Galaxy Tab is more portable than an iPad—and your point is?

> By comparison, iPad is a PORTABLE device — you need a bag to carry it around — and it can act as a laptop replacement. > > Even though both tablets perform much of the same functions, similar to the truer equivalency between iPhone and an Android phone, their size differences and, by extension, how and how often they are accessed, means gTab and iPad will be used in completely different ways. > > I’ve been “wearing” gTab for nearly two weeks, and all comparisons boil down to this: gTab fits in your pocket. I understand that a lot of people are making this point about the Galaxy Tab being more portable, as in “put it in your pocket, not a bag” vs. the iPad. And thus, these are really two different products. So you can’t say, “what can the Tab do that the iPad can’t?” The iPad is obviously more powerful, and the bigger screen makes for much more powerful software. It’s also the same money or cheaper than the Tab. But the Tab isn’t supposed to compete with the iPad; it’s a computer you carry around in your pocket, not a bag.

Okay, fine. Wrong comparison.

So why don’t we compare the Tab to the other truly portable device we all have already? The one that’s already in our pocket?

What does the Tab give me that my phone doesn’t already give me?

A slightly larger screen is a bit better for reading, sure. But email, web surfing, even video, seem marginally better on the Tab, at best. There’s no Android software at all that you can run on a Tab that you can’t run on any modern Android phone. Everyone who uses a Tab admits it’s no good at anything you’d usually use a laptop for. And yet no one has explained how the tab is $600 better at anything you’d do on a phone, either.

In other words, if you already have an iPhone or an Android phone, why would you want this?

The iPad is successful because it’s bridging that gap between a laptop and a phone. There are tens of thousands of apps that are made specifically for the iPad that can’t run on an iPhone, or are less powerful on the iPhone.

The Tab is trying to bridge the gap between a phone and what, exactly? It’s a big, expensive, clunky phone, only without a phone in it.

You’re going to tell me that a large number of people are going to pay the same money as an iPad, or a bit less upfront with two years worth of monthly data fees, just to look at their email or movies on a slightly larger screen?

You have to really hate Apple to do that to yourself.

So yes, the Tab is not a bad device. It’s good at a few things, even, but for the money, if all you’re looking for is portability, you’re better off with an Android phone. The Tab is just not a device that solves a problem that most real people have.