Gamaze

My tablet experiences have been completely spoiled by the excellent battery life of the Apple iPad. It usually lasts for a week without recharging with normal use. That can not be said about the otherwise great Galaxy Tab by Samsung. In practice, during my first week as an owner I had to pretty much charge it every night. Of course I used it more but it was still limited to 2-3 hours a day. Having some experience in maximizing battery life on Android gadgets I’ve tried quite a few ways of increasing the stamina and Ive now gone almost 24hrs with over 70% battery left. That is as much as twice as much I usually have at this time a night. Huge improvement! Here is what I did.
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I’ve had my Samsung Galaxy Tab (EU version with 3G) for just over a week now, great device. I’ve also used the Apple iPad (Wifi only version) for about 6 months and I wanted to do quick comparison between the two. Both devices are great, just different. Which one is more suitable for your needs depends on what you are looking for. Overall, I vote slightly in favor of the iPad for the moment because of its great battery life and sleekness of the UI but I still have hopes that the next couple of Android OS updates will even this out.

To keep things simple, I’ve listed the good and bad for respective tablet below. The good means that it clearly beats the competitor. I decided not to separately highlight stuff where they are evenly good (or bad).

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I just got my brand new Samsung Galaxy Tab last Friday, the perfect new toy for the weekend. The device itself is great. Build quality is excellent and I really like the 7” size. My iPad is still great but somehow I like the Samsung Tab better because of the smaller size and weight. Software wise Android is still “a bit” behind iOS and I hope that the next Android releases from Google will close part of the gap  regarding smoothness of UI and eye candy. Anyway, I wanted to test our the game playability on the large screen estate of the Tab and tested out quite a few games over the weekend. Here are my summary of the best games I found that I love playing on the 1024×600 resolution screen (it is great, not as good as the Retina but still extremely good). Personally, I love simple games with great value for sporadic gaming, so you won’t find SIMs on my list below.

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Being based in the EU at the moment, I finally got my iPad yesterday and have now spent some quality time with it the last 32 hours. First impression has been extremely good even if it did not take long to figure out what the iPad 2.0 will need to provide.

I’m sure that if someone is able to make the tablet PC a viable product category Apple is the company to do it (first). Still, without knowing the intended positioning at Apple they have succeeded to create a device that is perfect for the my-lap-internet-computer-used-in-the coach-in-front-of-the-TV and I-love-to-read-the-morning-newspaper-without-6sqft-of-empty-space-around-me use cases. It is brilliant for that, and I’m glad to see that we can finally start to enjoying a very pleasant digital magazine reading experience.

Anyway, to expand the use cases, I suggest Apple do the following simple improvements.

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