Weekly poll: Are tablets still relevant?
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- Anonymous
- PEq
- 24 Mar 2019
How people chose iOS tablet over Windows? We are shorting of Cerebrum in very near future.. Even android tablets are a looot useful..
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- AnonD-558092
- Yd6
- 24 Mar 2019
Anonymous, 24 Mar 2019I have my tab A 9.7 from 2years 9 months for now,I mainly u... moreWhat a coincidence! I have the Tab A 8.0! I also use it for what you enumerated. And it's doing an amazing job at it. Though the battery's dead after 4 years... Gotta buy a new battery to revive this amazing device. Considering the Tab S5 though(not E)
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- Anonymous
- 8pc
- 24 Mar 2019
I have my tab A 9.7 from 2years 9 months for now,I mainly use it for reading,browsing,and some light gaming (since his chipset is a dramatically weak sd410). But yes,tablets are still useful.
(The best part is his long battery life)
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- Anonymous
- LaT
- 24 Mar 2019
It's become a buy only if it breaks sort of device, I know many that still using Nexus10/iPad2.
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- Vvvky
- rAR
- 24 Mar 2019
The iPads and Android tablets are just big useless toys. We should see more of tablets with full blown Windows and x86 CPUs. The recent Surface tablets are great ones better than the itoys. Post PC era is just bullshit put up by Apple. The PC is alive and more healthy than ever especially the PC gaming industry which is seeing a healthy growth.
- Fearghast
- 3D9
- 24 Mar 2019
Tablets sure are relevant for kids or for Youtube consuption in bed or glancing at email feed or chromecast control centre etc. it's a "slave device".
If you have decent one, you never need to upgrade it.
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- sohail shafayat
- X{X
- 24 Mar 2019
Who wants a phone OS on a tab. Tabs should come with full Windows and not smaller than 12"
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- r33fd
- LaA
- 24 Mar 2019
dbjungle, 24 Mar 2019The problem isn't that they aren't relevant anymore. The p... moreCould not have said it any better.
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- Anonymous
- Njx
- 24 Mar 2019
Most of the comments are talking about foldable phones replacing tablets but don't you feel that 2 in 1 laptops have killed tablets? 2 in 1 laptops are more relevant than laptops
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- DQ
- Pcf
- 24 Mar 2019
I never was too keen on buying yet another device that, while improving my media consumption, never truly felt like a replacement for either my phone nor my laptop.... Fast forward today, the "Post-PC" era has crumbled because Microsoft did something right, after so many wrongs during the rise of mobile... They revolutionized the Laptop market with the Surface Pro 3, and inspired OEMs to follow suit into making attractive, functional designs, on an OS that had no compromises for productivity.
Keep in mind that my first Android was the Motorola Atrix (with the Multimedia Dock) and I always wanted to have a device that could replace the need to carry my laptop everywhere to be sort of productive...
2 and a half years ago I opted to get a Surface Book, and it is the best device for my needs. It is my virtual/mobile-office, it is my main design tool, my secondary gaming device (I play more on my phone),and my main media consumption device.
At the end, it is a mixture of the limitations found on iOS, Android and their hardware (Apple being stubborn to transform iOS into something useful), and the brilliancy of Microsoft to capitalize on those limitations by making Windows something that people need in order to stay productive.
My mother has 2 android phones currently in use, an iPad Air as her main media device and browser... but she still needed a PC, so I got her a Surface Pro 3 years ago, and that device is for emails, logging into bank web pages, editing images and illustrations, etc... She is very far from being tech savvy so I think she kind of fall in what the average people need.
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- AnonD-558092
- Yd6
- 24 Mar 2019
Tablets are great.. if you buy a good one. Not those crap RCA/Proscan/Tab E Lite and every other one with a MT or SC SoC and those awful screens that are straight from a screen manufacturer's "defective" bin.
They are easier to carry than laptops, bigger than phones. These are great for reading, watching media, reviewing recently captured media (pics and vids, from phone or camera) and working on documents.
Unfortunately the market was plagued by those junk tablets and consumers think they all are trash junk
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- dbjungle
- 47L
- 24 Mar 2019
The problem isn't that they aren't relevant anymore. The problem is that they never were relevant. There are plenty of people who will go buy something new and cool even if it isn't very useful. These people have all bought tablets probably realized that it's just not that useful. They have never been able to do much more than your phone and are intentionally cut down not to replace laptops. They just have no place. The new and cool phenomenon shows up all over tech with things like slower in display fingerprint sensors, face unlock and 19:9 / 21:9 displays. This stuff looks cool, but functionally it doesn't offer a whole lot.
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- NeverSm1le
- vNy
- 24 Mar 2019
Although dying but to me tablet still relevant. Watching movies on tablets is superior compare to phones, with big screen and stereo front-facing speaker. Sadly Android tablets suck (they are just big phone with bad specs), and Ipads' 4:3 screen and lack of quality video player make it not ideal for me.
Maybe the plausible explanation is the laptop curse: my house has 2 tablets: Galaxy Tab S2 10.1 2012, Lenovo Tab 3 8 2016 and both of them still run fine.
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- Anonymous
- LQv
- 24 Mar 2019
I like tablets .... The ideal hardware for me is:
12" 16:9 2160p LCD
No rear cam
12MP 1/2.3" 21mm f2.0 selfie with 4K video
64GB ufs 2.1 + 4GB ddr4
SD 820/835/845/855 (any of them)
8800mAh
Front speakers
Carbon fiber body with metal frame
USB C
NFC
Android 9 ( option to use virtual buttons)
Tab S are too expensive
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- Spen
- 0yJ
- 24 Mar 2019
Harry, 24 Mar 2019Rather flawed set of answers - where's "No, tablets aren't ... moreTHIS! 200%
I never saw any usage for tablets and I dislike big phones / wish for more compact phones.
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- Harry
- Sv@
- 24 Mar 2019
Rather flawed set of answers - where's "No, tablets aren't really relevant for most people"? (Which is what the shipment numbers you report on on this very article indicate!)
It seems quite apparent that many people can hold this opinion and simultaneously be exasperated with the unrelenting increase in size for smartphones, that is, wanting to say, "Tablets are largely irrelevant" AND "Smartphones have become too big, give us more compact smartphones!" - the last possible answer puts this two statements at a contradiction, when they very much aren't for most people.
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- travis999
- LaT
- 24 Mar 2019
Show me the phone maker who builds a cheap(ish) 7 inch ips lcd screened, 2-1 screen ratio, sd6/7 series, front facing stereo speakers device and I'll buy one tomorrow, but nobody does, I loathe poxy narrow tall screens, bloody usless for anything but text screens or dross like fb, try watching media like film/TV on them, half the screen is taken up with black bars !!
Plenty of other good reasons for liking 7 inch tablets, if Samsung built a direct up rated version of their original gtp 1000, I'd get one, their original idea of a half decent speced mobile phones guts fitted to a giant screen worked/works perfectly well still, it's called choice, just because not everybody doesn't need or want something, doesn't mean nobody does.
Take phone cameras, reviewers, test sites, users pour out nonsense all day about something that it is physically impossible to deliver from such ridiculously small amounts of light gathered by tiny mass produced lenses, people blather on, yet forget, how much do the 5 camera modules in a Nokia 9 cost ? bet you its more than the £140 I paid for a tiny pocket Lieca camera that can piss on any phone camera.
Fools lead by other lieing fools and marketing depts, in the relationship between "smartphones" and the meat Popsicles that carry them, even these crude devices are far more intelligent than most of their users....
- Nicolas F
- 35R
- 24 Mar 2019
I never had a tablet; now I have 6" 18:9 smartphone and it's fairly good for videos and games, but I consider the iPad Air (2019) as a good option to buy because of it's performance-to-price ratio being bigger than even iPad (2018)'s, bigger minimal storage and better screen =)
Of course, even new iPad Pro's can't replace PC, although they have potential) but I don't think iPads are useless)
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- Anonymous
- Ivr
- 24 Mar 2019
I bought an I pad 9.7inch pro from 2016 and until now it been working smoothly without any problems, it will probably last for another 3 years, so yeah my recommendation is to buy a good tablet and never upgrade again