Sony Tablet ICS April/May (UK&Europe) My Thoughs & Feelings + more

[OpOpOpla]

OK lets start right from the beginning:

Hi all, (long post SORRY!!)

I am a huge Sony fan! (I wont say was as you are just about clinging on to me by a thread)

From the MDRZX700's which I reviewed very favrouable on youtube, to the Vita. From My TV and amp to my Xperia S.. I have collected lots and more along the way, my friends have dubbed me the sony wh*re but im getting just ever so slightly disapointed now...

I dont have a problem with different roll out dates for software nor do I have a problem with my country getting any software updates later than others. (I do live in the UK and according to certain reports Sonys sale are made up greatly from the UK's custom).

What I have a problem with is the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing mentality. When Sony US decided to release ICS in April for USA Tablet S devices it should have spoken with other divisions of sony around the world before making the statement that ICS was been rolled out. And then an official line should have been agreed upon.

This head in the sand attitude adopted by sony is what is really driving fans mad.

I can see Sony is on a bit of a turn around at the moment with some interesting ideas set in place for their phones and I can see they are making a push to reclaim the top spot after maybe a slight wobble. What appear to be tiny things like a software update really matter, dont let lack of communication be what slips up sony.

I dont want to speak on the behalf of others as I dont have the right, however all I would greatfuly ask for is:

Upfront and clear communication, On your select ap page here in the UK you still have posts on it from last year..!! Just looks dated someone needs to work on info/bumf news and post weekly!!! Even if its  just to say check out our new Xperia GX etc..

Make everything gel together better, I can see you are trying to do this with the passport idea but its still messy..

Software with Sony plays a key part (not talking android here) and in the past I mself who studied electonic eng at uni have felt like banging my head against a screen or two.

Learn to commuincate with your customers, be creative and inspirational.. Lead dont follow. You can take Apple etc on you just need the right people and at this moment in time I think this is whats sadly missing. Men in suits, rather than out of the box thinkers who can commuincate with the many rather than the stuffy old few.

OK OK I have waffled enough now...

All im saying is learn to communicate better because if you can almost loose an utter sony nut like me then you can easily lose anybody.

(For anyone who wants to add I can root it, Yip I can but I dont want to.. I am happy to have a warrenty and doing so voids it. Also is it really my responsibility? If we take a look at ICS on the Tablet S it does from early reports fix things that should have been fine with the tablet S in the first place like its ability to forget your Wifi in a second. I should not have to work around problems a bit like the flash viewing/dont get me started on adroids fragmentation with so many other devices).

To the moderator I hear sony dont really view these sites, I do guess that you must commuincate to them from time to time so if you wouldnt mind stressing the feelings of the forum that would be great.

to finish, this is more of a plea really to Sony but i feel we a treading a never ending circle... I dont really want to go else where.. start to listen...

thank you for your time sony and the forum

sorry to rant!!!

fingers crossed one light bulb goes on @ Sony HQ and  an exec think I see it all we needed to say was we are just finalising the Europe update lets keep the fans updated... also never be affraid to say sorry its not a mark of weakness its a sign youve listened

im also interested to hear others thoughts on this subject...

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[Thalamus.]

OpOpOpla wrote:
IThalamus do you know if it was just us UK or the whole of Europe? dogman a user of this forum has nothing yet in Finland, any info for him...?

To be honest I don't know about Finland but I can't see why the ICS update would not be made available to all European tablet owners, other European countries are saying it's available so it's gradually spreading..

[OpOpOpla]

thought as much, infact said similar... turns out they have it, btw do you know if we can grab swipe to type on the tablet s? just picking your brains... I'll go look for a third party app if not.

[Thalamus.]

OpOpOpla wrote:
btw do you know if we can grab swipe to type on the tablet s? just picking your brains... I'll go look for a third party app if not.

No not that I'm aware of..

[theheadofabroom]

And as if by magic - just as I'm about to do a factory reset it becomes massively more responsive - I'm guessing it was doing some indexing on the many gigabytes of media I have on my SD card - before ICS I only had a paid-for music player and an adware video player that coudl access it...

CHROME!!!

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[Thalamus.]

Thalamus. wrote:
OpOpOpla wrote:
IThalamus do you know if it was just us UK or the whole of Europe? dogman a user of this forum has nothing yet in Finland, any info for him...?
To be honest I don't know about Finland but I can't see why the ICS update would not be made available to all European tablet owners, other European countries are saying it's available so it's gradually spreading..

dogman3347 wrote:
yes yes yes, updated, device xxxNO/S 

Seems the update has made its way to Finland at last..

[theheadofabroom]

I can confirm that you can get Swype on here. I am typing this on Swype in chrome

Edit - back to the computer - a real keyboard is still so much better: try this link

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[Thalamus.]

Pretty sure you can't without downloading an additional App.?

[Teatimeoclock]

Thanks God!!

I have just got my tablet updated to ICS.

Maybe the point was that UK is 1 hour ahead the rest of Europe ;-).

Thanks to all.

Pedro

[theheadofabroom]

this tablet feels awsome to use again. stutters a lot less frequently, I love being able to close apps by swiping them from the recent apps list, I've uninstalled the task manager app I was using. I also now have launchers for all my apps catagorised on one home screen - really minor changes b\t a great improvement in usability. the only thing that bothers me is that I hoped to be able to use more small apps. it would be great if you could use all the apps that can scale down to phone resolution in small windows...

[OpOpOpla]

yip is now a kool toy 😄

surfing net listening to music and doing some calculations.... ha luv it

took a while for it to feel kink free but a quality tablet, maybe the ipad uses better materials but that design on the sony (well i think its a beauty).... sheldon coo....p... lol

Sony if you would comms better  in the future anythings possible, and thank you... i have love again for my tablet...

multi-task-tastic... 😛