RE: [Fed-Talk] First Hands with iPad and Reality Check
RE: [Fed-Talk] First Hands with iPad and Reality Check
- Subject: RE: [Fed-Talk] First Hands with iPad and Reality Check
- From: "Miller, Timothy J." <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 12:26:15 -0400
- Acceptlanguage: en-US
- Thread-topic: [Fed-Talk] First Hands with iPad and Reality Check
I have multitasking on my Android phone, and let me tell you it's more trouble than it's worth. There's no frustration like finding your phone battery dead because a background thread blocked it from going to sleep when you told it to.
-- Tim
>-----Original Message-----
>From: fed-talk-bounces+tmiller=email@hidden [mailto:fed-
>talk-bounces+tmiller=email@hidden] On Behalf Of Todd
>Heberlein
>Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 2:19 PM
>To: Kim, Andy (Gregg)
>Cc: email@hidden
>Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] First Hands with iPad and Reality Check
>
> No Camera, no Multitasking GPS on 3G Models only, and Video
>Limitations.
>
>
>
>I heard the following the other day: "The sentence isn't done until no
>more words can be removed." Apple in general and Jobs in particular are
>relentless about removing things from products, slides in presentations,
>and even emails. The Zen philosophy of minimalism thrives there.
>
>Whether you are a supporter or not of that philosophy, sometimes it is
>hard to argue with the simple logic of their decisions. Below is some
>text from a review of the JooJoo. After reading the article, I find it
>difficult to complain too much about the lack of Flash on the
>iPhone/iPad. Maybe someday Adobe will get it working better, but on CPU
>and battery constrained devices it isn't a very good choice right now.
>
>
>Fusion Garage JooJoo review
>http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/fusion-garage-joojoo-review/
>...
>But what about Flash? This is supposed to be the big differentiator,
>right? The iPad killer! In an interesting move, Fusion Garage coupled
>the Atom processor with NVIDIA's Ion graphics to aid in playing full
>screen Flash video (or for doing... something). Unfortunately, the
>software just isn't there yet. Currently the device is running Flash
>10.1 beta 1, and won't have hardware-accelerated Flash video for a good
>while now (the timing is partly reliant on Adobe support, and is
>labelled as a "work in progress" by JooJoo). That means some regular-
>sized YouTube and Hulu works, as decoded by the CPU, but full screen
>Hulu is jittery, and a 720p YouTube clip is like watching a slideshow.
>In one of the biggest moves of irony, JooJoo has actually implemented a
>hack for YouTube where you can view a video in Flash or in "JooJoo" mode
>which is a straight playback of the MPEG video file every YouTube video
>harbors. What does this remind us of? HTML 5, albeit with a less elegant
>implementation. This of course only works on YouTube right now, though
>JooJoo says it plans on supporting other sites in the future. Watch the
>video below for yourselves to see all this Flash tragedy play out.
>
>The worst part about the Atom / Ion combo is that it results in those
>original issues we had when wereviewed all those Ion netbooks. First, it
>causes the entire tablet to get quite warm (especially when playing
>Flash video) and then it murders its battery life. The JooJoo's
>integrated three-cell battery repeatedly lasted 2.5 hours (just as we
>predicted!) during our moderate use, which included surfing the Web and
>playing short videos. JooJoo claims you can get 5 hours if you avoid
>Flash entirely, but that sort of defeats the purpose, right?
>...
>
>
>Todd
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