Dell, Samsung Android iPad rivals demo'd For your lunchtime viewing pleasure, we have a couple of items of interest to those of you with an eye on the emerging Android tablet biz. First up, we have a segment from Michael Dell's OracleWorld keynote, which, as we reported yesterday, involved the CEO whipping out the upcoming 7in Streak tablet. Next, here's …
Can't watch the video from here, but I hope that's true - though I don't suppose I'll be getting one anytime soon at the price range touted around.
I still don't get on with auto-rotate features, especially when watching videos or browsing in bed (no dirty thoughts, please). I just don't see the point...
My ebook reader (Sony PRS600 Touch) has a rotate function via a menu command, and that works in exactly the way I think is beneficial without ever being a nuisance.
In the iPad's mail app, for example, both orientations keep the email page a comfortable width, the difference being that in landscape mode you get to see your inbox down the left hand side whereas in portrait there's a button near the top that shows the inbox as a pop up.
Although the iPad would do you fine at the minute, with one of its four hardware switches being dedicated to disabling any device rotation features, I think the next OS update is rumoured to demote that switch to being 'mute' like on the iPhone (a stupid duplication of something you can already achieve with the volume button in my opinion, but what do I know?). Though it'll still be there as a software setting if the iPhone is the model.
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