Apad - The Andriod iPad

Colin Holgate coiin at verizon.net
Sat May 22 22:35:58 EDT 2010


There are a number of things you might want to worry about:

The resolution is the same as the 4 inch Android phones.

The screen is two inches smaller than the iPad.

The CPU is 1/2-1/3 of the speed of other Android devices. It's perhaps close to the speed of an iPhone 3GS, but it has 2.5 times the number of pixels to drive.

Its screen is resistive instead of the better capacitive touch, you may need to press harder to make things work.

The battery capacity is 1/8th that of the iPad.

The memory of the cheapest one is most likely 1/8th of the memory in the lowest end iPad.

It comes with the 1.5 version of Android, which is not uncommon, but some features (such as Flash player 10.1) will need version 2.1. I'm not so confident that the device will be first in line to get OS updates.

It is quite likely to have the typical number of touch points for low resolution Android devices, which means two at a time. iPad can be ten at a time.






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