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Sorry there's probably similar threads, and I've been looking around and getting a good idea of some Apps, but was hoping people could throw down there opinions here, and why they like their Apps ect. My last phone was an HTC Touch Diamond that I had for three years, It was a windows mobile 6 phone I believe. I've been blown away by how versatile and powerful the Note is comparatively.
I'm just looking for general purpose Apps really. A good replacement web browser that can utilize our larger screen and high resolution, someone was saying we can replace the stock samsung touch keyboard? That would be nice, any suggestions ect?
Also, any good strategy games? I haven't found many, but haven't had as much time to look as I'd like.
You are correct, these threads already exist.
Here's one that answers your question.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1528568
Did you watch the noob video
Yes threads are already out there, so you really answered your own questions.
But I will be somewhat helpful seeing I am already typing this.
Browser: Dolphin HD- Very fast, feels like your browsing on a computer
Messege: Handcent- Good features
Keyboard: Thumbs keyboard- Just trust me
Hope this helps
I uae handcent for sms....a lot of customization ....and smart keyboard bro...a lot of nice options in there to suit your typing needs...plus some nice keyboard skins..and u can make the keyboard resizeable.....
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Here's a thread I started back in February a few days after the AT&T pre-release.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1509315
I really like the Dolphin HD browser. Give a try to paper camera. For an extensive list of best android apps, check this article http://www.geeknaut.com/best-free-android-app-26196281.html
Games:
Fragger
Sentinel 3
Shine Runner
Shadow Gun
Dead Space
Cartoon Wars
Ceramic Destroyer
Mahjong
Draw Something
Utilities:
Juice Defender Ultimate (try free first)
Juice Plotter
Better Battery Stats
CPU Spy
3G Watch Dog
Root Explorer
Color note
Air Push Detector
AndroZip
Battery Monitor Widget
ICS Camera
Fast Burst Camera Lite
Flashlight
Google Gesture Search
Go SMS Pro
Google TV Remote (for google TV boxes and TVs)
Google Voice
GPS Status
Visidon App Lock
Entertainment
Aldiko reader
Kindle reader
Slacker
Tapatalk
Cheezburger
Plex
Read It Later
Other
Power Puddle
Better Keyboard
Amazon App Store (free paid app every day)
Swiftkey X
Yelp
Woot Watcher
Chief Geek said:
Woot Watcher
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One of my addictions...this is easily the best woot app on Android that I have found.
lactardjosh said:
One of my addictions...this is easily the best woot app on Android that I have found.
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Absolutely. I've emailed the dev asking if he'd consider integrating other deal sites, such as Tanga and daily steals. He said he would look into it but is too busy with life to deal with total redesigns right now. His app is simple, smooth, and well designed. I love the idea of picking a site then getting what you normally see in woot watcher.
So I don't mind my phones browsing experience but anytime I get anywhere near an I-Device my mind is blown by how freakin smooth their browser experience. I don't mind my Evo's interface and all that but wow, when I am looking at a general web page in any browser (Dolphin HD beta, Stock, Firefox, Chrome) its NIGHT AND DAY and it drives me nuts. Why the F*& can't it be smoother? My phone is beast but a desktop style web page with a few pics makes the whole experience choppy as hell. Sure I can still get around but double tap to zoom and text reflowing is just poor. Anyone have a better solution? Love everything about my E4GLTE but this makes me mad on a daily basis.
I guess I never compared,but I never noticed it...
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I could be wrong but I think it has something to do with how the android and iOS was designed to interact with a device's CPU/GPU?
Google "apple ui graphics accelerated" and there's a few articles at the top that you might find interesting.
I've not seen an issue yet...
The thing that kills the browsing experience for me is how chrome beta refreshes the page whenever I switch to another app. I went into the settings to get the pages pre rendered but everything still refreshes. Any ideas about that?
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That's HTC multitasking not the browsers probleme
sent from my EVO LTE
Given that that a lot of apps are FCing in the market for god known reasons and developers are not updating or taking full advantage of the display. Is is a sign that nexus 10 doesnt have good sales and its not worth the effort. I personally own one and would hate to see the potential of the device go to waste.
Or is this too early in a products lifetime to comment on all these
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Given that that a lot of apps are FCing in the market for god known reasons and developers are not updating or taking full advantage of the display. Is is a sign that nexus 10 doesnt have good sales and its not worth the effort. I personally own one and would hate to see the potential of the device go to waste.
Or is this too early in a products lifetime to comment on all these
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The whole idea of the N10 is to seed the market for other 10" 300ppi devices to come from the manufacturers. The same thing happened with the N7 and Gnexus before it. Apps will be fixed/updated in time, most likely at a quicker pace as other highres devices start to be announced/made available.
I doubt they've sold too many so far. If I had to guess, I'd say a few hundred thousand but I doubt any more than that. They will undoubtedly sell a few more in time but I doubt they'll sell millions. Leave that for the Galaxy Tab 3 eh?
I've got 81 apps on my N10 which I use across several devices, and NONE of them force close, or have resolution issues on my N10. So I've got to ask, what apps are you talking about??
No force closes here either. All my apps that I use on my GNex work just as well on my N10. The one "sort of" exception is Facebook. It works fine, but isn't optimized for 10" tablets, so using it in landscape makes it look horrible.
The only app I use that didn't work on my N10 was the grocery iq app (allows you to have a synced grocery list with several devices) but they recently updated it to work on the N10.
No force closes here either. I have also seen lots of apps updating to be tablet friendly. Flip book, Tapatalk HD, and...
I think the dev support is only going to continue to grow. The dev support on this site alone has double I in the last week or two.
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FT app , the economist app. ezpdf is a bit slow with the page turn, but is the only one with two page landscape.
These two i primarily used on my friends n7 , but FC on opening articles in the N10.
Apart from that, most work fine. Although Shadowguneadzone shows a little thermal throttle , when played for over 4 hours. but that is okay considering how beautiful it looks and works.
I really love this device ad I hope google currents and the chrome issues are fixed asap. Just wanted to flash the FT app to my i**** friends out here.
BTW Flipboard after the update worked like a charm and i hope they use the new youtube embedding API , so that we can watch videos without leaving the article.
I only have one app that force closes, and even then its only when a certian setting is used. I'd hardly say there's little dev interest.
I will, however, say that in general software development swings towards the biggest groups, which is why historically the iPad has gotten tablet apps before us, has better game support, etc. In our case, while software with tablet support should be optimized because they can automatically use the resources for 300+ DPI phones there's still the matter that we're the only 2560x1600 resolution tablet on the market. If there's something stopping an app from using phone resources, or its tablet only, the only thing that'll fix that is the arival of other tablets at this resolution.
Hi,
I have an offer to buy used Samsung GT-P7510 for 110 USD.
The offer sounds to me fair and I have been testing this tablet for last 2 weeks.
It all works to me good except a few things:
- browsing web pages in Firefox is kind of slow
- sometimes Firefox close/crash during browsing and it looks to me like it is too much for it to handle some webpages (?)
- charging battery takes ages
I dont have experience with other/newer tables, though.
That is why I would like to ask here more experienced users should I also expect similar problems with newer/other devices or not?
Because if yes then 110$ for this tables sounds to me like a good price.
The time has come to admit that my Asus Transformer Infinity (TF700) was a terrible purchase. I've put it online for sale and now I'm looking for a replacement. It's a household gadget, so it gets 4+ hours of use every single day, very often 10+ hours.
The few things that the N10 needs to provide (and TF700 fails to):
1. The tablet should be capable (in practice) to support at least 4 separate user accounts. This really needs to work. I'd love to hear from N10 owners that actually use this feature, it's simply the most important feature for our use (the family + a guest account). The TF700 is a mess in this aspect, switching takes a long time and everything is all kinds of messed up for a long while after switching. But everything is all kinds of messed up most of the time on that tablet, so multi accounts might be really simple and smooth and non-issue with other tablets.
2. The tablet should be capable of running Chrome browser with 15+ tabs at all times. Preferably across multiple user accounts. Again, I'd like N10 users to chime in on this, does the browser get more laggy with increased number of open tabs? Do the pages take longer to load? Worse scrolling performance? Browser crashing? Don't get me started on the TF700 and browsing...
3. actually... there's even not anything else, really... maybe battery capacity. And if there are any widespread problems, please list them, I've been looking for them and I haven't found anything big apart from maybe low WiFi reception? I understand the random reboots are now fixed with 4.4?
What I absolutely DON'T care about:
- benchmarks
- games
Just browsing. Good display, multiple users, loads of tabs. Good performance with browsing.
So, dear N10 users, please tell me, is this the tablet for me?
Yes, if you absolutely can't wait. The next Nexus 10 should arrive soon. It will kicks the current Nexus 10 butt.
But, still, the current Nexus 10 is a solid tablet.
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Yes, if you absolutely can't wait. The next Nexus 10 should arrive soon. It will kicks the current Nexus 10 butt.
But, still, the current Nexus 10 is a solid tablet.
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I'm really not after anything butt-kicking, just what I stated above. Thanks for the heads up though, could you maybe elaborate some more, do you have any experience with tab-heavy browsing or multi-user?
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Yes, if you absolutely can't wait. The next Nexus 10 should arrive soon. It will kicks the current Nexus 10 butt.
But, still, the current Nexus 10 is a solid tablet.
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I personally think there may be no next Nexus 10, or if there is, it's certainly not going to arrive soon.
I have the nexus 10 and I use 3 user accounts and it works great but you'll need the 32 gig version to support all of the accounts. I'm sure a fourth will work no problem. With Google chrome though I don't think you can have 15 tabs open at once. I mean you can but they'll probably have to reload when you click on them because chrome isn't very good with tablets. Other browser's might work better though chrome has improved with updates. Next browser is a good alternative.
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I agree with JasW. Maybe there will be a new Nexus 10, but I wouldn't count on it, and I wouldn't expect it until next year. Just buy a used one from someone else selling theirs in anticipation of a refresh.
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kokoon said:
1. The tablet should be capable (in practice) to support at least 4 separate user accounts. This really needs to work. I'd love to hear from N10 owners that actually use this feature, it's simply the most important feature for our use (the family + a guest account). The TF700 is a mess in this aspect, switching takes a long time and everything is all kinds of messed up for a long while after switching. But everything is all kinds of messed up most of the time on that tablet, so multi accounts might be really simple and smooth and non-issue with other tablets.
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The Nexus series of tablets (N7 or N10) with Jelly Bean 4.3 or the new KitKat 4.4 do an absolute fantastic job with multi-user. I share my table with my spouse and two children. Each update brings even more to the multi-user experience.
Switching is pretty quick, so your Asus tablet must have had problems or some serious bloatware.
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2. The tablet should be capable of running Chrome browser with 15+ tabs at all times. Preferably across multiple user accounts. Again, I'd like N10 users to chime in on this, does the browser get more laggy with increased number of open tabs? Do the pages take longer to load? Worse scrolling performance? Browser crashing? Don't get me started on the TF700 and browsing...
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Hmm, Chrome Browser eh? Don't know if I can blame the TF700 for your browsing experiences. Chrome is much better with 4.4, but it's not the best browser for Android. In fact, it's been pretty junky for some time. I'd say it's finally usable as a decent browser in KitKat 4.4. Prior to that, I was a large Firefox user.
With KitKat 4.4, I'm now exclusively Chrome, and I've a number of tabs open.
So for a tab that works great for multi-user and browsing, yeah it's worth it. And even though you don't care about them, the benchmarks and games are great as well
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I have the nexus 10 and I use 3 user accounts and it works great but you'll need the 32 gig version to support all of the accounts.
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While I agree that you should get the 32GB, Google has the multi-user configured to use the same apk files for the applications that happen to exist in each account. So there are not four copies of Chrome for example, just one with multiple settings files. Games and other apps are the same way, one copy of an application that is only available to the accounts it's licensed to in the Google play store.
Cheers, I ordered it, 32GB version.
The TF700 is such a wreck, it's not even worth writing about it. Fingers crossed N10 is the right one for me!
kokoon said:
The time has come to admit that my Asus Transformer Infinity (TF700) was a terrible purchase. I've put it online for sale and now I'm looking for a replacement. It's a household gadget, so it gets 4+ hours of use every single day, very often 10+ hours.
The few things that the N10 needs to provide (and TF700 fails to):
1. The tablet should be capable (in practice) to support at least 4 separate user accounts. This really needs to work. I'd love to hear from N10 owners that actually use this feature, it's simply the most important feature for our use (the family + a guest account). The TF700 is a mess in this aspect, switching takes a long time and everything is all kinds of messed up for a long while after switching. But everything is all kinds of messed up most of the time on that tablet, so multi accounts might be really simple and smooth and non-issue with other tablets.
2. The tablet should be capable of running Chrome browser with 15+ tabs at all times. Preferably across multiple user accounts. Again, I'd like N10 users to chime in on this, does the browser get more laggy with increased number of open tabs? Do the pages take longer to load? Worse scrolling performance? Browser crashing? Don't get me started on the TF700 and browsing...
3. actually... there's even not anything else, really... maybe battery capacity. And if there are any widespread problems, please list them, I've been looking for them and I haven't found anything big apart from maybe low WiFi reception? I understand the random reboots are now fixed with 4.4?
What I absolutely DON'T care about:
- benchmarks
- games
Just browsing. Good display, multiple users, loads of tabs. Good performance with browsing.
So, dear N10 users, please tell me, is this the tablet for me?
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there is no alternative on the market.
there are only two worthy tablets right now:
- nexus 10
- Note 10.1 2014
last one is overloaded with touchwiz from Samsung, which makes it terribly slow.
theoretically speaking you could root and install a custom rom on Note, but since it's just come out there are not many roms available.
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The Nexus series of tablets (N7 or N10) with Jelly Bean 4.3 or the new KitKat 4.4 do an absolute fantastic job with multi-user. I share my table with my spouse and two children. Each update brings even more to the multi-user experience.
Switching is pretty quick, so your Asus tablet must have had problems or some serious bloatware.
Hmm, Chrome Browser eh? Don't know if I can blame the TF700 for your browsing experiences. Chrome is much better with 4.4, but it's not the best browser for Android. In fact, it's been pretty junky for some time. I'd say it's finally usable as a decent browser in KitKat 4.4. Prior to that, I was a large Firefox user.
With KitKat 4.4, I'm now exclusively Chrome, and I've a number of tabs open.
So for a tab that works great for multi-user and browsing, yeah it's worth it. And even though you don't care about them, the benchmarks and games are great as well
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While I agree that you should get the 32GB, Google has the multi-user configured to use the same apk files for the applications that happen to exist in each account. So there are not four copies of Chrome for example, just one with multiple settings files. Games and other apps are the same way, one copy of an application that is only available to the accounts it's licensed to in the Google play store.
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Yes but media and movies and stuff like that are only available on the account you put them on unless they use the same Google account and just stream everything. Like if they all wanted to put a movie/music on it it would only be available on one account. The others would have to put it themselves and use more memory. That's how it is for me at least.
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Sure, that's how it should be!
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there is no alternative on the market.
there are only two worthy tablets right now:
- nexus 10
- Note 10.1 2014
last one is overloaded with touchwiz from Samsung, which makes it terribly slow.
theoretically speaking you could root and install a custom rom on Note, but since it's just come out there are not many roms available.
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You can use NOVA launcher if you don't like TouchWiz on Note 10.1 2014. It's really very fast. Mine is fast with TouchWiz but even faster with NOVA.
I feel your pain... Sold my TF700 5 months ago (and the TF201 before that...) and never looked back. If I need a keyboard, Bluetooth is my friend. I think you will be very happy with a 32gb Nexus 10, although 15 tabs in the browser is probably optimistic, at least without lag.
Concerning reboots... I'd say the tablet is 99% safe under 4.4, but the situation was never terrible in the first place.
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