Is $1,200 too much for an Android tablet? Actually, ...
for $100. It will stream movies and browse the web, and it will ask you to buy stuff from Amazon every time you turn it on.
For a tablet, you can trade in a device, but you probably won’t have a phone to give up, so you’ll get less of a discount. You can get a connectedfrom your wireless carrier, but the big Tab S9 Ultra isn’t available with 5G on board. That means the upfront cost seems much higher because it’s being demanded all at once. But it’s important to remember that the Tab S9 Ultra costs about the same as a Galaxy S23 Ultra.
The second most costly component of a smartphone is the display, and for the same price, you get a bigger screen on the Tab – a lot bigger. The Galaxy S23 Ultra is 6.8 inches, while the Tab S9 Ultra is 14.6 inches, but the diagonal only tells a fraction of the story. It also drives more pixels. The Galaxy S23 Ultra runs an impressive 4.5-million pixels in its 1440 x 3088 resolution, but the Galaxy Tab S9 Ultra tablet has a 2960 x 1848 resolution, more than 5.5-million pixels, so it has more than a million more pixels to draw than the Galaxy S23 Ultra.