Better than an iPad?

The iPad is easily the best tablet on the market. The screen alone makes it a worthwhile purchase and the quality of apps for it blows all of the Android tablets out of the water.

However, it's expensive and only comes in one size (so far). It doesn't fit everyone's tastes.
 
I've had a variety of tablets, starting with the Android Motorola Xoom, Blackberry Playbook and now an iPad 3 and I'd say I've found the iPad the easiest and best to use but I do think Android is catching up.

The biggest issue I see with Android is the fragmentation
 
koolpc said:
I would like a tablet that lets one transfer photos / files easily onto a memory card, has a USB port. fast, not restrictive on what software you can use.
Click to expand...


As Trickynick says, your best bet is an Asus Transformer.

As regards the main subject, I've got a Nexus 7, TF300, iPad and Playbook. It's my second iPad and I've also had a TF101 and a Galaxy Tab.

Forgetting about Jailbreaking, within the strict boundaries that Apple set the ipad probably is the best at what it does. It's certainly what I'd lend to my dad because it's simpler to use and ultimately probably more reliable. However the other tablets often do a lot more and I don't think many people on an Overclockers forum need things to be simple to use ;)

For some people the Nexus 7 will challenge the iPad in a head to head fight but for me the TF300 is just such a useful machine and a versatile all rounder it gets my vote. Normally I buy second hand or with some discount but when the TF300 came out I went straight out and paid going rate. Now it's running jellybean it's a pretty strong contender.
 
koolpc said:
fragmentation?
Click to expand...

Without any proper policies, manufactures don't have to upgrade their previous devices to the latest they're able to (Even with the hardware requirements being there)
Gingerbread has the highest market share of Android devices (As far as I'm aware) yet since then we've had ICS (Which even some devices launched after ICS would launch with GB) and JB's a few months old.
 
Martini1991 said:
Without any proper policies, manufactures don't have to upgrade their previous devices to the latest they're able to (Even with the hardware requirements being there)
Gingerbread has the highest market share of Android devices (As far as I'm aware) yet since then we've had ICS (Which even some devices launched after ICS would launch with GB) and JB's a few months old.
Click to expand...

The fragmentation is more to do with different screen sizes, and SoC types, this makes it difficult for devs to make optimised apps for each device, you can see this with serveral games were it is "terge zone" and other devices dont get all the eye candy. The OS is a problem, but its not such a big deal I would say, most apps tend to support 2.2+ so it covers 90% of devices.

To the OP, if you need a device with SD card support and drag and drop then it just depends on what screen sizes and how much you wanna spend.
 
Fallen god said:
The fragmentation is more to do with different screen sizes, and SoC types, this makes it difficult for devs to make optimised apps for each device, you can see this with serveral games were it is "terge zone" and other devices dont get all the eye candy. The OS is a problem, but its not such a big deal I would say, most apps tend to support 2.2+ so it covers 90% of devices.

To the OP, if you need a device with SD card support and drag and drop then it just depends on what screen sizes and how much you wanna spend.
Click to expand...

Actually good point.
Massive variation from device to device.
 
Tunney said:
The iPad is easily the best tablet on the market. The screen alone makes it a worthwhile purchase and the quality of apps for it blows all of the Android tablets out of the water.

However, it's expensive and only comes in one size (so far). It doesn't fit everyone's tastes.
Click to expand...

This, in a nutshell.

It does sound like the OP may be better off with an Android tablet however.
 
Martini1991 said:
Actually good point.
Massive variation from device to device.
Click to expand...

Yeah, this well however fix its self, firstly with the SoC their needs to be some sort of standard pratice like there is with PCs, games just run the same on different graphics cards and so on. This could be fixed with a shift to DX thta we are seeing now.

With general Apps I believe the answer is a responsive design (Something new in web development) where you have 1 App that adapts to different screen sizes, so it will have 1 layout for 800x480 phones, 720p phones, 720p tablets, 1080p tablets. It is actual a small job once you know how to do it and this is how all apps should do it. I dislike the current model that you have to have a sepreate app for your tablet and phone.
 
Tunney said:
The iPad is easily the best tablet on the market. The screen alone makes it a worthwhile purchase and the quality of apps for it blows all of the Android tablets out of the water.

However, it's expensive and only comes in one size (so far). It doesn't fit everyone's tastes.
Click to expand...

Like what apps? Android has came a long way and whats on iphone/ipad you can get on Android most times Free or even less the price.
Apple is money robbing company just like EA, Take Angry birds for an example it was £2.99 on apple and free on Android as is most apps.

Android is open for the user to do what they need and setup how they like. Ios is like being in a prison cell.
 
Fallen god said:
Yeah, this well however fix its self, firstly with the SoC their needs to be some sort of standard pratice like there is with PCs, games just run the same on different graphics cards and so on. This could be fixed with a shift to DX thta we are seeing now.

With general Apps I believe the answer is a responsive design (Something new in web development) where you have 1 App that adapts to different screen sizes, so it will have 1 layout for 800x480 phones, 720p phones, 720p tablets, 1080p tablets. It is actual a small job once you know how to do it and this is how all apps should do it. I dislike the current model that you have to have a sepreate app for your tablet and phone.
Click to expand...

Most of the latest Android Games, now started giving you an option on graphics settings for screen res. All Tegra 3 games that also have non-tegra versions what I have played let you now change settings to fit you phones power.
 
Loving my TF101 running Jelly bean at 1.6Ghz. Android customisation and user ROMS will beat any Apple device in my opinion.
 
MonsterMoshi said:
What do you want it for?

Internet - iPad
Click to expand...

Actually the internet is worse on the iPad as it lacks flash. Internet performance? Javascript performance is better on Android when comparing iPad to the highest end Android tablets.

Games - iPad
Click to expand...

I'll give you that.

Music - iPad
Click to expand...

Music is music. iTunes music works fine on Android without any transcoding.

Films - iPad
Click to expand...

Most definitely not. Codec support is much better with some supporting hardware acceleration of x264/mkv files. iPad does not support hardware acceleration of x264 files and you have to brute force it with the CPU. EVen now I question whether the iPad can play 1080p files perfectly as the iPad 2 certainly couldn't and the CPU hasn't changed since then.

Photos - iPad
Click to expand...

Some nice apps available on iOS, but camera quality is debateable and varies tablet to tablet.

Battery life -iPad
Click to expand...

iPad 3 battery life isn't actually that great.

Hate on Apple - Samsung galaxy tab 2 10.1

If you have any other apple products then you will find an iPad will integrate more easily. If not then the choice is really up to you
Click to expand...

Funny about your defence of films a few posts below this actually contradicts a few of your points made here.

Android tablets are incredibly versatile and like PCs can do everything. They may not have manufacturer support Apple gives at the moment to the iPad but that only really affects very specific scenarios and is gradually being reduced.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom