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Originally Posted by Logseman
I'm extremely underwhelmed with the Galaxy Tab's handling. I could try it today in the FNAC and I found it strangely heavy and uncomfortable in comparison to the iPad. It is bizarre, given that I love my Samsung Galaxy S phone which works just like a smaller version.
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Interesting.
I first saw Galaxy Tab in German "Media Markt", the day before I've got mine via Amazon.
I was (and still am) surprised, how light it was. I comfortably hold it in a single hand for hours every day, whereas iPad is way to heavy for me to hold it that long. And the figures agree: iPad weighs twice as much.
And I find Galaxy Tab way more comfortable to hold. The form factor is very similar to 6" eBook readers like Kindle3. I like that very much, Sony 900 always has been my favorite eBook reader re. "form factor".
I only have 2 minor "complaints" about Galaxy Tab:
a.) Battery duration. It's a bit less than iPad (maybe 7 hours), probably easily to explain with size of unit = size of battery.
b.) Dell Streak and Galaxy Tab occasionally crash on me. Android still seems less "polished" and stable than iOS.
On the other hand, there are some real advantages to iPad:
a.) I'm very curious about "multitasking" on iPad. But I know it from iPhone4 and I'm not very fond of it:
- You can't choose, whether you'd like to close or multi-task an app. On Android you can. I guess, I close apps about 70% of the time. So it's really a pain in the ass, to automatically multi-task on iPhone4.
- Activating the apps in the background, on iPhone is another pain in the ass. There's a single physical button, so obviously the only way is to double-press this one. On Android, it's way easier.
b.) You've got full control on Android with its 4 capacitive buttons. For example, you can search on every page, in every app.
c.) The closed system from Apple has some advantages. But I very much like, choosing from various vendors using the same OS. It's interesting to compare Dell Streak and Samsung Galaxy Tab. Same OS and still lots of differences.
d.) Not of extreme importance to me. But it's helpful, being able to expand the memory with standard cards on Android units. And the cameras are nice. Given the portability, I use them as my travel companions and enjoy taking the occasional snapshot (with GPS tagging and all the common advantages).
e.) I Like, toying around with my gadgets. On Android, you easily (without any hacks or jailbreaks) can access your internal memory, drag and drop files and the likes.