Which tablet?

Nikumba

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Was in the purple shirt store looking at the new Galaxy Tab, the Asus transformer and the Ipad 2 all of them the 16Gb versions.

I can't decide which one to get, I know the galaxy has a higher res screen than the ipad and is the lightest of the lot, but like the ipad you are space limited.

The transformer has the microsd slot and is a bit heavier.

I am aware that TF2 and Tegra 3 are due at some point later in the year start of next but not really worried about those ones.

So what would people suggest and why?

Kimbie
 
ipad2 tbh...that coming from someone who would never own one...could always have a look at the blackberry playbook tab;)...i have one and love it to bits.
 
I had not considered the Playbook, partly unusre of the 3rd party app support, with the droid and ios tabs there is a lot of 3rd party stuff, plus tweaks etc
 
Nikumba said:
I had not considered the Playbook, partly unusre of the 3rd party app support, with the droid and ios tabs there is a lot of 3rd party stuff, plus tweaks etc
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Thats true, there isnt much out for the playbook at the moment...the devs are all waiting for the official SDK to be released then hopefully we should see more better apps on the playbook coming out.

But if your an app whore then definitely the ipad2...its a no brainer really...
 
I am not an app whore as such

Just not overly keen on the locked down nature of the ipad, i know it can be JB, but I like how i can customise the desktop of the droid tabs
 
As ever, horses for courses....really depends on your intended use and so on.

No doubting the iPad2 is a lovely piece of kit, but it is very much a walled-garden too.....the Transformer is also a great piece of tech (I have one + dock myself) and offers a really good experience......Galaxy 10.1 is much of the same, allegedly as 'beautiful' as an iPad, but 'droid based...

With Apple stuff, everything just kinda works, but the flipside to this is seriously limited tinkering et al.
With Android, one can tinker to their hearts desire, but Google's baby is still playing catch-up on the overall package, arguably.

For me, I like to just plug in a cable and drag and drop; I like to fiddle with Widgets; I like to be able to view Flash websites; I like to not have to use iTunes; I already have an Android phone.......but, equally, there are no doubt plenty of Apple-peeps who have their own list of 'likes' :p
 
As said it depends what you're really looking for, I just bought myself a Motorola Xoom. Having considered the Galaxy Tab 10.1 I realised how much you don't get on it by default that all the rest of the Android tablets have; SD card slot, USB port, HDMI out. Sure you can add these things to the Galaxy but it costs to buy the adaptors and they'll stick out. I got my Xoom for under £400 (32GB Wifi) the same Galaxy Tab would be over £120 more. It's lighter and apparently has a better screen (having seen them in person it wasn't enough that I'd really notice), but it seems a bit too iPad-y in terms of it's limitations and there's a reason I didn't buy an iPad.
 
Just been looking at the Xoom does seem to be better than the Tab from a hardware point of view, SD slot etc, but seen a few videos showing it slower than the tab though

Kimbie
 
Nikumba said:
Just been looking at the Xoom does seem to be better than the Tab from a hardware point of view, SD slot etc, but seen a few videos showing it slower than the tab though

Kimbie
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The CPUs are identical in all the current tablets I believe (NVidia Tegra 2) so any differences in speed will be down to the software the tablet was running at the time (Xoom started with 3.01, then 3.1 and just the other day 3.2) or tweaks to the interface. The Xoom is a stock Android device, the Galaxy Tab has Samsung's touchwiz on top, even if there are speed differences in the launcher they'll run apps at the same speed.
 
bam0 said:
The CPUs are identical in all the current tablets I believe (NVidia Tegra 2) so any differences in speed will be down to the software the tablet was running at the time (Xoom started with 3.01, then 3.1 and just the other day 3.2) or tweaks to the interface. The Xoom is a stock Android device, the Galaxy Tab has Samsung's touchwiz on top, even if there are speed differences in the launcher they'll run apps at the same speed.
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Does that mean that any hd movie playback issues are due to the software or is it a limitation of the processor?
 
Bennie-Mac said:
Does that mean that any hd movie playback issues are due to the software or is it a limitation of the processor?
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Tegra 2 is crap for any High PROFILE MKV as it doesn't support it. No Neon support either.

Tegra 3 will be much better in this respect.
 
The iPad 2 is comfortably the best tablet option overall at the moment.

I've tried all of them quite extensively and I find the Android ones very 'meh' with a pretty dire app store that will never catch up if the phone apps are anything to go by.
 
Robbo said:
The iPad 2 is comfortably the best tablet option overall at the moment.

I've tried all of them quite extensively and I find the Android ones very 'meh' with a pretty dire app store that will never catch up if the phone apps are anything to go by.
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Is there anything you don't have?! :eek:

And ASUS Transformer/ iPad 2, depending on what your main use would be.

Typing - ASUS Transformer with the Keyboard Dock.

Anything else - iPad 2 :)

or.....wait for Kal-El, and bag yourself a quad-core Tegra Tablet :)
 
Got to recommend the transformer... IPS screen, nice design, keyboard dock, Thumb keyboard for the win and it does everything I need...

I use mine mainly for (in order of importance):
1) Browsing - Transformer is pretty much spot on for browsing anything and flash is a must for porn
2) Gaming - Plenty of great games out there tegra ones are awesome
3) Keeping up with news - Taptu is a great news aggregator and there's quite a few tablet optimised new readers.
4) Streaming movies and TV from my PC - Either through ES File explorer or using the great but needs improvement Plex :)
5) Email - Email app is great pretty much the same as the ipad one iirc

lol...

 
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I had one of the old Samsung Galaxy P1000's, and replaced it with an iPad2 (after paying attention to Robbo).

I absolutely hate it... I've got a nice shiny gaming PC, and I still find myself laid on the sofa or bed, messing about with the iPad. :p

Go iPad2.
 
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