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Originally Posted by Capt'n Corrupt View Post
Dan, that's AMAZING! I'm so excited for you! Way to go! I hope you really enjoy it.

Let us know how you're usage patters change as a result of having the device relative to your other devices and especially your expectations.

Great job on bypassing the Verizon registration! I bet that someone would really appreciate this information and you should submit it to a popular blog (eg. androidcentral) so that others will be able to do the same.

One thing that you may consider doing is running the one-click-lag-fix on the device. It's supposed to speed up disk IO significantly and prevent stutters that can happen on the hardware.

Other than that, let us know how it's going!
So far it's been pretty incredible. Even though it's not an AMOLED screen, it LOOKS fantastic, it seems as if the battery lasts an INCREDIBLE length of time and the gaming looks astounding. Angry Birds not only LOOKS far more fluid (videos of it running on the Tab do no justice to actually seeing it in person), it even FEELS far more fluid. Finger flicks taps feel effortless and comfortable. The strangest feeling in the world is using my Tab all day to do things, then whipping out my Motorola Droid to do other things and suddenly being struck with a strange sensation of claustrophobia that I'd not had up until then. The Droid's screen comparatively looks sharper but so, so SO much smaller and I can actually see and feel the lagging difference in speed despite the fact that I've overclocked by Droid up to run nearly the same speed. I think the Hummingbird processor in the Galaxy is definitely benefiting from the increased ARM speeds, increased RAM and cache sizes. It's very night-and-day, and the Droid is still a pretty slick moving little device. Considering that even the Droid was running circles around the N900's UI in terms of fluidity and speed, the Tab just makes everything else feel so slow and clucky.

Overall, I still have been using my Droid more for my podcasts/news but I get the sense that will change once I get a nice stand for the Galaxy--it's the only thing preventing me from pulling it out most of the time out-and-about when I want to watch news or listen to podcasts. Although, I might start doing more audio podcasts anyway, since the Tab fits PERFECTLY into my inner pockets (PERFECTLY!) of my jackets and coats, and I have a bunch of stereo bluetooth headsets. It plays unconverted videos GREAT, too.. especially MKV's, which was a little surprising.

Originally Posted by etuoyo View Post
Also did not notice any of the lag that many sites have talked about. Seemed to run buttery smooth to me. I should caveat that by saying:

1. The Tab on display did not have live wallpaper. Not sure how much having that on hinders smoothness.


2. Coming from an N900 anything will seem super smooth and responsive to you. May not feel the same way for those who have been using iphones or android phones for ages.
I've been using it now over the weekend and I didn't even know there were reports of lag and hadn't seen any lag whatsoever, myself. Did they fix is before the US release or something? Seems to run without a single hitch on my Tab. I, for the record, used a live animated wallpaper for the whole weekend and a friend of mine that I found out works in a Verizon franchise in a nearby mall was surprised at how incredibly smooth it was running with live wallpaper. As someone that has a rooted and overclocked Droid running Android 2.2.1, I can attest to it running far more 'buttery smooth' that at least that handset device.

Originally Posted by crasbelize View Post
Got my tab yesterday and it is sExy.......trying to get use to swype!

It's still no maemo 5.......the browser is weak!

Dual boot would rock!
Have you tried getting Dolphin (not the HD version, it runs slower)? I immediately removed the built-in browser as the default and Dolphin has always run far better for me.

Originally Posted by Capt'n Corrupt View Post
Very interesting! I'm curious to see how people substitute tablets for smartphones in general. I'm guessing that a 7" tab will replace smartphones 90% of the time. They're portable, and a 7" screen is much more comfortable than a 3.5".
In my case, it probably would if Verizon allowed me to make calls--which they don't.
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