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what's up guys it's Lou from unbox therapy and today we're gonna have a little tablet showdown the iPad 2 versus the Galaxy Tab versus the HP TouchPad hopefully I can help you guys figure out which tablet is gonna work the best for you and believe me it's not the same for everyone so first let's look at her go Nam --ax the iPad 2 was very thin very light it sort of set the standard for what we could expect as far as the tablets concerned now it's got that traditional aspect ratio meaning it's a little bit shorter and a little bit wider than the Galaxy Tab 10 one as far as thickness is concerned they're almost identical but the edge for weight actually goes to the Samsung Galaxy Tab which is the lightest of the bunch now this 16:9 aspect ratio takes some getting used to if you're used to an iPad but if you're into a lot of multimedia and you watch a lot of movies then this is gonna be your choice because it's gonna display the whole frame as opposed to chopping it like any of these traditional aspect ratios here's the touchpad and it's the fattest of the bunch I mean it's not so fat that you can't carry it around or anything it's just these ones have set the bar for ergonomics that's all here's a better look at how close they all are in reality is not a huge difference between them but when it comes to weight it's actually a little bit more significant the touchpad is quite a bit heavier than the other two competitors and I'm not really sure why I guess it's just the way they designed it so next we're gonna take a look at the operating system and some of the features the iPad has a very basic operating system that most of us are used to and most of us can operate very little in the way of multitasking but everything is smooth and how it should be the Android Honeycomb interface on the Galaxy Tab is a little bit more customizable I guess you could say it's also got this little notification section down here along with some quick settings that you can access without sort of leaving what you're currently doing you've got a software back button as well as a software home button that home button will take you back to your homescreen obviously from wherever you are and you've also got this little tab button that will show you all your different applications that you've got running so it's legitimate multitasking for those of you who are power users on your tablet you've also got your app drawer up here where you can host all your apps and you can just pull any one of them and throw it as a shortcut onto any one of your home screens next you can select your own apps these are the ones that you've installed that aren't included by default lastly we've got the touch pad touch pad has probably the most unique interface where you don't actually have a cons on your home screen - the little bar on the bottom the way it works is by setting up these stacks where you can basically configure whatever it is that you want to use at any given time it's also got a notification bar up at the top along with some quick settings including brightness etc that's actually similar to what the Android tablet has you've also got this app drawer here and it'll also allow you to navigate your settings etc from within that window you always hit the home button to get back to your home it's a physical home button similar to the one on the iPad as far as sound is concerned I'd probably give the nod to the HP TouchPad it's got stereo speakers and their significant size these are the ones from the Galaxy Tab 10 one they're also stereo but they're a little smaller a little bit 10 year in the quality of sound and of course the iPads only got the one speaker so I can't really give it the nod you got to have stereo I guess if you want to compete with these other two next we're gonna look at the web browser I'm gonna try and simultaneously launch unbox therapy com look at that that was tough to do and as you guys will see the iPad 2 actually loads the page the fastest but there's a reason that's because it's not loading any flash and flash is of course gonna bog down the CPU on any one of these tablets now when it comes to the flash based tablets the ones that can load it the Galaxy Tab was significantly faster than the age touchpad but if you don't use flash you're not interested in flash then the iPad 2 is not only going to be quicker but it's also going to be a little bit smoother when scrolling up and down and also when pinching to zoom etc not that the other ones aren't smooth they definitely are but I guess there's a little bit different fit and finish when using the iPad and it's subtle but noticeable nonetheless here I'll give you an idea of the pinch to zoom and just how reactive it is actually pretty nice on all three devices I'm impressed with all three to be honest with you and there's probably a lot more in common with these three devices than they have apart you've also got the double tap to zoom in and the double tap to zoom out now each of these tablets allows for you to open multiple browser windows but they handle the process differently on the HP TouchPad you're forced to launch a new window in its entirety and then from there that new window is going to be stacked on top of your previous one where you can only see a bit of it behind the new window on your home page the Android browser and honeycomb is basically the same as Chrome so you've just got tabs that you can see all the time in relationship to what's open and what isn't on the iPad you've got a slightly different scenario where you do have to back out to see what you have opened and from there you basically get thumbnails of the different windows that you have open at any given time but you can't see them well in the browser so next let's talk about YouTube and as you guys know the iPad can't play flash so if you go to youtube.com it's basically useless to you unless you want to leave comments or I don't know login to your channel page or something but the other two devices can actually play videos right on youtube.com and that's a feature as far as I'm concerned that's something that is very interesting to me now the Galaxy Tab 10 1 is actually a little bit better performer on YouTube you can see it's got a quicker response etc but to be fair the touchpad is loading a flash ad along with the flash video so once it gets that loaded up it'll smooth out now as far as the iPad is concerned you're gonna have to launch the YouTube app that's your only way into YouTube and it's okay I mean it's really smooth you get nice big thumbnails etc but there are a number of features and functions that don't exist within it the biggest one as far as I'm concerned is the ability to browse by category or by top rated or top favorited you're kind of stuck with their selections for featured videos and their selections for most viewed and if you guys are like me I like to avoid the most viewed on YouTube like the plague there's really nothing I'm interested in in the most viewed category so on the Android tablet you actually got a dedicated YouTube interface to go with the ability to use youtube.com in its native form and this one is actually a really nice YouTube interface because you can browse by category you can you know use some of the functions available via the web page right within the app it's it's a better substitute as far as I'm concerned even if it might not be as smooth as the iPad version now the galaxy tab also offers a fairly unique interface for viewing your subscriptions you can actually look at them in this three-dimensional sort of interface which isn't the quickest thing at the moment but cool nonetheless and as far as the HP TouchPad is concerned it doesn't have a dedicated YouTube app so you're just going to go to youtube.com now but it would be nice to have the option between the app or the website so next we'll look at the settings menu or menus of each device and you can see that the iPad and the Galaxy Tab have very similar looking layouts text-based layouts whereas the HP TouchPad has more of an icon-based layout not a big deal next is the app stores and this is really where the iPad dominates and has dominated the selection available within the app store is unreal it's it seems untouchable although I'm sure it isn't the android marketplace has been catching up a little bit at a time and this is really where the HP is gonna run into trouble is can their App Store exist coexist with these other two giants if that being said they've got a really nice layout and they set up the groundwork for what could be a really cool App Store I really appreciate the way they've laid it out here it's really clean and easy to use but like I said before it's going to be a matter of getting the inventory of applications to compete with two very mature app markets and in the iPads case an absolute behemoth the next thing I want to talk about is the screen quality as well as the brightness and in this particular category the Galaxy Tab 10 one absolutely dominates it's by far the brightest with the most resolution and significantly more contrast than either these other two screens I'd probably put the iPad 2 in second place to it but the blacks are significantly darker on here and the lights are significantly whiter what else could you ask for in a screen anyway guys let's talk about the keyboards too because that's important gonna be typing a lot on these things and to be honest with you they're all a lot more similar than they are different but one thing I do want to mention is that when using the Galaxy Tab 10 one that interesting aspect ratio allows for your thumbs to be closer together in portrait mode so thumb typing is a little bit easier it's still possible on the iPad 2 but if you have smaller hands you might not be able to reach those middle keys in my case is not really an issue in landscape mode they're all really nice big keyboards really easy to use an ultra responsive I think that the honeycomb tablet actually has the biggest keyboard in landscape mode that's obviously a byproduct again of that unusual aspect ratio or at least unusual for the time being it could very well become the standard in years to come who knows and here's the iPads landscape keyboard big giant buttons pretty difficult to miss pretty sure you'll find any one of these tablets easy to type on so next I'll talk about the cameras the touchpad only has a forward facing camera for video chat the other two have a rear facing camera but honestly guys don't buy these things for the cameras they're not great quality you're gonna be better pulling your smartphone out of your pocket you know or or your dedicated camera for that matter but just for the sake of comparison the galaxy tab does have a shitload more features than the iPad 2 it's got a bunch of different configuration utilities here you can you can pick out a bunch of different stuff and the iPad camera is basically point-and-shoot and that's about it so even though you even though these cameras suck I guess I had to mention it so lastly let's talk about the email clients after all email is a big part of what you'll probably end up doing on any one of these tablets the iPad email interface is very straightforward very simple to use and as you see you get a slightly different look from the landscape interface you can delete or archive messages and you can also run multiple mailboxes when you go to compose an email this little window comes up here fairly easy to use fairly straightforward and actually surprisingly similar to the Android email app the Gmail app over here except for the fact that you get an older and newer sort of way to scroll through your emails on this particular app but again you have multiple inboxes and when you go to compose an email it looks almost identical to when you do so on iOS this is where the touch pad is sort of in its own zone I think that it's email app is probably the best out there that's because it allows you to work on multiple emails at the same time and if you're like me you got emails flying left right and center that's a useful feature so maybe if you're a business guy and this thing is going to be an email machine for you then the touch pad could could easily become your first choice just based on this email functionality right here anyway guys here's the way I see it if this is your first tablet you're coming from a traditional computer I say go for the ipad2 the reason I say that is because the transition is going to be the easiest and you're going to get the most mature tablet experience that's on the market right now if you want to be cutting-edge and you want the latest in hardware and you want a more customizable experience maybe you're a little bit more savvy then I say hey go for the Galaxy Tab 10 one or an Android platform tablet and lastly if this is all business if you're going to use this thing mainly for email then I would 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