[TriLUG] Tablet Recommendations

[Ken MacKenzie via TriLUG]

In the case of the Samsung Galaxy series it is a little bit carrier and a
little bit samsung.  Samsung is pushing their own app store and of course
touch wiz on top of android as well as knox and the locked bootloader
(making rooting the devices a mix of very difficult to next to
impossible).  It is getting better.  My S4 from verizon had a lot more junk
than the S7 (again Verizon) that I recently got.

To be fair I am really happy with the S7, we got a BOGO on it where we got
one s7 free as well as a galaxy tablet.

Side note for the android fans, check out the app Automate, as in the
programmable flowchart automation (similar to tasker) that is in the play
store.

On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 5:10 PM, Glenn Hennessee via TriLUG <
trilug at trilug.org> wrote:

> Are you sure the bloatware wasn't installed by your carrier?
> On May 2, 2016 2:05 PM, "Matt Flyer via TriLUG" <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>
> > I sent the link to my parents.  I was surprised to see "bloatware" listed
> > as a minus on the Samsung devices and found that to be unfortunate.  I've
> > been rather happy with the two Samsung phones (Galaxy S4 and now an S6)
> > but they do have a lot of bloat applications.  For that reason, I was
> > leaning towards their Tab S2.  In part I figured that this was with any
> > carrier provided OS and to get rid of it I would need to root the phone
> > and put something like Cyanogenmod on it.  Didn't really expect that with
> > a tablet.
> >
> > I think that they are looking mostly for something to play games and run
> > apps on rather than real productivity.  I, myself, like the idea of the
> > Ubuntu device, but I agree that it would be an unnecessary frustration
> for
> > a non savvy user.
> >
> >
> > > a Ten Best review of Android tablets:
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://www.techradar.com/news/mobile-computing/tablets/15-best-android-tablets-in-the-world-905504/1
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