great apps for Android. People who bought my Windows software loved it because even if there was a similar application out there, I always tried very hard to make mine better and easier to use. I even sold software to PBS and a few universities. One of the PHP-based systems specifically written for a top-rated news outlet I wrote more recently, I was told it was absolutely the best system that he had ever used, by one very seasoned news guy. That's another project I'm actually working on porting over to market to other stations as well.

Anyway, what I bought was an Android based tablet PC. With the development platform I use for Android, my choices are to use one of the two actual Droid phones I have that do not have service activated on them presently (both have issues and were replaced but they're good for connecting via USB and testing software on) or use a software emulator. The Droid screen is way too small for a couple of the newer apps I want to work on and the emulator is just so damn slow I can't work with it. So I bought the tablet to test software on.

Congratulations Kelli!

You just won the island award.

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How to Write Killer Apps for Dummies

[NY3V]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/321011997013...84.m1497.l2649

Not sure if I got a good deal or not. I'm not really interested in it as something to play with, really. It's going to be for developing apps on something other than the Droid 1 and Droid 2 and the emulators I already have. I've been wanting to develop some things for tablets but haven't wanted to spend the money until now. I've proven to myself I can write an app that people will actually download and use, so...

Anyway, the tablet emulator is so freakin' slow it's painful. Like, practically unusable. So it's either upgrade this laptop to something a LOT faster (It's a Toshiba Satellite 2.1 gHz with 6 GB of RAM and 512 MB of video RAM so a significant upgrade would be pricey!) or simply buy a relatively inexpensive tablet to test the apps on. For about $100, I opted for the tablet. There are a lot of things you can't do with the emulator anyway.

Kool! You only paid $8.00 more than the lowest buyer >>> http://www.ebay.com/itm/PiPO-Smart-S...item337d50f294

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Well, I just got the new tablet. It's cute. Light, fast, and seems to work well. Problem is, it's so new, there are no drivers for Linux yet. So trying to use it for testing apps is going to be tedious until a driver is created. >sigh< Always something.

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Well, I just got the new tablet. It's cute. Light, fast, and seems to work well. Problem is, it's so new, there are no drivers for Linux yet. So trying to use it for testing apps is going to be tedious until a driver is created. >sigh< Always something.

A few years ago I was getting into Assembly programming on various architectures as well as hacking and creating Linux drivers. A few times I modified driver source code to woork with other devices. Wish i could help here but haven't done it in a long time and my skills are rusty. Just another thing to brush up on but not enough hours in the days..

[KC9ECI]

Great review!


Kelli, do you think it would make a good tablet for an 11 year old? We got one for the youngest last year and she had it for a short while when it met with a tragic end. She got a 2nd one when she had saved enough money to buy her own, but the earnings capacity of a 10 year old meant she got a cheap one that won't even play angry birds. I was...I mean Santa was thinking of getting her something better for Christmas.