Friday, January 28, 2011

Android tablets versus the iPad - choose with brain, not the trend


Ipad or Galaxy Tab or chinese android tablet?

Wait, yes, yes, wha????????

Why is a cheap chinese android tablet in this list?  Because it CAN be!

How many ipads running ios have you seen that weren't made by apple?  NONE

How many tablets running android have you seen that weren't made by a major android hardware builder such as Galaxy (makers of the amazing tab 7" tablet)?  DOZENS

They range in price from $80 to $800 if you include craigslist pricing for resistive touch screen models right up to stock list prices of the best android tablets available.

You get CHOICE.
you get ANDROID.
you get MARKET*
you get to root your tablet and do whatever you want to it just like with your android phone

New chinese tablets are coming out with nice easy to touch capacitive touchscreens instead of the older resistive touch panels that required a hard press or a stylus.  Dont give in.  Apple made a sweet operating system for mobiles and a sweet form factor in the ipad.  But as always it was really a proof of concept and now you can get one without paying for a huge name brand such as Samsung.  The tab is f-ing amazing.  Why pay big $$$ tho if you can get mostly the same for cheap with chinese knock offs running the same os.

Why buy an ipad?  cuz everyone else is buying one?  It will be like the iphone.  Everyone had one until android took off and now android is the cool thing to get cuz everyone prefers choosing how their phone looks and works and the prices are better too.


* in most cases at least but some cheap older model android tablet did not have the market included - but you can always copy over apks which are androids installers, so the market isn't the only way Android has more app availability than apple's ios.

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