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	danramos	2011-06-29 , 08:13
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Originally Posted by H3llb0und

I rooted my Transformer and installed ROM PRIME! 1.5 yesterday.

This thing is smooth!!! And it's not even overclocked... yet

Hate.

Originally Posted by railroadmaster

Well design is a matter of personal taste and preference, but personally I thinks its gorgeous. Unlike the Galaxy tab the HTC Flyer isn't made of cheap plastic it made of very durable aluminium and it gives the device a professional feeling rather than feeling like a cheap toy like the Galaxy Tab and Archos tablets do with their thin plastic design, sure the aluminum ads a good deal of heft and weight but the heft and weight gives the device a feeling of quality. The interface is nice and unlike the Galaxy Tab it doesn't look so cartoonish and it isn't laggy at all and if you want LauncherPro just install it. The average user will appreciate the HTC Flyer more because it's firmware isn't as buggy as that Samsung's is. Also about Honeycomb, I tried several Honeycomb tablets at Staples and they all crashed on me and the HTC Flyer when I tried it out didn't crash on me once. HTC quotes the battery life of the HTC flyer s 6 hours when it actually get 8-10 hours of battery life which is excellent for any kind of mobile device. I'm not going to get the HTC flyer quite yet but I will save up for it and by the time I'm done saving for it, the device will be much cheaper and there will be other interesting devices like the Sony S2.

I prefer the "cheap" plastic feel as long as it is durable in practice and well built. So far, I've dropped my Galaxy Tab a LOT LOT more than I'd normally like to admit and most people don't even realize it until I point out the barely noticeable nicks on the rounded edges of the device from all the drops. So far, so good! I'd rather have something VERY lightweight with malleable durability than something heavy and more likely to transfer the shock to internal components. But, as you pointed out, that's my preference.. and I'm THANKFUL for the Android ecosystem where we can each get what we want instead of the one-device-a-year (or worse) that I've had to endure with Maemo so far. (Can you feel the disappointment over wasted opportunity?) On the cartoonishly large icons/fonts--I agree. Although, I've fixed that by adjusting the ro.sf.lcd_density property in my /system/build.prop file to 180 (which makes it REALLY attractive and useful). I'm not sure why Samsung preferred to goof it all up at 240. Stupid, but thankfully easy to fix on ANY Android device. For that matter, LauncherPro has always worked on my Galaxy Tab--even in default firmware, even before rooting. I'm not sure where LauncherPro is an argument point for or against either device. Buggy--I'll give it to you there, though, at least on Android 2.2. It's incredible that Samsung isn't updating the firmware on their devices more often. Motorola is ALWAYS updating/fixing their devices, to their credit. I always liked it when I got updates that made things better/faster/more reliable on my Android and they're STILL doing as much on the Xoom (even though I'm not a fan of the Xoom hardware).

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