Nexus 10 Specs compared to iPad and Surface

[mike123abc]

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/10/nexus-10-vs-apple-ipad-vs-microsoft-surface-rt/

Very impressive specs, and $100 less than the iPad. Dizzying 2560 x 1600 pixel, 330 ppi resolution blows away the Surface (1366x768) and outdoes the iPad.

Also thinner and lighter....

Will be interesting to see what comes out of the benchmarks and early reviews.

 

[dangue]

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/10/nexus-10-vs-apple-ipad-vs-microsoft-surface-rt/

Very impressive specs, and $100 less than the iPad. Dizzying 2560 x 1600 pixel, 330 ppi resolution blows away the Surface (1366x768) and outdoes the iPad.

Also thinner and lighter....

Will be interesting to see what comes out of the benchmarks and early reviews.

Screen resolution is impressive. Stereo sound is also a plus.

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[meStevo]

Interested in a comparison of this, retina and a surface screen. Surface has done some stuff with their display to make resolution not as big a deal. Will believe it when I see it.

Not sure I'm interested in an Android tablet anymore though, /shrug.

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[digiblur]

Looks very cool. I just don't get the tablet thing anymore. I have one and it does everything I need just fine with CM9 (ICS) on it. I think I've used it twice in the past 2 months. I just use my phone for everything now since the screen is big enough. I get it, if say my phone was 4 inches or less, as when I did have phone that size I used my tablet. Now that I have a little bigger screen I'm just too lazy to keep the tablet charged now. The Kindle Fire is even in the closet, dead. If I need to do something where I need to see something better or type a lot I just grab the laptop. You can do so much more it. I'll probably end up getting the Note 2 around Christmas if they have a good deal on it and that would really kill the need for tablet. Can't wait to get that sucker! The small go anywhere tablet that fits in your pocket (no skinny jeans here, just regular 32's)

 

[meStevo]

I just don't see the Android tablets giving me more than my iPad, feels like for some reason if I want to do more then W8 phones/tablets are the answer with PCs and an Xbox in the house. Android is so unfocused and the walls around iOS are just too high so if you're on the wrong side of them you just don't get as much.

If they can pull off the different flavors of W8, I think the alternatives (especially things like this Nexus) are going to have to compete really hard on price. Apple has a premium brand going for it, at least for the time being. Odd moves like the recent iPad refresh, the Maps and other debacles, could see even Apple fall out of the non-enthusiast graces one gaffe at a time. Meanwhile everyone's been also using Windows all along for the most part, it just makes sense for my household to seriously consider aligning with the core of what we've been using all along just like the most devout Apple fans have done with all their iProducts.

Windows has a little ways to go to prove it can go down this path, but it seems much more likely a success than a failure already to me.

 

[John Kotches]

Mike123:

We'll see in 6 months to a year if MS can compete. Given that the top 2 players have roughly 97% of the tablet sales if MS goes beyond 3% it will have to do so at the expense of its competitors; something MS has not needed to do in a long long time time.

They aren't directly competing in price, so they will have to do it on features.

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[John Kotches]

Another possibility exists, that the RT tablets take market share from the laptop and desktop space for casual users.



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[meStevo]

Yeah, there's some room to claim success with the expansion of the market rather than explicitly market share, would think that would be more of a moral victory though unless that can be parlayed into larger success.

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[lparsons21]

From a tech standpoint, the Nexus looks to be very good. But in the tablet market it doesn't really seem that the tech is as important as the apps and ecosystem. And because of that I think the 2 winners long term will be Apple and Amazon. MS has a window (no pun intended) of opportunity to come to the table if they can get the ecosystem behind it, and in the case of the RT, get the performance better.

As to smartphones vs tablets, well for youngsters with decent eyes, the smartphone might be just fine. But for us that aren't that way any more and grabbing the phone means also grabbing the reading glasses...

 

[John Kotches]

lparsons:

I think you mean Google (Android) as opposed to Amazon.

As an FYI, there's roughly application parity as both Android and iOS app stores have around 700K applications.

 

[TheForce]

The problem with the surface rt, iOS, and android tablets is they don't work like traditional laptops and every task needs a special app. While this can work for many, there are many times this doesn't work for me. I assume there are many others like me. I need a tablet like device but one that works like a laptop, where a few software products can do many tasks. Where the tablet can connect to many devices and communicate.

I don't think Microsoft will make a dent in the apple iOS movement in mobile devices, but I do see the surface and equivalent products running intel/AMD processors with win8 pro taking hold of the laptop markets.

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[digiblur]

That's my issue with the tablets as well, I'm just limited to things I can do. I even feel that way browsing sometimes. I just don't have the patience sometimes for no keyboard and such.

 

[vodad]

I am leaning toward a real windows 8 surface. I was thinking the Nexus 10 would be nice, but the lack of a MicroSD slot I think was a mistake.

Did anyone watch NCIS LA last night, there was a part in it that was an add for a surface tablet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AOwL5FRMR0

 

[lparsons21]

lparsons:

I think you mean Google (Android) as opposed to Amazon.

As an FYI, there's roughly application parity as both Android and iOS app stores have around 700K applications.

No I don't mean Google. The ecosystem, which is more than just apps, imo is more important and thus Amazon and Apple with their very good ecosystems should be the long term winners.

As to app parity, well the only way it matches up is if you are willing to say that all those phone apps count towards the tablets. In a way they do, but phone apps on tablets just aren't very good. Not on Apple or Android devices. There have been numerous discussions about the relatively small number of Android apps actually produced for tablets in many dev and other discussion groups.

 

[Bob2011]

It's hard to believe but early Windows 7 business class laptops are starting to come off lease. There should be some nice 11 and 12 inch Windows 7 laptops on ebay soon for around $200 or less. Swap the drive out for a SSD and you have a highly functional tablet alternative for half the price of this Nexus.