Bob Axtell wrote:

>      What do you guys use your Android Tablet for besides playing games?
> My wife bought me one, and I can read my notes from the office PC, BUT...

One of our local suppliers had android computers about the size of a large
thumb drive  that plugged into any HDMI  port on a television. It had a
micro sd slot and a couple USB slots and WiFi. Gotta have one those and
a wireless keyboard / trackball.  It is running Ice Cream Sandwich.

I did a build of some of our tools over the Christmas break to see what
was involved in using this as a small development environment.

It works but isn't wonderful. The biggest thing I found was it was much
slower than expected. This seems to be caused for a couple reasons.
Multi-tasking is essentially absent mass storage buffering and caching is
not anywhere as well implemented as windows and other operating
systems.

The same code running on a ASUS Android Tablet was marginally better.

Android seems to have come a long way in the last couple years and
certainly works well for net searches and entertainment. As a
development system still has a way to go.

We have no immediate plans to market tools that run on Android
but it is something we will revisit every few months.

Walter Banks
Byte Craft Limited



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