Please suggest an Android Tablet for development
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| All, I would like to buy and Android Tablet to develop game and applications on it - using monkey. Do you have some (cheap but good) model to suggest, or to avoid ? Thanks in advance, Sergio. |
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| Im using the Nexus 7, which is pretty cool. |
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| Yep same here. Nexus 7 is pretty sweet for testing and playing games on. Reasonable price too. |
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| N7 here as well. Great device. |
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| I too am in the Nexus7Club. Would it be wrong to suggest you don't get one, just so's we all have a different device to test our games on? ... yes... yes, it probably would! Get a Nexus 7. |
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| I think for the money the Nexus 7 is hard to beat. |
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| I have an original Galaxy Tab 7, and I enjoy it still although it's outdated hardware and only Android 2.2. I do testing on it so if it works there, it'll work most anywhere. I would recommend getting Android 2.3 or higher. The Galaxy Tab 2 is at a good price now, but doesn't have as good a screen as the Nexus. I would also say the Nook Tablet, but you may need to root it. |
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| Nexus 7 here as well. It really is a quite a nice tablet. |
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| I also have the original Galaxy Tab 7" and it works amazingly well for the old version of Android and my games run on it perfectly. I've also been able to test my games on the original Kindle Fire and that worked really well. Not sure if you can use it for development however - I had my family member download my games from the Kindle store. |
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| Thanks for the answers so far. The nexus 7 is indeed good, anyway it's also quite pricey.. By the way, what's the difference between a "tablet" and a "tablet pc" ? Is monkey also capable to deploy to such a device ? |
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| Nexus 7 here. Can't go wrong |
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| What's the battery life like on the nexus 7? I have the original Xoom and the battery is terrible on it. I've yet to find any tablet that can beat the iPad on battery. It says 10 hours, and it's 10 hours. |
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| It use to be great, but since the update it has gone down hill... I've been forced to always use airplane mode. |
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| I've run a couple of Monkey demos on the Kindle Fire HD, and that's certainly capable of decent 3D games too. Only about £160, I believe. (My brother's rooted his, though -- not sure if you'd have to do that, but I don't think so, as Amazon's SDK docs cover the process of developing/building for it.) |
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| Versus Touchpad is a nice cheap and cheerful one. |
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| I've read that the Nexus 7 does not accept standard Sim cards - is that right ? And also, on some models there are non-standard plugs, you are forced to buy an extra cable.. Quite disappointed so far. I though that the technology would have made some step forward.. Anyway. I find the Versus Touchpad not bad for the price. But I can't found it on Amazon. The result by the search for "versus touchpad 7" gives me this: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Dcomputers&field-keywords=versus+touchpad+7&rh=n%3A541966%2Ck%3Aversus+touchpad+7 |
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| Mini USB is fine, no need for non-standard cables. Standard Micro SIM too. Nothing non-standard on it. |
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| I finally joined the Android bandwagon by getting myself a Nexus 7 today. Liking it so far. |
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