IPad Air 2 vs Galaxy Tab 3 Pro 8.4: Another Battle of the Tablet Giants - StreetWise Tech

The iPad Air 2, which is an obvious successor to the iPad Air, is being brewed to be the current best tablet on the market now. While its moniker is similar to be in the iPad Air, this will really be Apple’s sixth generation full-size tablet at 9.7 inches – and the Cupertino based technology will be seeking to maintain its authority at the top of the line. Many competitors have attempted to ape the iPad’s success, but several Windows and Android devices have failed at trying to match the finest build quality, consumer yearn and absolutely revenue that Apple has been enjoying.

On the other hand, the Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4 takes a lot stylistic elements from that enormous motivation and carries it in a particularly denser and handy case – and the result is one of Samsung’s best tablets to date. Its specifications reveal several aspects where the Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4 might exceed its rival. Its 8.4-inch LCD display is quite smaller than the rumored 9.7 inch of the iPad Air 2, it’s also sharper, with a 2560 x 1600 pixel resolution, which the rumored that iPad 2 will only have 2048 x 1536 pixels. Samsung has also chosen a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 CPU, clocked at 2.3GHz, which is backed by a 2 GB of RAM. Additionally, it has a storage option of either 32 GB or 16 GB. Aside from that, Samsung has also added a MicroSD slot up to 64 GB of additional capacity – which is something that no iPad has ever offered. With the addition of an 8 MP camera, you’ll see that this is really a tablet, operating at the top end of the gamut. The question with any Samsung tablet is, how does these notable components hang together?

While the iPad Air 2 is rumored that users should see some changes to the screen technology, it’s highly unlikely that there will be an increase in screen resolution. There has been no improvement in the 2048 x 1536 pixel resolution since the iPad 3 and the fact is, there is not a vast amount of additional end-user benefit of stuffing even more pixels into a 10-inch screen. What you could probably expect more is better color accuracy and probably better brightness levels if the screen improvements we’ve seen from the iPad 3 to the iPad Air will carry over.

Apple has never had an iPad release without a CPU power boost to its ARM processor and it’s highly possible to get one with the iPad Air with some speculations leaning towards a quad-core A8 system on chip (SoC) that will probably replace the dual-core A7.

There is really some truth that the A7 is a very powerful and snappy processor. A lot of people raised eyebrows when Apple coined that the A7 as “desktop class” when they launched the iPhone 5S, but independent tests by Anand Tech has proven that it abides more likeness to Intel’s Ivy Bridge chips than the CPUs designed for smart phones, like Qualcomm’s Snapdragon range, which is usually by the competitors. This kind of power also helps save battery life.

The Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4 on the other hand sports a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 MSM8974, which is specifically a quad core CPU, clocked at 2,300 MHz. It also has 2 GB of RAM and a built in storage of up to 16 GB, but it is also expandable up to 64 GB using a MicroSD card. When we speak of stuff that is under the hood, both tablets are worthy of admiration, no question of that.