[Tfug] OT: Android tablet display size

[Leo Przybylski]

Until recently even the iPad did not have the greatest pixel density. It
was pretty close to 800x600 on a 7". Still, most 7" tablets have at least
1024x600. High end tablets get at least 1280x720.

What you really care about though is some kind of pixel density comparison.
I think there should be something like that for tablets.

Leo
On Apr 6, 2012 7:09 AM, "John Gruenenfelder" <jetpackjohn at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I hope you don't mind the OT tablet question, but people on this list are
> quite technical and I'm sure more than a few have a tablet.
>
> I found a really good deal on a Skypad Alpha 2 tablet.  Looking at the
> specs, it's pretty good.  Roughly on par with my Droid 3 phone, except with
> a single core CPU and less built-in storage space.
>
> I'm mostly wondering about the display.  It has a 7" 800x600 display.
> That's really close to my phone except physically larger.  The problem is
> that I don't really have any experience with tablets.  Is this a reasonable
> size?  Will Android do the right thing and scale the visuals so that I can,
> for example, fit more on the tablet's home screen than I can on the phone?
> If it matters, it comes with Android 2.3 and there is an Android 4.0 update
> already available.
>
> The sale price is $125, so obviously I'm not expecting all the bells and
> whistles of, say, a Galaxy tablet or an iPad.  If anybody else is
> interested, I found the deal on Google Offers and it's good until the end
> of today:
>
>
> https://www.google.com/offers/home?st=!details%2F3da7dafd22a581aa%2FKTSKM72JMNCI3XNL&utm_source=social&utm_medium=soc-hub&utm_campaign=gplus&utm_content=KTSKM72JMNCI3XNL#!details/3da7dafd22a581aa/KTSKM72JMNCI3XNL
>
> My only major complaint with the specs is that they left out Bluetooth
> support and I actually have a few BT devices I like to use.  Maybe somebody
> on TFUG knows the answer...  is it possible to use a USB Bluetooth dongle
> with an Android device?  Clearly, if it was just Linux the answer would be
> yes, but Android uses a heavily modified Linux base.
>
> --John Gruenenfelder
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