BB is showing this tablet as a sale item for $199.99 from Nov 27-29th
Anyone who purchased in the past week should be able to get this price match.
Anyone who purchased in the past week should be able to get this price match.
That is good to know seeing as I just picked mine up.
Where are you seeing the price so I can take that with me when I go back to Best Buy?
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Just grabbed one in store this morning. At 199.00 I couldn't pass it up. So far liking it a lot. I was ready to go for the Tab S but I couldn't justify the price difference with the Pro being on sale.
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According to reviews of the tab pro 8.4, battery life isn't one of its strong points. That said in every other category it's a great device. If you're used to iPad type battery life you'll probably be unable to achieve that using the Tab Pro.
With my usage it's not an issue as I charge all my devices nightly anyways. Plus I always have access to charge (albeit slowly) when in the car and carry an extra wall charger too.
IMO you'll have to use it for a few days and see if you can live with the battery usage. The salesperson at BB when I got mine said he'd had a few people return them because of the shorter battery life. Overall at 200 bucks I can live with the battery.
Right now I'm at 4hr 37 minutes on battery with 91% left and about 50 minutes of screen on time. Usage has been mostly email, forum browsing, and about 20 minutes of Netflix watching.
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Thanks for the detailed reply. Yeah, the battery may be the sticker, but I'll keep trying it out for a bit. Of course now I also see that BB has the 16gb iPad Mini 2 on sale today for $225. So for $25 more, I could get a second Mini 2 and just have the kids share even though there aren't separate profiles (while keeping many of the apps that we have since we all have iPhones as well). We'll see. Darn Black Friday presents too many possibilities
I keep trying to become more of an Android user here and there, but the integration in our household of a Mac Mini, 2 MacBooks, 4 iPhones, and 2 iPads makes it tough. I have the kids using a couple of Chromebooks, while not Android, so they can use many of the Google services. This Samsung tablet is a nice device though (really like the 16:10 8.4" screen!)...but maybe I'll have to wait a while and how Lollipop fares next year and see what options are out there at that time.
I think the couple of things that I need from the Google/Android side to make the possible switch are:
1.) Family sharing of app purchases across accounts (with Apple, I have all iOS devices set for Apps to my account and then individual iCloud/GameCenter accounts). I'm not going to buy a game or GPS app or something for 4 individual user accounts when I can buy it once on iOS.
2) Better battery life on the tablet (or one comparable to this one).
3.) TiVo app to allow for downloaded shows on Android (I know, my specific use, but the iOS version allows this...great for trips!).
4.) Microsoft Office apps (I know there's Docs, Sheets, and Slides, but sometimes looks strange on Android. iOS now has these MS versions available...tried some other free version as well).
Reason 1 is a biggie and something android desperately needs. There are a couple work around though. Have a look at these articles. I use my play store account on my Daughter's tab 2 10.1 but purchases require my password so she can't buy anything without asking me. I also have her tab rooted and an ad blocker installed to block most in app purchases. I can also modify the "hosts" file to block sites I don't want her to be on. Ah the joys of rooting !
From the Android Forums: Multiple Google accounts on one device for Google Play | Android Central
How to use Multiple Google Accounts for Shared Paid Apps
Number 4 is also sorely needed but I think hell will freeze over before MS and Google get together on that.
BTW I'm at 11 hrs 50 minutes with about 3 hours screen on time and have 78% battery left. That's with no games or music streaming. Just a bit of YouTube and general Web use. So far I'm satisfied.
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Office for Android DOES exist. Currently in BETA (I'm a beta tester). Currently have Word, Excel and Powerpoint on my Tab S 8.4.
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