by "Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
Published 08/17/2017 at 20:18
by "Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
Published 08/17/2017 at 20:18
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I recently purchased a beat-up Sony Xperia Tablet S. Of course, it didn’t have any cables of any kind, just the tablet and keyboard case thingy. I finally received the generic USB cable today and got it fired up and reset. After spending a few hours with this thing I understand why Sony hasn’t exactly taken the tablet market by storm.
I won’t go into great detail here because I hate using this thing already and don’t want to type on it a minute longer than I have to. The unit has a proprietary connector for USB and charging but that is unaccessible whilst using the keyboard case. And the keyboard case has a different proprietary connector for charging, and for the life of me I cannot find a source for this stupid cable.
The keyboard connects automatically when the tablet is in the properupright position, but its hard to keep it in that spot, so itrepeatedly toggles between physical andvirtual keyboards. Ad even wheni turn thekeyboard off via the two key option it stilll resets itself andturns onwheni dont wantitto. And as you can tell from theprevious few sentences it doesnt seem todo what I wantregardingspacing andpunctuation. Im notgoing to press the spac bar twice for a singlespace. Maybefor watchingthe occasioanl youtube video this thing might beok, but fordoing anythingof substance I have plenty oftoher more usable devices that wontdrive me toinsanity. This thing mightjust endup like theSonycamerathati tried to repair yesterday. To keep me from tinkering withit further I smashed itintoa thousandpieceswith a ballpeen hammer so that I wouldnt be temptedto buy onemore part andattesmptinganother repair.
If I haventsaid it in thelastfws minutes, fuckouSony y...
"Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To" (murdersofa)
08/17/2017 at 20:35, STARS: 0
ASUS Transformer TF101. Excellent device. Super long in the tooth by now but I have one running Android... 5? I think? And it does a wonderful job of it. I’m curious if I could get 7.1 on it... the keyboard is certainly usable, and the battery life was pretty great and they’re super easy to root. Probably not too old to still be tinkered with, actually, but it suffers from the same “proprietary charging cable” issue the Sony has. Ugh.
"HammerheadFistpunch" (hammerheadfistpunch)
08/17/2017 at 20:57, STARS: 0
Sony = the worst.
"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
08/17/2017 at 21:15, STARS: 0
I like my PS3, but pretty much everything else they’ve made in the last 30 years has been a disappointment. I remember when they actually made good, desirable products but those days are long gone.
I remember buying a Sony cordless phone instead of that cheap VTech crap, and when I opened it for a repair saw that it was made by VTech. Same thing with the DVD burner. They are just resting on their laurels.
I remember when they were good. My first sight of HDTV at a demo when I worked at DirecTV International back in the ‘90s was by Sony and it was stunning. And I still have my WM-10 Walkman from the early ‘80s and it still kicks ass. I did have to replace the belt, but that’s been it in 35 freaking years.