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So... for $99, this is a steal.. but I have to say I'm already being tempted to sell it for an android tablet... which sadly, I don't have yet. I'm thinking a nook color would be a good place to start given the support, hackability and size.
BUT
I'd LOVE to hang on to the touchpad but with WebOS seemingly going the way of the dodo bird I don't have much hope in the way of app support.
So... give me some creative and useful ideas... how are you using your touchpad aside from the obvious websurfing and book reading?
I don't have mine yet.. so ARE there any killer apps on it that i'm just not aware of yet?
Im using it for its single most intended and greatest function..
Reading XDA and [H]ardforums on the crapper..
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lol
thinking of using it as a universal remote, add an IR dongle and it would end up being cheaper almost all remotes, and it will have 10 times the functionality
I have an Advent Vega, a ASUS Transformer and now a touchpad. I would say the touchpad compares nicely with the transformer. If you paid ~£89 for it (as I did) I wouldn't sell, it really is quite functional, and that is assuming it never gets a port of HC/ICS.
Personally I'd use it for the same sort of things I use my TF101 for, that is web browsing/RSS viewing/Facebook/Twitter/PDFs/Ebooks/Video/Music on a big lovely screen
I had a nook color. It was okay. The touchpad is about a million times more functional. It has so much horsepower that it simply doesn't slow down (after a few tweaks). It runs flash and HTML5 with ease that the lack of apps is solved by using web apps. I can definitely see myself skipping Android and keeping WebOS in the future...
Porn
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Porn
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God dammit! That was my line.
I use it for porn as well. What else is it good for? Porn on a 4" screen isn't cutting it for me anymore.
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School, way lighter than a laptop and faster then a netbook. do you know how easy it is to have the assignment, research, or random web page laying next to the paper you are writing on? Well worth the money even if android doesn't get ported.
I will buy it if you can't figure out a creative use for it.
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Desk clock.
Use it for my business. Most of my business apps I use are web base.
as a Kindle for my daughter, she loves it.
I actually have had a Nook Color for a while myself. The Touchpad is still trying to update, but performance-wise they seem pretty similar actually (the NC is overclocked). The bigger screen is nice, and I really really am liking WebOS, at least just from a spit-and-polish perspective.
So far the Touchpad is destined to be a radio in the kitchen, and probably a recipe machine, along with maybe a calendar/weatherman. We'll see I guess. I also have some PDFs I need to read which *just* don't fit well on the NC. I wish it could do netflix or hulu to open up its potential as a media center.
So, I got to play with this at best buy and I must admit, if I had 300$ to spend I might have left 300$ there at best buy and walked out with it.
This tablet was the most fun I've ever had playing on a tablet. I wasn't impressed by ipad, the galaxy s tab was cool, but not really "eye catching" in terms of being worth the price..
This sucker was smooth though.. it ran really, really smoothly. It was probably one of the coolest things I've seen.
The weird part is that I really had trouble finding a logical use for the pen. It is always nice to get more for what your purchase, but I am having trouble finding practical uses for it. I am sure if I got one I would think of more uses after the fact.
A few times I've used it to take notes. But mostly, I use it to show my friends how much better my tablet is compared to theirs. I think the latter is what HTC was going for.
I use it to quickly mark up power points and presentation notes when I do reviews at work.
So far I haven't found a use for it. Taking notes on the tablet does not appeal to me nor does drawing on screenshots.
I use it whenever I need a paper to write something on. Paperless for me. Only print it out when I really need it. Environmental friendly as well
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I use it to takes notes in my classes. I find the notes mobile app much easier to take notes with compared to the HTC notes app. Plus with honeycomb you can use the pen all throughout the tablet as apposed to only taking screenshots on gingerbread
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I use it @ work (IT) for taking notes, since we are trying to go "green" in the office, it's my "see here ya go I'm going green"...and hopefully this means that work will reimburse me for it.
I never even thought about the possibilities involving roms.
Could be loads of fun.
Hm... wonder if ICS will have anything special for pen based tabs...
I design and manufacture parts for the auto racing industry.
I use the Flyers camera to take a photo of the area I’m working on then, note the dimension on the pic with the pen.
If need be I can take several shots from different angles.
I then return to my workstation’s cad program and I have all my info at hand.
It really helps me to visualize the part I’m working on.
For making a usable quick sketch and markups. I was surprised how much I started to markup screen shots of Web pages once I got used to the idea.
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I got the pen just because it was on sale for 39.99 and I had a 10 dollar reward certificate. I'm not really sure how much I'll use it but hope with the upgrade it'll be more useful.
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Make notes when reading eBooks.
Take a picture of office maps (fire routes work great) then mark them up for new network drops and whatnot.
I've started using it in place of anything I'd have used a paper notepad for. Extra cool that the notes are ocr'd and searchable.
Maybe one day I'll get around to drawing up plot diagrams, creating story arcs, and writing a book... Too busy for that right now though.
I use it to take notes. My daughter uses it for notes and to annotate her books for her English class using the reader that came installed on the flyer.
Everything. I am a recruiter for a consulting firm and take notes on my conversations with candidates - been using evernote for a few years so its a virtual database of people now. Also in grad school and use it to mark up powerpoints and sometimes record audio or the cam to capture diagrams on whiteboards. Used it at a family get together to find a pizza place with Google maps, pull up the menu, and write down (on the menu screenshot) our complete order - easily placed the correct orders and people were like "that is awesome". A life saving feature is accessing my home machine via logmein as well. I love this thing.
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I got the pen just because it was on sale for 39.99 and I had a 10 dollar reward certificate. I'm not really sure how much I'll use it but hope with the upgrade it'll be more useful.
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Same here. I've heard a lot of good things were going to open up with the HC upgrade. I hope I'm not disappointed.
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I use it for my business and for note reason when I go on the road to sale insurance. I bring the terms and all up and underline the keypoints.
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well, now that i've had my View for a week, i have no intention on selling it or anything..but it's just like, what can i do with it now to make it seem like more than just a big phone? haha
i've got it rooted..i put honeycomb on it..what are some fun tablet things to do?
jayochs said:
well, now that i've had my View for a week, i have no intention on selling it or anything..but it's just like, what can i do with it now to make it seem like more than just a big phone? haha
i've got it rooted..i put honeycomb on it..what are some fun tablet things to do?
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Duct tape it to your bike and use it as a headlamp
lol pretty much the only idea i've got right now
i use it daily as an ereader and a media device...but for the times when i do use it for anything else (newsreader, email, calendar) i couldn't live without it...i had a wifi-only tablet first and it was useless to me as wifi tether used too much battery on my phone
as with any device, we don't neeeeeed them, but once we get used to having them we can't live without them
yeah i think i wanna start reading more books.. been outta grad school for a year now, and honestly haven't read anything since lol
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I use mine for browsing internet, and for sketching at home... when I don't want to power up the stationary computer.
I charge it in the kitchen where I have connected it to an amplifier, streaming music from my home network. Makes kitchen must-dos more fun.
yeah, I'm just still trying to justify it for myself when I've got a phone that's more powerful, better screen, etc etc (rezound) haha but i still like it, and the nifty red portfolio case I got for it. honeycomb is a nice change of pace
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jayochs said:
yeah, I'm just still trying to justify it for myself when I've got a phone that's more powerful, better screen, etc etc (rezound) haha but i still like it, and the nifty red portfolio case I got for it. honeycomb is a nice change of pace
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I got a rezound too. I still use the flyer for media, music, books drawing etc.... It also helps my phones battery life at work
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I can barely begin to enumerate the ways I use my Flyer. Let's begin with what I'm doing right now: surfing the web and commenting in internet forums. Thanks to by portable Bluetooth keyboard, this is as effortless as it was on a larger notebook.
Reading books: I use the Barnes & Noble app, which means I can highlight important passages, too.
Watching movies: especially when I'm on a long flight, the ability to whip out the flyer and watch on of the 10 or so movies I've loaded onto an SD card is great.
Playing games: I've gotten hooked on the whole tower defense genre, but there are plenty of other fun game types also.
Watching TV: I'm a Hulu+ subscriber, and the Hulu+ app works great for me.
Skype: I enjoy it, but so do my kids who get to see Grandma and Grandpa on a regular basis that way.
Taking notes: don't use this feature as much as I though I would, but I do still jot down notes on occasion.
Calendar: keep all my appointments on my Google calendar. It's nice that my phone and my tablet are in synch without my having to do anything.
Work stuff: OK, this is crazy, but true: with the Citrix receiver app I am able to RDP into my workplace virtual machine and do suff. I'm a system adminsitrator and I can and have performed emergency managment tasks remotely when I did not have access to a full sized computer. With a portable Bluetooth keyboard and the Scribe pen, I can do anything. The other day I was called, on an emergency basis to disable some thousand user accounts that had been compromised. I it all on my Flyer. And while I had access to WiFi where I was at the time, I could just as easily tethered to my 4G phone to accomplish the same thing in the absense of an open network.
awesome in thinking of getting a Motorola keyboard actually.. it's thirty bucks. hm.
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Much more enjoyable reading on a tablet than 4" phone. I study on it a lot (PDF, presentations) and also the pen is really nifty for drawing some ideas up on the go. I like browsing from my bed too
I just got a view recently and debating between the kindle fire. I mainly wanted to read books and light Internet browsing. Now that I have it I'm kind of in the same situation as you looking for more ways to use it.
I'm actually getting entertained playing games but running into the issue of some games not playing well on honeycomb.
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Watching TV: I'm a Hulu+ subscriber, and the Hulu+ app works great.
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Are you rooted? Hulu + doesn't show up in the market for me.
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Are you rooted? Hulu + doesn't show up in the market for me.
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I am not rooted.
Are you running a Flyer or a View? My understanding is tha for some braindead reason Hulu+ doesn't support the View.
Also, I had the Hulu+ app installed since I was on Gingerbread. So I never had to look for it on the market while I was on Honeycomb.
I'm stock HC in the View.... Doesn't make sense at all.
you can find HULU+ in this thread...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=21479536
Things I do with my EVO VIEW:
1. Read a lot of PDF Medical Ebooks.
2. Store records of patients.
2. Watch movies, TV series and listen to my favorite music on my way to work. (I love no bootups)
3. Read rss feeds.
4. Games.
5. Google Body is helping me a lot explaining diseases to my patients.
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I can barely begin to enumerate the ways I use my Flyer. Let's begin with what I'm doing right now: surfing the web and commenting in internet forums. Thanks to by portable Bluetooth keyboard, this is as effortless as it was on a larger notebook.
Reading books: I use the Barnes & Noble app, which means I can highlight important passages, too.
Watching movies: especially when I'm on a long flight, the ability to whip out the flyer and watch on of the 10 or so movies I've loaded onto an SD card is great.
Playing games: I've gotten hooked on the whole tower defense genre, but there are plenty of other fun game types also.
Watching TV: I'm a Hulu+ subscriber, and the Hulu+ app works great for me.
Skype: I enjoy it, but so do my kids who get to see Grandma and Grandpa on a regular basis that way.
Taking notes: don't use this feature as much as I though I would, but I do still jot down notes on occasion.
Calendar: keep all my appointments on my Google calendar. It's nice that my phone and my tablet are in synch without my having to do anything.
Work stuff: OK, this is crazy, but true: with the Citrix receiver app I am able to RDP into my workplace virtual machine and do suff. I'm a system adminsitrator and I can and have performed emergency managment tasks remotely when I did not have access to a full sized computer. With a portable Bluetooth keyboard and the Scribe pen, I can do anything. The other day I was called, on an emergency basis to disable some thousand user accounts that had been compromised. I it all on my Flyer. And while I had access to WiFi where I was at the time, I could just as easily tethered to my 4G phone to accomplish the same thing in the absense of an open network.
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What keyboard do u use? Do you always leave your work computer on or able to wake it up?
Before my view broke :-(
I was taking notes.
Studying.
Playing games.
Browsing from bed/class when bored or on toilet lol.
Remote desktop my laptop which is my entertainment since it's plugged into my tv through hdmi.
Browse forums and tweet!!
Read articles through pulse.
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What keyboard do u use? Do you always leave your work computer on or able to wake it up?
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I use a Dell branded version of the iGo Stowaway keyboard. It is by far the best (and most compact) bluetooth keyboard I've used. Fits in a jacket pocket with tons of room to spare, and folds out to nearly full size. Keys have beautiful tactile feedback and nice travel. Only compromise is that the number keys are placed on the same physical key as the QWERTYUIOP keys, and you use a Fn key to produce them. You get used to it quickly.
Only problem is that the keyboard is no longer manufactured, and iGo Stowaways go for upwards of $200.00 on eBay. However, the Dell branded model (which is physically identical) are much cheaper. Got mine for $70.00
As for my workstation at work: the Android Citrix app connects you to a virtualized environment, so my "workstation" is really jut a virtual machine, so it's on all the time. What's cool is that I also have access to virtualized instanced of Word and Excel etc. Basically, your workplace must be using Citrix to host their VMs for this to work.
Hey everyone, how is it goinnnnng?
So im going out of town and i was actually wondering what are good apps/games for entertainment (and if you want awsome movies ;D) i want things for entertainment while at the plane etc.
Thanks for the help
Probably not up everyone's alley, but Field Trip is pretty cool. It monitors your location and shows you historical sites and other places of interest when you're near. It's a really polished app and I think it's pretty cool to use while traveling.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nianticproject.scout
Crackle is free for movies. I understand it's backed by Sony. At first I thought it was piracy, the titles they have available.
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Good time killing games that I play are:
Beach Buggy Blitz
Air Control HD
Zombie Dash
There are many more but those are my favorites right now.
I bought the Nexus 10 32GB out of curiosity last week, unlocked it and installed AOKP And all the goodies, but now I ended up not even thinking about using it for anything.
I have been using the HTC DNA since it was released, so I wasn't impressed by the N10's screen quality but not disappointed either. For the first few hours, I thought it would replace my laptop but I found myself using my ASUS Zenbook more so than N10 or the DNA. It's not because the N10 Doesn't have any practical utilities, but rather because my laptop do things far more better. Also, I just can't figure out how to comfortably hold the tablet. I thought of buying a case with a built-in stand, but I figured that it would be more convenient to just carry my laptop around instead.
So I'm about to sell my N10 but I just wanted to know how you guys utilize it before I do.
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I bought the Nexus 10 32GBout of curiosity last week, unlocked it and installed AOKP And all the goodies, but now I ended up not even thinking about using it for anything.
I have been using the HTC DNA since it was released, so I wasn't impressed by the N10's screen quality but not disappointed either. For the first few hours, I thought it would replace my laptop but I found myself using my ASUS Zenbook more so than N10 or the DNA. It's not because the N10 Doesn't have any practical utilities, but rather because my laptop do things far more better. Also, I just can't figure out how to comfortably hold the tablet. I thought of buying a case with a built-in stand, but I figured that it would be more convenient to just carry my laptop around instead.
So I'm about to sell my N10 but I just wanted to know how you guys utilize it before I do.
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ehhh that's based on your usage really I like to go out and travel a lot, I'm an amateur photographer and i also do vfx stuffs so my laptop is pretty bulky. I only use it when I have to. Other than that when I go out for coffee or photo day I usually carry my nexus 10 and otg usb so I could view them in a bigger screen and sort out what I don't need or need. I also use my nex during relax for youtube, web surfing...etc, I also found myself using it for a recipe in cooking lol :silly: and yes it is not as practical as a laptop but I use it because of portability. But maybe it's not for you since you have the Zenbook :silly:
In addition to checking bookmarked news sites and social networks, I use the kindle and comixology apps (the latter mainly for marvel comics). For reading, I find the N10 superior to a laptop, and for web it's most of the time only slightly inferior (except when you're thrown into an ugly mobile site designed for 3" screens).
As for holding it, I slouch with my feet on the table and find I can keep the N10 at a usable angle and distance by dropping it in my lap. You may want to experiment with various couches/tables to find your ideal position
I'm a unix system administrator by profession, and I wouldn't ever consider using the N10 for work. I still have my cheapo laptop with linux for when I need to work from home.
I use my Nexus 10 for a variety of things, but mainly for reading, gaming, communication through apps like Hangouts, Voxer, and others, and study. I use EZPDF for annotation, best annotator out there. I also use it for music, since the speakers are quite loud. I also use it to time my efforts in volunteer work and record any necessary information (Ministry Assistant), and more. I've been trying to find more uses for it myself, I've only owned it for a week now. Best Android tablet I've used, for sure!
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I use it with my hands and fingers.
I found that whenever I owned a laptop it would always sit in one place plugged in constantly. I now stick with a more powerful and more reliable desktop and have a Nexus for when I go out and about since they're much more portable.
I'm at university studying computer science. I use it all the time to type notes and read pdf versions of the numerous textbooks I need, so saves a huge amount of space and weight in my bag. I also use it a lot for the web, like if I'm on a site that requires a lot of reading, I'll often load it up on my tablet even if I'm on it on my laptop just to read it, just because the screen is so much easier to read off for me than my laptops. I use my n10 a lot and it's possibly the best thing I have bought in years, the 10 inch tab fits in my life perfectly. Although I am used to the 10 inch form factor as I had the galaxy tab 10.1 for a year before I got the nexus 10 and 7.
I also have the nexus 4 and the nexus 7. The nexus 7 I mainly use as a ebook reader, to play some games that are awkward on a 4.7 and 10.05 inch screen. Also use it a lot between the large amount of time it takes to charge my n10 up
I do the same as the person above. Also use it for reading books in general, my friends steal it to play games, and it's useful for long car rides even without internet.
Only problem is, is that I am too lazy to figure out how to compile my programming assignments on my Nexus 10 :/
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Is there a way to connect my phone with my Nexus 10 besides Bluetooth? Like, if I get a text message or a whats app message on my phone, I could see it on my N10?
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Is there a way to connect my phone with my Nexus 10 besides Bluetooth? Like, if I get a text message or a whats app message on my phone, I could see it on my N10?
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Mighty Text. Its even notify you when someone is calling.
I generally don't really use mine at home unless my Desktop is in some kind of inoperable state (I used my N10 earlier to look up some info on a few BIOS settings for my Desktop). If I hear a notification go off, I usually go to my N4, or just minimize the game I'm playing on my Desktop and check Gmail.
I'd love to get some more use out of my N10, just need to figure out how... lol
I use it to play games. test out different ROMs. for skype/chatting when I am playing a game on my desktop. browsing the web. Sometimes watch youtube videos when I am away from desktop. listen to music.
Thanks for Mighty Text. Also what's the best combo to use it as a streaming player of my files on my computer? I wanna use it as a player and make my computer the "server".
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I do the same as the person above. Also use it for reading books in general, my friends steal it to play games, and it's useful for long car rides even without internet.
Only problem is, is that I am too lazy to figure out how to compile my programming assignments on my Nexus 10 :/
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Well I'm sure there's some addons to mobile terminal for make and that stuff....
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I gave up my PC when I bought my nexus 10 so I use it for everything. Most days I just use it for the basic email, news (while on the toilet ), calendar, phone. I have a galaxy nexus but when I'm home I usually just use hangouts,Facebook, or Skype for calls off my tablet.
Its also my Netflix, hooked up to a TV. I went through 3 HDMI cables before I found one that worked on the nexus 10. For some reason it's picky.
Torrents, I have a wifi external HD I use to back things up.
I really want to add a Bluetooth speaker but I spent too much money on my Bose back when I had iPhone 3gs. Now I have to suffer with it.
GPS in the car, tethered to my phone (NFC tag). Gaming, though obviously its far from what my PC was.
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I bought the Nexus 10 32GB out of curiosity last week, unlocked it and installed AOKP And all the goodies, but now I ended up not even thinking about using it for anything.
I have been using the HTC DNA since it was released, so I wasn't impressed by the N10's screen quality but not disappointed either. For the first few hours, I thought it would replace my laptop but I found myself using my ASUS Zenbook more so than N10 or the DNA. It's not because the N10 Doesn't have any practical utilities, but rather because my laptop do things far more better. Also, I just can't figure out how to comfortably hold the tablet. I thought of buying a case with a built-in stand, but I figured that it would be more convenient to just carry my laptop around instead.
So I'm about to sell my N10 but I just wanted to know how you guys utilize it before I do.
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Everything! Watching movies, reading emails, social media sites. For editing and sharing pictures and videos. It pretty much replaced a laptop and a desktop.
Web browsing when I'm outside in the backyard smoking or grilling, occasional games, netflix in bed, etc. I should probably use it more for how much I paid for it, but I love it as a tablet. After having a HORRIBLE experience with a TF300t it's perfect for me. No lags unless the app I'm using is laggy on all devices.
Mostly reading (news, books, comics, pocket) I also have a Zenbook but for reading the N10 is far better.
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I'm using mine more than my new laptop for news, reading, games, finances, video chat and some phone calls. I only use my laptop for work, excel and Photoshop.
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I use mine because it's so versatile, portable, and I'm still learning what I can use it for!! I just don't want to brick the thing!!!
I love mine!!