Nexus 10 vs iPad4 vs Surface RT (battle of the tablets!)

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the2real4mafol said:

I was basing it my opinion on facts at hand the price of the device and the specs of it, thats how i came to the conclusion that nexus 10 wins. I am honestly not to bothered about tablet apps to be honest, i can just use the internet on the thing, instead of apps anyways. And the lack of tablet apps on android is because of the developers, it is not googles though at all, as android was modified for tablets since android 3 came out last year.

But just because iPad has apps specifically for it, just doesn't bother it's expensive already as you are limited by flash storage only on iPad and most apps actually cost money on iOS too, while on android they are often free. But, Android is still newer than iOS so is playing catch up in terms of apps, in the rest of the OS it is already more advanced i think.

As for Nexus 4 having just 8gb or 16gb is justified by it's low price (for a phone anyway!). I doubt you would need more than 16gb anyway. And i don't get the deal with no LTE, it's too expensive to use and service is not good yet, might as well as stick to 3G for now, which is decently fast in the UK at 5mb down 1mb up.

I don't know about you but the phone itself is easily worth it despite no LTE

The Nexus 10 comes in either a 16gb or 32gb configuration and has no SD card expandable storage. Exactly like the ipad except that the ipad has 3 storage sizes available. (16gb/32gb/64gb)

Platform specific apps are very useful as they tend to use the extra space available on the tablet more effectively rather than just being a blown up phone app. Take a look at this article which compares iphone apps versus their ipad counterparts. They are right next to each other in the pics (click for larger size)

http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-20003603-248.html

There are many free apps on ios as well, plus many paid ones also get discounted or become free for awhile. Appshopper ( http://appshopper.com/ ) is a good website/app to use for that. They also have a "app activity" for each app showing if a new update released for example or if there was a temporary price drop, etc.

It is a low price (for an new unlocked phone), but I guess it just depends on your usage. For my phone I went with the 32gb version since I tend to use my old ipod nano to store all of the music I'm currently listening to instead of using up the space on my phone. (saves my phone battery as well! ) If not I would definitely have gone for the 64gb version. On my ipad I tend to keep a lot of videos/music/etc. on there which is why I went for the 64gb version (and why I chose it again.) It was really useful when I took it with me on my trip back to the USA about 2 months ago.