What Is Important When Purchasing a Tablet

What Is Important When Purchasing a Tablet - For the December issue of the magazine "test" the Stiftung Warentest tested 15 tablets in various sizes. The quality of the displays must be with fun on the net to surf, to play and to look at movies. But here there are large differences in quality.

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The best devices scored with good colors, high resolution and high contrast. At the other end of the scale, there were also outliers after below: tablets, which showed images blurred and pixelated and only poorly readable represented texts.

Small models are good for on the go

The tester a distinction between small devices with diagonals between 6.8 and 8.4-inch and larger tablets with 8.7 to 10.9 inches. The size is also dependent on the purpose: who is much on the road with his Tablet, rather choose a smaller model that is also easier. Is especially at home are used, the device must be also larger.

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While the decision when the operating system between Android and iOS essentially remains a matter of faith, the Windows system mainly because of the much lower range of apps behind the other falls two systems, so the tester. Some Windows programs to exist only as an installation file. Then need to switch users on the tablet in the desktop mode: that is operable but fragmented and difficult by touch.

Quality of the camera usually mediocre

In battery life, there are big differences according to testers: seven hours held out the most vulnerable devices, the best tablets were twice as long. The cameras were disappointing: only a Tablet made a "good" in this category, the other Tablet cameras cut off "satisfactory" or only "sufficient".

Who wants to surf on the go not only in Wi-Fi networks, should pay attention to a SIM card slot, advise the goods testers. But not all devices on board the. Manufacturers often offer versions of their tablets with as well as without cellular modem. According to the who do without it, saves up to 120 euros with the slimmed down version. Experienced users are not completely cut off yet: Not network connection can be set with an additional smartphones via a mobile (Android) or personal (iOS) hotspot manufacture.

Samsung tablets are test winners

At the small tablets, three devices received the note "good", the rest cut off "satisfactory" four. The most convinced 8.0 LTE (SM-T715) with the touch of the 475 euro expensive Samsung Galaxy tab S2 1.6 and with slight smear of also the Apple iPad Mini 4 WiFi + cellular 16 GB (touch 2.0) for 505 euro. The note 1.6 is the best that ever gave the tester of the Foundation.

Four times three times "Satisfactorily" and once "sufficient" awarded "Good", the testers at the larger tablets. Here lies the 565 euro expensive Samsung Galaxy tab S2 9.7 LTE (SM-T815) front (rated 1.7), followed by the 655 euro expensive Sony Xperia Z4 Tablet LTE (SGP771) with a score of 1.9). But also cheaper devices received a "good": the 295 euro expensive ASUS Zenpad 19 LTE (Z300CL) with a score of 2.3 and the 219 euro ARCHOS 101 helium 4 G (Note 2.5). Cheap tablets are not recommended under 200 euros, they consistently took the rear positions. The price of the tested devices total moving between about 140 and 650 euro

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