[G Pad 8.3 General] xdapao3:
How many pages do you have in the launcher? How many widgets on them and what kind of widgets? How many apps installed? How many of them need active background processes? What stock SW features do you use? I could go on....

You are most probably doing a lot less with your G Pad than I am.

I don't do stupid themes, live wallpapers, CPU intensive useless "cute" widgets, I don't even play games on my mobile devices but I am a poweruser who takes full advantage of the PC-like capabilities of Android devices (as a quick hint, I have 64GB cards in both my Note II and G Pad and they are full of the same most used files I use on my Windows 7 PC) and the G Pad *IS* slow.

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Yes but contrary to Apple's case, with very good reasons...

I have only ever chosen what's best for me on the market and for smartphones that's meant Samsung since the Galaxy S on. As far as tablets are concerned I have yet to find a very good one for me and I have been trying A LOT of them (I even had an iPad 4 for a couple of months because I LOVE its 4:3 aspect ratio but its SW made it completely useless). Every tablet I have had so far has been a compromise choice with big downsides, I feel the Tab Pro I am going to get will be the first one I will be as satisfied with as I have been with my smartphones since the Galaxy S (S, SII, Note and Note II).

Among the ones I have tried in my ongoing quest for a good tablet I have also had Samsung ones, the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and a Note 10.1 and was, for dirfferent reasons, not satisifed with both of them too (the Galaxy Tab 10.1 was slow and buggy, the Note 10.1 didn't have a good enough display, too low PPI). All of the 10" tablets were also too heavy also apart form the Xperia Ultra Z which had a short battery life and a stupid screen protector(!!!!) which you can't get rid of since the glass hasn't got an oleophobic coating as it's meant to be used with the screen protector... which BTW makes it extremely scratch prone. The Nexus 7 was too small and so on...

The G Pad is the best one yet but it still has too many downsides (which I have already mentioned) to be really satisfied with.

You are addressing this to the wrong person, I have always said that PPI can be "too high" since you are paying in CPU, RAM and battery life terms for it so it's not a case of "higher is always better" like many clueless customers seem to think...

The Tab Pro 8.4's display is better not because of its higher PPI but simply because, let's admit it, Samsung displays are gorgeous and the G Pad already has an inferior display to, for example, the Nexus 7 2013. Brightness is low and many posters have written about quality "issues" like yellow tints, not-uniform backlight and so on.

I myself am OK with it but I definitely noticed the difference in quality between my old Nexus 7 2013's display and the G Pad's.

Nope. Apple offers INFERIOR hardware at high prices, Samsung offers all kinds of hardware at all price brackets, completely different cases.

Take that Retina Mini P.O.S. It's € 100 more than the G Pad and it's just non-epandable 16GB, has only a 1GB of RAM (totally USELESS) and lacks a GPS and an IR blaster.

The Tab Pro 8.4 (which WE are speculating will be the same price as Apple P.O.S.) will have, compared to the G Pad, a much faster CPU, a much better display, NFC, better cameras with flash, possibly 32GB expandable storage and the latest version of Android plus the exclusive Samsung features like MultiWindow, most probably MHL HDMI out (SlimPort is crap) and so on.

*More money for more value*, the OPPOSITE of crApple.

I am happy to pay more to get more and I will move to the relevant sub-forums once I get it ;)

We are comparing the G Pad to the Tab Pro here, I am perfectly in-topic and on the right forum.

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Nope, I wasn't talking about installing the apps on the external SD, I was talking about setting a folder on the external SD card as the default destination folder for, for example, a torrent downloader app or a browser or backup apps or Perfect Viewer or any other app which needs and lets you choose one. It seems on stock Android (the GPE) they have messed with the writing permissions :rolleyes: