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I recently had a Amazon Fire HDX 7 inch tablet which I loved which was invaded by some errant moisture, and is stuck on some kind of active reader voice loop with the screen not turning on. The Fire HDX had a gorgeous screen, was good for streaming movies, playing games, reading e-books - the one thing it was not good at was reading PDFs.
Now, I have gotten a Fire HD 6 on installment as an immediate replacement. The screen has less pixel density, down from about 323ppi to 252 ppi, I think. It reads e-books fine, actually better because the size of the tablet is like a large paperback. It streams ok, but the wifi is single channel. It plays games, but the games don't look as good, and stutter more. PDFs are impossible to read on it, even for someone like me who has very good eyesight.
So I am definitely in the market for a new additional supplementary tablet. I could get another Fire HDX 7, but the limitation of that tablet was that Amazon stopped issuing upgrades for the Fire OS to that tablet, which means no OTG and also affects functioning of apps. Planned obsolescence.
So, in researching new options, I have it narrowed down to the iPad 4 vs. the Galaxy Tab S 10.5
I've always wanted an iPad, because they seemed like the most solidly built tablets, but have been never been interested in committing myself to the Apple-verse, or paying their premium price. The iPad also has a closed system, the many academic PDFs that I have on thumb drives would have to be accessed through Dropbox or something, rather than connection through an USB to OTG cable like I can with the Fire HD 6.
But I am concerned about the AMOLED RGB stripe of the Galaxy Tab 10.5, which I'm given to understand is sharper but more prone to burn-in than the PenTile layout of the Tab 8.5. And Apple eschews the AMOLED in favor of LED IPS.
If the price is about the same, around $150, which would be better? And someone did advise me that if I bought an older iPad not to update the OS or it would slow the system down.
If money were not an object, I'd likely get a Microsoft Surface, but that will have to wait.
Now, I have gotten a Fire HD 6 on installment as an immediate replacement. The screen has less pixel density, down from about 323ppi to 252 ppi, I think. It reads e-books fine, actually better because the size of the tablet is like a large paperback. It streams ok, but the wifi is single channel. It plays games, but the games don't look as good, and stutter more. PDFs are impossible to read on it, even for someone like me who has very good eyesight.
So I am definitely in the market for a new additional supplementary tablet. I could get another Fire HDX 7, but the limitation of that tablet was that Amazon stopped issuing upgrades for the Fire OS to that tablet, which means no OTG and also affects functioning of apps. Planned obsolescence.
So, in researching new options, I have it narrowed down to the iPad 4 vs. the Galaxy Tab S 10.5
I've always wanted an iPad, because they seemed like the most solidly built tablets, but have been never been interested in committing myself to the Apple-verse, or paying their premium price. The iPad also has a closed system, the many academic PDFs that I have on thumb drives would have to be accessed through Dropbox or something, rather than connection through an USB to OTG cable like I can with the Fire HD 6.
But I am concerned about the AMOLED RGB stripe of the Galaxy Tab 10.5, which I'm given to understand is sharper but more prone to burn-in than the PenTile layout of the Tab 8.5. And Apple eschews the AMOLED in favor of LED IPS.
If the price is about the same, around $150, which would be better? And someone did advise me that if I bought an older iPad not to update the OS or it would slow the system down.
If money were not an object, I'd likely get a Microsoft Surface, but that will have to wait.
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