The news this week has been the battle of Apple and Samsung fighting it out in the court system. The High Court of Australia ruled to lift the ban on the sale of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. This announcement was a huge win for Samsung who has been in an ongoing global patent fight with Apple in several different countries around the world.
iPad 2 vs Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1
There are both similarities and differences when it comes to comparing the two tablets.
First of all, the price tag for both models is roughly $500. Both tablets allow convenient access to popular websites like Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks. They also include great web browsers, email, and other applications that are quite useful.
Both tablets include tons of free and paid games and offer the ability to watch shows through popular websites like Netflix or YouTube. Both offer the ability to stream live for several hours on a fully-charged battery.
Excellent peripherals and apps are available for making voice or video calls. They are both very convenient and user-friendly for taking photos, playing music, recording audio, and making videos. A bad point that both tablets have in common is that if the battery fails, it cannot be removed by the user but rather a service technician which is obviously not so convenient.
There are differences between the two tablets as well.
The Samsung Galaxy 10.1 is more lightweight than the iPad 2. Apple traditionally provides apps that are constrained to its system only which makes the iPad 2 less flexible than the Galaxy 10.1. This however creates a safer system that is less vulnerable to glitches and application mishaps. There were some apps that were not available on the Galaxy 10.1 such as Netflix and Skype but they are now currently supported. There are still some apps that are not always available for the Galaxy 10.1 however since it can download non-Apple apps, it can support other great programs like Adobe Flash which is not supported on the iPad 2.
