Comments on: Vizio Announces Tegra 4 Powered 10-inch Tablet, Smaller Tegra 3 Slate, and 1080p Phone [CES 2013]

By: Sqube

Sqube — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 14:16:00 +0000

Partially covered stereo speakers facing me will probably still give me better audio quality than a single speaker in the back, pointing all those sound waves at my bed.

By: Justtyn Hutcheson

Justtyn Hutcheson — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 13:41:00 +0000

Vizio apparently scrapped them for some reason, just like the US-bound phone they showed off a couple of years ago. As I recall, those tabs were designed right as ICS was released, and it would seem that when they saw the direction Android went with ICS they liked it, and decided to wait for the Android tablet market to mature before they jumped back in.

By: Justtyn Hutcheson

Justtyn Hutcheson — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 13:35:00 +0000

They are using 2 different Android versions. The 4.1.x build on the 7″ tab with the DPI setting they have forces it into the “old” style tablet style (its also why the icons look pretty tiny). The 10″ tab uses 4.2.x, which removes the “old” tablet ui and replaces it with the one that debuted on the Nexus 7, to keep the UI consistent across devices.

By: Justtyn Hutcheson

Justtyn Hutcheson — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 13:32:00 +0000

While not a Chinese company, they do use Asian (though not necessarily Chinese) manufacturing facilities, so he could be quite correct, or at least not far off. There’s no reason to import the handsets to the US just to ship them to another country.

By: Justtyn Hutcheson

Justtyn Hutcheson — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 13:29:00 +0000

Let a fledgling developer with no real experience with Java or C++ dream, eh??

By: michael arazan

michael arazan — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 10:07:00 +0000

Getting sick that this trend of minimal storage, 16 gb, no expandable storage. If Cloud storage had a way of playing games through it from my GDrive account it would be fine. I have 7 games that would wipe half that storage out, plus music and anything else is going to lag the device once storage gets down.

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 07:28:00 +0000

The 7 inch tablet uses the old tablet ui and the 10 inch uses the ui found on the nexus 7… WHY?

By: master94

master94 — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:38:00 +0000

Woo, Vizo entering the smartphone market, wherever they go the price of products goes down and competitors are forced to match Vizio’s dirt cheap prices. I love competition, we consumers always win

By: Bob G

Bob G — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:29:00 +0000

Have you tried to hold a tablet with front facing speakers and not accidentally cover one or both of them up?

By: Bob G

Bob G — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:29:00 +0000

Vizio is NOT a Chinese company. Ugh. Educate yourself, please.

By: Stan Tarnovsky

Stan Tarnovsky — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:06:00 +0000

Tell it to Apple or Microsoft

By: Justtyn Hutcheson

Justtyn Hutcheson — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:20:00 +0000

Ah, gotcha. I was more pointing out that Vizio is not a random “white box” manufacturer, and in fact their customer service is industry-leading in many areas. I would put them at least on-par with Google for their consumer-centric business philosophy, if not more so. If I would trust any current device manufacturer to take care of me and my Android device through updates other than Google themselves, I would trust Vizio. And that include Motorola, despite their now being owned by Google and their recent stellar push for updating their devices.

By: Toys Samurai

Toys Samurai — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 18:58:00 +0000

>> if you sync the AOSP repos, add their blobs and drivers (likely made openly available), everything will work.

As far as I know, it never quite works as smooth as that.

By: Chuck Phillips

Chuck Phillips — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 18:56:00 +0000

What do you mean ‘Headed to China’? Dont you mean ‘Staying in China’?

By: rdeleonp

rdeleonp — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 18:56:00 +0000

Sorry if I was not clear. I was referring basically to whitebox manufacturers, no matter the country of origin. My particular experience was with a couple of ChiPhones, but all I see is the same behavior everywhere: new semi-affordable phones and pads, maybe with the next-to-latest Android release built in, an empty promise from the manufacturer to update it to the latest version available, months go by, nothing happens, model is discontinued, maybe a hacked version of Android is released by enthusiasts, no source available to continue the work with the latest versions, the end. I’m tired of that, and I’m voting with my wallet: *until* all other manufacturers follow Google’s way, I’ll keep on buying pure Nexus devices *only*. Loving my Nexus 4 ツ, looking forward to next year’s “Phone X” and Nexus 7 successor.