Originally Posted by bandapart:
“I've been thinking of getting myself a tablet as I see people using them everyday and think to myself why should I miss out?
I've been browsing about for a few weeks and I've narrowed it down to either an iPad 2 or Samsung galaxy tab 2 10.1.
Does anyone have one or both of these and give me some pro's and con's?
I would probably use it for games, music, films, social network sites, browsing internet, email blah blah... but I'd also use it for reading comics/books and maybe some university work so I'd probably need Microsoft office type apps and a USB would be useful on a tablet IMO.
I have a Samsung laptop which is great and I use it for work, however I also have a iPhone meaning I already have iTunes account already which makes me think i can transfer things from my iPhone to iPad which would be cool.
Help would be greatly appreciated!”
I wouldn't recommend an iPad 2 as the specs are quite dated at this point. Get an iPad 4 instead. The fact that you already have an iPhone makes that choice even more sensible.
With an iPad 4 you'll have one of the two fastest tablets with the best build quality, the best customer service and tech support, the best resale value, the best battery life, a more useful screen aspect ratio, by far the best third party accessories support and by far the best access to apps with over 300,000 apps available for the iPad.
The best estimates for the number of apps available for Android tablets is a very small fraction of that and even then there are well known incompatibilities from one Android tablet to another amongst those available apps.
And finally, amongst all those apps available for the iPad is the fact that the iPad, and iOS in general, usually get apps first and are typically of higher quality. You also don't have the malware mess that you have with Android.
Remember, you get what you pay for. Also, ignore the Apple haters. Most of them are just haters in general.