Nexus 10 lead to ipad 5 in Summer??

[wol]

GPS is nice, but who "owns" the data?

The 16:10 format looks odd to me for reading in portrait mode, though it seems the width should be roughly equivalent to the retina iPad (1600 vs. 1536 pixel, 10.06" vs. 9.7" diagonal). Thus it is probably quite ok for reading books, comics, etc..., and "gorgeous" for viewing photos in landscape mode

One feature it has (and which I was missing in the WLAN versions of the iPad) is GPS, which is quite convenient for location based applications. Since I'm not so much interested in the LTE/4G version of the iPad, the 130 Euro/US$ premium for GPS seemed hard to justify.

Now if the Nook HD+ would be available in Europe, this might be another interesting contender...

Anyway, Google seems to understand the game: in order to score, you have to compete with Apple BOTH in features and price (and I wonder if Google's revenue plan for the Nexus 10 includes the profit from selling the user's data...)

 

[tdream]

Exynos 5250 CPU already proven to miles ahead of A6 (A6 in iPhone5). A6X will definitely have same CPU with upgraded graphics.
Exynos (used in Chromebook) has already beaten A6 CPU in every CPU benchmarks - SunSpider, Peacekeeper, V8, Octane etc., The margins are quite big.

Twice as powerful as the new A6, pretty sweet. And comes in cheaper than the iPad. That's a double whammy!

 

[zbarvian]

Exynos 5250 CPU already proven to miles ahead of A6 (A6 in iPhone5). A6X will definitely have same CPU with upgraded graphics.
Exynos (used in Chromebook) has already beaten A6 CPU in every CPU benchmarks - SunSpider, Peacekeeper, V8, Octane etc., The margins are quite big.

Aren't those mostly web-based benchmarks? I'd like to see GeekBench scores.

 

[hot spare]

Aren't those mostly web-based benchmarks? I'd like to see GeekBench scores.

Yes, those are Javascript benchmarks. But, this is the best you can have right now in terms of cross-platform comparison.

I can already show you a few Geekbench scores where Exynos 4 (leave Exynos 5) scores more than A6. I am sure you can also show me a few opposite numbers. Geekbench is hardly a good tool in terms of cross-platform CPU comparison.

Check Anandtech's review of Apple's A6 Swift architecture. Check what he says about A15. This SoC is used to power a Netbook (Chromebook). It's easily beating A6 in every Javascript benchmarks. Whatever way you look at, there is denying that the CPU in Exynos 5 is simply a monster.

 

[zbarvian]

Yes, those are Javascript benchmarks. But, this is the best you can have right now in terms of cross-platform comparison.

I can already show you a few Geekbench scores where Exynos 4 (leave Exynos 5) scores more than A6. I am sure you can also show me a few opposite numbers. Geekbench is hardly a good tool in terms of cross-platform CPU comparison.

Check Anandtech's review of Apple's A6 Swift architecture. Check what he says about A15. This SoC is used to power a Netbook (Chromebook). It's easily beating A6 in every Javascript benchmarks. Whatever way you look at, there is denying that the CPU in Exynos 5 is simply a monster.

I'm not denying it all, I'm actually really excited for the next wave of A15 chips. Mobile devices are getting incredibly powerful.

 

[irDigital0l]

Impressive.

If I wanted to go Android...now is defiantly the time.

 

[doboy]

Twice as powerful as the new A6, pretty sweet. And comes in cheaper than the iPad. That's a double whammy!

Yes, twice as powerful to drive phone apps.

 

[Ryan John]

Most exciting feature about this for me is multiple accounts. Tablets have been crying out for this feature as a tablet is often a shared household item for many families.

No longer will mum and dad have to worry about the kids reading their emails or screwing up their work files. Superb addition, hope to see this on other Android tablets soon too.

Does the iPad 4 / mini etc have multiple account support? Never really looked into it since I went over to the darkside (Android)

 

[tjl3]

Twice as powerful as the new A6, pretty sweet. And comes in cheaper than the iPad. That's a double whammy!

Runs iOS 6 better too...

Don't get me wrong, it's great that Google finally has a product that is up to snuff in spec that they can focus development on. But iPad is still the industry leader. Google has set itself up to take a piece of the pie, but they're not there yet w/ just specs. It'll be interesting for them to show us what they've got and see how Apple will counter. Nexus 10 is a great starting point.

 

[tdream]

Runs iOS 6 better too...

Don't get me wrong, it's great that Google finally has a product that is up to snuff in spec that they can focus development on. But iPad is still the industry leader. Google has set itself up to take a piece of the pie, but they're not there yet w/ just specs. It'll be interesting for them to show us what they've got and see how Apple will counter. Nexus 10 is a great starting point.

True, it's up to developers to create compelling tablet apps for android and Google to provide the tools to make the transition or creation as easy as possible. Hopefully with a Nexus tablet, it will increase userbase enough to make developers who were weary or worried before think twice and commit to an Android tablet experience.