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Only showing non-working mockups and a "look but don't touch" demo unit at the press event for a device that's supposed to ship on Nov 19th makes me highly susp
by ajg1977 16y ago
Only showing non-working mockups and a "look but don't touch" demo unit at the press event for a device that's supposed to ship on Nov 19th makes me highly suspicious.
For this thing to succeed it needs a killer web browser, and I suspect it doesn't have one.
- stumm 16y agoWouldn't it get that through the android OS?
- ajg1977 16y agoIt will get 'a web browser', but the experience will depend on the hardware and how it's been adapted to the larger screen. E.g - Is it just the stock Android browser scaled up? - Does it support tabs, how many? - HTML5 video? - How is the scrolling / zooming performance? - How much memory does it contain? How likely are background pages to be flushed? - What's the clock speed? How fast do pages load? What's the JS performance like?
- borism 16y agoI guess you're an iOS user. Froyo has an excellent browser. Experience is very much like with any desktop one. It has windows instead of tabs. I don't think it will support HTML5 video, but it has Flash which works flawlessly (and no unreasonably high impact on battery life). That said, it all depends on decent CPU like Snapdragon, which I don't think nook will get. BTW, nook's own browser is very sucky right now.
- sprout 16y agoIt has to have a pretty modern WebKit build. Compare to Windows Phone 7's IE7/8 hybrid...
- rbanffy 16y agoEven TVs these days have better browsers than Windows Phone 7. It's not even funny.
- koenigdavidmj 16y agoEven the B&W Nooks have a WebKit-based browser that works fairly well (renders Facebook usably), although the UI is a bit clunky. JavaScript is a bit slow, though, so I hope that the hardware is beefier.
- rbanffy 16y agoAnd it can't log in to HN (not, at least, through the built-in non-OpenID authentication)