Posted on 11/09/2013 9:08:28 PM PST by Hildy
I have had an IPad 2 for years. It is literally crumbling. The IPad Air is pricey, and I have been checking other Tablets. Anyone have any thoughts? Thank you.
I still have an ipad 1.
How is it “crumbling” after two years? My grandkids are playing with hand me down iPads that have to be near five years old.
The IPad Air is the same price as the last model. Very pricey.
I have one. It’s night and day better than the iPad2. Retina display. Longer battery life. Less weight. It’s great
Bill
My iPad2 is still working great, btw.
Nexus 7 is wicked fast, reliable and the Google Play store is huge now. And oh yeah, less than half the price of the Air.
I have had it for three years and I use it all the time. It fell and shattered the glass screen. I didn’t want to invest anymore money because it is old. Now the whole casing is crumbling. I have gotten my money’s worth.
I have an iPad 1 and the mini I’m typing on now. Love the mini and doubt I’d go back to a full size iPad. I keep the old ipad for watching movies and Netflix.
If you are going to get an iPad Air, check out Target, they have it for 30 bucks cheaper plus they include a gift card. I have the iPad 4th Gen so I wont be upgrading..I saw the iPad Air last week, its alright, definitely thinner(on the sides) and doesnt feel as bulky but other than that its pretty much the same as the previous generation
I’m using one now to read your posts. I love it it’s fast and light!
Love my galaxy note 10.1 ...bigger screen is better..also have an iPad 2 and it collects dust. Android is superior.
Nexus 7 or Nexus 10
“I’m using one now to read your posts. I love it it’s fast and light!”
Me too! Love it...
I bought the iPad Air the day they went on sale. I had an iPad 1 that I stood in line for many years ago. It still works great but is heavy. I am still keeping my iPad 1.
I love that it is light but am not sure I like iOS 7. I would never consider another brand.
I can understand how a shattered screen can be crumbling. That's is reasonable, but the case is aircraft aluminum, how can that be crumbling????
As for value, you have an investment in iOS apps iPad. If you upgrade to the iPad Air, all of those will load back onto your new iPad Air without having to repurchase them. If you read books in iBooks, those purchased books are not transferable to Android tablets. The new iPad Air comes with Pages word processing, Numbers spreadsheet, and Keynote presentation software, all free. These can open and save Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files and projects. On Apple iPad, you will get free upgrades to each new version of the operating system as it becomes available until your hardware will no longer support it. That simply does not happen on Android devices.
Moving to any Android tablet you will have to find and repurchase any purchased apps. Plus Android tablet apps are for the most part merely scaled up Android phone apps, not true tablet apps, on the iPad, there are 450,000 tablet apps that are tablet apps PLUS you can run over a million scaled up iPhone apps. One of the other issues you will run into in the Android world is that once you buy your tablet, you generally will be stuck at whatever version of Android it came with. Be very aware of the issues of Android fragmentation. Not all Android apps will work on all Android devices, and later, newer apps may not work on your version of Android. Finally, there are ZERO malware in the wild for iOS. . . but at last count several thousand for Android
The new A7 dual 64 bit processors in the iPad Air are blowing the doors off the Nexus 7’s four core 32 bit processors in all the benchmarks and all of the other Snapdragon ARM based processors. It's not how many cores, it's how well do they perform in the real world. Google's Android is not a 64 bit Operating System, Apple's iOS is. . . with many of its core functions already written and optimized in 64 bit code with APIs provided for developers to convert their apps to 64bit Apps as well.
I agree. the iPad Air is great.
I was impressed with the price point of the Nexus...a lot of power for little $. :-)
No, it's not the same as the previous generation. It has 35% less weight. It's up to twice as fast as your fourth generation iPad, and the battery can last even longer. Those are major user improvements, especially the reduction in weight. For Hildy, the biggest change will be moving up to four times the screen resolution the iPad 2 had.
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