My impression is that it's hard to find powerful specs alone on an Android tablet. That seemed counterintuitive to me --- I'd think that the extra space would help --- but I think what's going on is that everyone gets a smartphone, and they make that their primary mobile device. Then if they have the funds, they get a tablet, most-often for dedicated movie viewing. The market for that is pretty price-sensitive, so tablets don't generally cost as much as flagship smartphones. As a result, most tablets tend to have good speakers and a decent display, but unimpressive radios, compute capability, and most other things.
Powerful specs as in a top of the line snapdragon chipset, a 120hz OLED display, at least 256GB of storage, dual or quad speakers, and a fingerprint sensor.
wanted to use it for car navigation, fits nicely in front of the in-built display as well as for reading pdfs. My favourite navi software doesnt even install, complaining device is incompatible
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tal@olio.cafe · 11 pts · 328d
My impression is that it's hard to find powerful specs alone on an Android tablet. That seemed counterintuitive to me --- I'd think that the extra space would help --- but I think what's going on is that everyone gets a smartphone, and they make that their primary mobile device. Then if they have the funds, they get a tablet, most-often for dedicated movie viewing. The market for that is pretty price-sensitive, so tablets don't generally cost as much as flagship smartphones. As a result, most tablets tend to have good speakers and a decent display, but unimpressive radios, compute capability, and most other things.
Suburbanl3g3nd@lemmings.world · 10 pts · 328d
Lenovo legion y700 Gen 2 (2023). You can get em for a couple hundred bucks. I'm using one right now
Edit: here's where I got mine from: https://www.giztop.com/lenovo-legion-y700-2023.html
jordanlund@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 328d
I guess it depends on how you define "Powerful spec."
Samsung Galaxy Tab A?
https://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/tablets/galaxy-tab-a/samsung-galaxy-tab-a-8-0-2019-32gb-silver-wi-fi-sm-t290nzsaxar/
ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com · 6 pts · 328d
Powerful specs as in a top of the line snapdragon chipset, a 120hz OLED display, at least 256GB of storage, dual or quad speakers, and a fingerprint sensor.
KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 327d
can@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 328d
How much less than 9" is acceptable? What about a large phone?
Berlinblades@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 328d
Blackview has some great budget tabs with excellent specs.
drrodneymckay_@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 328d
https://intl.redmagic.gg/pages/redmagic-astra-gaming-tablet?_rtId_=mg7fm0ca_Aodg4rI3
hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 327d
Lenovo Y700 seems like it, I never used it personally though.
winni@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 327d
I recently ordered a lenovo legion tab just to find out that there is no gps built in. bummer.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 327d
what's your use case? maybe you could share it from your phone over wifi
winni@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 324d
wanted to use it for car navigation, fits nicely in front of the in-built display as well as for reading pdfs. My favourite navi software doesnt even install, complaining device is incompatible
gressen@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 328d
Have you tried this: https://m.gsmarena.com/search.php3?mode=tablet ?