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Four tip Tablets from Apple, Microsoft and Samsung in the test

23.12.2013, 15:37 clock | t-online.de

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The Top Tablets from Apple, Samsung and Microsoft promise computing power, long battery life and sharp screen. Stiftung Warentest, the four top models of the producers is considered accurate and only can find small differences. When the iPad Air testers were particularly pleasantly surprised by the battery life performance. And also new Microsoft Surface Pro model to catch up.

Stiftung Warentest with the January issue of the magazine “test” four coveted computer submitted that in tablet testing the December issue (test 12/2013) could no longer be taken into account. The result is hardly surprising.

presented in October tablets iPad and iPad Mini Air retina in each case the final grade received 1.8 (Good). In the video duration, the battery life of the iPad-4-successor improved to a record eleven and a half hours. Both tablets to place in the top list “as the best set up that we have ever tested,” writes Stiftung Warentest.

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iPad Air behind Samsung Tablet

a touch better than the new iPad cuts the “2014 Edition” of the great Samsung Note 10.1 from (good, 1.7). However, compared to the new iPad’s battery life performance falls about one and a half hours shorter from what is owed mainly to the 2560 × 1600 pixels significantly higher resolution display than the Apple iPad Air.

as the best Windows tablet in the test field has named Stiftung Warentest the Microsoft Surface Pro 2 It is available for almost two months. Although the New trumps with even more computing power and far better battery values ??than the predecessor, but still weighs an impressive 920 grams.

Microsoft Tablet scores with versatility

In the category of “versatility” was awarded the Microsoft-powered car is the only tablet in the test field, the top grade 1.6 (Good), while the Apple devices never got into this discipline over 2.7 (Average). The Android tablet from Samsung managed nevertheless still a “good” with 1.8 points.

The minimum projection but hardly be decisive for most buyers. Choosing a tablet and thus the operating system is according to Stiftung Warentest rather a question of principle

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The largest price differences there are with Android tablets. Who buys about tablets under 200 Euros, to be compromises, concludes by Stiftung Warentest in the December issue. Devices with long battery life services offer more comfort than cheap tablets whose battery gave up after three hours of operating time.

The full tablet PC test, you will read in the January issue of “test” – more at Stiftung Warentest

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