Beware of slippery 10.1's!

G

gnatz007

Member

Feb 14, 2009

10

0

• May 20, 2011

• #1

I was reading a book on my spiffy new 10.1 and it slipped off my lap... 20" or so on to the tile floor. Just enough to flip it on its screen. BTW, the tile won

Now to wait until they ship the tab officially, and hopefully a replacement screen is available.

Totally bummed out.

 

Attachments

• 
  photo.jpg

  93.5 KB · Views: 373

X

xavierdylan

Senior Member

Aug 6, 2007

141

3

sydney

• May 20, 2011

• #2

20" is noting. even regular sodalime glass should be able to survive that. that is very disappointing to hear!.
Doesnt look like gorilla glass to me!

 

Ravynmagi

Senior Member

Nov 2, 2010

1,051

201

• May 20, 2011

• #3

Whenever I see Gorilla glass strength demonstrated, it is always using impacts on the front of it. Not on the edges. This tablet looks like it landed on it's edge where the glass is weakest.

Also, Samsung advertises "Easy Grip" as a feature of the tablet. I'm hoping that is just something the Galaxy Tab IO Edition is missing, because it sounds like people that have that tablet have grip problems.

 

S

scmguru

Senior Member

Feb 3, 2007

65

4

• May 20, 2011

• #4

FWIW.. you can probably replace the front glass only (from what it looks like). As far as I recall.. the front glass/touch panel is not bonded to the LCD.

 

UKseagull

Senior Member

Apr 28, 2008

1,352

115

Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 / S7 Plus

• May 20, 2011

• #5

The slipperiness gets a mention here too. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2385353,00.asp

 

oxeneers

Senior Member

Mar 29, 2008

543

85

Long Beach, Calif.

www.oxeneers.com

• May 20, 2011

• #6

I've had the 10.1 since I/O and have had no "slippery" problems. Don't know how you guys are holding it, or not paying attention when you have a 10.1 inch tablet that's worth over $600~ in your lap or hands, but I'm a little bit more attentive.

 

brianwilcox

Senior Member

Dec 3, 2008

75

11

• May 21, 2011

• #7

oxeneers said:

I've had the 10.1 since I/O and have had no "slippery" problems. Don't know how you guys are holding it, or not paying attention when you have a 10.1 inch tablet that's worth over $600~ in your lap or hands, but I'm a little bit more attentive.

Click to expand...

Click to collapse

Way to kick a guy when he's down....and just lost his irreplaceable tablet. Have a heart man.

 

S

smaskell

Senior Member

Jan 31, 2010

479

44

San Francisco

• May 21, 2011

• #8

ouch.. that sucks, dude. I feel for you. I sure hope you can repair it.

 

B

bbeelzebub

Senior Member

May 11, 2010

531

120

Beverly Hills, CA

• May 21, 2011

• #9

Damn, after the video on youtube of the Russian guy beating the hell out of the tablet, You'd think it would survive a 20" fall.

Maybe if you email Samsung, they may take pity on you. Besides, it would be good for their image.