Originally Posted by TabletPCExpert:
“If you have the iPad in mind, then iPad 2 would be the best choice. Android Tablets from Samsung and Sony has a better hardware, but not enough apps to do all the stuff. Do not try Kindle Fire if you aren't a Amazon fan, as you may not like it. Checkout the link in this profile, to get more recommendations.”
The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and the Sony Tablet S both use the Tegra 2 System-on-a-Chip (SoC), the same as the Motorola Xoom and the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer.
Same CPU as the iPad 2 (1GHz dual-core ARM Cortex A9).
More RAM than the iPad 2 (1GB rather than 512MB).
Inferior GPU to the iPad 2 (GeForce ULP rather than a dual-core PowerVR SGX543).
I'd rather have the superior GPU of the iPad 2 than the increased RAM of the Tab 10.1 etc. The iPad 2 doesn't suffer from "only" having 512MB RAM, but it definitely benefits from having a better GPU (just look at the games, or check out the various benchmarks on Anandtech etc.).
I think the upcoming (I don't think either is out officially in the UK yet?) Galaxy Tab 8.9 and 7.7 have upgraded internals plus an AMOLED screen... but of course they're smaller, which may be an issue for some people.
If I were going for an Android tablet, I'd much rather get an ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime than the original Eee Pad or a Samsung or Sony tablet. Tegra 3 is so much better than Tegra 2.
Originally Posted by Big_Ted:
“You would think that calling yourself TabletPCExpert you wouldn't talk a load of rubbish.....
There are plenty of apps on android to do pretty much anything you can do on an ipad plus it has flash which the ipad doesn't.
each has its limits but ability to do pretty much what you want with apps is not one of them.
plus look carefully at the cameras in an ipad if you are going to use them at all as they are really awful.
plus if a 7 inch would do then don't discount a blackberry playbook if you have a blackberry phone as its now selling for £169 at currys, pcworld, carphone warehouse and dixons....”
Just how necessary is Flash nowadays on a tablet or other mobile device? Even Adobe has acknowledged that HTML5 is a better option and is killing off mobile Flash development.
iPlayer, 4OD, Demand Five, ITV Player, Sky Go, TVCatchup (Freeview TV streaming), YouTube, and various other video services all work on the iPad despite its lack of Flash, via dedicated apps and/or HTML5 websites.
With video content moving to apps and/or HTML5, what's left for Flash other than browser games (some of which are also moving to HTML5 from what someone said in another thread recently), adverts, and those utterly appalling Flash-based websites some people still insist on creating?
The cameras on the iPad 2 are crap for taking photos, but I still fail to see why anyone would use a tablet camera for anything like that. It's simply not convenient, no matter what the quality is. They're OK for video, though, which is just about the only use I can think of for cameras on a tablet (although I don't generally bother much with video chat myself on any device).