This Shit Sucks: The Viera Connect Tablet [Video]

Jan 7th 2011
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We like Panasonic. Their TVs are terrific- the proper , even. That is why I was pretty intrigued by their companion Viera tablet . It can have made watching TV more fun, or easier, or something. Nonetheless it’s unnecessary. And awful.

It’s hard to even ascertain how it’s presupposed to work, it works so poorly. It’s a unusual, confused device. It’s meant to be an excellent TV pal-alternate angles while watching football! Streaming the Netflix movie you’re watching while you leave the room!-nevertheless it’s just style of a foul tablet that has some TV apps. It also has an eBook app, for no reason at all.

It runs Android 2.2. Poorly. Very poorly. I had a difficult time getting literally anything to open without it either crashing or running with the complete responsiveness of a tranquilized horse. It gave the look of it was running in slow motion. And not the great, Baywatch kind, but twitchy, choppy slow motion. It was without effort.

The two apps I myself managed to get running-the aforementioned pointless eBook reader and a multi-window sports browser-were running in barely essentially the mostsome of the most technical sense. I tried selecting a game-the thought being you can flick it ” up” from your Viera tablet for your TV and watch it on the large screen. It worked once. Neat, type of, although mostly a visual trick more than an ideal way to observe sports. But once I tried it again, it froze and then crashed.

I wasn’t even sure I was using it correctly firstly-none of my taps were working. Was I alleged to drag my finger across the screen to pick apps? My brain started to panic as nothing I touched corresponded to anything that was happening. And then it just died. A black screen from which I couldn’t return. Kaput. Embarrassing at CES, extremely frustrating if here’s an opulent thing you’ve purchased to exploit for your front room. I believe bad for Japan, that’s getting the tablet first. But despite the fact that it’s polished to the point of mere usability, it’s still basically not that useful. I don’t need this thing. Nobody does. Again-we adore Panasonic, and the sets they’re showing for this year look very nice-but the tablet is a dud. A tablet for the sake of tablet-ness. It’s an unnecessary piece of hardware which can’ve been replaced with a smartphone app and some effort. Don’t expect us to buy things we don’t need.

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