Nexus 10 or iPad 4?

[flick0416]

Try this site, not sure if it mails to you. Its Aus based, however, they sell their stock cheaper then the play store. The owner is known for his negotiation skills, in economics at uni, we read that he learnt it from asian markets how they give customers different coloured bags depending on how low they haggled it to ID which ones to ripp off more. He found out this method and does ridiculously low offers, then ignores offers from suppliers on weeks on end till they hit the right value - hence why his products are sold cheaply because he manages to get his suppliers to sell it ridiculously cheap.
Google Nexus 10 (16GB, Wi-Fi) | Android | Tablets & Laptops

Huh? The link you provided shows a 16 GB N10 for $459 and the 32 GB for $569. The Play Store sells the 16 GB for $399 and the 32 GB for $499.

 

[robuu]

Huh? The link you provided shows a 16 GB N10 for $459 and the 32 GB for $569. The Play Store sells the 16 GB for $399 and the 32 GB for $499.

I think the prices are in Australian dollars.

 

[flick0416]

Thanks for the awesome post flick0416. And my tablet will be for media consumption too. I don't know. I feel like I can't really go wrong with either tablet I choose to buy. I kind of like the idea of owning an Android devise and an iOS one too so I can always get the app, only one platform has. The switching between profiles is a definite bonus. Anyways, thanks for me giving me stuff to think about good sir.

If the media consumption is going to be your primary use, then what it really boils down to is the screen ratio and the speakers - do you prefer the 16:9 screen ratio of the N10, or the 4:3 ratio of the iPad 4? In terms of screen resolution, the differences will be negligible, since both are top of the line, so it comes down to the aspect ratio you like best. And that's probably not something you can determine unless you've held each one in your hands. If you haven't already seen the N10 in person, I know Costco has them on display, and I think Best Buy does too. You can probably find the iPad at those same places too.

In terms of the speakers, the N10 has stereo speakers on the front of the device, and I personally think that's an advantage over the iPad's speaker that's on the back of the device. That's purely conjecture though, as I admittedly haven't experienced the iPad's speakers. But it seems to be common sense, especially if you're holding it in your lap, that a speaker on the back of the device would get muffled. Again, I don't know, maybe Apple has found a way around that. Or maybe you'd be plugged in with headphones most of the time anyway, which would mitigate that effect. Just some more food for thought.

 

[flick0416]

I think the prices are in Australian dollars.

Ah, you're right. If you switch to USD, they've got the 16 GB version for $449.

 

[angeluski]

Have been using my Nexus 10 since November 2012; now all other PC, laptop, & tablet displays look like crap to me. The display quality on the 10 will spoil you for all other devices -- be forewarned!

 

[revz247]

So, I'm going to buy my first tablet and I have narrowed the possibilities to two. Either the Nexus 10 or the iPad 4. I realize that this might be a biased forum and so am I. I am also "against" Apple but I've got to admit that their tablets are great. They cost about the same here because I can't get the Nexus 10 straight from the Google Play Store Which one to get? Both of the tablets' displays are great, iPad has better apps. I own an S3 so would it be better to shake things up and get an iOS tablet or play it safe and go for the Android?

Only honest and as objective replies as possible, thanks.

If there is a better sub-forum for this thread let me know.

Buy the nexus especially if you love your movies and music its so much easier to put whatever you want on it,my son has the IPad 2 had it two years and I still don't know how to put a movie on it,if it was mine it would of been sold and out the door ages ago

 

[xlDeMoNiClx]

Buy the nexus especially if you love your movies and music its so much easier to put whatever you want on it,my son has the IPad 2 had it two years and I still don't know how to put a movie on it,if it was mine it would of been sold and out the door ages ago

I couldn't stand having to use iTunes to put literally anything on an iOS device.

 

[neonworm]

I personally would get the nexus 10.

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[Lodovik]

I have both a N10 and an iPad3. I had the iPad3 first and I'm still using it daily. The iPad (3 or 4) is a better device to display anything you read. The screen format is closer to that of a magazine. The N10 is awkward to use in portrait mode and has to little screen estate left in landscape mode due to the Android notification and menu bars. For reading magazines, books, comic books and surfing the web, I prefer the iPad screen format.

Things change if you watch movies or TV shows on your device. In this case, the N10 is the clear winner. Its 16:9 screen format is great for this and it's also a lot easier to manage your files on Android than on iOS. In Android, you put your videos in a folder that is accessible by any app so you have the choice to play them with whatever player you have installed. On iOS, you must transfer the videos through iTunes and place them in the folder of the app you use to play the videos. Once there, the videos are only visible by this app because averything is compartimented on iOS. This is the same thing for other kinds of media (books, mags, etc) except for music.

Games: the iPad by a long shot. No contest here. Everything works great and smoothly for gamers on iOS. No slowdowns or compatibility problems. You get games that are perfectly tuned for your iOS device. Already a ton of Retina games and a bazillion of HD ones.

Apps: same thing: perfectly adapted to your iOS device. On Android, things are slowly changing and it's getting better but no contest here neither.

Memory: you can go up to 128GB of storage on the iPad; the N10 is limited to 32GB although you can hack some more with an OTG adapter but this is not an elegant solution, just a workable one.

The N10 has serious advantages for those who like retrogaming, like me. You have all those great emulators on Google Play and connecting a PS3 controller is great once you root your device and use the Sixaxis app. For this alone, I bought the N10. I tried the jailbreak way on my iPad and the emulators were less polished and I had far less choice. Also, messing with the iOS file system to load your ROMs is alway risky. I had to restore my iPad once just after loading some files on it. No, jailbreaking an iOS device will not get you anywhere the liberty you have with Android and especially with a Nexus device.

The N10 (and Android in general) is also better if you want to access files on a server. I have a NAS server and I can stream movies and TV shows from it without any issue. The N10 is fast enough to play HD movies without hiccups. On the iPad side, streaming movies is a lot more difficult because it's generally done through DLNA and some file formats cannot be read.

I hope this will help you decide. Both devices are great.

 

[xlDeMoNiClx]

I have both a N10 and an iPad3. I had the iPad3 first and I'm still using it daily. The iPad (3 or 4) is a better device to display anything you read. The screen format is closer to that of a magazine. The N10 is awkward to use in portrait mode and has to little screen estate left in landscape mode due to the Android notification and menu bars. For reading magazines, books, comic books and surfing the web, I prefer the iPad screen format.

Things change if you watch movies or TV shows on your device. In this case, the N10 is the clear winner. Its 16:9 screen format is great for this and it's also a lot easier to manage your files on Android than on iOS. In Android, you put your videos in a folder that is accessible by any app so you have the choice to play them with whatever player you have installed. On iOS, you must transfer the videos through iTunes and place them in the folder of the app you use to play the videos. Once there, the videos are only visible by this app because averything is compartimented on iOS. This is the same thing for other kinds of media (books, mags, etc) except for music.

Games: the iPad by a long shot. No contest here. Everything works great and smoothly for gamers on iOS. No slowdowns or compatibility problems. You get games that are perfectly tuned for your iOS device. Already a ton of Retina games and a bazillion of HD ones.

Apps: same thing: perfectly adapted to your iOS device. On Android, things are slowly changing and it's getting better but no contest here neither.

Memory: you can go up to 128GB of storage on the iPad; the N10 is limited to 32GB although you can hack some more with an OTG adapter but this is not an elegant solution, just a workable one.

The N10 has serious advantages for those who like retrogaming, like me. You have all those great emulators on Google Play and connecting a PS3 controller is great once you root your device and use the Sixaxis app. For this alone, I bought the N10. I tried the jailbreak way on my iPad and the emulators were less polished and I had far less choice. Also, messing with the iOS file system to load your ROMs is alway risky. I had to restore my iPad once just after loading some files on it. No, jailbreaking an iOS device will not get you anywhere the liberty you have with Android and especially with a Nexus device.

The N10 (and Android in general) is also better if you want to access files on a server. I have a NAS server and I can stream movies and TV shows from it without any issue. The N10 is fast enough to play HD movies without hiccups. On the iPad side, streaming movies is a lot more difficult because it's generally done through DLNA and some file formats cannot be read.

I hope this will help you decide. Both devices are great.

I know everyone is entitled to their own opinion but the fact that you think there's no contest when it comes to apps and games is laughable.

And yes, the iPad 4 can have up to 128GB of memory but a) who is really gonna need that much and b) have fun spending around 900 bucks for it just so you can have extra memory. Not even close to being worth it.

 

[return_0]

I know everyone is entitled to their own opinion but the fact that you think there's no contest when it comes to apps and games is laughable.

Agreed. In fact, I'd go as far as say the app situation is better on the N10 because, while the iPad has more tablet-optimized apps, non-tablet-optimized apps adapt well to the N10's screen but are grainy as heck with huge blown up buttons on the iPad.

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[bkorver]

I would go with the nexus 10.

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[craZDude]

So, I'm going to buy my first tablet and I have narrowed the possibilities to two. Either the Nexus 10 or the iPad 4. I realize that this might be a biased forum and so am I. I am also "against" Apple but I've got to admit that their tablets are great. They cost about the same here because I can't get the Nexus 10 straight from the Google Play Store Which one to get? Both of the tablets' displays are great, iPad has better apps. I own an S3 so would it be better to shake things up and get an iOS tablet or play it safe and go for the Android?

Only honest and as objective replies as possible, thanks.

If there is a better sub-forum for this thread let me know.

Well, you could always get one, try it out, then get the other and try it out. Keep whichever you like more and fit your needs better.

You also could probably get more and better suggestions if you said what your main use-case will be with your tablet

 

[Aquila]

So the choice, to be clear, is the best 10" tablet available, with the Play Store, the best screen on any tablet, one of the best in the hardware department and all the power of Google, versus, for the same price, a giant iPod... gotcha. Next question please!

Seriously though, best hardware, best screen, best software versus lesser screen, approximately 50% of the specs in processing power and being downgraded to iOS, which is still approximately at the same quality level as Android 2.3 Gingerbread. Unless your main requirement for your tablet is, "access to iOS apps and the App Store"... I'd be making a more valid comparison between the Nexus 10, Galaxy Note 10.1, HP Slate or Asus's new Transformer this summer.

 

[robuu]

I have both a N10 and an iPad3. I had the iPad3 first and I'm still using it daily. The iPad (3 or 4) is a better device to display anything you read. The screen format is closer to that of a magazine. The N10 is awkward to use in portrait mode and has to little screen estate left in landscape mode due to the Android notification and menu bars. For reading magazines, books, comic books and surfing the web, I prefer the iPad screen format.

Things change if you watch movies or TV shows on your device. In this case, the N10 is the clear winner. Its 16:9 screen format is great for this and it's also a lot easier to manage your files on Android than on iOS. In Android, you put your videos in a folder that is accessible by any app so you have the choice to play them with whatever player you have installed. On iOS, you must transfer the videos through iTunes and place them in the folder of the app you use to play the videos. Once there, the videos are only visible by this app because averything is compartimented on iOS. This is the same thing for other kinds of media (books, mags, etc) except for music.

Games: the iPad by a long shot. No contest here. Everything works great and smoothly for gamers on iOS. No slowdowns or compatibility problems. You get games that are perfectly tuned for your iOS device. Already a ton of Retina games and a bazillion of HD ones.

Apps: same thing: perfectly adapted to your iOS device. On Android, things are slowly changing and it's getting better but no contest here neither.

Memory: you can go up to 128GB of storage on the iPad; the N10 is limited to 32GB although you can hack some more with an OTG adapter but this is not an elegant solution, just a workable one.

The N10 has serious advantages for those who like retrogaming, like me. You have all those great emulators on Google Play and connecting a PS3 controller is great once you root your device and use the Sixaxis app. For this alone, I bought the N10. I tried the jailbreak way on my iPad and the emulators were less polished and I had far less choice. Also, messing with the iOS file system to load your ROMs is alway risky. I had to restore my iPad once just after loading some files on it. No, jailbreaking an iOS device will not get you anywhere the liberty you have with Android and especially with a Nexus device.

The N10 (and Android in general) is also better if you want to access files on a server. I have a NAS server and I can stream movies and TV shows from it without any issue. The N10 is fast enough to play HD movies without hiccups. On the iPad side, streaming movies is a lot more difficult because it's generally done through DLNA and some file formats cannot be read.

I hope this will help you decide. Both devices are great.

Awesome post. This actually helped a lot. You really answered with no agenda or ego behind your post, I appreciate that.

 

[The147Man]

I have considered both an iPad and a Nexus 10. The main task for me is keeping basketball stats for my son's team, since I have volunteered to be their statistician next season. The app I need to use (Cybersports) is available for both iOS and Android, so both were contenders. What really was important for me was the option to have multiple user accounts, all with their own separate settings, apps and filespaces. Of course basketball statkeeping is only once a week, and I really want my expensive tablet to be used more often than that ny my wife, my son and my daughter. Currently iOS does not allow for multiple user accounts (at least, not out of the box. There are some third party apps, but each has its quirks I heard) And since my wife, son and daughter also use Gmail, the choice for a Nexus 10 was even easier.

 

[dwd3885]

If you want to watch content on ABC, CBS, Amazon, NBC, HBO or Nickelodeon, choose iPad. If you want to edit small movies and do music, choose iPad. If you don't want to do any of that, get the Nexus -- it's better than the iPad, save for a few app limitations like the ones I mentioned.

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[xlDeMoNiClx]

If you want to watch content on ABC, CBS, Amazon, NBC, HBO or Nickelodeon, choose iPad. If you want to edit small movies and do music, choose iPad. If you don't want to do any of that, get the Nexus -- it's better than the iPad, save for a few app limitations like the ones I mentioned.

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I've edited tons of movies on the Nexus 10. It was easy and tons of fun.

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[packerbacker]

I'm no expert, but I've researched just about every high end Android tablet out there in hopes of finding one that compares to the iPad .. and the Nexus 10 is the only contender. That said, my iPad 2 is a hell of a tablet. I'm going to be a weirdo who has Android phones but Apple tablets. When my 2 calls it quits I'll be in the market for a new iPad .. unless Android keeps improving their lineup.

 

[flight]

I'm no expert, but I've researched just about every high end Android tablet out there in hopes of finding one that compares to the iPad .. and the Nexus 10 is the only contender. That said, my iPad 2 is a hell of a tablet. I'm going to be a weirdo who has Android phones but Apple tablets. When my 2 calls it quits I'll be in the market for a new iPad .. unless Android keeps improving their lineup.

It's not weird at all. I prefer the Android phone and iOS tablet combination, since I think they are the best systems for a phone and tablet respectively.

I'd like to get all three of the major tablet systems (and Ubuntu later), but if only choosing one the iPad is best for me. Apps like iDraw, Verto, and Pinnacle Studio are amazing creation tools. It also has the best portrait mode ability because of its aspect ratio. The next versions of Android and iOS are likely to be revealed soon, but as it stands today I would suggest the iPad 4 over the Nexus 10.