I have worked with phones and tablets that were running CyanogenMod and
strongly suggest looking at their compatible devices.

It is a wholly new experience from stock roms on most any device it runs on.
On Mar 30, 2012 11:37 PM, <joe@actionline.com> wrote:

>
> I spent a long time researching and comparing tablets, bought a used ipad
> for $300 a month before the ipad3 came out and used ipad prices plummeted
> ... tried it for a while and experienced all of the good and bad aspects
> (plenty of both), so listed it on craigslist for the same price, had lots
> of fanboy buyers so sold it instantly.
>
> Then resumed research and comparisons, tried a dozen different tablets,
> and finally settled on a Motorola Xoom that I bought like new in a box
> with the latest ICS (Ice Cream Sandwich version of Android) for $200 on
> craigslist.  It initially worked much better and much more impressively
> than the ipad, but I have since run into a lot of annoying issues with it.
>  So, the jury is still out for me.
>
> Meanwhile, our daughter and son-in-law have ipad 1 and ipad 2
> respectively, and in spite of the closed source limitations, I have to
> admit that both work vastly superior, overall, to any android tablet.
>
> Motorola tablet tech support has been very responsive, but even so, I
> still can't get the Xoom/android ICS tablet to work anywhere nearly as
> good as either of the older ipads.  Very, very frustrating.
>
> So, I am now very tempted to go back to a used ipad 2 (in spite of my
> disdain for apple) just because it does, indeed, work vastly better than
> any android tablet.
>
> See the spec comparison I initially made between ipad and android at these
> two links:
>
> http://www.upquick.com/simple/android.htm
> http://www.upquick.com/simple/xoom/ivx.htm
>
> Android clearly has better specs.  ipad just works better.
>
>
> >> I'm in the market for an Android tablet. I'm seriously looking at the
> >> Amazon Kindle Fire but the Asus Transformer is not bad either, just a
> >> little expensive. I'd like to not go over $300. Any recommendations?
> >>
> >> A little history, I've previously had the HTC Hero and Samsung Galaxy S
> >> both running Cyanogenmod, and I'd really like something that I can stick
> >> with Cyanogenmod, though the Fire is lacking in some areas, as far as I
> >> understand there is no audio support...
> >>
> >> Thoughts?
>
>
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