Samsung Galaxy Tab S
Samsung
has been pouring a lot of effort into making a really decent iPad rival, and
that strategy has seen some hare-brained decisions (such as launching the Tab
Pro in January 2014, and then replacing it a few months later with the Galaxy
Tab S).
But,
apart from annoying anyone that's already bought into the Tab Pro range, this
strategy has finally yielded a brilliant tablet in the shape of this Super
AMOLED-shod Tab S duo. Available in both 8.4- and 10.5-inch screen sizes,
Samsung has taken the best of its OS and technology ability, fused them with
the best display on a tablet and created something pretty special.
The
battery life is great, the screen has to be seen to be believed (and is
excellent for media and internet viewing, which is really the point of a
tablet) and the price is on a par with the rest of the industry. Well done,
Samsung.
Weight: 467g | Dimensions: 247.3 x 177.3 x
6.6mm | OS: Android 4.4.2 | Screen size: 10.5-inch | Resolution:
2560 x 1600 | CPU: Quad-core 2.3 GHz | RAM: 3GB | Storage:
16/32GB | Battery: 7900mAh | Rear camera: 8MP | Front camera:
2.1MP
Lenovo Miix
The
Lenovo Miix, a 10-inch Windows 8 tablet with its own keyboard case, is like the
consumer version of the ThinkPad Tablet 2, with slightly different accessory
hardware.The Lenovo Miix is smart, light, reasonably well-made and comes with
an excellent keyboard to help you to use it like a laptop. The potential is
here for it to be a great mobile work machine, provided you don't need to run
anything too intensive.The 10.1-inch, 1,366x768-pixel-resolution, 16:9 IPS
display supports five-finger multitouch, and the 10.1-millimeter-thin,
1.27-pound design resembles that of other thin and lower-power Windows 8
tablets.The Lenovo Miix uses the Intel Atom Z2760 processor, which is a 1.8GHz
dual-core chip, though it does feature Hyper-Threading, so can act as four
virtual cores..This is all backed up with 2GB of RAM, which is very favourable
compared to other tablets.64GB of eMMC storage, a microSD card slot that can
support an additional 32GB of memory, a front-facing 1.3-megapixel camera, a
Micro-USB 2.0 connector, a Micro-HDMI port, and Bluetooth 4.0 plus 802.11n
Wi-Fi. The front-facing camera's only 1 megapixel, suitable for Web chat but
not much else. There's an optional 3G micro-SIM port, too.Battery life is
respectable, but not outstanding. We got
just over 6.5 hours (400mins) of streaming video out of the Miix, and you could
probably stretch that closer to eight hours for lighter work, but that’s not
particularly impressive when larger Haswell laptops can now offer 10 or more
hours between charges.
Price:$550
VS Sony
Xperia Z2 Tablet
Sony's
previous Xperia Tablet Z was an incredibly slender piece of kit, measuring only
6.9mm thick, but the new model has managed to slice off even more, coming in at
only 6.4mm. Its slimness is immediately noticeable when you pick the slate up
as it feels like a thin pamphlet. At 426g it's very light as well, which should
help make it comfortable to use for longer periods.Design-wise, not much has
changed since the previous model. The front is a button-free, all glass design,
while the back panel is a wide expanse of matte black plastic, with the minimal
Sony branding in the middle. Like its predecessor, the Z2 Tablet is completely
waterproof, allowing it to shrug off an errant spilled drink or let you dunk it
in the sink to rinse off smeary fingerprint marks.The 10.1-inch display boasts
a Full HD resolution, making it well equipped to tackle glossy, high definition
shows on Netflix. It's not quite matching the iPad Air's whopping
2048x1536-pixel resolution, although side-by-side, I doubt you'd notice much
difference.On the back of the tablet is an 8-megapixel camera which should be
at least good enough for some Instagram shots of whatever you've cooked that
evening.Stuffed into that skinny frame is a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 801
processor, clocked at an impressive 2.3GHz, backed up by 3GB of RAM. Specifications
Display type10.1 in
RAM3 GB
ProcessorQualcomm
Snapdragon 2.3 GHz
Dimensions
(WxDxH)0.25 in
Weight15.03 oz
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