It’s been a hard day at work. I played a single game on a whole Android zoo we have. You’ll be able to get this game (a tech demo formally) after the Unity 3.4 release in a matter of weeks.
Anyway, the main idea is that the 5″-7″ tablets that I used to consider useless, proved to be extremely cool as gaming devices. Like Xoom or Galaxy 10.1 are heavy and large, so you actually need to be sitting to actively game more than a few minutes. 3″-4″ mobiles are… well, just OK, usual experience – games may look a bit too tiny and small, and the controls may have a too small shift.
But mid-size tablets (I used HTC Flyer and Dell Streak 5 here) feature big enough screens for characters and the whole game to look good, they’re reasonably light, so you can game on the go for a long time. Well, and the hardware is phone-like, but the battery is bigger, what’s really helpful while flying over the Atlantic pool or going on a longer road trips.
However, let’s try to imagine an actual buyer of such over-phone or under-tablet. I see a cheap/simple (I guess Nokia) phone user with a 13″ non-Apple laptop in a bag. He (or she) wants a new cool phone and a tablet, but already owns a “good enough” phone and a 13″ lappie “is almost as good as a tablet”, so the intermediate device fits as a good excuse here.
On the other topic, I expected HTC Flyer to be more exciting, judging from all the surrounded marketing activity. However HTC Sensation and HTC EVO 3D impress much more. I am talking the first 5 minutes experience here.
