could be stinkbugs?

Thinking about going with the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2. Good refurb deal on newegg. My Sony Tablet S should go north of $200 on ebay, so the deal is almost a break-even. Can't stand the wifi on the Sony Tablet. Any drawbacks to the samsung tab? I guess when I ebay my sony tablet, I guess I should disclose that these things are notorious for bad wifi though.

played with one in the store. its pretty bad ass

Bucky wrote:Thinking about going with the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2. Good refurb deal on newegg. My Sony Tablet S should go north of $200 on ebay, so the deal is almost a break-even. Can't stand the wifi on the Sony Tablet. Any drawbacks to the samsung tab? I guess when I ebay my sony tablet, I guess I should disclose that these things are notorious for bad wifi though.

If it's an issue that plagues all of that model tablet, I wouldn't disclose it. The reviews are out there, and it is what it is. Down talking it in your auction might result in a lower price for you, and people might take it to mean that your unit has worse wifi than the typical sony tablet. If it were me that's how I'd go about it.

Therein lies the rub...there's an abundance of complaints out there, but some say "DERR IT WORKS JUST FINE FOR ME!!!". So I'm not sure if it's 100% of the units.

Ahh, screw it, you're right. They need to know what they're buying. A quick google came up with many hits. Here's phorever's review.

You need to mount a wifi extender on the antlers of the majestic m00se.

A M00se once bit my sister ...

No realli! She was Karving her initials on the m00se with the sharpened end of an interspace t00thbrush given by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian m0vies: "The H0t Hands of an Oslo Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge M0lars of Horst Nordfink".

Mynd you, m00se bites Kan be pretty nasti ...

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JUburton wrote:

jamiethekiller wrote:

JUburton wrote:

Slowhand wrote:I handled those TVs for a few years when I worked at Best Buy, and I can tell you it doesn't take much to crack a plasma screen. All it has to do is tip over and fall, and you'd never know it by looking at the box. Also, simply laying it down can crack the screen (happens more than you'd think)

Hmm, that makes sense. I think they're mostly repackaged so maybe they're not packaged well enough in the secondary packaging.

Send it back and get another. I'm sure they'll bend over backwards to accommodate you since it was an amazon warehouse deal and not a third party dealer.

Yeah, that's the plan...get one for the same price delivered soon and see if I can manage a discount for my 'troubles'.

Nope! Would only give a refund. The 'very good' warehouse ones are now up to 1430 from the 1190 I paid. Sick of this.

yeah didn't think the warehouse would do much. they probably unload them all to some asshole who sells them on ebay if nobody buys them.

Went last night and bought my new ipad. It was an open box 64gb, for $424. It was returned to the store because they changed their mind and decided they wanted the LTE version instead. As far as I can tell they never even really fully set it up, it was still on ios 5.xx when I turned it on. Sweet. Then I went to the apple store and got a warranty repalcement for my iphone. Still waiting on all my stuff to download back to my iphone, with the hotel's shitty wifi I only got through a few apps even over night. The ipad though I can't download anything to becuase it says I'm over my device max, and apparently the only way to fix that is to go on a computer with itunes and deactivate my old iphone and or ipad that I'm no longer using. So that's dumb.

Not so bitchin'

more like the bitchin' 'bout gadgets thread, amiright?

Before last summer, I asked the school if I could borrow one of their few ipads for the summer, but they were already promised to others. When I came back this fall, they bought me a bamboo tablet to help me do some things I wanted to do. Now they decided to get ipads for my whole class, one per student, and I'm supposed to design a study to compare their effectiveness to the samsung smartboards that a few other teachers are getting. The ipads come with an apple tv, an improved board interface, and a separate wi-fi from the rest of the school. I'm also trying to talk them into getting a booster for the wi-fi so I can take the ipads into the woods for our ecology studies.

So psyched.

Monkeyboy wrote:Before last summer, I asked the school if I could borrow one of their few ipads for the summer, but they were already promised to others. When I came back this fall, they bought me a bamboo tablet to help me do some things I wanted to do. Now they decided to get ipads for my whole class, one per student, and I'm supposed to design a study to compare their effectiveness to the samsung smartboards that a few other teachers are getting. The ipads come with an apple tv, an improved board interface, and a separate wi-fi from the rest of the school. I'm also trying to talk them into getting a booster for the wi-fi so I can take the ipads into the woods for our ecology studies.

So psyched.

Depending on how far the woods are, you might be better off with a mobile hot spot. Only 5 devices can connect at a time though.

Bill McNeal wrote:

Monkeyboy wrote:Before last summer, I asked the school if I could borrow one of their few ipads for the summer, but they were already promised to others. When I came back this fall, they bought me a bamboo tablet to help me do some things I wanted to do. Now they decided to get ipads for my whole class, one per student, and I'm supposed to design a study to compare their effectiveness to the samsung smartboards that a few other teachers are getting. The ipads come with an apple tv, an improved board interface, and a separate wi-fi from the rest of the school. I'm also trying to talk them into getting a booster for the wi-fi so I can take the ipads into the woods for our ecology studies.

So psyched.

Depending on how far the woods are, you might be better off with a mobile hot spot. Only 5 devices can connect at a time though.

5 might be enough. If they keep adding students to my class (the class I teach is becoming more popular with IB students around the world), then maybe it won't work. I'd like to have 3 or 4 students per group. The woods, at least the ones we'd use 90% of the time, are all within 200 meters from the school.

Thanks, I'll check into it. I figured I'd give apple a call and see what they have that might work.

If 5 isn't enough- and you have a cellular data signal where you intend on going- you can use a battery-powered wifi router, and plug a 4G modem into it. Gets around the limitation of the mobile hotspots.

bill you sucker, don't you know Apple. is giving away hundreds of OPEN BOX Ipads that they can't sell???