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reasons to steer clear of galaxy tab and possibly hoenycomb

My reasoning:

android:
jack of all trades , master of none in my opinon. Dont get me wrong. I love the operationg system. My last phone was a samsung galaxy s and my current is a galaxy s2. I AM INVESTED in this OS. But it is mainly because i am a geek. There is no way that i would recommend this OS to my mum or sister for example. the galaxy s i had to tweak to get to work and the galaxy .2s has glitches that i am still yet to get round to fixing. it seems the same with any android phone you get. they all seem to be doing their own thing and some apps work on one phone and not the other continuously. The market is like the wild west. nothing is organised. constantly shown things you cant buy because its not in your area and apps that don't work on your phone are allowed to be purchased.

if things weren't complicated enough they then introduce honeycomb. some babies should have been aborted if they were intended to be born prematurely. Honeycomb will be a success on price point. Eventually you'll get decent devices for £200/250 and apple have no intentions of competing frankly. The problem with honeycomb (and i shelled £450 on a galaxy tab 10.1 2 weeks ago) is that it is a vista. It supports the old without nailing the new.

• The os isn't stable enough to do work on and the battery life is unpredictable. apps open tiny if not made for honeycomb but there is no way of knowing whether it supports honeycomb without installing. this means you can pay, install, and then load an app that only covers 1/8 of the screen.

• the market doesnt support honeycomb still which is frankly embarrasing. you would think that 8 months in they would cater to the fools they are tricking into buying this but no such luck yet. tablified.com is where i go to make a sense of what is going on. i have removed the market from the home screen and replaced it with a bookmark.

• the keyboard is AMAZING on android. The sole reason i opted for android tablet was because of how fond i am of swype. i can write faster on a swype tablet than on any desktop pc and that speaks volumes. the problem is that not all apps support the keyboard you are using. frequently the keyboard covers the box you are trying to write in. This happens in some apps and websites on the stock browser. you are forced to minimize the keyboard , roll the website up and then reopen. with some apps it renders them unusable.
• stock office apps dont autosave so when they crash you could cry. (and they DO crash often)
• google docs is a joke. google please work with microsoft word properly or dont do it at all. your not going to replace them in this lifetime google so support them. so sick of doing a spreadsheet or document only to realise it aligns differently when opened on my laptop.
• you give 5 pages on the homescreen but no option to remove them. i dont need 5, i need 3 max at present . you don't have enough content for 5 without the swiping lagging like a mother so don't force me to have empty ages sat there. you also can rearrange pages. i set a page up and want it on the other side then i have remake the whole thing again as well as deleting the other icons and remembering where i had them.
• some games are cool but i didn't buy it for that. it was supposed to be a work tool on the train. my phone is proving more useful.
• no sd card expansion. FAIL ideally i would move my 32gb card between the tablet and phone. dream dead
• WTF IS WITH THAT STUPID SCREENSHOT BUTTON. who takes screenshots frequently enough to have a dedicated button!! I have so many screenshots i have to delete constantly because i brushed against that button.
• voltage for charging means that if you use anything but a pre approved all socket charger then it take approxiamtely 8hrs for a full charge. Thats a joke when you factor in the battery life of this is like a junkie left in your house.......unpredictable. one day you get six hours, the next 4, the next 7. sometimes you reboot with more battery percentage than you switched off with! office docs dont autosave so when you go from 34% to samsung shut down screen its emotional to put it lightly.
• none removable battery. isnt this one of the amazing bonuses of android phones? you decided to get rid of that for the tablet. the device most likely to benefit from that.

I have decided to have no tablet rather than this tablet. Now to just find the receipt....