Re: bunanson wants to buy viewsonic gtablet $260 shipped; any advice?
 

Is Tegra 2 Nvidia something good to have? Every tablet are advertise about it, and I have no idea what so good about it, lol.

and the viewsonic tablet has ambien light sensor, just like the N900

bun

Re: bunanson wants to buy viewsonic gtablet $260 shipped; any advice?
 

Are you sure your LG Optimus V could provide infrastructure mode WiFi hotspot? Most phones can only provide ad hoc WiFi hotspot due to hardware limitation. The default G-Tablet cannot connect to ad hoc mode WiFi hotspot without a fight, so you must make sure your phone can do that. (I'd definitely go buying an Optimus if it can do that)

IMHO 7" has better form factor than 10" tablet, as such it can be slip into the inner pocket of my suit. Again, stock android cannot connect to ad hoc wifi, has no bluetooh-PAN profile. You need to research a bit to get it tethering to your phone. Otherwise, you'd better get the 3G version (if available) and plug your sim in it.

Re: bunanson wants to buy viewsonic gtablet $260 shipped; any advice?
 

LG Optimus V can provide wifi hotspot for the android 2.2 tablet. I just tried it, it connects in seconds and surfs the internet, the optimus has 3G connection from sprint and provided the wifi hotspot for the android tablet. How can one tell whether this is infrastructure or ad hoc hotspot?

bun

Re: bunanson wants to buy viewsonic gtablet $260 shipped; any advice?
 

The Hotspot app should tell you. Otherwise, check the WiFi connection with a PC.

Re: bunanson wants to buy viewsonic gtablet $260 shipped; any advice?
 

Most complaint about the viewpad7 is the cpu clocked at 600 MHz would be very slow. Can one overclock it?

bun

Re: bunanson wants to buy viewsonic gtablet $260 shipped; any advice?
 

@bun:

I wrote about the really subpar screen here:

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...&page=250#2500

On the next page (if your tmo view preferences are still at the default 10 posts per page), there's mention of the dock as well. It's worth getting the dock, if you plan to use it.

Re: bunanson wants to buy viewsonic gtablet $260 shipped; any advice?
 

I might use the wrong term :). But if you see the screen at different angle. The color is "out". Really "ugly". You wont be able to read or watch video.

You can only see the screen at "1 angle" if not mistaken 90 degree, any other angle, you will not be able to view it.

From processor point of view -> Tegra 2, so no complaints.
The only problem is the "Screen". Thats all :).

Re: bunanson wants to buy viewsonic gtablet $260 shipped; any advice?
 

I would suggest http://www.slatedroid.com/ for getting some helpful info about android tablets. I currently use a Pandigital PDN which is nice, got it for $115 and it does everything I want. Pandigital just released "Planet" tablet which seems to be getting positive response.

Re: bunanson wants to buy viewsonic gtablet $260 shipped; any advice?
 

I have a g tablet (10") since a couple of months, running Cryanogen Mod 7.03. It replaced my faithfull N900 for casual browsing and a lot of my ever-important time-wasting activities.

On the other hand, it looks like there's no Linux installation available yet. I'd like to run Meego or Natty on it, to make it a useful tool (for mindmapping, OpenOffice, etc.) People have documented some attempts, but it doesn't seem stable...

Re: bunanson wants to buy viewsonic gtablet $260 shipped; any advice?
 

BTW, if you can wait you could consider this: http://www.huaweidevice.com/resource...FcgCHAods3krMw