Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 vs. Blackberry Playbook: A comparison

Who do you think wins the battle of tabs? We are here comparing the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 with the Blackberry Playbook and trying to find out which of the two is the better one.

Display:

Both has 7 inch multi-touch screen.
170 ppi is the pixel density for the tabs.
Almost the same.

Winner: Well, it’s a draw!

Form:

Samsung weighs lighter than Playbook. Yes. 344 g vs. 425 g.
Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 is lighter and thinner than the older tabs.
The display and touch is almost the same as its predecessor.
Playbook has a strong and good built feeling but not bulky.
The screen size is bit larger than galaxy Tab 2.
The Playbook gives a business tab feeling when you use it.

Winner: Blackberry Playbook.

Storage:

Both the tabs come for 16 GB and 32 GB option.
Samsung comes with 8 GB tab also.
Samsung has microSD slot in all the models, Playbook doesn’t have it.
Because of the microSD slot, expandable memory makes Samsung a clear winner.

Winner: Samsung Galaxy Tab 2

Camera:

Galaxy has a front and rear camera of VGA and 3.15 MP respectively.
The resolution is 2048 x 1536 pixels.
It is geo Tagging and Smile Detector enabled.
Playbook takes the lead with 5MP camera and 2592×1944 resolution pixels.
Front camera is 3 MP.

Winner: Sorry, Clear Winner: Blackberry Playbook.

Operating System:

Galaxy runs Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich.
Android 4.0 is absolutely different than Honeycomb and much descent.
Blackberry has Playbook OS 2.0.
Playbook OS is touch oriented OS, which has no physical buttons and swipe does it all.
Blackberry has brought email services in Playbook.
In the entire major specs as drop down tray, multi tasking etc we found Android 4.0 much better.

Winner: Samsung Galaxy Tab 2

Processor:

Playbook has 1 GHz dual-core ARM Cortex A9 processor with OMAP 4430 chipset.
Has a GPU of PowerVR SGX540.
Performance is really smooth and quite fast.
Galaxy has not yet revealed the chipset but we don’t expect usual high performance Exynos as Samsung has plans to make Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 an affordable one.
Overall performance wise both are equal.

Winner: Draw, again!

Conclusion:

Our conclusion is that Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 is our winner. Galaxy Tab 2 has ICS and which is thousand times better than Playbook OS 2.0. Blackberry can never give you the huge Apps collection what Android Market can offer. Galaxy tab 2 may have some loose ends, but it definitely is a better option to playbook.