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What's the best 10-inch tablet for the money?

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I've not read anything about why they left out an optional HSPA+/LTE feature on the Nexus 10. Does anyone know why this is, or was it purely to keep the cost down?
 
aroundincircles said:
I've not read anything about why they left out an optional HSPA+/LTE feature on the Nexus 10. Does anyone know why this is, or was it purely to keep the cost down?
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That's one reason, but the other would be that a very low fraction of all tablets sold are actually activated on a cellular data network. The lion's share use WiFi only.

A 10" tablet is less likely to be used as a mobile device, unlike smaller 7" tablets (and the Nexus 7 just got HSDPA).
 
OBLAMA2009 said:
you would really choose a phone for that reason. why not just go to the dollar store and get a couple remotes?
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Say I'm lounging around on my couch watching football and neffing on ATOT at the same time, and I want to change the channel really quickly like a ninja, because ninja is awesome and is ultimately powerful, I can do so without looking for remotes. Oh, and because I want to. You have to be a terrorist to hate having the freedom to change channel at once. Why do you hate America?

In all seriousness, all the tablets now pretty much do the same damn things, I'm looking for that next edge that one does while others don't.
 
Why are people insisting that the Nexus 10 has an AMOLED screen? Because it's from Samsung? One way you can tell the screen is LCD is by looking at the resolution. Yeah, it's fucking high and that means it's LCD. AMOLED has issues with high resolutions...
 
Dari said:
Why are people insisting that the Nexus 10 has an AMOLED screen? Because it's from Samsung? One way you can tell the screen is LCD is by looking at the resolution. Yeah, it's fucking high and that means it's LCD. AMOLED has issues with high resolutions...
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http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/05/12/samsung.shows.retina.display.like.tablet.lcd/
http://www.businesswire.com/news/ho...Nouvoyance-Demonstrate-10.1-inch-300dpi-WQXGA
http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/18/samsung-and-nouvoyance-show-off-power-sipping-pixel-packed-pent/

It's bad to make assumptions.
 
cmdrdredd said:
ok...that's why Win RT tablets run Tegra and they run pretty damn smooth.



I have a Logitech Harmony for this...actually had it way before apps and all that stuff came out.
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The Lumia 610 had a single core 800mhz Cortex A5 it was "smooth" too. Took a million years to open anything, but hey, it was smooth so it's fine.

You have to admit, Tegra 3 is really out of it's league with current SOCs. Exynos Quad at least has the GPU going for it even if the CPU architecture is outdated.
 
jpeyton said:
Engadget did a hands on: http://www.viddler.com/v/e53dfbe1

It's ridiculously fast and smooth. Multi-user support in Android 4.2 will be a boon for families who share tablets.
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FINALLY! Somebody finally got the memo that tablets aren't selling by the metric boatload by catering to cellar dwelling geeks and single 20 something hipsters.

"Kid mode" is something that has been desperately missing from any of the OS flavors.
 
4:3 is the better aspect ratio I think. Maybe Apple has it patented on tablets but it works really well I think.

Here's the size of a webpage on the 16:10 Nexus 10 compared to Safari on an iPad:
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Zink said:
Here's the size of a webpage on the 16:10 Nexus 10 compared to Safari on an iPad:
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Why does the comparison show two different pages? That kind of makes the comparison pointless. Also, the example used for the Nexus 10 is just a bad example to use in general.
 
Zink said:
4:3 is the better aspect ratio I think. Maybe Apple has it patented on tablets but it works really well I think.

Here's the size of a webpage on the 16:10 Nexus 10 compared to Safari on an iPad:
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Well everyone knows wider is worse for web pages but better for everything else. Don't need pictures to tell us that.
 
Zink said:
4:3 is the better aspect ratio I think.
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I disagree. Most web sites are designed to use more vertical and horizontal space. Go to Anandtech's home page; in landscape orientation, you'll get your content in the middle surrounded by big margins on either side, and lots of vertical scrolling needed to view the entire page. In portrait orientation, you get small margins on the side and more vertical view of the page.

Rotate the tablet 90 degrees to portrait orientation and the Nexus 10 is better for web pages by a long shot. Here are two screen shots adjusted for ratio AND resolution of each tablet:

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Nexus 10
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As for playing movies and TV shows, 16:10 screens show little or no black bars, while you get a much smaller picture and huge black bars on an iPad. You'll get better FOV in modern 3D games as well with a 16:10 screen.
 
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Mopetar said:
Why does the comparison show two different pages? That kind of makes the comparison pointless. Also, the example used for the Nexus 10 is just a bad example to use in general.
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That is the only screenshot I could find on a Nexus 10 (it has a notification bar that other tablets don't) and couldn't find a full Retina shots on an iPad.
 
jpeyton said:
I disagree. Most web sites are designed to use more vertical and horizontal space. Go to Anandtech's home page; in landscape orientation, you'll get your content in the middle surrounded by big margins on either side, and lots of vertical scrolling needed to view the entire page. In portrait orientation, you get small margins on the side and more vertical view of the page.

Rotate the tablet 90 degrees to portrait orientation and the Nexus 10 is better for web pages by a long shot. Here are two screen shots adjusted for ratio AND resolution of each tablet:

As for playing movies and TV shows, 16:10 screens show little or no black bars, while you get a much smaller picture and huge black bars on an iPad.
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I've only really seen 10" widescreen tablets being used horizontally but maybe vertical works just as well. Anand did it with the Transformer:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4358/android-31-on-the-asus-eee-pad-transformer/2

I think it works well on a 7" tablet but maybe not on 10? I really don't know. It's is also hard to compare screen shots online because I don't know if they are at full 10" tablet DPI. Windows tablets are even sillier looking vertical with their 16:9 screen. These are from 10" tablets and they look pretty good.
http://i.imgur.com/qb7BT.png http://i.imgur.com/iyYmz.jpg
 
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