When the Giants Fought in Cyberspace

Apparently the desire to dominate and outperform rivals, can not be separated from human life. Just look at every day disputes between people to bring down each other, compete and win market influences.

It also occurs in the IT industry today, it is marked by numerous disputes between players in this industry. But the fight advanced products, most notably signaled that the battle here has been extremely fierce.

An example is the segment of the tablet computer, battle between gadget giant "Apple" with virtual world rulers "Google" through their flagship gadget product.

Look at the mighty Apple through the iPad gadget increasingly undeniable in the tablet computers segment. Even has a strong generic brand coloring market so other vendors are always trying to adopt features.

However, Google as the virtual world rulers can not remain silent. When Apple released the iPad Mini, they launched Google Nexus 7. Although it is not worth it in terms of price, where in Indonesian market the iPad Mini sold by Rp. 5 million (or U.S. $520) and Nexus 7 at Rp 2.8 million (or U.S. $292), these two major brands with superior products is feasible compared. Here the comparison are,

Design and Displays

Terms of size, they were not much different in all aspects. On display Nexus 7 which has a size of 7 inches, while the iPad Mini is slightly larger with 7.9 inches. However, during operation, the difference is not so visible and felt by the user.

Google seriously by holding vendor ASUS, they make a Nexus tablet 7 feels pretty from the side view with the materials used are also good. Attached menu button was functional, proper installation, as well as easy to use.

While the design of the iPad Mini is a viable highlighted feels good in the hand. Also, the ratio remained 4:3 screen so all of the iPad aplikasl previous series, can perfectly run on the new version.

Accessories

In the days of "narcissistic" as it is now, for some reason Google Nexus 7 did not even put a camera in the back of the tablet body. There are only a camera on the front. We also must accept tablets without external memory slot. Overview of weird, but it can be covered with the existence of an internal memory of 32 GB. Multimedia features installed complete with Google Play Music comes equalizer and the ability to play all video formats.

Instead, the iPad Mini has a 5 MP rear camera and 1.2 MP front camera plus HD quality video recording. But the drawbacks lies in the lack of flash and external memory. For other multimedia menu is presented on the iPad Mini is not much different from the Nexus 7.

Internet

On this side of the seed they are, in fact there are many many similarities, as they can only be run through WiFi access (not the usual SIM card). With a dual-core 1 GHz processor and 512 Mb of RAM in the iPad Mini, was smooth and easy internet access.

Then there are applications Siri, a sort of Google Search Search menu, which now feels better than previous content. Menu favorites like Facebook, Twitter, iTunes, iBooks, App Store, is also not behind present to satisfy users. 

Nexus 7 not to be outdone by the presence of their latest Android system, Jelly Bean, which is supported by a 1.3 GHz processor and 1 Ghz RAM. Therefore, advanced features like Google Assistant, Say It Offline, Google Now, and others feel well when used.

It is becoming more and more sophisticated gadgets that comes from the IT industry. It is up to the users of these gadgets, will take pride in and was helped by its presence. From here may be taken as a reference by this creative industry players continue to produce sophisticated gadgets. *** [MUHAMMAD SUFYAN | PIKIRAN RAKYAT 29112012]

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