I may be missing something, but I can’t seem to find a power-spec Android tablet with a less than 10 inch screen. Most of the 8 inch are lucky to have 32GB of storage and low resolution not much better than a Fire tablet.
Shouldn’t there be an Android with spec power like the iPad Mini 6?
The Foldable smartphones have basically eaten up that segment of Android devices.
Samsung has one in their business ruggeds — the Galaxy Tab Active line:
Siloed S-Pen is a bonus. And conveniently priced (slightly) below an iPhone. Thanks
And the tab actives are excellent devices especially in build quality and importantly given the price, they get a level of software support close to their S series phones or Tab S devices.
The only downside is that they are not the most top end performers, but I suspect the vast majority aren’t buying for that
Availability seems to be an issue for us mere consumers in many countries though.
Yes I have never quite understood Samsung’s marketing plans with these. They definitely see them as a somewhat niche device and don’t even offer them in many countries. Unlike the Tab A line which seems to be their most widely sold device line.
Perhaps their reluctance to embrace the 8-inch android tablet size is because they rather that consumers make due with a top line phone instead.
When you have s-penabled Phones at 6.8 inches (S22 Ultra) and s-penabled folds devices (Zfold4) that hit 7.8 inches, a separate non-phone/tablet device in that same approximation size does seem kind of unnecessary. Baring specific use cases…hence the Active line.
On the other end of the specturm, I utterly adore the 8.3 inch iPad Mini, but a large part of that is having Apple Pencil 2 on it. In the same turn the S22 and ZFold 4 would be far more useless without the S-pen. If they opened up the Apple Pencil 2 to a 6.7 iPhone 14 Pro, despite the Mini 6 having an aspect ratioed advantage, it would be much harder to justify a secondary device over one that could act as my daily driver.