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Originally Posted by lemmyslender View Post
Well, I was hoping to get a new tablet by the end of the summer, and being a fan of the 7" size, I'm getting a little disappointed.

My favorite, the Asus MeMo looks to be delayed, perhaps permanently.

The Acer Iconia 100 looks to be a nice tablet, reasonably priced, but they skimped on the battery. If they could have made the battery life on par with the 10" tablets, I'd have bought one already. My biggest complaint about my current tablet is battery life.

The HTC Flyer is another great tablet, has a pen feature, decent battery. The price seems pretty steep though. Also, it's running 2.3, although 3.2 has been promised, but I'm oddly a little reluctant to buy based on promises. The 10" HTC tablet won't be out until October, so I doubt there'll be any price drops or 3.2 goodness until sometime after that.

So, I've been re-thinking my desire for a 7" tablet. Mostly, I like the portability of the size. However, in using my current 7" S7, that portability hasn't really come into play more than a couple times. I'm also starting to think that the 7" tablets will be stuck forever in-between. Apps will either be phone sized, and look a little stretched or skewed, or be 10" tablet sized, and look a little cramped. Due to relative availability, I doubt many developers will target the 7" size.

That said, a 10" tablet might be the best choice in the long run. I'm leaning towards the Transformer, as it seems to be the best value currently, has an optional keyboard, and Asus seems to be on the ball with updates. I know there are supposed to be some quad-cores out in the next couple months, but I'm starting to suspect that they won't really be available until the end of November at the earliest, if then.

Any thoughts? Sorry for such a long post.
I sincerely doubt that "developers will [not] target the 7" size"... especially since they generally aren't supposed to be targeting a specific size screen--but even if they did, there are a plethora of 7-inch tablets that they would be neglecting if they did--and as the owner of one such said device, I'm rarely (VERY rarely.. very) encountering any problems with the size of my device running apps.
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