QUOTE(kitman @ Aug 15 2011, 11:39 AM)
ah good to hear that. just that i have seen many posting here on speakers imbalance, keyboard keys not working, keyboard not recognised, battery drain, camera apps not working, frequent crashes etc. have all these been resolved with the latest updates?
truly understand and agree on the "not be dictated" part .......especially freedom from itunes
oh ya any recommendation on where to get this? are stocks for the 16gb readily available in lowyat or do i need to go hunting like the ipad2? many thanks.
well, if u are choosing between iPad 2 and this, i would need to ask, what is your main priority? if u just want games, frankly say, Android are still catching up on that, but new games on major game distro already have the same game on both iOS and Android, but still, i would say more higher quality game(in graphics and variants) are in iOS so far. as for functionality, i think iPad 2 wont be beating the TF after all, TF plays more video formats out of the box, and for most default softwares, video player, browser, music player, there are some other, better version of them on the market to improve the usage experience, however, that actually needs more digging and research. If u want something simple out of the box and easy to use, and don mind the lacking of customization and some other features, i guess iPad might be more suited for u , and as for TF, it's more suited for ppl who willing to spend some time to explore, and experiment, starters in android or not, take ur time to learn about it and discover new stuff that brings even better usage experience...
So far i havent heard of keyboard keys not working, maybe u mean key mapping issue as some other forumer mention, that was just caused by the locale setting. Imbalance speaker is caused by one of the config file, just actually editing the file will solve that issue already, non hardware related
Battery drain is an issue with u dock ur tablet with the keyboard for some people, if u are afraid of that, just unplug it.
as for camera apps not working... i think it was some early version of custom rom and we are discussing it here, no one have any broken camera apps so far... as for frequent crashes, there are 2 reasons now. first, the apps itself. some applications are still rather buggy publish, and easily just crash and force close when u hit some certain steps, nothing we can do about it, apart from waiting for the devs to fix it. Second, Android 3.x, Honeycomb is now for tablet only and it is somewhat different from gingerbread. Most application are build for gingerbread, so we cannot expect them to run perfectly on Honeycomb. Again, nothing we can do apart from waiting for Ice Cream Sandwich update to come.
as for where to get it.. apart from avoid Evernew Mid Valley, i guess the rest of the place is cool(Pyramid Evernew is ok btw, friendly staffs)