Streak or Acer a100?

[Moises08]

Hey, folks!
I'm facing to a hard dilemma. I can't consider, whether i schould pick an a100 piece from Acer or Dell.
I've read a ton of topics about dell on my favorite xda, so the shortcommings of this one are for me clear:
1. Display. For me that isn't a major shortcoming, cause i'm blind, i have a -4.5 diopters and 'm currently without glasses :sad:
2. Battery. At first, i wanna mention, that i want a non-3g version, cause AFIAK rumors are saying that it sucks the battery less. I know about "removing phone.apk, connectivity.apk and stuff like that" tweek, and anybody, who had tested this, mentioned that it doesn't give a drastic result ("4 times more"- the title of that toppic says :huh:, thats a little bit naive.)
I don't wanna my unit to last 2 hours with a simple WiFi browsing.
But, one user at well-known here russian forum 4pda (i'm from Moscow) told me a riddicously unbeliveable thing. He told me, that his WiFi-only unit lasts 2 days (!!!) without switching WiFi off, with 3 hours playing Samurai 2 and reading an Ebook. Is he F<>ing kidding me?!

As for Acer, this is kinda new piece, without any deacent information and any clear future situation with community. But the one drowback of this we know.
Again, this is a stupid lack of battery! Why?!
Another question: why the Acer's unit have TWICE as small battery as Dell's Streak 7 (1530 mah vs. ca. 2800) and lasts longer(8 hours of Web-browsing)?! Or the person on 4pda has done the apk's trick and he's right?

I don't realy know.
Please, folks help me. And i'm sure for many other people this information will be usefull.

Sorry for the maybe too strong emotions and for a little bit wrong spelling.

Thank you.

 

[otnos]

Let me share my experience with you. I have the wifi ds7 running Stockrom 2.2.2. The only thing I have the done is root it and remove the phone & telephony apk. I set my power setting to "aggressive" so that the data connection shuts down when the ds7 is in standby. I use my ds7 mainly for web browsing and I get 8-9 hours battery life. This is good enough for me because I charge it each night. I hope this help you.

 

[Moises08]

I use my ds7 mainly for web browsing and I get 8-9 hours battery life.

You are usually browsing with WiFi, right? And how much time of thouse 8-9 hours do u browse?

So, another question, everybody knows, that Honeycomb has a eternal bar at the bottom. And Dell Streak has 800x480. Do the most games run properly on Honeystreak?

However, thank you, Otnos for your reply. But i want to hear any other oppinions, cause we all have a little bit different use conditions

 

[medseven]

The Acer A100 is a year newer than the streak 7, its motherboard, chipset, screen, wifi adapter, will all be slightly newer, more energy efficient than the streaks.

It also comes with honeycomb 3.2, so it wont be putting any of its energy trying to ping (looking for) a mobile network. Even the wifi only version of the streak 7 does this, being android 2.2 (a phone built OS), one of the benifits mentioned of honeycomb for the streak 7 in all the 'honeycomb coming for streak 7 articles' you might read. So you won't need to worry about the phone.apk and all that anyways. (With the wifi version airplane mode would of done it anyways!)

"Who brings out a wifi only gadget that try's to ping mobile phones networks, for any reason, then tries to pass off blame to the way the used the Android linux code"

I've been considering the move to an Acer for a while now. Theres about £50 difference in it here in the UK. These are portable touchscreens, seeing as they have the same function, the ONLY difference i see really is the screen and the battery. There is nothing else.

You say the screen resolution isn't that much to you. Not on numbers maybe, but this is nothing but a screen you touch, and will be doing for however long you use it. All have the same function, so really screen res and battery are the only difference. And trust me, you can tell, it may not sound a lot when looked at with numbers; 800×480 vs 1024x600. But that % difference on a small screen makes a huge difference.

As far as battery is concerned, the battery of the dell may have 40% more (mah) than the Acer. And I believe your friend. I can get almost 2 days out of my streak with airplane mode and the cpu underclocked with general wifi use. But despite the Acer's battery is smaller, most the components are a year newer and alot more energy efficient. So for a general use I believe they would be about the same, but the Acer's screen would look nicer the whole time. !!

At the same time, if you were deciding to play games or watch movies the whole time, the things that will push and pull from the cpu, gpu and tegra 2 chipset, you will get more time out of the streak 7 and its bigger battery. The tegra 2 setup draws as much power as it did a year ago when asked.

I've been a proud owner of the streak 7 for nearly a year now. And I cant say its a bad toy. Its a fun unit. But I don't see Dell in the tablet market. They have released 2 (or 3 if you count the streak 5). I see them now as a company who try and catch their PC and laptop market with the and cash in with the occasional tablet. And yet cannot do it aswell.

Acer, have made many and many, and are obviously putting a lot of resource all year into doing so. Android tablets and windows. They have been making tablets a lot longer than dell, and have made more, and will be doing so. Dell will use their PC/Laptop brand to sell one every now and then and cash in.

And I know when I come to upgrade a year or two from now, the Acer I have will be worth more, and I will spend that time looking at and touching a nicer touch screen!!! That can do the same. Maybe with a little less battery life when im pushing with games. And there's a guaranteed fact I will get more software upgrades and support.

"Who brings out a wifi only gadget that try's to ping a mobile phone network, for any reason, then tries to pass off blame to the OS they choose to use, and even after a year of potential update's still havn't sorted it"

 

[Moises08]

Thank you for such great and helpful post, medseven.

 

[medseven]

No problem. As you can guess i've been thinking about the same lately.

 

[Moises08]

Or should i pick the Playbook?
There is no useable Android java maschine on it currently, but it defenitlly have one in the future.

And how about portability?

 

[l3r377]

Just wanted to add some info. The battery is fairly decent in the streak, I was able to watch 3 2hr movies and still had juice to browse the web for a bit (left wifi on while the movies were playing). HoneyComb (3.2) can be easily flashed to the Streak 7, and its pretty stable (just look for honeystreak, it gets updated pretty darn frequently). As far as dell releasing it with 2.2.2 and not updating it, its actually not their fault. From what I understand either google or t-mobile will not allow them to release 3.2, can't get a straight answer from them. But, Dell has had working versions of 3.2 for it for MONTHS but are unable to release it.

The A100 looks like a great tablet, but its $100+ more than the Streak7 in the states (Streak7 can be had for $200-250 while the 16GB A100 is $350+). I would much rather have the nicer screen on the A100, but it's just not worth the price difference. Also, the Streak 7 doesn't have HDMI while the A100 has micro-HDMI out.

 

[Donmotobike]

Or should i pick the Playbook?
There is no useable Android java maschine on it currently, but it defenitlly have one in the future.

And how about portability?

Dont buy anything right now wait fot black friday all theses tablets will beon fire sale or save your money for ipad 3 ultimate tablet...plus chicks will dig you lol