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ICS and 1st Gen tablets

  • 06-02-2012 9:28pm
    #1
    legrand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 683 ✭✭✭


    Like many have been holding off on tablet purchase (well for best of a year now - sad I know:rolleyes:) ) on the basis that Honeycomb largely laggy and hom hum hardware specs.

    Excited by the prospect of Asus' TF201 with it's quad-core (and zen book look). Early release show marked improvement in honeycomb performance. With the release of ICS tech hacks praised it further. At last the promise of Android on tablet form factor delivered. Anyway, hyperbole aside I wonder what others thought are on using ICS on 1st gen tablets...

    A review by Anandtech (http://www.anandtech.com/show/5175/asus-transformer-prime-followup) mentioned that for normal use (browsing etc) that most of the multi-cores are not used and that only CPU intensive games will need or harness the extra CPUs.

    Which brings me to my point. I've seen a clip showing the Zoom running an dev ROM of ICS. Some minor bugs here and there buy it worked really well with fast and smooth UI experience.

    Lots of tablet manufacturers stating ICS will arrive soon for the current crop of 1st gen tablets (not to mention low budget tablets soon to be released with ICS).

    So maybe Tegra 2 still has legs yet? What are your thoughts?


Comments

  • #2
    mickoneill30
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭mickoneill30


    I've a US Xoom so the update to ICS rolled out to it. It's not a dev build.
    To be honest I've noticed no difference in performance. That's not as bad as it sounds. 3.2 on the Xoom isn't laggy.

    Functionality, the only differences I've noticed are
    1: There's an option to turn off WiFi when the tablet is asleep. Saves battery apparently.
    2: I used to use Dolphin HD Tablet but after updating to ICS it forced closed on me too much. I went back to the stock browser and it's fine. The caveat to that is that Dolphin HD doesn't seem to be supported by the developer anymore and hasn't been updated in ages.

    The update to ICS didn't wipe the tablet and I'm using a lot of widgets and ADW Launcher so maybe it'd be faster if I wiped but I'm not bothered as it's not slow now.


  • #3
    srsly78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,157 ✭✭✭srsly78


    I have a transformer 1. It is plenty fast already, never lags. Having used ICS on phones, it is no big deal. Most of the new features are under-the-hood things developers will use in future apps. Have no desire to upgrade hardware. Sure I will install ICS when it's available, but no big rush.

    The old archos 101 I have is pretty slow tho. It's fine to use for ebook reading, but if you want to browse or switch apps it does lag. Also the limited app memory is really annoying, like many old generation android devices. If it had more app memory it would be fine tbh :D

    I would recommend people looking to buy a budget tablet try to pick up the original transformer for cheap (price should start to drop a lot now the new version is out).


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