Apple has been, since the launch of the first iPad Until now, the great dominator of the tablet market. However, since last year the situation began to change with the appearance of some devices Android really powerful. In the range of 7/8 inch tablets, however, it was the apple that had to present the alternative to Android. Today we show you a video comparison of the iPad mini and one of its most anticipated rivals, the Notes 8.0.
Pocket Now has recently published this video analysis where we can compare, in a direct and visual way, two of the two 7/8 inch tablets with the most media popularity of the last generation, iPad mini and Galaxy Note 8.0.
Both teams present a certainly striking design, although for different reasons. The mini tablet Apple it is extremely thin and light and achieves a great optimization of space. While the Notes 8.0 is thicker, with wider bezels and represents an attempt to translate the look of phones to Samsung to an 8-inch device. Its most obvious negative point, according to it, the Pocket Now tester is the strange shape of the back cover to accommodate a perhaps expendable camera.
In terms of hardware, the Notes 8.0 is significantly more powerful, with an Exynos quad-core processor running at 1,6 GHz and 2 GB RAM memory versus A5 at 1 GHz and 512 MB of RAM with which his rival equips himself. As they say, iDevices do not need as much power to perform at the level of androids but the large difference means that there are some games in which the Notes 8.0 offers a seamless experience, while at the iPad mini it looks more limited. Amazing spiderman is the example we see in the video.
The great strength of iPad mini They are the optimized applications for tablets that are in the App Store. Apple remains the priority for developers and it is not something strange since the business it does from the sale of apps on its platform is still greater than it achieves Google Play. For the rest, saving the screen size, there are no substantial differences between using a iPad or an iPhone: the system iOS of both is identical and does not provide specific things in this device.
In Notes 8.0 the 8-inch size of its panel is practical for moving certain types of applications, and for getting a good performance out of the S Pen which works especially well with split screen.
However, the tester is very critical with the definition of the panels of the 7-inch segment and his voice does not tremble when he says that, compared to those of smartphones or 10-inch tablets, they are simply mediocre. On this question, perhaps we could disagree. It is true that they do not have a resolution so brutalbut to what extent is really necessary if it is something almost impossible to see with the naked eye?
Lastly, the battery. The iPad mini seems to make more efficient use of it especially in stand-by, since that way it can last a week. The Notes 8.0 on standby, however, it does not last more than two or three. In use, both offer similar autonomy. With the tasks that can be performed on a daily basis on a tablet, playing games, watching videos, browsing, listening to some music, etc. its duration is approximately day and a half.