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Apple iPad 3 launch => Android win? Apple win?

Best Tablet of 2012?

  • The iPad

    Votes: 9 42.9%

  • The Asus Transformer Infinity

    Votes: 6 28.6%

  • The Samsung Galaxy Tab 11.6

    Votes: 2 9.5%

  • The Samsung Note 10.1

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Other

    Votes: 4 19.0%
  • Total voters
    21
Hello Everyone

New here, and this is my first post. I've been an Apple fan since 2007 with the MacBook, but lately, I'm bored with them.

Currently have an iMac, and iPhone 4, but plan to get an Android phone this year, and an Android Tablet. I like OSX, so I'll probably keep that operating system, but iOS is boring as hell. The iPhone has had the same size screen for 5 years, and I want something different, bigger, more customizable, and less strict! Looking at either the Droid Razr Maxx, Galaxy S3, Galaxy Journal (Note on Verizon, rumored), HTC OneX, or whatever phone is hot in the market by this November. As for tablets, I've never bought one, but I hope to get one this year, sometime in the Summer.

You can say that I've converted over, sorta. Android is really interesting me, and I like Apples operating system also, so I'm gonna balance my universe with a bit of both.

Anyway, lets get to the point. The new iPad was released, and it's been a hit, but I hate how people claim that it's the best tablet out there, and that other tablets are complete garbage (this is from the people at macrumors.com).

So, from these 4 tablets, which do you think is going to be The Best tablet of 2012?

At first, the Asus Transformer Infinity got my interest, but ever since someone mentioned the Samsung Galaxy Tab 11.6, wow; I think I want that.

What do you guys think?

EDIT: I'm sure the members here won't give me a Biased Opinion. I posted the same poll at the macrumors forums, and I got:

iPad: 170 votes
Asus: 7 votes
Galaxy 11.6: 12 votes
Other: 5 votes

I didn't include the Galaxy note, but as you can see, a lot of fanboyism, and no one seemed to be open minded towards something else.
 
i take it you don't know how to jailbreak? it really is the only way to own your Apple device and get the customization like with Android.
 
well, 3 million iPads sold in 3 days (not counting pre-orders either) seems to me like the launch of the new ipad was a huge success. Apple sold more ipads in those 3 days than most Android tablet manufacturers sold all last year and this year combined.
 
Covart said:
well, 3 million iPads sold in 3 days (not counting pre-orders either) seems to me like the launch of the new ipad was a huge success. Apple sold more ipads in those 3 days than most Android tablet manufacturers sold all last year and this year combined.
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The skeptics (including the OP..where is he?) were right! No one is going to buy the new iPad, it only has minor upgrades!! Not only was it the most successful iPad launch ever, it sold nearly THREE times more than the first two iPad's did opening weekend combined.
 
I have jailbroken my phone before.

I had the HTC weather interface, the swipe unlock, had an android wallpaper, and a few other customizations; but it started slowing down and lagging.

So, I deleted all of the customizations, but I kept Siri (bought Siri for $20 on my iPhone 4)
 
Even my technology inept mother want's an iPad now...I can't try to talk her into a good android alternative...just because there isn't one :(
 
Well the battery on the new iPad certainly rocks. It's been off the charger for 16 hours and 2 hours of use, battery is still at 96% :) That Evo View tablet I just took back had gone from full down to 78% within 6 hours and I had used it maybe half an hour. Thats with a smaller display running like half the resolution too. No, I had nothing running that shouldn't and it was on wifi, not even 4G. Android just eats battery life and having to baby it by killing almost every app you opened gets old.
 
psychotron said:
Well the battery on the new iPad certainly rocks. It's been off the charger for 16 hours and 2 hours of use, battery is still at 96% :) That Evo View tablet I just took back had gone from full down to 78% within 6 hours and I had used it maybe half an hour. Thats with a smaller display running like half the resolution too. No, I had nothing running that shouldn't and it was on wifi, not even 4G. Android just eats battery life and having to baby it by killing almost every app you opened gets old.
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i think i just read something that said android location-pinging ads are what eat up the battery - big time. think it was on gizmodo.
 
2012 is far from being over, but so far I would say the new iPad is the best tablet available.

If it ran Android I would probably buy one, the Transformer Prime is a good tablet but the GPU performance is nowhere near as good and the Quad Core CPU is just not going to help much right now, applications and Android itself need to be optimized to use the extra cores.
 
Shocky said:
2012 is far from being over, but so far I would say the new iPad is the best tablet available.

If it ran Android I would probably buy one, the Transformer Prime is a good tablet but the GPU performance is nowhere near as good and the Quad Core CPU is just not going to help much right now, applications and Android itself need to be optimized to use the extra cores.
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I don't think there is any doubt, the iPad is the best tablet. However is it the best value? I think that is where Android can catch up to Apple, by beating them in value until they have enough market respect to compete for the top spot.
 
It's all based on rumors currently, but I had to vote for the Galaxy Tab 11.6. If they decide to use the dual core Exynos 5250, other tablet manufacturers will have trouble keeping up. Based on every rumor so far, the specs are going to be pretty solid.

2560x1600 resolution
Exynos 5250 (32 nm, 2.0 GHz dual-core ARM Cortex-A15 CPU, ARM Mali-T604 GPU)

These two specs alone (If true) could pretty much dominate the competition. This will likely be the first tablet I buy. (Well unless the Nexus tablet rumors are true, I would gladly spend $200 on a lower end tablet, with stock Android.)
 
You do have to decide what you want, or need, a tablet for.

I generally use one of my tablets (which is rare!) to sit in front of the TV and mess around with Facebook, Twitter or looking things up on IMDB. Totally anti-social and my wife/friends moan all the time about it!

I am not playing games, as I've got loads of games on my smartphone and one problem is that I can progress levels on there - and start back at square one on the tablet. I wish more games would sync your position and save data - as then I'd probably use the tablet a bit more.

I don't need processor intensive apps and I'm not video editing. For that I've got my MacBook or iMac.

Apple is obviously trying to convince everyone that the iPad can replace your laptop or desktop - and for some people it probably can.
 
psychotron said:
Well the battery on the new iPad certainly rocks. It's been off the charger for 16 hours and 2 hours of use, battery is still at 96% :) That Evo View tablet I just took back had gone from full down to 78% within 6 hours and I had used it maybe half an hour. Thats with a smaller display running like half the resolution too. No, I had nothing running that shouldn't and it was on wifi, not even 4G. Android just eats battery life and having to baby it by killing almost every app you opened gets old.
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The battery is apparently the size of a laptop battery so I would expect it to. The Evo View has a much, much smaller battery so it's obviously going to have worse battery life. Not sure what you expect. If you're using a task killer on your Android device you're just contributing to the battery drain as well.
 
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Yeah, killing apps to force the OS to re-open them is a sure fire way of killing the battery. Task killers should be used only to kill a problem app, not to save memory. The OS would prefer to keep as much possible loaded for easy task switching, so having loads of free RAM is pointless and doesn't speed things up (again, unless you have a rogue app that isn't working well - in which case, don't just kill it, ditch it and moan to the developer).

Psychotron is perfectly entitled to prefer an iOS device, but should at least give some of the Android devices he owns/has used a fair chance!
 
Yeahha said:
Even my technology inept mother want's an iPad now...I can't try to talk her into a good android alternative...just because there isn't one :(
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My technology inept mother wanted a Blackberry. You think you're depressed. I had to spend days inside the bottle getting over that one.

Anyway, I picked up the Transformer Prime last night. The guy I bought it from had an iPad and an iPhone and said jumping to Android was just so different to him he couldn't get used to it. In any case, it had a dead battery when I got it so I didn't have much time to play with it. In the time I did get to play with it, I was impressed overall. My only gripe was that the screen was too bright.
 
And btw, welcome to the forums, xMoKax! :)

As you can see, which tablets are the best are a hot topic here.

Best luck on your upcoming choice, I'm sure you'll do fine and this much is certain - you've come to the right place! :)
 
Covart said:
well, 3 million iPads sold in 3 days (not counting pre-orders either) seems to me like the launch of the new ipad was a huge success. Apple sold more ipads in those 3 days than most Android tablet manufacturers sold all last year and this year combined.
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There was an article, on CNET I believe, where the author was asking some potential customers at a couple Apple stores on launch day why they were buying the new iPad. Some had no idea, but just had to have it. Even when they were shown the iPad 2 and the new one and couldn't tell any difference between the two. Anecdotal of course, but it shows the state the iPad has risen to in popular consciousness.
 
I think the only way an Android tablet will succeed and really cut into Apple's market is if Google makes their own and puts millions into advertising it. Not something lame like they do with the Nexus where its a Samsung phone. Let Samsung or HTC make it but make known its a GOOGLE tablet! Millions of people use Google everyday, how in hell can't they find a way to tie that in to advertising and selling their own products? They have all the resources (maybe not as much money) as Apple does but lack the brains to put together a solid product and an advertising campaign. They are just completely inept when it comes to marketing.

Make a 10 inch and a 7 inch with an amazing screen by Samsung, quacdcore processor, 1-2GB of RAM. Call it the Google Play tablet. Develop a killer marketing campaign. Commercials everywhere on TV, radio, in movie theaters etc...Make sure you have at least 50k TABLET specific apps at launch with another 50k coming in the next few months after launch. Have a huge press conference available streaming online to show it off with some apps and make sure they aren't just renamed iPad apps. Something that will wow people. Show things that you can do with an Android device you can't with Apple. Make sure you tie in their computers and their TVs with the tablet, everything all compatible with each other as Apple does. Make it competitively priced...how hard is this?
 
eelpout said:
There was an article, on CNET I believe, where the author was asking some potential customers at a couple Apple stores on launch day why they were buying the new iPad. Some had no idea, but just had to have it.
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Even my dad got one as a Christmas present because my mum was struggling to think of something to get him - and he doesn't use it that much. However, he is intending to use it for work (he has purchased Quick Office) and has begun to use Sky Go on it.

For him, and others, it's a fantastic device and I won't take that away from Apple. The new iPad is the one I'd get if I was buying, but even though I could have bought a load on Friday (2 at each Apple Store in London, which I think there's 5) and 2 at each PC World branch (2 per credit card, so as I've got three cards that's 6..) I didn't actually end up buying a single one. I looked at it and went 'yup, that's nice' and went home.

I suppose the fact I've got a phone with a 340PPI screen may have ruined me a bit though. :D
 
I owned a few Apple products in my house, my wife have a ipad2, anyway I went to check out the New ipad today at BB. This is only my opinion but it is not that much better than the ipad 2, yes the screen is slightly better but it is nowhere near the hype some make it out to be.
 
psychotron said:
Make a 10 inch and a 7 inch with an amazing screen by Samsung, quacdcore processor, 1-2GB of RAM. Call it the Google Play tablet. Develop a killer marketing campaign. Commercials everywhere on TV, radio, in movie theaters etc...Make sure you have at least 50k TABLET specific apps at launch with another 50k coming in the next few months after launch. Have a huge press conference available streaming online to show it off with some apps and make sure they aren't just renamed iPad apps. Something that will wow people. Show things that you can do with an Android device you can't with Apple. Make sure you tie in their computers and their TVs with the tablet, everything all compatible with each other as Apple does. Make it competitively priced...how hard is this?
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I am sure they will do this one day, but they're still building up all of those extra ingredients needed to do so. Google Play is a good move towards this, and if they can also progress things like Google Wallet and improve other services still in beta, they can take the plunge.

Do so too early and they'll just screw it all up and go back to square one!

Google doesn't advertise much, but they did spend a small fortune pushing the Chrome browser. Not sure why they did that, but a lot of people are now using Chrome (on PC and Mac) so they can do it!
 
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