[Galaxy Tab S2 General] Brittany_Menton:
The new tablet is exactly the same hardware as the note 4, which reaches similar performance benchmarks.

We're not talking about an upgrade like the iPad air 2 was to where it just absolutely demolished every single benchmark. Android platform is already so fragmented that the 10.5 tablet already scores top 10% in hardware. This tablet is about 50% faster overall compared to the original.

Then you need to ask yourself, what is the point of extra speed? What actually benefits from it? The video gaming side of Android is really dry because of ridiculously high piracy and the fact that most android users are on some cheap $100 tablet. I actually own both platforms (iPad and Android) and even with the iPad air 2 being so strong there are very few applications that take advantage of it because they develop the games to be compatible to the most amount of users. It is not good business to develop when only 10% of Android users can actually use it.

You also have to keep in mind the older the device, the easier it is to install custom roms on the device. A benefit of Android is the customizability, and the newer your device is the dryer the hacking community is as well.

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To be fair, when the tablet is on it has pretty much about the same battery life compared to ipads. The big issue with Android is the fact that it is really not focused much on maintaining battery life in standby mode.

Apple is good with saving battery in standby mode, I'll admit I can have my IPad air 2 off for two weeks and it has only lost like 30% battery. I can't say the same with my Samsung 10.5 tablet, but to be honest I very much prefer android over Apple.

For one the most annoying thing about my iPad was the fact that iOS redesigned how Hotspot work by making it on demand to save battery life. This sounds great, but what actually happened was it would only work like 40% of the time. I would tell it to connect and it would say it had issues. Sometimes I would have to reboot the phone and the iPad just to get it to work. There have been times where I was at a restruants and by the time I fixed the Hotspot the food came out.

Not to mention, iOS is really bad with keyboards. Because it tries to save battery life when you wake the tablet from sleep it will take 2-3 seconds just for the keyboard to start registering your typing. It's very clear that they are very focused on the average user, rather than giving you complete customizability. The most annoying thing with keyboards on ios is that it disables auto correct with no way to turn it back on. You also are forced to slide to unlock even with a keyboard connected, and there is no way to configure the tablet to turn the display off without locking the device at the same time. With android, you can get keyboard apps that actually auto correct typos if you are using a keyboard; you also can set your screen to time out at 15 seconds but lock later (such as 5 minutes) allowing you to save battery life without having to slide to unlock. Android also allows you to press a key on the keyboard to bypass slide to unlock as well.

I also have a ton of issues with safari, sure it's great that it saves passwords and syncs but safari on Windows has not been updated in years. They want you to buy a macintosh to get the full experience of syncing in iOS, which is ridiculous. I am a video gamer and that's simply not possible on macintosh. I use chrome, which is significantly better on Android than iOS and it syncs my passwords to my tablet just fine. Using safari on the iPad was very annoying because pages would reload stating that there was a problem and then I would have to scroll back down to where I was previously reading. In addition to that, multitasking was difficult for that same reason; every time I went back to safari on the iPad it wouldn't always keep my spot on the Web page.

The only thing I miss on my iPad compared to this one is that applications seem to run more smoothly on the ipad, probably because the hardware on the iPad is stronger than laptops itself for most people.

So yeah, to each their own.

I would say OLED is miles better than an LCD. Once you experience OLED on a video, you'll never want to go back.