They're jealous....

Every other tablet could be 10 times better but the iPad will still out sell them because of all the Apple sheep!

I wrote about these specs ages ago didn't I? Yh I did, But I guess this has a price...

"They're jealous...." of our amazing Android tablets. ;P

I really like this, I like that its Android, so I can get widgets and custom ROMs.

If the iPad ran proper OS X, nothing would stop me buying it. I just don't have a hole in my life for an oversized iPod

Well, here's an up to date demonstration:

http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/23/new-galaxy-tab-video-offers-thorough-overview-glimpse-of-starry/

I think it's doing pretty well. Much better than in the last presentation. Now, only if they can get that pricing right... Please don't make it $849.99 off-contract. That would seriously suck!

No Android tablet will beat the iPad.

There's more to a computing device than being able to interface with every piece of hardware imaginable. iOS' UX is so vastly superior to anything else on the market that no one stands a chance.

The only people who will buy Android tablets are people who:
a. Only want it because it isn't by Apple.
b. Still think that Android is better because it's "open".
c. Store media on SD cards.

C is not a reason by any means to buy any Android tablet over the iPad. The only reasonable use for SD cards is as a storage device in photography. Lots of computers can't even interface with SD without additional hardware.

Apple's marketing prowess will help, but in the end, the iPad is much more well thought out. It's been rigorously developed for years, whereas the competition is trying to catch up by cutting extraordinarily important corners and packing in low-quality hardware features like SD card and USB interface ports that, quite frankly, 99% of consumers don't need.

How many "iPhone killers" do we see every year? Constant promises of something truly better than the iPhone are something I'm sure many people are familiar with, but to date, there has been no iPhone killer. Apple is years ahead of the competition with the iPhone, and other manufacturers are following a similar path: add fringe features and cut corners to get a product that has something the iPhone doesn't, but neglect to compete with everything the iPhone already has.

And for those of you who are about to point out that Android is selling more than the iPhone, keep in mind that the iPhone is a single phone on a single carrier. Android is an operating system that can be mercilessly packed into all sorts of different mobile devices and loaded with proprietary bulk to no end. Part of the attraction of Apple's iOS-based devices is that you only need to make one decision when buying: how much storage you need. There's only one phone, there's only one tablet, and while it may not appeal to radical fringe users who need to madly swap out SD cards of pirated movies to watch on their devices (although with their battery life, they can barely get through one or two), they work for normal people who want a phone or tablet that works.

Apple provides a single phone and a single tablet, both of which have elegant software and hardware. The fragmentation of Android and the low-quality build of many devices it's installed on causes an infamiliarity between devices, and ultimately, and incosistent user experience that leaves users longing for something that just works.

Lay off the Apple Kool Aid. mmkay?

I take it that you never used a EVO before

I think it's the opposite. What Apple does is take existing features, rename them and tout them as "Magical" & "Revolutionary".


But I still <3 Apple.

I clearly take that tablet over an iPad. That said, it does not change my general attitude towards tablet devices since they try to fill a niche which simply does not exist in my life. And shelling out 600-800 bucks for a tablet seems just not rational when you can get a nice subnotebook for the same price which has the same capabilities of the tablet plus more.

I watched the video and the back of this tablet kinda reminded me of the white iPhone 4. And since it is small enough to fit in one (male) hand and can do phone calls you actually could use it the same way as an iPhone and make a fool out of yourself in public. This is at least something.

So using that thought process, the PlayStation Move and Kinect are the same too? Sony And Microsoft fumbling to catch up with the Wii while cutting corners?

Maybe so, but you cant define a product without being on both sides of the table and taking everything into consideration.

Just buy what you want and be hush and bout it, whats so hard about that? If you don't like the Android products, don't buy them. You can debate about them, but you never have the right to tell others what is the right choice of action and what is better.

Some people just don't want an iPad, is that SOOO hard to understand?

How about they want camera's? Maybe they want android? Maybe they want a smaller device then the iPad? Maybe they want actual expandable memory, who the hell knows.

They buy what they want. Apple aren't the yardstick in everything you know either, and even if they are, it still doesn't mean you have to buy there devices, some people like to spice their life's up by, buying other products other then from Apple! *Gasp* other products? My thats an unthinkable thought

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Yh, who knew Video calls where around since the 2000's?

No-one at WWDC by the looks of it...

Apple knows what they're doing. Look at their stocks right now.

The EVO doesn't know what it is. It's clearly too large to be a reasonable phone, but doesn't have enough screen real estate to be a tablet. HTC didn't think it through, and just wanted to get a device that no one else had made (or thought to make) out there.

What Apple does is elegantly implement features they think make sense. They have a good sense of what makes a device desirable.