8 inch tablet actual size4/20/2024 ![]() ![]() The successful iPad is isolated with its 4:3 screen, and Android tablets win this category handily: both the Nexus 10 and the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 have 16:9 aspect ratio screens, and will give you more movie-related pixels. So a 7-inch screen, while smaller, is less of a movie-watching handicap than you might think if it’s a 16:10 aspect ratio. The iPad mini shares the larger iPad’s aspect ratio, so its movie-watching case against the Nexus 7 is simply not compelling. The iPad’s movie-display area is still larger, but much of that advantage is lost to letterboxing. On the iPad, a 16:9 movie is 7.69 by 4.31 inches, for an area of 33.2 square inches. A 16:9 movie on the Nexus 7’s screen is about 5.81 by 3.31 inches, for an area of 18.2 square inches. Some math: the Nexus 7’s full screen is 21.9 square inches to the 10-inch iPad’s 71.4 square inches. ![]() 7-inch tablets have lately tended to use 16:10 aspect ratio screens, which shape themselves better for most movies than the 4:3 iPad's screen. Likewise, watching movies goes to 10-inch tablets, but it’s a closer race than you might expect. Fortunately, this is no longer the case, and it seems like going forward the seven-inch tablet will always be the more budget-friendly option.Ī Nexus 7, left, next to an iPad 2 Movie-watching It wasn't always this way-only a couple of years ago, seven-inch tablets attempted to front like they were every bit the tablet that ten-inch devices were, priced at $500, and we all saw through it. If you can devote $500-$800 to the device, there's now plenty of ten-inch options. Got $200-$300 to spend on a tablet? The seven-inch bracket is for you. This is the most obvious fork in the tablet decision road we must travel, so we will dispense with it immediately. Below, we compare the two sizes on a number of criteria, many of them task-based, to determine which form factor is optimal for each. But until the two sizes have had at least a full holiday season to duke it out, we consumers will have to choose using only our wits and instincts. Now that companies can fit some decently powerful guts into the 7-inch form factor, the 10-inch tablet may fade away as the more portable 7-inch gains traction through its size and affordability. ![]() ![]() The 7-inch segment hobbled along for some time, but two very competent entries have now landed, spaced only a few months apart. Google's Nexus 7 was even more impressive for the same price, and while it hasn't met the gangbuster sales of the iPad, it's putting up solid numbers. The 7-inch Kindle Fire stirred a few would-be tablet owners to make the jump, no doubt helped along by the relatively modest $199.99 price tag. Manufacturers have been strangely attached to the 7-inch form factor, churning out one after another despite marked consumer disinterest. Most manufacturers aren't even ashamed of the fractional inches attached to the screen size, to the point that such fractionals are sometimes included proudly in the tablet's name.Īs the segment matures, though, we're seeing two sweet spots emerge: 9 to 10 inches, the size of the market-leading iPad, and 7 to 8 inch tablets. For as long as tablets have been a thing, the devices have ranged across a spectrum of sizes, from a too-massive 13 inches down to a dubious not-quite-sure-if-this-is-a-tablet 5 inches. ![]()
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