iPad Pro vs Galaxy Tab S6 - Smackdown! By Brad Colbow

This video is sponsored by Squarespace what happens when you take a top-of-the-line iPad and put it next to a top-of-the-line, Android tablet. Well, and today's Smackdown we're going to find out hello. My name is Brad I review tech for creative professionals, we're talking about illustrators designers, anybody, who's, used, animal Crossing's, custom or creator and realized seven hours later. Wow, I could be an artist today. We've got a tablet Smackdown between Samsung's top-of-the-line, Galaxy, Tab, s6 and Apple's new 20/20 iPad. Pro a quick note, Samsung announced the new galaxy pad s6 light right as I was finishing, this video, it's a low-price Galaxy Tab with pen capability.

So when we get to the budget section of this video I don't mention it but know that in a few weeks it will be a thing, and I'll probably be reviewing it. We're gonna start with the hardware. First, the iPad Pro comes in two sizes. We have the 11 inch and 12 point 9-inch, Samsung's, Galaxy, Tab s6 comes in a ten point. Six inch form factor look at the screen resolutions.

They are comparable. The x6 has 2560 pixels by 1600 pixels, and the iPad 11 inch is 2224 pixels by 1668. One thing to note here: the difference in pixels is partially due to the aspect ratio being different with the x6 being a 16 by 10 ratio and the iPad being a 4 by 3 ratio visually. They have a lot in common as well from the more squared-off edges to the antenna lines along the back. The aluminum finish even dropping the physical face buttons that used to be at the bottom of the screen.

The iPad Pro is rocking an 8 12 Z Bionic chip, while the s6 has a Snapdragon 855. What does this mean? I, don't know what it really means is they're, more than capable of handling any drawing or illustration app you throw at them. What about Ram both have 6 gigabytes of RAM. One difference is, is if you jump up to the larger storage size on the tab, s6 you're, going to get another 2 gigabytes of RAM, which takes you up to 8 storage, is pretty similar with both of these starting at 128 gigs. The iPad Pro can go all the way up to a full terabyte of storage, whereas the highest configuration of the tab, s6 maxes out at 256 gigs.

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We are in our Channel. We got to talk about these pens. They are both rechargeable pens, the iPads recharges, why you slap it along the side and the s6 rests along this little divot located around the back. I personally prefer the side charging, but really it's not that big a deal just means your Galaxy Tab doesn't sit flat when your pen is attached to it. Also, it tends to pop off easier because of the placement.

One really important thing to note here is that the Galaxy Tabs pen does come packed in where the Apple Pencil is another hundred and thirty dollars. Now I did mention they're both battery powered pencils. The one key difference here is that the Apple pencils battery is absolutely necessary for it to work when it runs out of charge. The pencil just stops operating the S Pen does not need that battery to draw you can go on forever without charging and still draw using the included pen. The reason why is that the battery and the Bluetooth feature in the s-pen aren't needed for drawing they're needed for the motion controls the Samsung has baked into the pen like swiping to change images or using the pen to snap photos from a distance moving onto price.

The smaller iPad Pro starts at $7.99 and the s6 starts at 649, but you can find them for less now that they've been out for a few months. You just have to be a little lucky and know how to use the googles. It is pretty common for Samsung products to drop in price faster than Apple products. Do thatbe for sure. Samsung's products are also usually on a shorter refresh cycle.

New Galaxy Tab coming out every year, so I pad pros about every year and a half of course, I mentioned before when you're thinking about price. Here, the S Pen does come packed in with the s6, whereas the Apple Pencil is an extra 130 dollars, definitely something to consider when you're looking at that purchase price. Now neither of these comes with a keyboard cover. They both have optional covers that you could get and both of them are fairly pricey 180 dollars for the Samsung book cover and 200 dollars for the basic iPad Pro smart keyboard cover and, of course, you've probably seen some buzz around the new iPad pros magic keyboard. That's coming in May, that's going for $300 for the 11-inch, iPad and 350 dollars for the 12 point, 9-inch iPad.

It totally looks amazing, but that's like the price of the base-level iPad by itself. Now, if you're, looking at the price of these and thinking, that's still a lot I understand, but you have options. You could always take a step back and get an older refurbished iPad Pro, or you can get one of the lower end iPads that now all come with Apple pencils support on the galaxy side. You could do something similar, you could grab the tab. S4, which came out about two years ago also comes with a pen.

Also, a great drawing experience be careful though the tab s5 does not come with. The pen does not support a pen. You can't use a pen with it. So be careful there, that's something you got to pay really close attention to with Samsung tablets is not all of them are pen compatible, even if you go out and buy a pen separately might not work with your tablet. Let's look at the drawing experience.

Both of these are pretty darn good, in fact, I'd say they're, better than pretty good they're, both great or at least close to great and Samsung's case. Both are really accurate. Both have great pressure sensitivity both of fantastic drawing experiences, but we're the Apple Pencil edges out. The Wacom powered stylus that comes with the tab. S6 is palm rejection.

Whenever I draw on this device, I'm always left with little dots, where my palm was on the screen that doesn't happen on the iPad and some apps you'll even find yourself accidentally zooming in or out from time to time, because it thinks the pen is one finger, and it thinks your palm is another finger now. This does happen from time to time, but I want to say this isn't as bad as many of the other Bluetooth stylus is out there that you can get for the iPad, especially the ones that came out before the Apple Pencil. On the Android side, some apps are gonna. Allow you to toggle off hand gestures. So, when you're drawing on the canvas, those extra dots and things like that, aren't going to happen.

The problem here is you're, giving up functionality in those apps things like using two fingers to tap to undo or pinching zooming. It's really one of those things. That's decided on an app by app basis and Parmesan, which is so key to drawing on a tablet, is really one of those things that the Apple Pencil nailed from day. One on the software I think one area where the iPad really separates itself from Android is software. Obviously, the Galaxy Tab is an incredibly capable machine, but it doesn't have the same level of software.

Support that the iPad does painter is great, but I have some stability issues there, and it also has a limited number of undo. I feel the same way about everything. I use on Android art flow, an amazing app but I, don't have as many hand gestures as I want. It just feels like everything is just so close, but not quite there. Yet, when you compare some of those programs to procreate feature for feature, not bad, but when you start looking at those pro level apps like Photoshop, ok, wait! That's a bad example like affinity, designer or affinity painter.

You just don't have anything like that on Android now, I suppose much of this is just like my opinion. Man I've been using Android a lot over the last couple of years, and I've just never really settled on a good workflow that I really like, although that might be changing sometime in the future, Krita like full Krita, is being worked on for android. I have no idea when that is coming out, I'm almost afraid to mention it in these videos because I know, there's always going to be a handful of people asking every single week. Where's Krita is credit. Coming out.

What are you doing with credit? Brad I, don't know, I, don't know anything about Android credit I'm, not working on it. It's not my app. It's just a thing. That's coming in the future. It's also one of those things.

That's an open-source app. The people are donating their time and energy to work on it, so it's probably going to take longer than you want it to. My point is: don't ask me, go to the Krita forums and as far as me, going out and testing it. I did take a brief look at it a couple of weeks back, and it's just not ready for me to be taking a look at when it's stable, I'll play with it and let you know what I think I've always wondered. What is it about app makers? Why do they shy away from Android as a platform? Obviously the hardware's there.

The hardware is incredibly capable, and I think there are several reasons. One is that Android being incredibly popular on phones, isn't quite as popular on tablets, especially high-end tablets. There are a lot of Android tablets out there that maybe aren't quite as expensive, more budget based tablets. But those are not is illustration friendly. They don't have pens packed in that work.

Natively. This creates a chicken versus egg scenario. Many illustrators are looking at Android and saying: hmm, the apps aren't quite there yet, so we're not going to purchase an Android device. You have a lot of developers, saying. Well, there's not a lot of artists in illustrators on Android, so maybe we shouldn't jump in and start creating software for that.

Yet, in the early days of phones and tablets, I was a software designer, a UX designer, often working on a team of developers creating apps and things like that for phones and one thing that was true then, and I'm not sure if it's still true now is that we knew that we were making way more money building iOS apps than we were going out there and building Android apps, and even though that might not still hold true today they may have evened out quite a bit. Maybe they have maybe they haven't sure, but what that time did is it gave Apple and iOS. Basically, a five-year head start with a lot of developers starting to work on software before people were really taking Android seriously as a place to make money and profit on their work, make a living off their work. So, what's my end, verdict, I. Think if you watch my videos, you know at the end of the day it comes down to the software support that is available for the iPad.

It really edges out Android in that way and, like I've, said before, I really love the Android hardware, especially a lot of the stuff that Samsung's doing my primary phone is an Android phone, but when it comes to drawing- and it comes to illustration, I really do love the iPad I love using it as a fantastic drawing experience with fantastic apps to back it up. So, at the end of the day in this video, what my verdict is I'm, just going to give the edge to the iPad for now, maybe in a couple of years, when Android catches up I think that ecosystem has a lot of potential, but it's just not there yet feels like it's about five years behind. Where the iPad is so, what do you think? Let me know down below in the comments section. Thank you for watching, and I'll talk to you in a couple of days. You.

Source : Brad Colbow