Help, I want to purchase my 1st 10" tablet and can't decide on what to buy? If you say android, is the OS important?
How important is the onboard memory size if it has a slot for a card?
I only want WiFi not 3 0r 4 g
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IMHO, the iPad, and it does not have a card slot. You can buy a device that will give you a card slot if it is necessary. The reason for the iPad is because of the applications available.
this may be more than you want, but I wrote this up in the past for someone who was considering a Toshiba Thrive..
First is from the aspect of why I bought an Ipad, but secondly how I would base the decision if I had not had some of the reasons below...
When I was considering an Ipad, I had already :
Owned several ipods and had purchased/licensed content from iTunes, or had a significant library of audio and video files that were in format to support apple products... For instance, my first couple MP3 players were Rio products and could play either MP3 or WMA files. I had ripped most everything in WMA for them, but when I got an iPod free from work, I converted it all to MP3. At this point just about anything will play MP3 files, but when you consider video you have formatting concerns as well.
So onto video, when the iPod touch came out I began a project to convert all of our DVDs into files that could play on the iPod. At this point that is like 2200 files totaling almost 750GB, so it's a large investment in time... the iPad could play all of this stuff with no re-work, whereas not all tablets would... sames as why we bought an apple tv, and before we bought our roku box, I shipped some of our video files to a buddy to ensure compatibility first...
purchased /licensed content.. Took me a while to finally break down and do it, but I started buying a lot more and now pretty much exclusively buy music through iTunes... With that comes licensing for some content and also format... You have this with any storefront for content (think kindle/nook) so since we were already into apple, we stayed that way..
lastly experience... we have had great experience with our apple products... The user experience is amazing... they are very intuitive devices.. so it was easy to consider more of the same... I do not care for iTunes, but it keeps getting better and better for managing content...
So now onto what if I had nothing, how would I decide...
so price is certainly important, but unless it was like a 2x difference the other stuff in this list would matter more...
what do I intend to use it for? if it is just for a web browser, then it seems just about any tablet has that... If I wanted certain apps/functionality, then I would see if it was available on the platform...
What media do I want to put on it (pictures/video/music) and how is that done? For instance apple/itunes model works very well and relatively easy to use. Compare to my Blackberry experience.... The media manager product for it could not handle the size of our library of files, and the interface was terrible...
For a android based tablet, what interface do they provide and how well does it work?? I have seen the PC interface for putting content on some of the droid phone models and they are not all real pretty. The demos on TV are slick, but you need to ask/think, what did it take to put all that content on that device...
App store: what might you want apps wise and is it available on the platform?? need to consider what you might use it for as to what you would need for apps...
market share and alignment with core business... I realize market share depends upon what site you look at and I am not suggesting that it is most important to use the most popular platform, but consider what business a company is in... Think about Dell and the smartphone market... they have been in, but got right back out... For those that bought it, they soon had a orphan product... So the toshiba tablet looks slick, but will they stay in the tablet business long term?? To me this is important as it drives the apps that ill be developed and the accessories that will be developed by third parties... MS Zune music player is a good example of this. They came out late to market as an also ran to apple... Neat device, but required different format, different store, etc.... Since they couldn't make money in the market they got out relatively quickly. I think they were in the market for about 3 years in total. If you went into a best buy and looked at accessories for ipod vs. zune it was 99% ipod, 1% zune...
BTW they ended up buying two thrives and really do like them, but they are not folks that have much of any music/video content. Mostly use it for web , email and some apps.
Although they now have an iPad 3 as well..
BTW, we now have two iPad 2's and four iPhones in our family (just traded in the last two droid phones)... so i guess I am a bit prejudiced...
Hugh debate there. DW has an Ipad2 I have an Android phone. IMHO I like my phone better. Simply for the Android OS. I think it is more intuitive and less of a hassle. Now if you are computer illiterate them the Ipad is probably a better for you. Go try them both out and pick the one YOU think is the best/easiest for you. It is your money and your decision after all. Either one will provide good service, so don't let our preferences persuade you.
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our household is all iphone, but the only tablet (8") is a vizio android device. that said, i keep all my music on the iphone, or in the cloud. i use the iphone in my car and rv as a music source (pandora), and use the vtab for gps and OBDII monitoring. so far the only easy, inexpensive OBDII app is on the android platform. and for less than 200 bux i couldnt pass up the vizio.
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Android (Motorola Xoom) here. It does everything I want it to do. Web browsing with Flash support. Ridiculously easy to download/install apps. Most apps are free. I can view my security cameras via the tablet. Google has it's own Cloud. I can do ssh for work. Great app downloaded for lists (grocery, things to do, etc). Nice calendar app, shows the month with my schedule on it. TV Guide, maps, tip calculator, ebook reader, gmail, earthquake app. Absolutely love this device.
Tough call for you to make due to the varied responses and I'm about to add another. We have a Mac laptop at home. Supposed to be problem free but have had nothing but problems with it and bought it brand new from Best Buy for over $2k. After years of going back and forth with them requesting they check the memory and their saying no memory problems, DH replaced the memory after it went off warranty - no problems now. Well, this was to lead up to the point that Mac's and anything "i" related is not problem free and the Androids are rivaling them in sales and technology. DH is a CIO at a software company and he opted for a Samsung Galaxy tablet and has been problem free and he is very satisfied with it for business use. He uses a lot of cloud applications. We each just bought Android phones - Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket (s) and his is a hotspot to use with the tablet when wifi is not available. He was recommending I get rid of my Mac and instead go for a Samsung tablet. Quite a few of the software developers we know all have android tablets. If you plan to use your iPad to upload data, you'll need to be certain of compatibility on the site you are uploading to. In my data call center, we've had a pattern of iPad users transferring data that is not compatible to the site they are uploading to and their data becomes unreadable.
Is there a moral to my story? I hope so, inevitably it is up to you. There are a lot of Mac "i"whatever happy users, but (ok have to add my opinion now) Androids are now rivaling that market and that tells you something.
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If you have Apple products the Icloud might be useful to you. There are not many things I dislike more than Itunes. I've always found it to operate like a virus. I missed it if you mentioned a budget. The Ipad 2 is $100 less than the "NEW" Ipad (3). Rumor has it Amazon is very close to releasing a 10" Kindle Fire. The Galaxy Tab is a solid choice. My tablet is the Motorola Xoom. If Android, recommend something that has or is on the list to receive the latest operating system 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich. The Asus tablets also rate well. I think the latest has the Quad Core Tegra 3 chipset.
I like being able to add/delete/change things at will without consulting Itunes. If you're not computer literate or already have Apple products the Ipad would be the safe choice.
There is a reason that APPLE is running away with the tablet business, in spite of the fact that their pricing is so much higher...... The iPad is head and shoulders better than anything else and iOS is top of the heap compared to anything else. Others are working hard to catch up, but.......... Not yet.
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Interestingly enough, I'm a big android fan, BUT I really enjoy using our Ipad2. I've really had no issues with it, and since I understand it's limitations, it's pretty good.
Funny thing is, my wife is a huge iFan and absolutely loves her iphone 4, now that we've had an ipad2 since christmas, and she is not tech savy (ie.understand the limitations), she gets frustrated because she is searching for stuff on the internet (using the ipad2), and I swear it's at least once/day that she says "WTF, why doesn't this thing display (insert whatever here) properly, man I hate this ipad, pass the laptop.
SO guess what our next tablet will be. More than likely Android based.
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