HTC Flyer is it worth waiting for?

[Raptor007]

I was checking out the BB page for the HTC flyer HTC - Flyer Tablet - White - HTCFlyerP512 and when you click on estimated arrival time you get 5/22 - 5/27/11.

Given what a royal cluster it was @ BB for the ThunderBolt I am not so confident they won't screw this one up as well. Sure Verizon had a pretty good hand in it that is for sure, but a month long pre-order date with two other tablets released this week.

Acer Iconia Tablet 4/25
Acer Iconia - BestBuy

ASUS EeePad Transformer on 4/26 - http://www.androidcentral.com/asus-eee-pad-transformer.

So what do you think, do you pre-order the HTC with GB 2.4 knowing you will get HC 3.0.1 at a later date (possibly at lunch but not likely) or do you get a 10.1 Inch tablet with the same hardware specs but HC 3.0.1 that even Motorola XOOM doesn't have yet.

That is my dilemma.

 

[yapkuen]

I think the real question with the Flyer is how important 7" screen, the pen, and HTC Sense are to you. If you're dead-set on a Sense device, this is basically your only option until Sprint starts selling the Evo View, and seeing as how the View is just a re-dressed Flyer, if the Flyer gets delayed long enough, it'll affect the View as well.

If you're dead-set on the pen, your other options are to get one of those crappy capacitive styli, or wait for the Asus EEE Pad MeMO, the Wacom Bamboo Pen, or maybe that new-fangled Lenovo tablet that's been leaking onto the interwebs the past few days.

If you're dead-set on 7", well, your available options are the first-gen Galaxy Tab, the BB PlayBook (which, of course, isn't Android at all), or the Dell Streak 7. If you don't mind waiting, you can throw the Asus MeMO into the mix here as well, but again, if waiting is an option, you might as well wait on the Flyer, too.

If you want a combination of two or more of the above, the algebra gets even messier. If your heart's not set on any of them, then your playing field becomes a whole lot bigger.

 

[Raptor007]

The 7" size is pretty good for what I want it to do, I would prefer a dual core Tegra 2 processor (or dual core snapdragon) but it seems everyone is racing to get 10.1 inch tablets out the door. DELL hardware, I'm not so sure about I will have to read up on the level of rooting support there is since anything I get is going to get rooted. Stock is not for me.

The Pen is a meh, take it or leave it. I really want something for mobile media, web, news, games, movies. I already have a MBAir so I have a light weight laptop 13" screen I just want something for sitting on the couch or on the go.

 

[yapkuen]

If you're meh about the pen, it might at least be worth it to wait for the 8.9" Galaxy Tab. It's the next closest thing screen size-wise to 7", and looks pretty impressively thin.

 

[Raptor007]

I have to agree the 8.9" SGT2 would be nice, super thin etc, but Samsung just has a horrible history of not supporting their devices so I plan to just ride it out.

 

[yapkuen]

I have to agree the 8.9" SGT2 would be nice, super thin etc, but Samsung just has a horrible history of not supporting their devices so I plan to just ride it out.

Very true. Having never owned a Samsung device, I keep forgetting about the lack of support.

 

[cstambaugh]

I couldnt wait and just got a Xoom, no regrets.

 

[kinster02]

I have to agree the 8.9" SGT2 would be nice, super thin etc, but Samsung just has a horrible history of not supporting their devices so I plan to just ride it out.

I have to disagree with the Samsung history rep because they been getting supported everywhere with the exception of the US. I never had a Samsung product but that 8.9 will be my first.

 

[ShoeLvr]

is the HTC Flyer going to be from Sprint?

 

[yapkuen]

is the HTC Flyer going to be from Sprint?

WiFi-only HTC Flyer is a Best Buy exclusive in the U.S. Sprint will be releasing a 4G version under the name HTC Evo View 4G, and there are rumors that T-Mobile will also release a version with a cellular radio in it sometime this summer.