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Has anyone tried the toshiba thrive tablet?

Poll Results: How good is it

 
  • 50% (1)
    It's good and reliable
  • 50% (1)
    It's slow and unresponsive
2 Total Votes  
post #1 of 8
12/15/11 at 6:05pm
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Just picked one up today and i can say i am not to pleased. Has anyone else tried it?

 

For those wondering i had purchased the beats pros for reviewing and returned them to pick up a tablet. Yes that's how damn expensive beats are.

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post #2 of 8
12/15/11 at 6:07pm

What dont you like about it, I like mine.

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post #3 of 8
12/15/11 at 6:23pm
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Sound quality for the most part. Also i am still a little confused about android. I will get used to it eventually.

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post #4 of 8
12/15/11 at 6:38pm

Yea sound quality through the jack is bad, I get pops & cracks every once in awhile too. But the speakers are actually surprisingly good. But it is a really good tablet for everything else, I was using an Ipad 2 and the thrive is almost as fast plus I like the menu system better. Plus i don't care what anyone says almost every embedded video uses flash and the thrive CAN play them.


Edited by alv4426 - 12/15/11 at 6:40pm
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post #5 of 8
12/15/11 at 6:43pm
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Quote:
Originally Posted by alv4426 View Post

Yea sound quality through the jack is bad, I get pops & cracks every once in awhile too. But the speakers are actually surprisingly good. But it is a really good tablet for everything else, I was using an Ipad 2 and the thrive is almost as fast plus I like the menu system better. Plus i don't care what anyone says almost every embedded video uses flash and the thrive CAN play them.



Thumbs up for flash.

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post #6 of 8
12/16/11 at 1:34pm

It's a good sturdy tablet overall.  The rubber backing is great and that's why the gf took it from me!  I feel safer w/her using that anyway as electronics have a way of slipping out of her hands!

 

2011 was the year of Tegra2 tablets so there's not that much to differentiate it spec-wise but the rubber backing and full-size SD/HDMI did it for me.  The SD card saved me in a pinch when we wanted to get pics from someone's digital camera.

 

I've also got a rooted B&N Nook, Viewsonic Gtablet, Asus W500 (running Windows 8) and multiple other laptops - the Thrive is used the most out of all of them (but mostly by her!)

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post #7 of 8
12/16/11 at 11:04pm
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I'm really starting to appreciate this tablet but it seems rather slow to me.

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post #8 of 8
12/17/11 at 12:41am

Have you tried alternative music players for Android?  I have read several reviews stating that the default player isn't the greatest.  Here are some alternatives:

 

Neutron - https://market.android.com/details?id=com.neutroncode.mp&hl=en

 

Poweramp - http://powerampapp.com/

 

Meridian - https://market.android.com/details?id=org.iii.romulus.meridian&hl=en

 

Rockbox - http://rasher.dk/rockbox/android/

 

Unfortunately I haven't tried any of these yet.  I have a Samsung Galaxy Player coming soon and will test all of these programs later.

 

 

 

 

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