Reasons Why Android Tablets Would Beat iPad
With the arrival of iPad 2, many now might be very confused that whether to go for the latest iPad 2 or with other Android tablets like Xoom which may not be thin and light like an Apple iPad but if we talk of the specifications and choices which are being offered by Android tablets is much more than what is being provided by Apple iPads. Where you have multiple companies which will be adopting the Android platform and will be releasing the Android laden tablets, Apple will be the sole one which will be fighting in the tablet world with its iPad 2 version which has been launched just few days back on March, 11. So, let’s check out the few reasons why Android tablets would beat iPad.
Reasons Why Android Tablets Would Beat iPad:
Options
While you only have an option to Choose Apple iPad as in only iPad, you have more than hundred options to choose from an Android tablets. So when it comes to options Android clearly scores ahead of Apple. The best available option which Android has currently as of now in front of the Apple iPad is Motorola Xoom which wins over the latest iPad2 in almost all parameters only keeping the design part aside as iPad comes in a much more thinner and lighter in weight.
Notification
With an all new notification bar which is being rolled out in the Honeycomb, the Android tastes an all new useful and good looking widget which if compared with Apple iPad as the notification bar in Apple is quite not simple and is complex. When a message appears in the Android, it just appears at the bottom of the screen disappears unlike the one in iPad which stays on till you check out the message.
Multitasking
With the arrival of Android’s latest operating system version Honeycomb which highly supports multitasking with an ease compared to cluttered multitasking experience in the Apple iPad2 which is bit harder to use in iPad2.
Camera
While an Android tablet Xoom comes with a powerful secondary camera of 2 MP along with the back camera of 5MP with 720p HD capability, Apple iPad2 comes with a mere VGA camera at the front while the back camera is a 2MP one with 5x zoom though. Also, several other Android tablets has better specifications than the camera provided in the iPads.
Flash
While still the camera flash couldn’t make it to the iPads for which only Apple only has the answer, most of the Android tablets come with the flash and not to forget a powerful camera too. Android includes flash support. Apple’s assertion that Flash won’t be the standard for video in the near future may be right, however, so if many sites start moving over to H.264, for example, the landscape could change. But for now, if you want to use Flash, Android is the answer.
Home screens
The home screen on iPad has a lot of space which can be used to accommodate many useful widgets. On the other hand, new Honeycomb OS has five customizable home screens to fill up the widgets and app shortcuts. This reaction to the screen arrangement may wary between different users as some may prefer a simple screen with less apps and few others with many user accessible friendly apps. The home screen on Android can be customized very easily while on iPad there are hardly any customizations which you get.
Processing Speed
While the latest iPad2 comes with a mere 512 MB RAM, the latest Android’s Xoom comes with 1GB. Now no matter what else is being put into, lower the processing speed higher is the risk of freezing of the device which in turn is not good for all multitasking lovers.
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good post dude
Interesting article..!
Even i agree with Android..!
Sounds awesome! I jumped ship from Apple a few months ago because of their diversity on Android 🙂
I love the multitasking on my Xoom, and it’s noticeably better and sweeter than the iPad 2, but to say the iPad 2s multitasking is harder to use is a bit of a stretch. It’s not as elegant as Honey comb, but hard, definitely not…2 clicks on the home button on my friend’s iPad 2 and we’re multitasking away. And the iPad’s multitasking isn’t bad at all, we were able to switch back and forth to apps very quickly without a hitch, programs come back up quickly like the Xoom, and the way Apple designed it saves a ton of memory and especially battery life…Can’t say the same fir Android’s OS. I may like the multitasking on my Xoom a little better, but the iPad 2s multitasking is efficient and definitely easy to use…and because of the way it does multitasking it doesn’t need as much memory as the Xoom to run multiple apps. For this 1gig should be used for Android tablets, 512mb is good for the iPad 2.
Also there might only be one choice for the iOS tablet, but it’s form factor is a lot thinner and more elegant than any of the Android offerings by far. It’s metallic and sturdy, thin, and is a lot better to hold than the Xoom. More options is a good thing in form factors, but when there’s something like the iPad 2 that makes the others feel kinda…well, sorta cheap to be quite frank, it doesn’t matter…most people would rather have something much more well designed as the iPad 2. I would love to have an Android device as well built as the iPad 2, but there simply isn’t one at this point.
And to be honest, most people won’t care too much about the higher quality cameras on the Xoom, the iPad 2’s cameras are sufficient enough for video chat, and quick 720p video shots. Really though, for videos and pics, people will more than likely bust out their phones than a 10 inch device to shoot.
And lets face it, the apps in Apple’s App Store are much better than the Android’s in most cases, especially on the tablet front where Android’s offerings for tablet apps are a POS in comparison. Yes you can run Android 2.2 apps on the Xoom, but they look bad – just the same way it looks when running phone games on the the iPad.
I love my Xoom, but after playing with the iPad 2, i wish I would have gotten that instead. The tablet space is a different market than the mobile phone front where a lot of people could only get Android phones because its the best one for their carrier and couldn’t get an iPhone because it’s not in their carrier, or wanted a cheap phone or a free one, Android was available for that area, iPhone wasn’t. In the tablet market there isn’t that phone carrier part, so I don’t see Android having the upper hand in sales because of these key factors. As the way its going in the tablet arena, if Android ever beats out Apple, it won’t be for a very long time, if ever.
It really sounds good that Android have now reached the stage where comparison with big bull IPad can be easily made and moreover survive to take over.
I would have also liked to see the price comparison which Indian market is very much centric to.
Finally thanks for sharing such a useful and wonderful information. Looking forward to more on it…… 🙂
So true, Samsung Galaxy tan already leading in terms of price and performance. Galaxy tab prices slashed to 24k in India. And its much better for video calls and video conferencing.
I too support for Android where we can customize the home screen with widgets..Apple always sucks..but froyo OS is better than honey comb…because we get 7 home screen tabs and around 52% of android users are using this OS..
So true, Samsung Galaxy tan already leading in terms of price and performance. Galaxy tab prices slashed to 24k in India. And its much better for video calls and video conferencing.