Thursday, October 25, 2012

mini tablet comparison: Google versus Amazon versus Apple

Nexus 7 Home
Nexus 7 Home (Photo credit: Stmpjmpr)
I've just done a little table to compare the Nexus 7, Kindle Fire and iPad mini which I thought I would share. 
Off course, it is not all about the specs, it is also about the look and feel of the mini-tablet and mainly about the ecosystem that you want to buy into: Google versus Amazon versus Apple.
I feel that these ecosystems are getting increasingly incompatible with one another and changing from one ecosystem to another can be painful and requires a lot of adaptation.


Nexus 7 
Kindel Fire
iPad mini
Screen
Ppi (pixel per inch)
7"
1280x800 HD display at 216 ppi
7" multi-touch, 
1024x600 resolution
at 169 ppi
or 1280x800 resolution for the HD option

7.9" multi-touch,
1024x768 resolution at 163 ppi
Front facing camera
1.2MP
front-facing camera

1.2MP FaceTime HD camera 
Weight in grams
340g
400g
308g
312 (wifi + cellular)
Memory
1 GB RAM
512MB

512 MB (???)
Battery
4325 mAh (Up to 8 hours of active use)
Up to 9 hours of reading, surfing the web on Wi-Fi, watching video, or listening to music. 
Up to 10 hours of surfing the web on Wi-Fi, watching video or listening to music
CPU
Quad-core Tegra 3 processor
1GHz dual-core processor

Dual-core A5 but see here for full benchmarking
Size in mm
198.5 x 120 x 10.45
189 x 120 x 11.5
200 x 134.7 x 7.2
Wireless
WiFi 802.11 b/g/n + Bluetooth
Wi-Fi (802.11a/b/g/n); does not support connecting to ad-hoc (or peer-to-peer) Wi-Fi networks
Wi-Fi (802.11a/b/g/n; 802.11n on 2.4GHz and 5GHz)
Bluetooth 4.0 technology
Connection
Micro USB
USB 2.0 (micro-B connector) port for connection to a PC or Macintosh computer or to connect to the Kindle PowerFast charging accessory
Ligthning conector
OS
Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean)
Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS

iOS6
Features
Microphone
NFC (Android Beam)
Accelerometer
GPS
Magnetometer
Gyroscope
3.5 mm stereo jack and integrated stereo speakers
720p HD video
FaceTime video calling over
Wi-Fi or a mobile network3
Face detection
Backside illumination

iSight camera 
5MP photos
Autofocus
Face detection
Backside illumination
Five-element lens
Hybrid IR filter
ƒ/2.4 aperture

Siri
 - Use your voice to send messages, set reminders and more.

Price
£199 for 16GB and £159 for 6Gb
8 GB internal memory, approximately 5.5GB available for user content
£129
or £169 for Fire HD with 16 GB or £209 32 GB on device
Wi-Fi
16GB
£269
32GB
£349
64GB
£429

Wi-Fi + Cellular
16GB
£369
32GB
£449
64GB
£529 


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