Differences Between Tablets And Pads

A friend approached me yesterday and demanded that I should tell him the difference between tablet computers and pad computers.

After explaining to him, I thought it will also be a good thing that I put it up here for those that might be nursing similar question in mind.

Let’s start by drawing up similar analogical question; literally, demanding to know the difference between tablets and pads can be likened to wanting to know the difference between a helicopter and an aircraft.

There we go, and off course I expect you to know by now that a helicopter is a type of aircraft in similar manner we will tell you that a pad is a type of tablet computer; as simple as that right?

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So, the main thing and the generic term here is Tablet computer; and pad on the other hand is just a type of tablet computer.

And we define Tablet Computers in general term as mobile computers with touchscreen display within particular range of sizes that uses either finger or stylus gesture as substitute for mouse and physical keyboard.

With that now in mind, you can see that it will appear quite awkward trying to differentiate between tablets and pads or we can simply say that both are not in the same categories to present for any logical differentiation or comparison.

Since the general name for mobile computers of such nature is Tablet Computer, the name pads, can also be taken to be the name adopted by some mobile computer OEM in referring to their particular set of tablet computers.

Again, the name Pad was first adopted by Apple Inc. when it went on to launch the first modern tablet computer in 2010 and it was called iPad and the prefix i is in accordance with the company’s rule of thumb in naming most of their hardware and software devices.

And presently, iPad has now become a household name for certain type of tablet computer, and some other OEM also now refer to certain categories of their tablet computers as pads, but Amazon for example on their part as a big company chose the name Kindle Fire for their tablet computers

Other categories of tablet computers that have also turned into household name and are now more generic are android tablet computers.

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However, because of the proliferation of Android tablet computers and ipad tablet computers, at the mention of tablet computers these days, the two names, android and ipads comes to mind immediately and can even serve as standard to differentiate between tablet and pads.

Here you can see that in this latter description of tablet and pads or what many now take tablets and pads to be, it clearly goes against what we considered earlier on as awkward in trying to differentiate tablets from pads.

Now going by seeing tablets as android tablets and pads as ipads, one can easily put up outstanding differences between tablets and pads by differentiating android tablets with ipads just in similar manner you will want to differentiate an android smartphone with an iPhone.

Finally, trying to differentiate a tablet from a pad as we have discussed above will largely depends on the perspective you want approach it from.