Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Review: G-powerful slate, but expensive iPad competitor

Another day, another possible iPad killer.The T-Mobile G-Slate. AP, T-Mobile

G a T-Mobile-slate.

AP, T-Mobile

G a T-Mobile-slate.

This week we have a slate g from LG, the wireless service provider from T-Mobile, 4 G-the first Android 2.0 operating system to run (a) excellent Google s. G-slate is the largest and the second set to try to overthrow the iPad's Apple overwhelming superiorityAfter the publication of February Xoom's Motorola with Verizon network Hasn t Motorola released. sales numbers, but analysts expect the Xoom to send only 300,000 units this quarter, while the iPad is expected to sell up to 60 million units in 2011. "G-slate is $529.99 after $ 100 mail-in rebate and 2-year contract for T-Mobile. The Board is $749.99 without a contract.Specifications attractiveIt's a beautiful wide-screen is exactly what we've come to expect these products speed tablets, Android. Power. Feature-packed.The G-Slate has two 5-megapixel camera on the back that allow 3D or the front-facing camera, tape, video chat, 32 GB of internal memory of 1 GHz dual-core processor and NVIDIA's Tegra 2. HD video recording video 3D more gimmick than anything, but it's a fun gimmick. The Board comes with one pair of 3D classes to watch your back video. Videos also can be sent via the HDMI TV HD.G-WiFi network connects to the slate, or T-Mobile's HSPA + network, the leading calling 4 G .it's a souped-up of the carrier's 3 g network which is says will result in much faster download speeds. my test of T-Mobile's HSPA + network, see the download speeds access to 4 or 5 MB per secondClearly, an increase over the usual 3 g 4 g network speeds with Verizon's will soon free hardware upgrade via Xoom. This will result in consistent speeds approaching 15 megabits per second drawback I found hardware G.-Slate's heavier, it was felt necessary. At 1.3 kHz, it's just 0.16 pounds lighter than the iPad, even though its footprint is reduced considerably.Software is still missingecosystem of tablet Android still missing significant Polish presence application, however. The number of applications has grown a bit since optimized tablet release Xoom s, but don t expect more than a dozen. While compared to the Apple iPad, which has more than 65,000 applications for the tablet's larger screen experience Honeysuckle is still ... a very flashy, but. Home screen widgets, we saw for the first time with Xoom, they are a great way to present information at a glance. Things like email, calendar and events show bookmarks on the Web directly on the home screen, you can save by clicking or two to see what's inside one of my main. beefs with Android, but still exists on G-slate: Gmail inbox and stopped in a separate application books still set all from other e-mail accounts.G-Slate has support for Adobe Flash video after downloading the software, even though the experience is often unstable.Price per gamelargest client repellent built into G-almost certainly will be the cost of slate.G-slate, along with other Android tablets, purchase the premium to buy the same heating without contract for two-year wireless if you re fine. with WiFi connection on your home s – as well as the millions of customers-you ll be iPad to shell out just shy of 750-32 GB G-slate. That's $ 150 more like these are tablets Android, that's a high bar to clear iPad. Similarly outfitted As a competition can be only good ... the market, I await with some serious competition to the predominant iPad s tremble. for more information about reprints, visit & for our frequently asked questions. To report corrections to vabarot, contact standards editor Jones Brent. For consideration of publication in the newspaper, send your comments to letters@usatoday.com. Include name, telephone number, city and country for verification. To view our corrections, go to corrections. usatoday.com. We have updated the guidelines of the conversation. Changes include a brief overview of the process of reduction and explains how to use the button "report". Read more.

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