More advice than anything as the daughter is getting a tablet for xmas and current deals are a bit plus and minus in numerous respects but ipad air prices are great right now due to the new ipad air 2 launch this week.
We, as a family are used to and experienced with android devices and was looking at getting the sony xperia z 10.1 tab as a decent deal at £280 and waterproof of sorts. But the drop in ipad air has made me think twice as the price is now £320 for that.
I would probably go for the ipad air due to higher numbers of tablet optimised apps etc which android still lacks in some respects. But whilst many android devices have expandable memory card slots (even if fewer devices including the sony xperia z don't allow app installation on the memory cards as such) to cheaply upgrade memory the ipad as we all know has no such practical option and is highly restrictive in that respect. So I'm concerned that any 16gb ipad is likely to be far to limiting over an android device and even a 16gb ipad is unlikely to have more than 12-13gb of free user space ( due to the os) that can't be upgraded for several quid?.
I think the daughter would prefer the ipad but does not fully understand that app & games wise she could soon fill up the 16gb memory and then have to delete things that would be far less of an issue on an android device.
Any advice as unsure on if to go for the reduced price ipad air at £220 or an android based xperia z 10.1?.
We, as a family are used to and experienced with android devices and was looking at getting the sony xperia z 10.1 tab as a decent deal at £280 and waterproof of sorts. But the drop in ipad air has made me think twice as the price is now £320 for that.
I would probably go for the ipad air due to higher numbers of tablet optimised apps etc which android still lacks in some respects. But whilst many android devices have expandable memory card slots (even if fewer devices including the sony xperia z don't allow app installation on the memory cards as such) to cheaply upgrade memory the ipad as we all know has no such practical option and is highly restrictive in that respect. So I'm concerned that any 16gb ipad is likely to be far to limiting over an android device and even a 16gb ipad is unlikely to have more than 12-13gb of free user space ( due to the os) that can't be upgraded for several quid?.
I think the daughter would prefer the ipad but does not fully understand that app & games wise she could soon fill up the 16gb memory and then have to delete things that would be far less of an issue on an android device.
Any advice as unsure on if to go for the reduced price ipad air at £220 or an android based xperia z 10.1?.