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Old Aug 14, 2012, 12:17 PM
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The Lenovo does look good but I don't want Windows, I want Android; I'm so tired of Microsoft and ready to be done with them and use Google already for my browser. I have a Barnes and Noble Nook and looked at their new tablet in my consolidation considerations but it's the 7 instead of the 10 inch one and that's too much like a phone, my Blackberry screen driving me crazy as well as costing me an arm and a leg.

The "true" full sites don't fit well on a phone, you can imagine, and the cost to the phone user of all that non-workable (you get X's instead of images, for example) and need to scroll; you have to write a program to get things to adjust for the phone's size instead of the "full size" one can expect on a computer and not take up more "size" than 3G can handle for size as well as speed. Think about your phone data limitations "full" means more bandwidth (your phone does not have a zillion gigabytes of storage for programs AND data like your computer does); it's streamingish and the better your phone can do that, the more expensive it is for you; you want more expensive? :-) Looking at my own, un-rewritten-for-phones sites on my Blackberry screen, I almost get nauseous, the "result" is so not usable.

Think too about it as a computer program to make a web site on a computer versus a different program to make a web app on a phone; the web site is not quite the same as the web app, not just because of the operating systems with their different browsers (Microsoft and Apple versus phones/iPad or Android); a PC pretty much is accustomed to doing what Microsoft/Windows "decided" with their GUI and browser (remember the Explorer versus Netscape wars that Netscape lost; one use to have to design web sites to work on both browsers?) well, now you have a totally different technology; we're not talking just smaller, but wholly different to fit/work on phones and iPads/tablets. 3G (and starting on 4G) is not "cable"/dial-up/fios and does not work the same.
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