The 10 biggest tablets of Spring 2012
by Ricardo Bilton | March 9, 2012 12:09am PST | Image 1 of 11
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Tablets, tablets everywhere
The tablet has come a long way since this time last year: HP's TouchPad came and went in a blaze of price cut-induced glory. Amazon, in the most direct and compelling challenge to Apple, put its weight behind the Kindle Fire. RIM, struggling, finally updated its PlayBook OS, adding native email support and Android app emulation.
But some things haven't changed. Apple's iPad is still the clear frontrunner, offering features that no other tablet has come close to replicating. But in spite of this, rival tablet makers persist, often to extreme extents. Here are the ten biggest tablets set for release in the first half of 2012. Some are better than others, but all are vying to capture a chunk of the rapidly-changing tablet market.
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I can think of quite a few on Android tablets such as
widgets
customizable multiple homescreens
DLNA support
HDMI port
USB ports
Exapanable memory
16:10 aspect ratio (widescreen)
True Quad core
more setting and control over your apps and your device.
I could keep going, but what features doe the iPad posses that no one can come close to matching? And Light years ahead? Say what ? Tablets will be having quad core processors, the iPad3 has a dual core processor. and the resolution? Light years? Really? Asus and Acer announced way back at CES their next ones will be 1920 x 1200 that is more than high enough to match the iPad's to the human eye. Unless you Apple equipped you with some Super Spidey Vison the human eye won't be able to detect the difference between the two displays at that level. Also Asus will be using a quad core Cortex A15 chip.
Am I on allthingsD or Macrumors or 925Mac?
The overgloficication for everything apple is getting out of control.
It isn't the feature list or else we would all buy Alienware or fully tricked out Mac desktops. If you need everything on your list, then buy the best in that class. Also keep in mind that the iPad hardware and software are tuned for at least a year so less can be more.
Apple gets all the attention as one model sold 40 million copies last year. Samsung alone has how many tablets so each has to get a sliver of love that Samsung gets.
Have a good one,
Iain
Why do they think its better? Because of the switching cost to move from Apple is not small and they don't/can't easily move off it. All the while Apple stock laughs to the bank at $500
http://www.comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2012/3/comScore_Reports_January_2012_U.S._Mobile_Subscriber_Market_Share
Just sayin.
I can't actually think of *any* features the latest iPad has, apart from the display, that my old Transformer can't match or even better. My Asus has SD slots, USBs for a start, without even mentioning the extended battery/keyboard system. And I'm yet to be able to *not* find an app that I need for it.
I'm not saying that iPads are badly made at all, but the reason that Apple sell so many is that the press all go so f**king apeshit about them, and ignore all others, to the point the general non-tech public barely know others exist. When I show my Transformer to people they are all amazed by it. Two people I know have atually gone out and bought one just since I showed them mine, as it were.
It's a bit of a catch 22. The press love Apple, so they cover them 100 times more than any other tablet, so it becomes more popular so the press covers it more.
A little perspective: the icons all ganged up on a page came out on iOS (whatever) in 2008 the same year as Windows Vista and Android. Windows is now on Metro from Win 7, that's two OS jumps or three if you count Vista. Android has consistently updated...Froyo, Gingerbread, HoneyComb and ICS since 2008. That app drawer as your home screen is so played out and dated and to add HD is crazy.
Could you imagine MS doing a product launch touting an HD screen for a tablet today featuring Windows Vista in HD? This is the equivalent.
No new customers will be rushing out to buy circa 2008 in HD. Front runner is a joke. A cruel one at that. No new innovations just an app, higher processor, 4G which won't even apply to some looking for WiFi only and HD spotlighting that relic of an operating system. It took them a whole year to produce iPad 3? In less than 2 months obsolete. Actually obsolete now but I am being kind.
And to add my 2, I had an ipod touch 4th gen, that was stolen and I replace it with an android tablet, rooted it and customized it. And am convinced now that although apple have a simple user interface (or dumb down as the apple haters would say) the quality of apps are far superior to that of android's. And regardless of specs apple win with their apps (quantity & quality), ease of use and appearance (especially with the new resolution) so don't hate on the iUsers they are paying for what they want/ get
P.s. android wins with customization, varity and price..
http://www.tech-thoughts.net/2012/03/new-ipad-tablet-market.html
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