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FrozenGate by Avery

Post Your Tablet and Thoughts on It!

It is a developing trend of the tablet market to not include SD cards in recent and future models. I'm not really sure what the reasoning behind it is, other than doing so pushes consumers towards the larger capacity models, which perhaps have a larger profit margin. If the pricing scheme of chinese knock-offs teaches us anything; it is that almost all of the tablet market has killer profit margins. The lone fish is of course Amazon, who has flat out published their profit margins and shown that they're barely breaking even in hardware costs; they get their income from locking you into their ecosystem so they make money on the content purchases. This again reinforces why to have a jailbroken fully-functional amazon device is to have your cake and eat it too.
 
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If anyone wants me to, I can check retail profit margins on any tablets sold by Best Buy. If there is interest.
 
That'd be kinda interesting. Like Sig said, they cost very little to make, I just wonder how little that amount truly is
 
Bear in mind, this will show Best Buy's cost, not the manufacturer, but it should give a general idea if you work backwards and guess at Manufacturer margins.
 
Okay I have data for a number of tablets. Anyone who wants the information may feel free to PM me. Since this info could maybe get me fired I don't want to just post it on an open forum.
 
PS - The price was great on the Nexus 9 so I preordered a 32GB model. I can do a mini review when it gets here :) in November 7th :/
 
I have a first generation nexus 7 and still quite happy with it to be honest. Obviously there are newer and better tablets out there (not only the second gen nexus but plenty).

It all depends on what you use it for though. I use my tablet at home mostly for quickly checking something online, facebook trough friendcaster, gmail and such. Those are not tasks that require that much processing power or anything else and keep on working just fine for an older model.

My other main application is in-flight entertainment. In that respect is nexus is pretty decent, i can watch video files in virtually all formats and battery life is good enough to watch at least 3 movies and then play some mp3s as well.

Only thing i think is missing is a slot for a memory card: 32 gb storage is nice, but it would be much better if i could put in another 32 or 64 gb microsd card to bring along more content to choose from when flying.
 
I use an original iPad mini non retina. It's nothing special but I quite like it, it allows me to read forums and play some typical "tablet style" games with no trouble. The big iPads are too heavy for me because you can't easily support them with one hand (well, I guess that changed with the iPad Air). I quite like iOS as well but haven't tainted it with iOS 8!!
 
Got a second gen Nexus 7 for my mom and she likes it for playing those puzzle games. Overall it's a nice size and good price. I felt a friend's iPad at the time and holy hell was that thing heavy. If I have to rest the thing on a surface just to use it for longer periods, what is the point?

I never got a tablet for myself because for anything more than a phone I want a keyboard. I thought maybe it'd be good as a GPS, but I've never gotten around to it. My phone does pretty much everything I want in a tablet too. I do wish that this Nexus 4 had an SD slot in it so that I would actually want to use it for a music player. Maybe I'll have to live with it or buy a new phone once Foobar2000 Mobile is released.
 
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