Tablets

Is it worth buying one? Or do you still need a laptop?

Tablets come in a variety of sizes, configurations and levels of performance. Here’s how we help you find the right tablet for your needs.

Overall score breakdown

Overall score includes:

Ease of use (25%) assesses the touchscreen, buttons, general use, physical and virtual keyboards and multitasking.
Multimedia (25%) includes video calling, watching videos, listening to music, taking photos and recording video, browsing and email functionality and e-book reading.
Screen (15%) assesses how good the display looks with different lighting, brightness options and viewing angles.
Battery (15%) assesses the battery performance with and without attached keyboard (if available).
General performance (10%) includes assessments of CPU, memory and graphics as well as the speed of file transfers and WiFi performance.
Device capabilities (10%) assesses the construction quality, available connections (USB, NFC, Bluetooth etc…), cellular connectivity and storage.

Why we test tablets with keyboards

The line between tablet and laptop is blurrier than ever, now that some tablets come with detachable keyboard cases, meaning they can be used like laptops. To capture the crossover, we include devices with a removable keyboard in the tablets test and a few high end tablets in our laptops test. We always test a tablet with its official keyboard case.

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