Anyone else pick up a Xyboard?
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The 8.9 batter life is quite a bit better. It is a substantially larger battery (6100mAh vs 3960 mAh) than the moto and it is just a little larger. Samsung estimates 9 hours for the 8.9. I can tell you that I get the estimated life out of my 10.1 (9 hours). Moto estimates the 8.2 at 6 hours and that is simply not accurate. What I consider general use - twitter, facebook, web browsing, youtube, new apps, kindle app all at 25% screen brightness will kill this thing in 5 hours.
Moto flat out gave this too small a battery for such a powerful tablet and great display. Just as simple as that. Hell, their new razr maxx a 3300 mAh battery - nearly what this has in it.
I can accept 5 hours for a laptop. I can accept 5 hours for current 4G big screen phone of heavy use. I can accept 5 hours for a portable DVD player (not that anyone uses those). But to me, very big battery life is a key asset to a tablet.
Sorry, I got confused, but I'm only interested in Lte tablets and didn't know the Sammy had Lte (carrier). Lte does eat batteries for lunch. Is the 8.9 a carrier tablet in the US?
Btw, I had a Samsung 7 tab and it was a poor experience, Samsung just gave birth and walked away, so with that bad experience I may never buy another Samsung product again!
Btw, I had a Samsung 7 tab and it was a poor experience, Samsung just gave birth and walked away, so with that bad experience I may never buy another Samsung product again!
CA:
+1 on the samsung comment. I got my wife the first Tab on Verizon Dec of 2010 when she started Chemo. it was the only non apple option out. You are dead on about they giving birth and then walking away. ugh. This is an issue with Android devices that has to change. My HTC thunderbolt, which was the flagship phone on Verizon for about a week (after a lot of hype) has been a turd and HTC and Verizon acted like it was a 2 year old phone about a month later. 2 months of a bad reboot problem, etc. I hate HTC because of this.
These companies need to make fewer items and make them better. We are now far enough into Android that you are getting repeat customers . . . so what you did last time can now bite you.
That weighed on my mind when I got my sam 10.1 but i still got it. It has been good, it is just a bit larger than i would like. I think I will keep it for now. Just cannot justify the loss of selling it to buy an 8.9. That would be a loss of money to me to get a bit smaller tablet. I thought the 8.2 moto would be perfect and I think it is close. But as I said, the battery life is not up to what I think is good enough. But that is personal.
It will go back tomorrow - but after using it some more I also think the resolution is too high for its side. For some things it is so beautiful, but for some things it makes images and text just too small. One example is Google currents. I use this as my main rss feed reader. One thing I enjoy is damnyouautocorrect. In currents it shows 1 larger and 4 smaller 'post' from the site. On my sam 10.1 I can read the image on the smaller ones. On the Moto 8.2 I cannot not. But I am 40, so my eyes are not as good as some.
+1 on the samsung comment. I got my wife the first Tab on Verizon Dec of 2010 when she started Chemo. it was the only non apple option out. You are dead on about they giving birth and then walking away. ugh. This is an issue with Android devices that has to change. My HTC thunderbolt, which was the flagship phone on Verizon for about a week (after a lot of hype) has been a turd and HTC and Verizon acted like it was a 2 year old phone about a month later. 2 months of a bad reboot problem, etc. I hate HTC because of this.
These companies need to make fewer items and make them better. We are now far enough into Android that you are getting repeat customers . . . so what you did last time can now bite you.
That weighed on my mind when I got my sam 10.1 but i still got it. It has been good, it is just a bit larger than i would like. I think I will keep it for now. Just cannot justify the loss of selling it to buy an 8.9. That would be a loss of money to me to get a bit smaller tablet. I thought the 8.2 moto would be perfect and I think it is close. But as I said, the battery life is not up to what I think is good enough. But that is personal.
It will go back tomorrow - but after using it some more I also think the resolution is too high for its side. For some things it is so beautiful, but for some things it makes images and text just too small. One example is Google currents. I use this as my main rss feed reader. One thing I enjoy is damnyouautocorrect. In currents it shows 1 larger and 4 smaller 'post' from the site. On my sam 10.1 I can read the image on the smaller ones. On the Moto 8.2 I cannot not. But I am 40, so my eyes are not as good as some.
I am currently a Xoom 32GB wifi model owner, and I am considering getting a Xyboard 8.2 wifi model. I am not surprised to hear that the LTE version has poor battery life, but to be clear, does the wifi version also have battery issues?
As far as the lockups go, it's often caused by apps, so it can be address to some degree. I like the idea of a smaller tablet than the 10.1" device I currently use, and I prefer the resolution of this device compared to that of the Galaxy Tab Plus.
As far as the lockups go, it's often caused by apps, so it can be address to some degree. I like the idea of a smaller tablet than the 10.1" device I currently use, and I prefer the resolution of this device compared to that of the Galaxy Tab Plus.
Yea, I can now thumb type with the tablet between my hands/fingers, about as fast as I can type on my laptop!
Thats saying a lot, phones are too tiny and a 10 inch tablet is too wide, for me at least.
Thats saying a lot, phones are too tiny and a 10 inch tablet is too wide, for me at least.
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