Technology
Cheat sheet: Choosing the right tablet for you
In summary of the Technology How-To video from Facebook earlier this week, here is a little cheat sheet of the facts to help you choose the right tablet for you. If you’d like to re-watch the video, scroll down.
iPad
- Most accessible and easy to use on the market
- Big screen
- Great for first-time tablet users
- Best for consumption apps – reading and watching content
- Big companies favour the iPad and therefore apps and games come out for the iPad first
- Expensive
- Not a great amount of storage
Android
- World of choice by comparison to iPad
- Now the most popular tablet in Australia
- Cheaper than iPad
- More powerful in their specs than iPads
- You can do a lot more with them in terms of gaming and computing
- You can set it up to suit your needs
- Supports a wider range of file formats
- Thanks to Google Play you have access to a lot of apps
Windows
- Newest to the market
- You have access to Office and other apps you might be familiar with from your computer
- With the right ports, such as a USB, you can plug in external drives, a monitor, or blue-tooth keyboard
- Price-wise, they sit between Android and iPad