Tell me the disadvantages of galaxy tab 10.1

I just want to buy a tablet. I am confused in iPad 2 and galaxy tab 10.1. Can anyone give me some suggestions?

 

As a general rule, Android tablets are more customizable, and can be configured in multiple ways. Apple tablet are the way Steve Jobs wanted them to be, and unless you "jailbreak" the device, you're pretty much limited in how it does things. One example: If you add on an SD card reader, with Android you can use a file manager program like Astro to copy photgraphs to any folder on the device you want. With an iPad, I don't think you can attach an SD card reader at all, and Apple decides where photographs should go, and that's where they go. Period. Most Android tablets will let you add an SD card or USB stick (sometimes via an adapter) to expand the memory on the device.

The downside is that because Android is so much more flexible, it can be more confusing. iPads are probably easier to learn, and easier to use for the novice without much computer experience. For those with lots of computer experience, the lack of flexibility can be frustrating.

A benefit of the iPad is that it's very standardized. App developers have only 3 products to customize their software for, and the differences are minor. Android developers have to contend with dozens of different models, each of which may have subtle differences. Not every Android app may work well on your tablet. That's much less common on Apple.

The other advantage of the iPad is that because it's from Apple, and because it's sold in the gazillions, there are far more 3rd party accessories, like cases and keyboards and docking stations and you-name-it available. But you should be able to find what you really need for a Tab, just not from as many different vendors.

Both will let you play music, surf the web, look at pictures, edit documents, etc.

 

To make sure I understood here, you're saying Android had a slight edge over iOS ;-)

 

the way i see it iPad lets you do what it wants you to do, Android lets your tablet do what you want it to do

seriously though the trade off is quality of service against flexibility - the iPad gives you a consistent level of experience within certain limits while Android lets you do a broader set of activities at inconsistent levels of experience

 

Sorry, an attempt at humor that failed miserably, I have a lot of experience with iOS, but I wouldn't even consider an iPad.

 

Glad I found this thread! I too don't know whether I should get an iPad 2 or Samsung Galaxy Tablet. The deal breaker for me are the apps. I keep hearing apps on an Android tablets look "stretched out" is this true?

 

I've found some olders apps are not optimized for the tablet but new ones have all looked fine. Some apps only viewable in Potrait too.

Biggest decider for me was the lack of Flash Video on iPad, now thou bigger plus of Android for me is the SopCast client.

 

one dislike of the android tab is if i am listening to a web stream i cannot multitask and browse another webpage or use another app

 

+1 on the using browser instead of needing an App. I very rarely will use Apps like this as the Android tablet browser experience is nearly as good as a PC web browser

 

If you like tinkering with things I would propose you get the Android tablet. I have an Acer Iconia A500 tablet. It has a dual 1GHz Nvidia processor with 1gig ram and 16 Gig memory. I like connecting peripherals to my device and Android tablets comes with much better options.
Here are a few things that I can do with the tablet:
- In addition to the normal slave mode USB connector it also has a full size USB port (master mode) to which I can connect a Usb hub into which I can then plug in a normal keyboard and a mouse to use the tablet like a laptop
- It also has bluetooth
- it has an hdmi port which I can connect with my full HD television and then watch full HD Youtube videos while using a wireless mouse as a remote to navigate the screen. The processor easily handles the resolution
- I can connect my 1.3 terabytes NTFS formatted portable hard disk to it and both read and write files since the Acer tablet has a special driver software to handle the ntfs file system (something not all tablets can do because you normally have to use fat32 to make disks compatible between apple,linux and windows
- I watch my HD family videos from my external hard drive mp4's on my full HD television
- When I am on holiday I can use my tablet to transfer photos and videos from my video and digital camera to my portalble hard drive
- I can connect RS232 serial to usb devices to my tablet and monitor the serial output on an arduino microprocessor
- I use the USB port together with an app which turns my tablet into an oscilloscope
- I can write apps in java on my tablet using the free AIDE app, compile and install it without going through a market
- It has a micros SD slot for up to 32 gig extra memory
- it has all the sensors you would expect in a high end android tablet
- I really do not care for 3G in my tablet - that is what you use the wifi hotspot in your phone for (why keep track of expenses on 2 mobile phone sim cards?) 3G just adds unnecessary costs for something you already have in your phone
- The tablet has plenty of battery life
- I use the Vpn connection to connect to my work windows network and then use the JUMP app to remotely access the MSTC terminal service on my work Windows 7 PC as if I am sitting in front of it. All on my android tablet
- I can open Microsoft office documents easily
- I can run dosbox to execute old programs I have compiled in Watcom C for Dos long ago
- I can compile C++ code with full STL support and execute it on the tablet
- I listen to my itunes Music collection over wifi by streaming it with shoutcast streaming server from my laptop
- I easily share my tablet contents by sharing it via an FTP server running on the tablet
- I can browse my windows network at home and access all the shared windows folders without any problem

I can do almost anything that I can do with my laptop