Place the Galaxy Tab 10.1 next to the iPad 2, and you might mistake one for the other. They both have a black bezel that surrounds the screen and a silver edge all the way around their bodies. The most immediate difference between them is that the iPad features a physical home button on the bottom bezel (when you hold the tablet in portrait orientation), while the Galaxy Tab 10.1 doesn’t have any physical buttons anywhere on its bezel. (Honeycomb instead uses onscreen buttons exclusively.)
The second thing you’re likely to notice is that they’re not the same size. At 10.1 inches high and 6.9 inches wide, the Galaxy Tab 10.1 is higher than the 9.5x7.3-inch iPad 2, but not quite as wide. This disproportion is mostly a function of their different screen sizes. The Galaxy Tab 10.1’s display measures 1,280x800 pixels, while the iPad’s 9.7-inch screen is 1,024x768. This also means that the Galaxy Tab 10.1 has a wider aspect ratio (16-to-10) than the iPad 2 (4-to-3). If your primary reason for wanting a tablet is to watch lots of wide-screen movies, the Galaxy Tab 10.1’s higher resolution and wider screen would be the smarter choice.
The 7-inch Samsung Galaxy Tab is on the left; the 10.1-inch Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 is in the middle; and the 9.7-inch Apple iPad 2 is on the right.
You’ll also find fewer physical buttons on the edges of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 than on the iPad 2. They both have power/lock buttons and volume-rocker switches, but the iPad 2 also has a switch that can mute the volume or lock the display’s orientation. If you want to mute the Galaxy Tab 10.1, you have to manually lower its volume or set the volume level in the device’s onscreen settings. Also, locking the Galaxy Tab 10.1’s display orientation is only possible via its settings menus. Both the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and iPad 2 sport 3.5mm stereo-headset mini-jacks. The Galaxy Tab 10.1 comes with a stereo headset in the box, and the iPad 2 does not.
The Galaxy Tab 10.1 and the iPad both include front- and rear-facing cameras. The iPad 2’s front-facing camera is positioned on the top bezel when holding the tablet in portrait orientation. In contrast, the Galaxy Tab 10.1’s front-facing camera is on the top bezel when holding the device in landscape orientation. Where the respective manufacturers placed their front-facing cameras indicates how each envisions the devices being used most often. For the Galaxy Tab 10.1 it’s landscape mode, for the iPad 2 it’s portrait mode.
Among the things the Galaxy Tab 10.1 has that the iPad 2 doesn’t is a flash for its rear-facing camera. The Galaxy Tab 10.1 also has a pair of stereo speakers (one on each side, when in landscape mode), while the iPad 2 has just a single speaker located on its back face. One thing that both the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and iPad lack, though, is the ability to add removable storage. Unlike the Galaxy Tab 10.1’s 7-inch predecessor, the Galaxy Tab 10.1 doesn’t have a MicroSD card slot.
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