Samsung says the Galaxy Tab S2 is the company's «thinnest and
lightest tablet of its size ever».
«The Galaxy Tab S2 is not only our thinnest and
lightest tablet of its size ever, it also gives users quick, easy access to a wealth of superior viewing and productivity features,» said JK Shin, CEO and President of IT & Mobile Division at Samsung Electronics.
The Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 is the «thinnest and
lightest tablet of its size ever» at just 5.6 mm thin, with the 8 - inch version weighing 265 g and the 9.7 - inch version getting a weight of 389 g. Both versions have a Super AMOLED display with a resolution of 2048x1536.
Not exact matches
At 340g and 10.4 mm thick, the Asus Fonepad isn't desperately slim or
light for its
size, and the generous screen bezel has a whiff
of «last - gen
tablet» about it.
Barnes & Noble offers an e-ink Wi - Fi - only version
of the Nook, with a
light, and two LCD Wi - Fi color devices with different screen
sizes (see
tablets) that come with software to read books to kids, play games, read e-mail, and more.
I actually don't have any Kindle now, for the first time in years, and read on my phone or on my Shield
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tablets offer a
light version
of the Android operating system and are available in a variety
of sizes.
Among all existing
Tablets of any
size, the iPad mini 4 takes first place and breaks performance records in many
of the most important test categories including: lowest screen Reflectance (2.0 percent), highest contrast rating in high ambient
light (225), a near perfect log - straight intensity scale and gamma
of 2.22, and the highest absolute color accuracy (average / maximum color errors
of 1.9 and 4.2 JNCD — tied for first place with the Microsoft Surface Pro 4).
Apple unveiled new iPads at a San Francisco press event, including the iPad Air that it is billing as the
lightest full
size tablet available and a new version
of iPad Mini that has the much higher resolution Retina Display.
Holding them together really reveals just how much
of a difference the additional
size and weight savings make, however — even holding it while also holding an iPad mini reveals significantly less tangible heft, despite the smaller
tablet being
lighter.
The iPad mini is the most portable
of the iPads so it will often be used under brighter ambient
lighting than full
sized Tablets.
The Sony Xperia Z2
Tablet replaces the Xperia
Tablet Z, running with the tagline that it's the world's slimmest and
lightest waterproof
tablet.Regardless
of the waterproofing, the Xperia Z2
Tablet is
light for its screen
size, tipping the scales at 426g,... Read more
Some
of that may just be that we've seen a lot
of lighter, thinner 7 - inch
tablets, while 6 inches is a bit
of a novelty
size.
Samsung has released a lot
of tablets in the past few years: some haven't seen the
light of day, there has been controversy, pretty much every screen
size — a
tablet for everyone.
The Asus Vivotab Smart is as slim and
light as Android
tablets of the same
size, at 570g and 9.7 mm thick, and its rear is soft - touch finish plastic.
Interestingly, we have been looking at smaller
tablets because
of their
lighter weight (the iPad remains relatively heavy with 1.44 lbs / 652g), but while the small
size is fine for emails etc, watching movies on a 7 ″
tablet in a plane isn't really a dream experience.
The Xoom 2 is the same basic
size as the original, with a 10.1 - inch widescreen display, and follows a familiar
tablet formula
of thinner,
lighter and faster.
There are other trade - offs to consider:
tablets are generally
lighter and more portable than laptops, which will make a difference if you're on the move a lot
of the time, while laptops can go higher in terms
of screen
size.
Different storage
sizes will be available, up to 64 GB, and Toshiba says that the finish is «
light gold» so should look slightly different from the floods
of silver and black
tablets out there.
Packaged within the world thinnest and
lightest metal
tablet frame
of its
size, the Galaxy Tab S2 is portable enough to easily carry around all day.
The iPad is a thin,
light tablet the
size of an A5 notepad.
Regardless
of the waterproofing, the Xperia Z2
Tablet is
light for its screen
size, tipping the scales at 426g, and skinny by any standards at 6.4 mm thick.
The
light weight and small
size of the
tablet computers are particularly attractive to lawyers and judges, who often must lug around heavy file folders, laptops and briefcases.
The 8 - inch screen may not offer the most immersive experience compared to a larger
tablet, but its portable
size and
light weight really make it great for traveling with the watch video, and it comes up short because
of the speaker placement.
The Alcatel 1T 10, the larger
of the two
tablets, weighs just 415g — TCL claims it's the «
lightest tablet you can get» in its
size and price range.
This is the latest expansion in Alcatel's Hero product lineup, and is being hailed as one
of the
lightest and slimmest
tablets of its
size currently available.
The iPad Pro 12.9 and 10.5 are the most capable Apple
tablets available in terms
of camera but the 10.5 - inch model's smaller
size and
lighter weight will make taking images much easier than the larger model.