Apple

[Slamz]

Well duh. I'm sure any Android could get 9 hours of battery life in 4G with the size of battery you could fit in a tablet. Can't compare tablet batteries to phone batteries.

Actually the iPad smokes all other tablets on battery life:

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19736_7-200...t-results/

This test with the Samsung Galaxy Tab 4G indicates they got less than 4½ hours, even though they were using wifi some of the time.

Battery life turned out to be a major disappointment. Verizon made vague claims of 12 hours of use on a single battery charge. But in my harsh test, in which I cranked up the brightness level to about 75%, used cellular and (for part of my test) Wi-Fi connections while streaming videos, I barely approached 4½ hours.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/e...-tab_n.htm

By looking at these tests and results, we see that the Samsung Galaxy 10.1 has a default brightness of over double that of the iPad 2. Their tests apparently averaged our default vs maximum brightness, which would have been a big boost to the iPad even though you aren't comparing apples to apples (so to speak).

The USA Today guy specifically said he tested "harsh", with maximum brightness, but he made no such test of the iPad. After reading both articles there is no indication that an iPad at maximum brightness outperforms the Galaxy at maximum brightness, OR that an iPad at default brightness outperforms a Galaxy if you could set the Galaxy down to the same brightness level of the iPad (can you? I assume so.)

Those tests apparently weren't done.


In terms of Apple as an investment prospect, there is some amusement here in noting that Apple, intentionally or not, gets a lot of help from the media. By not comparing the two products on the same level, the iPad was made out to be superior to the Galaxy even though the tests were flawed in a way that would embarrass a 5th grader. Apple has a lot of fans, and a lot of them happen to be writers for various magazines, and they aren't bashful about making Apple look better than they really are.

My worry, and why I still haven't bought Apple, is that there's too much smoke and mirrors involved. "You can't fool all of the people all of the time."