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: Joel Esler <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 12:31:59 -0400
yeah, see those are the things that the "Android" people never tell you.
J
On Apr 8, 2010, at 12:26 PM, Miller, Timothy J. wrote:
> 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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