It’s strange how in a few months my view of my iPad Air has altered. When I got the iPad Air I was very excited by this beautiful piece of hardware. It’s extremely well manufactured, with a lovely screen and on screen keyboard and supported by a really powerful processor. It comes with fantastic battery life, and for its size is one of the lightest tablets.
In fact despite my changing views it still is all of the above. And let’s not forget iOS 7 and all the bespoke tablet apps. So what’s changed?
Owning the Samsung Note 3 has altered my view point on the iPad Air. For a start I’m not using the iPad Air as much now I have the Note 3. The Note 3 has been designed to make full use of its screen size with multi view and small floating apps. Now you won’t have 2 apps open at the same time all the time, but when you need to, it is very effective. The same applies for the floating small apps.
At the weekend, I was in Carphone Warehouse and used the Samsung Note 10.1 2014 tablet. This integrates many of the Note 3 features but in a larger form factor. This then got me thinking about the new NotePro 12.2 which allows up to 4 apps on the screen at the same time. And then I went back to using the iPad Air. It really feels like it’s missing out on a trick by not fully utilising all the screen real estate. Plus with the Note 12.2 you have proper sharing of data between apps and the ability to connect USB hardware to it.
So here I am debating whether I should change the iPad Air for the Samsung NotePro 12.2….. To be continued…
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I actually went the other way Gavin…
I started off with a Samsung Note 10.1, loved it at first but found the Apps lacking in what I wanted. That and I just did not feel ‘connected’ with the Note.
I then went over to iOS and tried an iPad 4. Immediately I was at home….
Everything was simple, laid out logically and easy to pick up and use. Sometimes the over use of Android’s GUI is it’s achilles heel.
Not only that but now I was also finding the apps missing in Android.
End result being for the fist time I ditched the laptop and moved everything in use over to the iPad.
I’m now also using the iPad Air and will get an iPad Mini Retina (Mini 2) very soon for those times when I want a smaller and lighter version of my iPads.
And the best thing…… Setting a new one up is as simple as switch on, download from iCloud and ‘BANG’ I have an exact copy all done without any intervention.
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The Note 10.1 2014 is much better, i’ve had both versions. The screen resolution and speed makes a lot of difference. But I am not sure if 4 apps on the 12 inch version will be really much better than have 4 widgets on one screen of the 10.1 2014.
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