Google shows off Android 3.0, the 'Entirely for Tablet' Honeycomb (video)

Re:Google shows off Android 3.0, the 'Entirely for Tablet' H... by mike-cardwell on Thursday January 06, 2011 @07:22AM (#2075000)

I class things like "writing an email" as content creation too, and it doesn't look like a pleasant experience on a tablet. You could write a sentence using one hand whilst holding it in the other, but if you want to write a paragraph or two, you really need to put it down on a surface and then hunch over the device to type down on it. I say "hunch", because the screen is flat rather than at an angle when you place it on a surface, unlike a laptop.

I'm not considering the fact that you can plug a tablet into a hardware keyboard because if I had a tablet I certainly wouldn't want to carry a keyboard round with me just in case.

I'd rather just carry my laptop around for content creation, and use a combination of my laptop and mobile phone for content consumption.

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Re:Google shows off Android 3.0, the 'Entirely for Tablet' H... by mike-cardwell on Thursday January 06, 2011 @07:30AM (#2075018)

I really hope somebody comes up with an innovative solution to add a hardware keyboard to a tablet. Something along the lines of a very thin hidden internal keyboard which you can pull out of the bottom, and then bend to an angle so you can place it flat on a surface with the screen angled towards you. I'd barely need a laptop anymore then.

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