Android director says 10" tablets were overpriced and underpowered

10. dickwyn posted on 05 Nov 2012, 05:08 14 0

Nexus 10 FTW

11. frydaexiii posted on 05 Nov 2012, 05:16 9 1

Yup, unlike a certain fruit company, who sells subpar products at a premium price so it seems like the best to the rich, Google actually wants to provide the best they've got to everyone.

14. Hemlocke posted on 05 Nov 2012, 05:49 1 18

Except that the iPad blows the doors off the N10. Nice try, but the Nexus line is still second best.

23. Atrixboyyy posted on 05 Nov 2012, 06:41 6 0

Blows it out of what water the N10 has a better display then the RESOLUTIONARY display that was the main selling point besides LTE and its cheaper.

N10 is to hot for the water your iPad rests in.

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34. TheMan posted on 05 Nov 2012, 09:17 0 0

Totally missed the point. Whether it is or is not the best matters not. The goal was excellent specs at a reasonable price.

Under $400 vs $500 or more sounds like a bargain.

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40. JunitoNH posted on 05 Nov 2012, 15:00 0 0

Why the man said, Android tablets are underpowered and overpriced.

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27. moronman66 posted on 05 Nov 2012, 07:30 2 0

The resolution, processor, amount of RAM and operating system are better than that of the competition, and less expensive, but said fruit company (as much as I hate them) has brilliant marketing to those who don't even consider the competition, and people who are too lazy to do research and see that other products are better.

36. JeffdaBeat posted on 05 Nov 2012, 10:20 1 0

I cannot for the life of me understand why week harp on the fact that Apple products are expensive and Google's aren't. Apple products have ALWAYS been more expensive than their competition. Google has always had a tendency of giving products out for free or at an extremely low cost. This is not news and after over a decade, you should be tired of complaining about it.

I do agree with him though...but I still think most tablets are overpriced. I wouldn't say underpowered though. I've not had a moment when I thought...man I really can't do something I want to do because this tab doesn't have the specs.

37. networkdood posted on 05 Nov 2012, 10:40 0 0

True, look at their Macbooks...wow, why would anyone spend so much on a Macbook or Mac desktop Mac...crazy...

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19. PhenomFaz posted on 05 Nov 2012, 06:25 1 0

Nexus 10 will quite possibly be the ultimate tablet in price-performance ratios for ost part of 2013 as well

39. gallitoking posted on 05 Nov 2012, 13:56 2 0

they just want to sell more .. thats all .. there are not any different..

42. someones4 posted on 06 Nov 2012, 02:27 0 0

you mean ..like Apple?

6. Non_Sequitur posted on 05 Nov 2012, 04:32 6 4

"The 10" Android tablets didn't really provide the substance to justify the price that was asked."

Don't be a troll. Apple actually makes good powerful tablets, even if the OS is a bit old and stale. He said Android tablets, meaning the crappy, laggy, heavily skinned Galaxy Tab line and models similar. I wouldn't buy one of those to save my life. Until now, Asus was the only company making good Android tablets.
Okay, maybe with the exception of the Note 10.1. Haven't tried it to see whether or not it's good, but I hear it's good.

12. tech2 posted on 05 Nov 2012, 05:31 3 1

The statement “ the 10" Android tablets……” are not in quotes which means that is an interpretation and not a statement made by him. The next line “We felt the 10-inch category…..” are in quotes which means those are his own words and therefore referring to overall 10-inch tablets market.

Just because you think Samsung’s tablets are crappy and laggy doesn’t mean that he was pointing towards Samsung. He was clearly and only referring to 10 inch tablet’s ‘price’.

IMO I don’t think he would take a jab at Samsung who clearly have a huge market share in 10-inch android tablets.

21. spideyhead256 posted on 05 Nov 2012, 06:26 2 0

i've tried the note 10.1.thanks to crapwiz it's clunky even with that exynos inside it. -_- not for the most part but yeah the clunkyness is still there.

24. TROLL posted on 05 Nov 2012, 06:54 1 0

Well we and them and the manufactures no that Android is and was a needed a heavy hardware to push the OS, they still ignored it. Tabs should come with 3GBRAM due to once instaling Skype Tango Anti-Virus Games Task killers calenders widgets. Each of those apps take up 30MB of RAM, leaving you with just 100MB for browsing, when opening 2 pages, Ram drops to 50MB and then starts to lag. How stupid of them to provide with 1GB RAM.

31. g2a5b0e posted on 05 Nov 2012, 08:58 1 3

Do you ever talk about anything besides specs, man? They aren't everything. Get over it.

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41. lsutigers posted on 05 Nov 2012, 19:06 0 0

Sony makes good tablets too, the original Tablet S and new Xperia Tablet S are nice Android tablets.

5. No_Nonsense posted on 05 Nov 2012, 04:29 1 0

Er, all android tablets except Nexus ones (specially the ones we get in India) are POS.

8. eisenbricher posted on 05 Nov 2012, 04:40 1 1

Same here, desperately searching for a cost effective, good tab but no luck. No Nexus tabs here..

9. No_Nonsense posted on 05 Nov 2012, 05:04 3 2

The only fairly decent tablet is the iPad, irrespective of whatever. No surface, no Nexus tabs. WTF

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15. Aeires (unregistered) posted on 05 Nov 2012, 05:53 3 0

My Transformer disagrees.

25. No_Nonsense posted on 05 Nov 2012, 07:03 2 0

I haven't seen it in person and don't think its available here (officially at least).

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17. spideyhead256 posted on 05 Nov 2012, 06:23 0 0

agreed.but we don't get any nexus products here anyways :P gotta order from ebay.

38. toyds123 posted on 05 Nov 2012, 13:03 0 0

Hmm, I think if its vanilla android it runs better. I have seen galaxy tabs and man they are slow. However, I have an HP Touchpad with official cm9 and it runs really fast. I was surprised that it was really snappy. Way faster than the Gtab 10.1 I tried. I can even play NFS most wanted without lag considering it has an old S3 processor. I think that's why the nexus line up has always performed well.

35. taz89 posted on 05 Nov 2012, 09:37 0 0

compared to other tablets its still alot cheaper...my guess is they maybe selling the 16gb at cost and with the 32gb they are making enough margins to cover for both the 16 and 32gb models...personally i think even $50 dollars is alot to just double your storage considering you can a 64gb sd card for that price but the n10 is still priced well compared to other tablets ie 16gb ipad is 499 where as a 32gb n10 is 499..i wouldnt be surprised if in the future the n10 32gb becomes 449 and a 64gb version gets announced for 499.

18. someones4 posted on 05 Nov 2012, 06:23 0 0

I agreed with half your comment :P

22. Nikolas.Oliver posted on 05 Nov 2012, 06:26 0 2

i feel pity for rim !

26. No_Nonsense posted on 05 Nov 2012, 07:05 0 0

Finally, that's a great comment from you.

29. Nikolas.Oliver posted on 05 Nov 2012, 08:17 0 0

am i ? i always post great comment though it's kinda rude somtimes xD

30. No_Nonsense posted on 05 Nov 2012, 08:22 0 0

If you could get over with bashing RIM every time.

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33. Nikolas.Oliver posted on 05 Nov 2012, 09:01 0 0

Im always saying the truth and fact, thats all nothing more, bb is a dying company

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