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London A survey of the parish church of St Helen, Bishopsgate.
London A history and architectural account of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea, including King James' Theological College, formerly on the same site.
London An account of the parish church of All Hallows Barking (also known as All Hallows-by-the-Tower). The rest of the parish is surveyed in volume 15.
City of London Describes the parish of Bromley, including the church of St. Mary, the manor houses, and the Old Palace of Bromley. The Introduction gives a detailed account of the circumstances in which the Survey was founded.
Middlesex This first of two volumes on Chelsea details significant buildings in Paradise Row and in Cheyne Walk.
Middlesex Surveys the buildings of Lincoln's Inn Fields, including the building of the Royal College of Surgeons, and Sir John Soane's Museum.
Middlesex The second volume covering Chelsea covers those parts of the parish not included in part 1, with the exception of the Royal Hospital and Chelsea Old Church. It includes accounts of Crosby Hall, Old Battersea Bridge, and buildings in Cheyne Walk, Cheyne Row, Church Street and the King's Road.
Middlesex Surveys the notable buildings of the parish, including the church of St Giles-in-the-Fields, the hospital of St. Giles, and Freemasons' Hall. Lincoln's Inn Fields is covered in volume 3.
Middlesex Covers the historic parish of Hammersmith, including the parish church of St. Paul and Ravenscourt Park.
Middlesex Provides a detailed account of Chelsea Old Church, the parish church of Chelsea until 1819.
Middlesex Covers the parish of St. Leonard, Shoreditch, including the church of St. Leonard, the priory of St. John the Baptist Holywell, and the Geffrye Museum.
City of Westminster This, the first of three volumes on the parish of St. Margaret Westminster, covers in detail the area between Parliament Square and St. James' Park, and in particular Queen Anne's Gate, Old Queen Street and Great George Street.
City of Westminster This volume details some of the buildings on the east side of Whitehall and Parliament Street, particularly the Banqueting House, Cadogan House and Montague House.
City of Westminster This volume details some of the buildings on the west side of Whitehall and Parliament Street, particularly the Treasury and Privy Council Offices, and Downing Street.
City of London The second part of the survey of the parish includes the Custom House and the several quays on the Thames, as well as buildings on Great Tower Street, and Muscovy Court and Catherine Court in the northern part of the parish.
Middlesex Describes the part of the parish at the north end of Whitehall, including the Admiralty, the Horse Guards, and old Scotland Yard.
Middlesex The first of four volumes describing the parish of St. Pancras. It covers the village of Highgate, including Kenwood.
Middlesex Describes the part of the parish between the Strand and the river, including Charing Cross Station, Hungerford Market, Northumberland House, and the chapel and hospital of St. Mary Rounceval.
Middlesex Part 2 details Old St. Pancras and Kentish Town, and includes accounts of St. Pancras Old Church and the Royal Chapel of St. Katharine.
Middlesex Describes the environs of Trafalgar Square, including Trafalgar Square itself, the church of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Old County Hall and the Haymarket.
Middlesex Describes the areas to the east, west and north of Tottenham Court Road, including University College London and Euston station prior to its redevelopment.
Middlesex Describes the area around King's Cross as far north as Camden Town, and includes descriptions of the new St Pancras church and the Foundling Hospital.
Middlesex An account of Brooke House in the parish of Hackney. Built in the fifteenth century, it was held by, amongst others, Thomas Cromwell. Used as an asylum between 1759 and 1940, it was demolished as a result of bomb damage in 1954-5.
Middlesex An account of the history and buildings of these two prominent London establishments, from their origins in the seventeenth century to the twentieth century.
London An account of these two parishes on the south bank of the Thames, from London Bridge to Blackfriars Bridge. It includes descriptions of Guy's Hospital, the Bankside playhouses and Borough High Street.
London A description of these two Surrey parishes, lying south of the Bankside area described in volume 22. It includes accounts of the Old Kent Road, the Imperial War Museum building (formerly Bethlem Hospital) and of St. George's Cathedral.
Middlesex Details the architectural history of the north-western portion of the historic parish of Clerkenwell. It includes Islington High Street and the Angel, the Exmouth Market area, and the Pentonville westwards towards King's Cross. The southern and eastern parts of the parish are covered in volume 46.
London Published to coincide with the Festival of Britain Exhibition of 1951, this volume covers the northern, riverside portion of Lambeth, between Waterloo and Vauxhall Bridges. As well as giving the history of the Festival site itself, the book focuses on the venerable buildings and monuments then scattered among the mostly nineteenth-century houses, dwellings and factories. Chief of these is the Archbishop of Canterbury's residence, Lambeth Palace, which is described and illustrated in detail. Other buildings covered include the Church of St John, Waterloo Road, and some of the eighteenth-century terrace-houses in Kennington Road and Lambeth Road.
London Volume 26 completes the Survey's study of Lambeth parish, taking in Kennington, Vauxhall, Stockwell and Brixton, and the outlying districts of Denmark Hill, Herne Hill, Tulse Hill and West Norwood. Much of this area is classic suburbia of the later eighteenth and nineteenth centuries — late-Georgian terraces in Kennington; detached and semi-detached villas in Brixton, Denmark Hill and Herne Hill. There are two interesting planned estates: Stockwell Park, a Regency 'rus in urbe', and Angell Town, with its heavier, early Victorian manner. As well as houses, the volume also describes many public buildings, churches and chapels, including three Greek-Revival 'Waterloo' churches in Brixton (St Matthew's), Kennington (St Mark's) and Norwood (St Luke's).
Middlesex Spitalfields is well-known for the handsome silk-weavers' houses in and around Spital Square, Fournier Street and Elder Street, with their distinctive weavers' garret workshops. The greater part of this volume is devoted to a detailed account of these houses. The area's principal monument — Nicholas Hawksmoor's masterpiece, Christ Church, Spitalfields (1714–29) — is also studied in detail, and its complex building history explained, making use of the then recently-discovered archives of the Commissioners for Building Fifty New Churches. In addition, the volume takes in the adjoining suburb of Mile End New Town, an area of eighteenth-century origin, largely rebuilt in the late nineteenth century, and at the time of writing undergoing extensive redevelopment for public housing. Spitalfields Market, and the well-known brewery of Truman, Hanbury, Buxton & Company, are also described.
Middlesex Covent Garden has a special significance as the birth-place of modern town planning in London. Inigo Jones's Italianate Piazza, designed in the 1630s for the 4th Earl of Bedford, was unlike anything the capital had seen before, and provided the prototype for the laying-out of London's suburban estates for centuries to come. Based on a detailed study of the surviving fabric and the Bedford Estate's archives, this volume recounts the story of the Piazza's evolution (and eventual redevelopment), including the building of St Paul's Church, the area's principal monument. In addition to the Piazza and surrounding streets, the volume also describes the buildings of the Covent Garden Market, at the time the nation's principal market for horticultural produce, since removed to Nine Elms, Battersea.
Middlesex This is first of the Survey's four volumes to cover Kensington, an area synonymous with Victorian architecture. It concerns the area to the north of Kensington High Street, extending as far as Kensal Green, where large-scale building development took place between the 1820s and 1880s. Here can be traced in some detail the evolution of London's nineteenth-century suburban housing. Among the many examples described are the fashionable Italianate villas of the 1820s and '30s in Campden Hill and Holland Park; the opulent large mansions of 'Millionaires Row' in Kensington Palace Gardens; and the red-brick 'Domestic Revival' artists' houses of the 1860s and after in the Melbury Road area. Victorian ecclesiastical design can also be studied in its many variants, in the area's churches, chapels and convents, including the Greek Revival architecture of Kensal Green Cemetery.
Middlesex At the core of this volume is a study of the estate in South Kensington and Westminster acquired under the auspices of Prince Albert by the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition of 1851, and developed as a remarkable cultural centre for the applied arts and sciences. In many ways the great sequence of world-famous institutions described here – such as the Victorian and Albert Museum, the National History Museum, the Royal Albert Hall, and the Imperial Institute – is a memorial to the Prince Consort's vision. The book sets out his role in the creation of South Kensington as a centre for art and scholarship, and the parts played by others, such as Queen Victoria herself, Captain Francis Fowke, and Sir Henry Cole (the dynamic first Superintendent of the South Kensington Museum). The High Victorian memorial eventually erected to the prince in Hyde Park is also considered. Part of the Commissioners' estate was used for house building, and the volume describes the development here and on adjoining lands of the great ranges of Italianate stucco mansions in and around Queen's Gate, Elvaston Place and Cromwell Road, which today give South Kensington its architectural flavour. The emergence after 1870 of the red-brick 'Domestic Revival' idiom in reaction to all this 'builders' classical'-style housing is here exemplified by half-a-dozen important houses and flats by Richard Norman Shaw.
Middlesex This, the third of the Survey's four volumes devoted to Kensington, describes the southernmost part of the old parish, covering both sides of Brompton Road and then continuing westward between Old Brompton Road and Fulham Road as far as Brompton Cemetery. Renowned in the seventeenth century for the nurseries and market gardens of old Brompton, and the isolated genteel settlement of 'Little Chelsea' in Fulham Road, this area was by the time of the Survey's study in 1983 a characteristic inner west London mix of well-to-do residences, exuberant shops, and streets of humbler but up-and-coming houses. The volume contains some notable set-pieces, such as Harrods, the Oratory, the Brompton Hospital and Brompton Cemetery (each of which is described in detail); but its main subject is the building-over of the various estates here from the early 1800s with streets, crescents and squares of houses, each demonstrative of their period — such as the urbane Regency-style stucco of Pelham and Egerton Crescents of the 1830s and '40s, the rich classicism of The Boltons of the 1850s, and the High Victorian mix of styles in Redcliffe Square and surrounding streets of the 1860s and '70s.
Middlesex This volume completes the Survey's study of Kensington. It describes the expansion of building development south and west towards Earl's Court from the original late-17th-century 'Old Court Suburb' around Kensington Square and Kensington High Street. The area has a great variety of house-types and architectural styles: surviving 1680s houses in Kensington Square; brick-and-stucco Regency terraces in and around Edwardes Square; George & Peto's large and flamboyant Flemish-inspired brick-and-terracotta family homes in Harrington and Collingham Gardens; and later mansion flats. In addition to the residential architecture, the volume also traces the history of the commercial and light-industrial quarter to the west, near the Kensington Canal and West London Railway; the fashionable shopping area on the south side of the High Street, with its well-known department stores, such as Barkers and Derry & Toms; and a rich collection of churches and chapels. The volume ends with a retrospective chapter, considering some of the themes and building trends common to Southern Kensington as a whole.
Middlesex The dockland parish of All Saints', Poplar, encompasses the ancient hamlet of Poplar itself, the old shipbuilding centre of Blackwall, and the former industrial districts of Millwall and Cubitt Town. Poplar's story is one of development and redevelopment on both the grand and the comparatively small scale, driven in the nineteenth century by mercantile interests and manufacturing, and after the Second World War by de-industrialization and the obsolescence of the Thames-side docks. The East and West India and Millwall Docks system is discussed in detail, together with the riverside wharves and works, and the massive regeneration, still in progress, which followed the creation of the Isle of Dogs Enterprise Zone in 1982. Among important individual buildings described is the seventeenth-century church of St Matthias, a rarity from the Interregnum, built for the East India Company. A major subject is public housing, which includes the famous Lansbury Estate, built in association with the 1951 Festival of Britain.
Middlesex This volume describes a district today synonymous with wealth and smartness. The area covered includes the old thoroughfare of Knightsbridge itself, and the triangular swathe of land to its west, north of Brompton Road, bounded on the north by Hyde Park and on the west by Exhibition Road. In addition to the hotels, shops and fashionable houses and apartments for which the area is known today, the volume also describes the fabric of Knightsbridge's more diverse past: the medieval hamlet, straggling out along the road to Kensington; the string of aristocratic mansions, such as Kingston House, that in the eighteenth century lined the south side of the road west of Knightsbridge Green; the famous Tattershall's horse-mart at Knightsbridge Green; the Japanese Native Village of the mid-1880s, from which W. S. Gilbert drew inspiration for 'The Mikado'; and Whistler's legendary Peacock Room at 49 Princes Gate, the greatest of all Aesthetic interiors. Also included is Sir Basil Spence's Knightsbridge Barracks, still providing a Brutalist modern concrete home to the military pageantry of the Horse Guards.
City of Westminster These volumes cover the part of the parish of St James which lies south of Piccadilly, between Haymarket and Green Park. St James's was post-Restoration London's Court suburb, laid out during the reign of Charles II. The story of its development is fully explored, with accounts of Wren's parish church, the aristocratic houses in St James's Square, the theatres on the west side of Haymarket, the gentlemen's clubs of Pall Mall, and some of the West End's most prestigious private palaces, including Spencer House and Bridgwater House.
City of Westminster These volumes complete the Survey's study of St James, describing the northern part of the parish, between Piccadilly and Oxford Street. This is a varied area, lying astride Regent Street, embracing tightly-packed streets in Soho and more orderly developments in the Savile Row area. The principal monument here is Burlington House, which is dealt with in some detail; there are also accounts of the streets of Lord Burlington's adjacent estate. East of Regent Street, the coverage includes Golden Square, the later history of the Piccadilly Circus area, and the formation of Shaftesbury Avenue. The history of James Wyatt's Pantheon, of 1772, is also given. (Note: Regent Street itself is not included, though there is a short account of the rebuilding of the Regent Street Quadrant in 1905-28.)
City of Westminster These volumes describe Soho, the most famous of London's cosmopolitan quarters. The area covered is defined largely by Wardour Street, Oxford Street and Charing Cross Road, and includes Soho Square, Leicester Square, and part of Cambridge Circus. Many of the streets here were first built up in the late 17th century under the building speculators Dr Nicholas Barbon and Richard Frith. Some fine Georgian houses are described and illustrated, for example No. 1 Greek Street and 76 Dean Street. Many well-known West End theatres are also found here.
City of Westminster The Grosvenor family's large estate in northern Mayfair, for two centuries a by-word for wealth and fashion, is described in two volumes of the Survey. This first volume, a general history, traces the administrative and architectural history of the estate from its acquisition by the family in 1677 and its development and redevelopment from the 1720s onwards around the centrepiece of Grosvenor Square, and analyses the reasons for its pre-eminence among London's great private estates. Detailed accounts of the buildings are provided in the companion volume 40.
City of Westminster This volume completes the Survey's study of the Grosvenor Estate in Mayfair by looking in detail at its rich and varied architectural and building heritage. From the fine eighteenth-century houses of Brook Street and Grosvenor Street to the smart inter-war flats of Park Lane, the Grosvenor Estate offers a compendium of some of the best English urban architecture, often by leading practitioners, from Colin Campbell (who lived here in a house of his own design) and Robert Taylor in the eighteenth century, to Lutyens and Detmar Blow in the twentieth. Among the larger buildings described, both standing and demolished, is Grosvenor House, the Grosvenor family's own London mansion, the internationally renowned Claridge's Hotel and the American Embassy's controversial post-war building on the west side of Grosvenor Square.
Middlesex Details the architecture of the southern areas of the historic parish of Clerkenwell immediately to the north of the City of London, including Clerkenwell Green and the church of St James Clerkenwell. It also includes Charterhouse Square, to the east of the historic parish. To the north and east it covers the Northampton Square area, and Rawstorne Street as far the the Angel, Islington. The rest of the parish is described in volume 47.
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It would be difficult for any fashion fan to ignore Cara Delevingne's penchant for dressing up. Cara has previously posted pictures of herself in tiger, rabbit and hotdog costumes via Twitter and now, in this month's edition of Style.com/Print, the model is all zipped up as a sleepy panda. She told the publication "I like to wear it around the house" although she was also spotted wearing one of her collection of animal suits at the Virgin Atlantic Clubhouse en route to New York. Miss D truly is the fancy dress queen.
Cara's costumes aren't limited to animals and food either. She recently took her style cues from Disney's Ariel when she wore a fish tail and bra top to accompany her friend Azealia Banks to the rapper's Mermaids' Ball at the London Aquarium and earlier this year she gave another nod to the sea theme when she dressed as a pirate.
And don't get us started on the runway beauty's love of silly glasses and headgear - or any kind of comical accessory that she can get her hands on. When it comes to looking like a goofball Cara isn't afraid to take a risk, and we reckon her fun loving approach to fashion is a big reason why she's one of this year's rising stars.
Click through the gallery above for our favourite Cara Delevingne fancy dress looks.

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Samsung Galaxy Tab Android tablet
The buzz surrounding Apple's iPad has prompted a rush of me-too tablets hoping to combine its up-to-the-minute spec, with practicality and usability. Unlike the iPad, Samsung's much-anticipated Galaxy Tab also has the advantage of being a phone, and a 3G Android smartphone at that, with huge potential for add-on functionality. …
USB host / USB on-the-go? For plugging in USB devices?
E.g. Pen drives, external hard drives, external DVD/Blu-ray burners e.g. for backup of data?
In other words to make the device behave like a PC in terms of USB connectivity.
At that price I would like to think so.
Not sure if Android 2.2 can support it (yet) even if the hardware is present.
Not quite right
The Galaxy Tab doesn't have 5 home screens. It has between 1 and 9. If you care to use the device for a bit before commenting on it you would realise that you can zoom out (Pinch to zoom style) and then add/delete home pages. This allows you more flexibility.
In case you hadn't come across it you can also zoom out on the actual app pages.
Incidentally I sold my iPad after getting one of these because I prefer the SGT. It's a more usable size and a rather brilliant piece of kit. Evidenced by the fact that 2 weeks later I'm still using it unlike the iPad. Now let the flames begin just because I sold an apple product...
Who copied who?
"The ePub-compatible e-book app looks strikingly similar to Apple's iBooks in oh, so many ways, though there's no on-line store attached directly."
If it's the same app as on the Galaxy S, then it's based on Aldiko, which apparently came out months before iBooks.
Was vaguely interested in one of these, but a combination of price plus Samsung showing off one with a Super AMOLED screen recently has muted that somewhat. So maybe rather than probably now...
P.S. there's a thumbs up and a thumbs down, but nothing which indicates ambivalence I can see. Another sign of the disgusting reduction of all choices into black or white infecting our society etc. etc. and so on. Do you guys write the scripts for Bioware?
chicken, egg
The App that the iBooks look is based on was released on iOS before there was and Android... It was called Delicious Library. Apple fully admitted they used the look/feel and praised on stage the original designer. Did they license it? no, but they didn't have to, it was neither copy written nor trademarked, and getting one on such an idea probably is beyond patentable and the original author admitted that as a reason why he didn't bother to. So they, as in done in Linux communities, simply cited the origin and gave credit where credit was due. He was a little upset he didn't get a phone call first, but does Linus expect a call every time someone ports one of his ideas?
As for the others on Android, they did not do the same. They simply copied. At least one of them openly claimed to be the originator of the idea...
As for your choice: not clicking either = ambivalence. Leaving a comment goes further. B/W would require the clicking of one or the other with no other options or feedback possible. You can leave a comment here without clicking either, thus getting exactly what you want, no?
Both copied Delicious Library
Or possibly a real bookshelf.
Lolita on Jobs' iThingy? Surely it's too hot for his flock?
I find the suggestion that narrow minded ghit who dominates Apple's garden would actually sully the pixels of his pristine toy unbelievable.
Shelves can look different from these
Odd how eBooks usually sit on light-coloured pine shelves. Bookshelves can be made of many different materials. Apple and Samsung didn't add much value in this respect.
Shrink time?
I find the suggestion implicit in your comment that 'Lolita' is somehow
a) pornographic
b) hot
much, much more interesting, and very Humberty at that. Perchance your obsession with the strictures imposed to maintain the virginal purity of Apple's products stems from something much more deep-seated and meatily Freudian than just being a simpleton?
Wife's got an iPhone
but is looking at one of these as the idea bridge between an iPad and the iPhone (she's quite happy to keep it in her handbag and bluetooth it as a phone) - is this the best of both worlds?
As to why she's no going to get an iPad? Don't ask me ;)
Not sure I see the gap...
I own a smartphone - which goes with me everywhere, and a tablet - which stays at home 90% of the time. Given that most people that are going to be interested in a £500 odd quid 'tablet' presumably have taken the smartphone plunge, I don't really see the point. I suppose if I contracted and was in a different hotel every week it might make sense, but all i see is a tablet that's smaller than mine, and a smartphone with camera et al that's too big to use as an every day phone. I'm not saying it's a bad device - it seems very good, just that I don't see the niche for it..
Time will tell, I suppose...
grease resistant ?
"iPad's grease-resistant coating."
First I've heard of it. Our work machines end up looking like they've come straight out of a deep fryer after a little use.
The samsung sounds even worse then ! yuck
All iOS devices currently use an oleophobic coating. Especially when the screen is off, grease is noticeable, but from direct viewing angles, its evidence is greatly reduced. The Gen 1 iPhone did not have this coating, and fingerprints are evident screen on or off. on the 3GS and 4 I have, with the screen on I can't see fingerprints unless I'm looking for them. They're only evident when it;s off and from certain angles.
The connector isn't proprietary
The main connector at the bottom is PDMI (Portable Digital Media Interface), which is an ANSI standard, although admittedly a very new one. So I would expect to see a bunch of third party cables and accessories hitting the market soon.
The 16GB version can be had for £469 currently, and I've found one place giving them away with a contract phone (Galaxy Apollo in this case) for £169.99 plus £35/month for 24 months. Given that the phone contract looks reasonable value with a decent data allowance, and that I'm already spending £15/month on a data only SIM which I can cancel, this looks like a reasonable enough deal.
Overall, I think Samsung have nailed it.
Not PDMI
> The main connector at the bottom is PDMI (Portable Digital Media Interface)
Sadly I don't think it is. Peering inside my Tab's USB cable and looking at which pins are present and comparing them with the Wikipedia PDMI page, they are not the PDMI USB signals. Also, PDMI doesn't have analogue video outputs, and doesn't have any spare pins - yet the photos of the (not-yet-released) video out cable show something that doesn't have enough space for any sort of D-to-A conversion.
Although the Apple plugs don't fit into the Tab, some third-party Apple-compatible plugs do fit (upside down) and work at least for charging.
Apparently the Dell Streak is PDMI. Maybe someone can have a look at the two connectors alongside each other?
Ah, bugger.
Oh, well. I guess the third party market will cater for them well enough, anyway.
"It'll do"
Drop the price £200 and they might sell some. But reading about the flaws it looks as if the product management thought "that will do".
Finger prints showing? "oh well, never mind it will do".
Lock ups when browsing? "it will do".
This lack of quality control or standards is quite common in consumer electronics.
US model DOESNT have phone feature
I dont understand how you can post an article about a device without doing your research and noting that all North American models have been locked by ALL US carriers blocking access to the phone feature that is on all other models across the the global market. Although you have the feature of sending text and picture messaging through your device with your 3g plan .
Re: US model DOESNT have phone feature
We're not reviewing a North American model.
Price wrong
It's now £470 not £550. Quite a difference.
Re: Price wrong
£550 is the SRP - or as close to one as we can get out of Samsung. As the review states, you can get it a lot more cheaply than that if you shop around
Still unfair
We're talking about major retailers now selling it for £470.
You're also basing part of your article on comparing to iPad RRPs, which are pretty much the actual price....
I just don't think it stands up.
re: Still unfair
"We're talking about major retailers now selling it for £470.
You're also basing part of your article on comparing to iPad RRPs, which are pretty much the actual price...."
In the conculsion, it's stated:
"The Tab may not quite match the iPad for luxurious ease of use or build quality, but shop around and you'll soon find it for £40 less than Apple's cheapest 3G version."
I don't see what problem is.
While I do love the iPad, a smaller device (yet larger than the iPhone) would be better in some situations, it is with this in mind that I have been watching the development of these smaller tablets with some interest.
The Galaxy tab certainly ticks the size buttons, but to be honest, my previous experiences with Android puts me off. This is an expensive device, yet Android developments may make it obsolete within six months. I am aware that Samsung have said they intend to upgrade to both Gingerbread and Honeycomb, but if the device does not sell very well, I have no doubt they will renege on this.
I also will be looking very closely at the Playbook, from early previews it certainly appears to have a lot of potential, and is rumoured to have a cheaper price point that the Galaxy Tab.
too many weaknesses
1) Great, it has a phone... It's too big to carry atround as a full-time phone, and I'm not comitting to a contract (and another, separate line) just to have it active. I have a phone, and I can use VoIP on the pad anytime...
2) not-quite-720p video recording means not-quite-able to make it look good running it through a video editor, especially mixed with other 480 and 720p content that does stretch properly to full screen 16:9.
3) poor quality screen, all things considered.
4) Android is still not ready for larger screens. When it is, it will need one bigger than this to hold UI changes and additional features. Doing what Apple did with the iPad is not possible on a screen this small, and apps don;t look good "stretched" to this size. Everyone chided Apple for the iPad being a stretched iPhone, but the reality is this is a stretched Droid and the iPad actually provides additional function for all that space.
5) especially if you're NOT using it as a phone (and why would you, really), then it;s too expensive for what it has. In this size, it should be $150-250 less than the same capacity iPad with 3G.
6) it may be smaller, and theoretically more portable, but its thicker, and since it;s not nearly the size of a page, falls to the bottom of bags, making it even less convenient. If you're gonna need a bag or a case anyway, this is actually TOO small, yet too big to pocket, so it fails on BOTH counts.
7) the iPad can be used landscape with the virtual keyboard reasonably well. Its far from ideal, but it works. This is too small to use both hands to type. Its as useless as an iPhone foe extended text entry, and would require an external keyboard for NetBook replacement.
Everything they argues the iPad wasn't, this isn't as well, and falls short on many things the iPad got right. Its a giant phone, and nothing more. Its exactly what everyone bitched they did not want, and here they are promoting it?
Make it 10 inches. Get Android 3 on it, supporting a real tablet oriented OS and added GUI functions. Make apps specific for larger screen resolution. Make it TRUE 720p resolution, for camera and the screen). Improve the screen. Improve the battery. Make the Phone component optional (or better yet, just improve pairing so it doesn't need one and can simple operate as your phone when its close enough to your phone to do so), and make it truly price competitive to the iPad ($50 less or more, after all these changes).
Shall we try that again...
1)So don't commit to another contract, I've got a PAYG SIM in mine which cost me 99p and I can get PAYG data at £2 per week if and when I need to.
2) You're correct that it isn't 720p video, it is 480p which is recorded at 16:9 so should mix fine with your "...other 480 and 720p content that does stretch properly to full screen 16:9"
3) Comparing side by side my SGT with my fathers iPad we both decided we preferred the screen of the SGT so I'd say that this is a personal thing more than anything.
4) Android may have some distance to go on larger screens but the same could have been said about iOS 9 months ago, the customisations that Samsung have made go a long way toward making this more than just a scaled up version and as more apps on the store become size independent this will matter less and less over time.
5) For a device with a higher spec and more miniaturization work done than the iPad why should it be so much cheaper?
6) Thicker? The very review you are commenting on quotes the SGT as 12mm and the iPad as 13mm... As for it's size meaning it gets lost in bags mine seems to be spending it's travel time either in the front pocket of my rucksack where it fits perfectly or in the back pocket of my jeans, neither of which I could comfortably do with an iPad.
7) Strange, I managed to type this comfortably two handed in landscape mode. Maybe I just don't have huge hands though.
All that said I dumped an iPhone 3G for a HTC Desire 6 months ago and couldn't be happier so what do I know
Skype for Android doesn't support video. That is why it doesn't work on the Galaxy Tab, or any other Android device.
Too little, too much
It's a nice enough tablet, but it's too expensive. £300 would be more sensible. As it is you can get a slightly less polished Chinese tablet with an inferior touchscreen and questionable battery life for £100. That puts a ceiling on the price of this size Android tablet regardless of build quality.
They say history is written by the victors, and this is an example:
"Look familiar? Samsung's [crosseed-out]iBooks[/crossed-out] e-book reader"
Poor old Delicious Library. Ripped off by Apple and apparently forgotten.
It costs the same aa an iPad but is smaller. Strikes me as more expensive than an iPad for what you get really.
ps: Reg posted a PDF of current/upcoming pad devices a week or so ago but I can't find the page. Can anyone help?
Re: Price
I've tried a friend's Galaxy Tab; they were rather miffed I wasn't completely impressed.
It's *way* overpriced for 470 quid, never mind 550. The screen is gorgeous, but several buttons are hard to see black rubber on a black case - FAIL.
The Android sites may offer a wide variety of software, but my first attempts (Doom and Quake) didn't work correctly and it's not as easy to kill programs on Android. Angry Birds worked fine but pops up adverts as you play. I did try an impressive FPS, but frankly I'd prefer a mouse..
We did manage to get it to hang at least once, the OS is clearly a scaled up Phone OS rather than a cut down desktop OS, and whilst it's basically usable for reading e-books on, the Kindle is several orders of magnitude better.
Basically it doesn't seem to do anything spectacularly well.
For the same cost you could buy a Kindle (e-book), cheap tablet (web browsing) and a Nintendo DS (games). Multi device, yes, but each one better than the Galaxy Tab and you'd have change left over too.
USB keyboards etc.
"supplied charging lead has a USB connector at the other end and can
be used as an adaptor to link up peripheral keyboards and the like."
Can you elaborate on that? It's a regular USB A connector. How can I connect a keyboard etc. to that?
Well, if you don't fancy £470, wait 4 weeks
I'm pretty sure we'll see a more realistic price in January, if Samsung even last that long. I can see them panicking and slashing the price before Xebusmass as stock backs up.
I'm sure you could live with it, but being runner up in 3 categories - phone, tablet, reader - means that not going to be first choice for anything. I think even £300 is too much to pay for a Miss Congeniality device.
These features are what Apple should have had .., next time for more loot
The Chinese pads that beat Apple to market had all of the interconnectivity - plug or radio.
Apple dumbed their version down, no doubt so they can come back next year with yet another fund-raising "magical, exciting" version.
Samsung has the street creds for support and service and, IMO, have set a hardware benchmark. As for pricing, they are too high as they headed into a laptop money zone and parents would likely go for the latter.
SD memory accommodation is essential for this type of device.
The size is not all wrong
I mean, this thing is *just* small enough to squeeze it into a pocket for a short while. Like going to the loo in the pub or such. A 10" iPad is something you don't leave unattended and you can't put it in a pocket. Something the size of a paperback is just about stowable, at least if it isn't as thick as this Samsung thing.
OK, I just wanted to say something positive and I couldn't think of anything else!
What's the battery life like?
I've just returned my LG Optimus One (also Android 2.2) 'cos well it's crap! Oh and Android feels half finished, won't sync with Exchange fully, and is impossible to type on...
16:9 screen
isn't a 1024x600 screen actually a 16:10 aspect ratio?
16:9 would be 1024x576.
Not all pixels are square.
In other words, measure the height and width of the screen, not the number of pixels.
Or I'm sure you could be funky and measure the length and angle of a line drawn between opposite corners and do the derivations, but most aren't so masochistic.
"With an eye on the forthcoming Gingerbread and Honeycomb upgrades..."
But have Samsung said that they WILL allow upgrades to these versions when available? Some people still remember the i7500 and its permanent relegation to v1.6.
Too expensive
The Galaxy Tab looks nice but it's way, way, WAY too expensive. It doesn't have to cost that much. It shouldn't cost that much. If the Tab were in the £200-300 range it would be a great device.
I think Google / Android bear some responsibility for the price though. The compatible device document mandates what features a device needs to implement to get the marketplace app and google apps. Things like compass, camera etc. If a device doesn't implement those things it's not compatible by the standard and is ineligible for the apps.
So Samsungs hands were tied to some extent.
I seriously hope Google / Android change the cdd soon. Time really is running out on this. If they don't fix the cdd, more and more devices will jump ship and all platform cohesion will be lost.
An inferior, rushed to market product that's more expensive than the iPad it's trying to gain market share from. You'd really have to hate Apple to get one of these.
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