{"id":9393,"date":"2018-01-22T00:01:21","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T08:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=9393"},"modified":"2018-01-20T11:42:49","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T19:42:49","slug":"where-are-the-android-tablets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=9393","title":{"rendered":"Where are the Android Tablets?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t recall suffering this type of frustration in a long time. Probably back when I was trying to find SCSI devices in the late 1990s and the standard was just starting to sunset.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nSCSI was a peripheral standard, eventually replaced by USB &mdash; to the benefit of all mankind. Yet, when the standard evaporated, it left a lot of SCSI peripheral users with no other choice but to abandon their hardware investments. That sucks.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s understandable that some technologies die; better technologies replace them. Yet, for the past few months, I&#8217;ve been looking for a new Android tablet and nothing new is on the market. Has the Android tablet&#8217;s time on Earth come to an end?<\/p>\n<p>Samsung&#8217;s &#8220;current&#8221; line of Galaxy Tabs is almost a year old. The S3 is the newest Tab and it came out last April. The Tab A is older. I see these devices online, in phone stores, and at Costco. That age, however, leads me to believe that Samsung is close to offering a new line of tablets. Yet, they showed nothing at CES.<\/p>\n<p>Chromebooks are available. Google has one and so does Samsung. But they&#8217;re pricey, almost the same cost as a full-power Windows laptop. I just want a larger version of my phone that I can use to watch video, play music, and the most important task of relaxing with some games.<\/p>\n<p>Apple has new iPads galore. So, when a tech company famous for Android tablets doesn&#8217;t show something at CES, that makes me believe that they&#8217;re working on something fabulous, like a folding Galaxy Tab, which I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=9318\">predicted<\/a> earlier this month. I saw some teaser photos of a foldable &#8220;Galaxy X&#8221; phone &mdash; but no tablet.<\/p>\n<p>So where the hell are the new tablets?<\/p>\n<p>Are the manufacturers waiting for something big (folding screens?) or is the Android tablet market lowering itself into that fuzzy warm orange dusk of technologies past?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since my Pixel C tablet died, I&#8217;ve been looking for a replacement. So far, <em>nada<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-9393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main","tag-android"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9393"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9398,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9393\/revisions\/9398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}