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greetings all this is deke Adams with pocketnow.com and today we're taking a last final look at the galaxy tab 10.1 in comparison with some other tablets we have on hand and with some as others that we've used so sit back relax and enjoy the show so here we're looking at the galaxy tab 10.1 from verizon versus the HP TouchPad and it's a little hard to tell from the screen here but the HP TouchPad is they're both on full brightness the HP TouchPad has a noticeably kind of yellow tint to it over here and this is more of a blue white either one of them are probably very color corrected but that doesn't really matter so I've got the default web browsers brought up on both of these and so we're going to kind of launch the web browser for the pocket out site together see them loading here both connected to Wi-Fi and both still loading the site specifically the ads the text is certainly more readable on the Galaxy Tab even though it's smaller it looks a little blurry here on the HP model and this is already finished loading the page we're still waiting for the HP TouchPad to finish lending and I realize that this is kind of an outdated model technically since HP's decided that it's not going to make this device anymore but you can kind of see the difference between the web browser and it's still not finished loading up the page scrolling through you can see this is a little chunky scrolling through here a lot more fluid let's go ahead and open up a article on both of these if we look here no content here on the HP TouchPad that we can select it's completely missing whereas on the Galaxy Tab we actually can launch the video in the review size wise as you can see here the galaxy tab is a little bit longer but noticeably thinner and a whole lot lighter than the HP touchpad is the this really feels like a slab of plastic and it's very heavy this is lightweight feels very nice in the hands easy to use so unsurprising that in this case the galaxy tab 10.1 would win out over the HP TouchPad even at the ninety nine dollars at the HP touchpad is so we're looking at the galaxy tab 10.1 and the original iPad we both got them Google here with a default browser Safari and the default internal browser on the tab and let's just go ahead and launch this what I found the difference between these two particular dices and obviously this one's not going to load any flash here and we even got an advertisement on this particular showing the page is still loading in the background thankfully but the tab is definitely lighter and thinner a little bit longer as you can see here a little bit narrow as far as the video screen is concerned quality of the pixels of as far as like being able to read here I actually can see the the galaxy tab screen a little bit better than the ipad one and I'm a little bit of an angle here screen brightness it feels like they're just about the same screen brightness wise between the two of them on these devices now that said it still feels like in the realms of the apps and how the android system works in comparison with the ipad and the iOS ecosystem that's in the background there really I still feel like the android tablet system is a lot like the iPad one when it first came out meaning that a lot of the apps that are out there just aren't really ready for prime time or aren't quite don't look as good as they really could just like when the iPad one first came out there were a whole lot of tablet applications available there were a lot of iphone apps that you could use the screen doubling with and that just didn't look as good as everything else now that said moving on to the ipad 2 let's go ahead and bring that up here the ipad 2 is a little bit thinner not very very much as a hair here and as far as everything else goes size-wise it's just a smidge shorter has a little wider screen format then the galaxy tab as far as speed goes i found that they're pretty negligible now you can't really compare android processing power and ram and all of that and what the Vectra specs are the specs on the ipad it's it's it's not a fair game in playing numbers with these sort of devices unless you're playing android to android or the ipad 2 ipad it just doesn't make any sense other than looking at what the device can do and what i found is that on the ipad and i'm not an apple fanboy by any means if you point the camera up we'd see a lot more pcs in this room then you would Apple products but the iOS system just works right now and Apple has done a really good job of controlling the hardware and the software combined to make a really solid ecosystem and provide a lot of tools to developers to produce some really the apps and have courted those developers to do those apps in a really nice fashion there's a lot more music creation apps on the iPad there's even apps allow you to connect multiple iPads together do music creation whereas Android is just getting started with that if you look at the music type of applications that are on there there's not an IMS 20 app on there now there's not a app like garageband on there yet there are some tuna wraps and there's some some funky little sense but they're not nearly as good as what this now has and again back in the day when the iPad first came out there weren't a whole lot of music apps for this either so my anticipation is that unless Apple really steps up their game with iOS 5 and moving ahead that the Android tablets are really going to start coming into their own and start picking up some of those you know high-end apps that people expect and have been using here now in comparison as far as usability between these two apps as far as simplicity Android is still more of a tinker's type system in my opinion and I like to tinker whereas iOS I can hand to my two-and-a-half-year-old and be able to navigate it through it very quickly and very easily without fiddling around with a whole lot of stuff get herself in netflix or launch other applications and she understands this single button interface to get back and forth whereas this multi button interface while she would obviously learn it and pick it up pretty easily as a child it's not quite the same to her she doesn't care where the content comes from though if I'm playing netflix on this or netflix on that obviously it doesn't matter and i have found that even watching netflix on this galaxy tab versus the ipad 2 doesn't really make that much of a difference to my myself either now my ipad 2 does not have a data plan with it so i found that the Galaxy Tabs data plan has been outstanding to have available to myself when I'm out on the road I don't have to do a whole lot of tethering and really it makes me think that the next time I upgrade if i choose to do an ipad again i'm really going to think heavily about doing a data package because i tell you what that 4g speeds on this tablet have been very very nice and all i found really android is necessarily a loser in this case it just as i said before feels like it's the first gen products just getting started compared to items like then the color which I've had it its outstanding compared to the galaxy tab 7 it's out out started yeah the galaxy tab the original its outstanding in comparison to the asus or the motorola xoom or really any product out there other than aside the ipad iOS and leaving it aside comparing this device to any other tablet that's on the market really blows away just about everything that's out there and it's really a fantastic device for the price when you soon as you bring back the environment and the ecosystem of iOS with the ipad 2 then this doesn't look quite as strong this you still have to use itunes with which i really dislike I don't have to use itunes I can use whatever syncing app I choose I've got google music on here a lot more services that Google Apps look better on this than they do on the iPad and frankly in another two years we may find that these are actually the better devices on the whole and Apple gets stuck where it is as far as interface goes between the galaxy tab and the iPad or the HP TouchPad really i do prefer androids ability to lay out the icons as I see fit I realize you can do that by jailbreaking the iPad I you know jailbreak the ipad for other reasons not for moving the icons around I also like the ability to add widgets to the home screen although that's not really that important when it comes down to it when you're trying to work in a tablet environment my workflow has been created around this particular device and used lock me in a lot i used the docs to go I use the Kindle reader with this particular vice and I worked around it enough now that I know how to make things work correctly on this I found that when I first got started with a galaxy tab it took a little bit time to adjust my workflow but it did adapt very quickly although again the apps that were written for Android for example the office apps we're a little sluggish on the Galaxy Tab versus on the iPad and it comes right down to the developers and how they're developing not necessarily the hardware or anything particularly wrong with this particular device or anything about it battery life between the two compared to the HP touchpad or the Nook the galaxy tab does a fantastic job it does an outstanding amount of time on battery life and can go for hours and hours and hours as far as constant use if you leave it turned off it goes into standby mode and you have any sort of notifications that are popping up it choose that battery life very very quickly whereas with the iPad the battery life just goes and goes and goes and goes and goes and goes when you're using it and then if you turn it off it goes and goes and goes and goes some more much longer than if but the galaxy tab and in fact if I turn them both off with the same and both at a hundred percent the galaxy tab would run out of power faster than the ipad 2 was and that's probably do the way that that Apple's dealing with the apps and again that's just a strict comparison of how the perception of the products are not necessarily that the galaxy tab is a bad device should you buy the galaxy tab that depends on what you're really wanting to accomplish if you're already an Android user and you're comfortable with Android and you don't mind tinkering and your anticipation is that the product is going to get better and it will then you could go with an android device you'll love it it'll do everything you want it to do if you've already started out on an iPad and you've got a lot of apps in that ecosystem and there especially if you're involved with music like I like to do you're going to want to stick with the ipad 2 for now don't give up on this quite yet until this gets a little bit better down the track that wraps up our video series on the Galaxy Tab 10.1 with LTE from Samsung for verizon if you have any comments or questions please leave them below will try to answer them in an orderly fashion and we'd like to hear your feedback on the video series as far as the tablets go to see if we would like to see more of this sort of tablet coverage in the future thanks for watching mmmm