Carl Foxmarten (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
carlfoxmarten) wrote2012-01-24 04:49 pm
carlfoxmarten) wrote2012-01-24 04:49 pm
More Android tablet notes
I think the "weeeeeeee!" factor has died down by now, and I've started actually using my new tablet for real now.
Though I haven't done any real "work" with it, mostly playing games and browsing the web...
First, a couple of gripes.
Since this was such an inexpensive tablet, it uses a pressure-sensitive screen instead of capacitance, so it's not quite as accurate as it could be, but with the advantage of using almost anything I want for a stylus.
Also since it was so inexpensive, it's running a very old version of Android (1.5 versus the latest 3.2 or so that they're up to now), and as my development kit only goes back to 2.1, I can't write software for it that way.
(it's also underpowered, but I can live with that, for now)
As for games, I've found a couple that I find fun to play:
I've found a note-taking application called Note Everything that I've found easy to use.
The web browser I'm rather disappointed with, though.
I use browser tab a lot, and the built-in browser doesn't handle that very well.
So far, I haven't found a good replacement either.
All in all, a little disappointing, but still workable and quite usable.
Though I haven't done any real "work" with it, mostly playing games and browsing the web...
First, a couple of gripes.
Since this was such an inexpensive tablet, it uses a pressure-sensitive screen instead of capacitance, so it's not quite as accurate as it could be, but with the advantage of using almost anything I want for a stylus.
Also since it was so inexpensive, it's running a very old version of Android (1.5 versus the latest 3.2 or so that they're up to now), and as my development kit only goes back to 2.1, I can't write software for it that way.
(it's also underpowered, but I can live with that, for now)
As for games, I've found a couple that I find fun to play:
- Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection is a suite of tiny games that can be ported to almost any platform. You can find an Android version here or on the Android Market.
- Proximity, an interesting variation of Reversi.
- Pentas, a variation on Tetris, where you place 5-piece blocks into a grid.
- Pentas: Stratum, a variation of Pentas where you stack the blocks upwards on one another instead of letting them fall down.
I've found a note-taking application called Note Everything that I've found easy to use.
The web browser I'm rather disappointed with, though.
I use browser tab a lot, and the built-in browser doesn't handle that very well.
So far, I haven't found a good replacement either.
All in all, a little disappointing, but still workable and quite usable.