iPad2 or Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1" ?

[sand_man]

If your tech knowledge is low to medium, get an iPad

If your tech knowledge is anywhere above average, get an Android tab.

Why? I would say the opposite. It's incredibly simple to root and customise a droid device while circumventing all the iPads limitations would prove far more technically challenging.

 

[DominionZA]

Why? I would say the opposite. It's incredibly simple to root and customise a droid device while circumventing all the iPads limitations would prove far more technically challenging.

Just buying a game is a pain in the @55.
After using Droid for a long time I find iOS a real pain in the backside.

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[bwana]

Just buying a game is a pain in the @55.
After using Droid for a long time I find iOS a real pain in the backside.

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Press install, enter username and password. It's extremely arduous.

 

[biometrics]

Press install, enter [-]username and[/-] password. It's extremely arduous.

Ftfy

 

[DominionZA]

Press install, enter username and password. It's extremely arduous.

If it is free. I had guys showing me how to setup USA accounts and stuff if I wanted to purchase stuff.
On Android it as simple as you explain - except no username/password each time.

I found it easier to sell the iPad2 and just stick to my Transformer.

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[Dolby]

Appbrain reports the number of available android apps at 344762 as of December 20th while it's common knowledge that the Apple app store surpassed 500,000 back in May

I said variety

You should see the applications the Android guys at work can download - applications that may not be as pretty as the iPad apps, but more functional. They come to me almost everyday with ' ... have you got this?'


Also, probably more than half of those 500,000 are iPhone apps. Yes - while they do work, iPhone apps are an iPad are pretty crappy. Almost like running Pro Evolution Soccer 2012 on my Pentium 4 ... it'll work, but it's not great.

Then of the 250,000 iPad only apps, South Africa has access to a fraction ... so let's say 50,0000 .... ?

Then as Sandmann pointed out, many games are over 20MB and pretty much useless unless huddled around an access point or plugged into the PC anyway.

 

[Dolby]

Just buying a game is a pain in the @55.
After using Droid for a long time I find iOS a real pain in the backside.

It's easy to use if you have an account that can use local credit cards - or you have an account whereever you set up the app store. Click, install, purchase - and BAM ... *it works

* terms and conditions apply

 

[AfricanTech]

horses for courses I say, horses for courses - I'm an Android kinda person, my wife and sister-in-law are apple kinda people, my brother in law and nieces are Blackberry people

We all use tech differently and for different purposes - each of us enjoy our gadgets immensely because we derive value from them.

So, if you like to tweak and love using "power apps" and searching the nooks and crannies for interesting things, go Android (that's me )

If you want to read magazines, browse the internet, do some email, play casual games, allow kids to fiddle and play while easily locking down some functionality when the kids use the device, get an Apple

If you just want cheap messaging and easy email access and most of your friends and colleagues are part of the BB clan, get a Blackberry.

Horses for courses everyone, horses for courses...

 

[DominionZA]

horses for courses I say, horses for courses - I'm an Android kinda person, my wife and sister-in-law are apple kinda people, my brother in law and nieces are Blackberry people

We all use tech differently and for different purposes - each of us enjoy our gadgets immensely because we derive value from them.

So, if you like to tweak and love using "power apps" and searching the nooks and crannies for interesting things, go Android (that's me )

If you want to read magazines, browse the internet, do some email, play casual games, allow kids to fiddle and play while easily locking down some functionality when the kids use the device, get an Apple

If you just want cheap messaging and easy email access and most of your friends and colleagues are part of the BB clan, get a Blackberry.

Horses for courses everyone, horses for courses...

In short, to do everything, just get an Android

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[AfricanTech]

In short, to do everything, just get an Android

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LOL

 

[xera]

iPad is currently better at reading books than the galaxy tab.
But it is very restricted. It can't even send or receive files over Bluetooth!

Plus- you can't even get popular apps like angry birds, google earth etc, if you don't have a USA iTunes account!

 

[[)roi(]]

Want to get a tablet in the new year, I am currently leaning towards the Galaxy Tab. Would like to get some owners' opinions as I like Apple's build quality and the OS, but don't care too much for being so restricted.

Opinions are welcomed

Happy New Year everyone.
I own both and in short your best experience is going to be the iPad 1 or 2. The tab unfortunately is still plagued by a very poorly developed OS -- even with the upgrades you cannot compete with the stability of the iPad.

Honestly there will always be negatives either way.... If you're very picky then its going to be a case of pick your poison. For me the base os is fundamental and unfortunately the tab is lacking is this area.

I don't know what your urgency is, if you can afford to wait then I'd suggest you sit back and watch for the experience of ICS on the tab and/or possibly the launch of iPad 3.

 

[InTheCube]

If your tech knowledge is anywhere above average, get an Android tab. I'd suggest waiting for the ASUS Transformer Prime if possible. It will be the best when it comes out, it's a desktop class cpu in a tablet.

^^^ Do this. Great advice.

 

[cerebus]

I was just considering this matter over lunchtime. Currently I don't believe there is another device that can touch the iPad2. Every Android tablet that comes out promises to be the iPad killer and they always fall short. It was going to be the Xoom, then the Transformer - now the Xoom is forgotten and the Transformer is getting slated for having locked bootloader and a list of other issues. Samsung just takes their usual scattershot approach of trying to make every imaginable specification and hoping one hits the right market.

I think the hardware is one part of the story but actually the culprit is Honeycomb - it's just not a prime-time mobile OS. You can make excuses for it, but it's sluggish and frustrating to use, and that means no matter how great the tablet is, the actual experience is going to be less than the iPad2. ICS might help, although my money is on Windows 8 tablets to provide the actual competition. In the meantime, iPad2 is the best and nearly the only real choice - PURELY in my subjective opinion of course.

 

[murraybiscuit]

I don't know what your urgency is, if you can afford to wait then I'd suggest you sit back and watch for the experience of ICS on the tab and/or possibly the launch of iPad 3.

+1.
i'm waiting for prime vs ipad3 shootout.
hopefully apple will release locally by march sometime if usa release is in late jan.

 

[murraybiscuit]

iPad is currently better at reading books than the galaxy tab.

please elaborate.
from what i understand, the kindle app is a better idea as it's platform agnostic.
what is the benefit of ibooks over kindle (app)? i can't see a huge advantage from a ui pov...

 

[cerebus]

please elaborate.
from what i understand, the kindle app is a better idea as it's platform agnostic.
what is the benefit of ibooks over kindle (app)? i can't see a huge advantage from a ui pov...

Well they can all run the Kindle app of course. But I also find the general smoothness of reading on the iPad better than on my Kindle Fire - can't speak for the Tab although I used Aldiko on one and it also wasn't that smooth. Also the IPS screen is nicer to read on than AMOLED - although I'd say AMOLED is better for watching movies.

 

[murraybiscuit]

stupid question, but what does android use to sync and transcode media?
itunes works pretty smoothly for ios.
one thing that irritates me about ios is the crappy maps (no navigation, offline or sync with online google bookmarks).
does android have better maps?

 

[cerebus]

stupid question, but what does android use to sync and transcode media?

Like...whatever, y'know. USB transfer or wi-fi syncing or if it's Samsung you can use Kies. It's Android so you can do whatever you want without necessarily being able to do any of it well. Oh and if your chipset isn't compatible with your codecs you'd better get hold of a third party player, although iOS also can't AVI's.

itunes works pretty smoothly for ios.

Depends whom you talk to. Although I'm getting better with iTunes these days.

one thing that irritates me about ios is the crappy maps (no navigation, offline or sync with online google bookmarks).
does android have better maps?

Android has HUGELY better maps. Google maps versus Apple Maps is no comparison.

 

[[)roi(]]

please elaborate.
from what i understand, the kindle app is a better idea as it's platform agnostic.
what is the benefit of ibooks over kindle (app)? i can't see a huge advantage from a ui pov...

The kindle app encoding quality is poor; if you only read text based books then this won't affect you -- picture and/or diagram quality is my biggest issue with the Kindle format.

On the iBook side many of the books are encoded badly i.e. you can find many books where you end up with repetitive blank pages; exiting iBooks or rotating the iPad sometime resolves this -- overall the quality of the iBooks reader is better than kindle but the formatting and/or iBooks app bugs make it a pain to use.

My preference is still PDF books as these are not restricted to iOS or the Kindle reader and generally the format (of purchased material) is far superior including the TOC and index.