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Battery drain
I keep playing with the Galaxy Tab, and found that it was using up the battery quite quickly, even in "sleep" mode.Well, I found "SystemPanel App / Task Manager" in the Android market after reading up a bit about it, and it runs in the background now and kills processes that are eating up battery, costing about 18 NOK to download and install from Nextapp.
The iPad had something like this built-in and battery lasted for a long time without any "hacks" being made, so score for Apple in the easy-to-use department there.
However, I do like the "rawness" of the Galaxy tab, installing the task manager gave me an overview of CPU usage etc. and which processes that are running, something more Linux-like than the iPad, and I've played with Linux for many years.
[Permalink] [By morphex] [Samsung Galaxy Tab (Atom feed)] [03 May 13:16 Europe/Oslo]
First impressions, Samsung Galaxy Tab
So, I've played with the Samsung Galaxy Tab(let) now for a couple of days, and so far - I like it.Early on I found a cool background feature, which creates a 3D animated background which also responds to touch gestures.
It is smaller, but thicker than an iPad. It also looks like it's good a good resolution, as games and other graphics are quite smooth on it.
One thing I find a bit nagging, is that scrolling in the browser for example, is a little bit choppy. On the iPad that was completely smooth scrolling.
There are lots of apps for the Galaxy Tab, and so far I've found Spotify, Tweetdeck, Firefox, Opera Mobile & Opera Mini + a Hold'em poker app and some other things.
That it is smaller than the iPad is nice, as I can but it in my jacket which makes it more portable.
It looks like it has a poorer battery life than the iPad, but that might be my settings and not closing apps.
So, impressions so far: good. A 4 out of 6.
[Permalink] [By morphex] [Samsung Galaxy Tab (Atom feed)] [30 Apr 14:31 Europe/Oslo]