Samsung Galaxy Note 8 vs Nexus 7vs iPad Mini, Will Samsung Win?

Samsung Galaxy Note 8 has finally been unveiled at MWC 2013 (Mobile World Congress), which is undoubtedly give a boost to the tablet market specifically aiming at Apple’s iPad Mini and Nexus 7.

When Samsung is obviously the ruler of the global smartphones market, will it get the same success in tablets? We know, Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 is the very awesome one, so what’s this one? Maybe one interesting way of appreciating its future success is a comparison with its strong contenders Nexus 7 and iPad Mini.Just let’s have a look at the Galaxy Note 8 vs iPad Mini vs Nexus 7 battle.

Design & Display
Samsung Galaxy Note 8 keeps the classic design of the Note line-up with round edges and plastic back lid, boasting an 8-inch 1,280 x 800 pixels display. Nexus 7 is superior to Note 8 with an elegant design, a textured back for the best grip and a 7-inch 1,280 x 800 pixels screen while Apple’s iPad Mini excels with its premium-looking body, solid construction and a 7.9-inch display with a resolution of 1,024 x 768 pixels.

For portability, Nexus 7 is the most suitable one, second iPad Mini, last Galaxy Note 8. But iPad Mini is the thinnest and lightest one, and also Samsung Galaxy Note 8 is about 2.5 mm thinner than Nexus 7.But for display, Nexus 7 is inarguably the winner, and Note 8 failed in this game.

OS & Software
Running Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean out of the box, Note 8 also features the optimized apps for the S Pen stylus, which allow you to easily draw or edit photos in Photoshop Touch with Handwriting support. Also, the TouchWiz UI of Note 8 offers the popular features on Samsung Galaxy S3 or Note 2 like Pop up Play, Smart Stay. Via Smart Remote app, you can even use Note 8 as a remotecontrol.

Coming with pre-loaded with Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean, Nexus 7 is the one of the few device which can upgrade to Android 4.2.2.

The iPad Mini certainly runs iOS 6 out of the box, but it can upgradable to iOS 6.1.2 now.

CPU, RAM & Storage
Note 8 sports the Samsung’s proprietary Exynos 4 Quad chipset based on a 1.6GHz quad-core processor, Mali 400 MP GPU and 2GB of RAM, which is really powerful to make the Note 8 a very fast tablet. It will come with 16 or 32 GB of internal storage, with up to 64GB expanded storage.

Nexus 7 comes with a quad-core 1.2 GHz Nvidia Tegra 3 chipset ,1GB RAM and16GB/32GB models, and iPad Mini only includes a dual-core 1 GHz A5 processor , 512 MB RAM and 16/32/64 GB models.Both of they have no SD card port.

Obviously, Note 8 owns the most powerful hardware platform of the three. But remember although the iPad Mini does badly in this specs term, iOS still runs pretty smooth without the multitasking and other Android features.

Battery, Connectivity & Camera
Note 8 includes a 4,600 mAh battery while iPad Mini and Nexus 7 packs with the same 4,325 mAh battery .In this factor, the three ones is pretty close.

Note 8 uses a 5MP rear camera and a 1.2MP front camera and offers WiFi, 3G and 4G, just the same as iPad Mini while Nexus 7 can only offers WiFi and 3G and a front facing 1.2MP camera.

Verdict
Samsung Galaxy Note 8 definitely is the powerful and attractive device with higher technical specs. And Samsung may become stronger on the tablet market. However, Google and Apple will reportedly upgrade their tablets in 2013, and it is still the beginning of the battle. But until then the Note 8 is an important competitor for both Nexus 7 and iPad Mini.

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Top Rumored Smartphones at MWC 2013

After the big electrical ceremony CES, another grand phone-specifically ceremony MWC (Mobile World Congress) 2013 Barcelona is just around the cornor . So, what impressive smartphones will be launched at MWC 2013 at present? Let’s just have a look.

Nokia PureView Lumia and upgrade version of Lumia 920, Lumia 720, Lumia 520
With the key feature of 41Mp camera, the Windows phone 8 smartphone Nokia PureView Lumia will be probably announced at MWC 2013 since its predecessor the 808 PureView with a Symbian OS was launched at MWC 2012.

For others,Nokia will focus on its windows phone 8-based Lumia smartphones at this ceremony, and rumors said that Catwalk, acts as the upgrade version of Lumia 920, will be unveiled to us. It is said to the device will come with an aluminium and thinner body.As for hardware, it will have a UltraPixel PureView camera.Besides, the middle and low-end windows phone 8 based smartphones Lumia 720(4.3”,1G dual core processor,512MB RAM,8GB internal memory ,6MP rear camera and 2MP front camera )and Lumia 520(4”,1G dual core processor,512MB RAM,8GB internal memory and 5MP rear camera) will appear at MWC 2013.

Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 and dual-screen Galaxy Q
As known for all, Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 will come at MWC, which was released early in this year.

Rumored said that Samsung will bring a dual-screens phone called Galaxy Q, sporting the 1080p flexible screen, 1.7GHz Exynos 5 dual-core processor, 2GB RAM.The Galaxy Q will run Android 4.2, and it can perfectly splice the two screens to double the display without effecting the visual experience in the stitching.

In addition, Samsung is likely to launch the middle and the low-end smartphones like Galaxy Young、Galaxy Fame、Galaxy Core,etc.

ZTE Firefox OS smartphone？
The Chinese phone maker ZTE joined with Mozilla and will be launched an early Firefox OS based smartphone. And the phone is expected to unveiled at this MWC. Also, ZTE may bring the Android smartphone Grand Memo, coming with a 5.7 inch 720 p screen, Snapdragon S4 Pro chipset with a 1.7 GHz quad-core processor as well as a 13 megapixel camera.What’s more, ZTE may bring a tablet called V81.

LG Optimus G Pro and Other suprises
LG did brilliantly at CES, so what’s it prepare for MWC? Up until now, we know the new Optimus G Pro will be shown off , and the latest launced Optimus F5 , Optimus F7and Optimus L3 II will join the ceremony.Besides, LG should prepare some new smartphones, but the exciting details we may need to wait.

Huawei Ascend P2 and Ascend W3
Yesterday，Huawei has announced new flagship Android 4.1 based Ascend P2,which boasts 4.7 inch 720p display, a quad-core 1.5GHz Hisilicon K3V2 processor,a 13 megapixel rear camera,1GB RAM and 16GB storage. The battery is up to 2420mAh.

Except the P2, Huawei may launch a windows phone 8 smartphone Ascend W3 , which is rumord to include 4.5 inch 720p display, a dual-core Snapdragon S4 processor , 1GB RAM and 8MP camera.And the device is said to support wireless charging like Lumia 920.

When more details will be shown at MWC 2013, just wait.


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