If you had Php30k to spend for a tablet?

In the last 3 days I’ve been going around here in Singapore, most of the stores would put tablets in the front display shelves. They’re obviously the stars of the season.

With all the sizes, form factors and operating system put on the table, sometimes it’s a little hard to pick which one’s best for you.

This was the question posted to me by Howie Severino in a segment we did last Wednesday at GMA7 where we featured around 7 different tablets.


Taken from one of the gadgets shops in Changi Airport.

So I’m here standing in front of a gadget store thinking which tablet to bring home:

* Dell Streak 5 @ ~Php20k
* BlackBerry Playbook 16GB @ ~Php22k
* iPad WiFi + 3G 16GB @ ~Php28k
* Motorola Xoom WiFi @ ~Php30k
* Acer Iconia Tab A500 @ ~Php19k
* Asus Transformer @ ~Php22k
* Samsung Galaxy Tab WiFi @ ~Php17k
* Viewsonic ViewPad 7 @ ~15k
* HTC Flyer @ ~Php29k

I already have the iPad2 and I’ve pre-ordered the Asus Transformer (with a media discount) so I’m looking between the Dell Streak 5 and the BlackBerry Playbook as top choices primarily due to the size/form factor. I already have a review unit of of the Playbook and so far, I’m really liking it.

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Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

44 Responses

  1. Avatar for dheniss manalo dheniss manalo says:

    Sorry this is of the topic but i am too lazy to find ways to contact the author… I’ve been using this app for a long time and I just want to report this annoying crash of this app every time i open a second article.

  2. Avatar for quobetah quobetah says:

    Playbook na lang syempre para ma-try mo ang bagong OS.

  3. Avatar for John Ray Cabrera John Ray Cabrera says:

    i’ll just go for anything that has an AMOLED screen.

  4. Avatar for Mina Mina says:

    are the prices you posted the prices in singapore? i’d choose BB playbook btw..

  5. Avatar for Solid Hosting Solid Hosting says:

    One tablet is enough per household. Hehehe. In case, I’d go with Blackberry Playbook or Motorola Xoom.

  6. Avatar for karlitu karlitu says:

    Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1

  7. Avatar for Eason Eason says:

    Here is the video of the segment Sir Abe is talking about

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4X-WFTbJ-I

  8. Avatar for allan allan says:

    go for the BB Playbook.

  9. Avatar for wreek888 wreek888 says:

    i already have the ipad2 and the samsung galaxy tab 7, maybe dell5 so i can have all the sizes but the price of dell 5 will be 15K,

  10. Avatar for Aj Aj says:

    I already have the ipad2, but the Htc flyer looks promising with it’s stylus and smaller size but limited it’s power consumption compared to ipad

  11. Avatar for jamby jamby says:

    I’m torn between the iPad2 or Transformer…@yuga,..could you do a side by side comparison, PROs and CONs of the two?

    Tnx.

  12. Avatar for Jonaflormicfren Jonaflormicfren says:

    I’ll choose BlackBerry playbook, it sounds good to me.

  13. Avatar for xxx999 xxx999 says:

    I’ll Go for Archos G9 Tablet 8″ , Reasonable Price for tablet :)

  14. Avatar for Shakey Shakey says:

    Since you already have an iPad2 and an Android tablet coming, go for the Playbook na lang para may tablet ka across all platforms. :)

  15. Avatar for Vance Vance says:

    I choose Ipad 2 64G even without the 3G for P33K but I’ll wait for few more months there rumors circulating that an iPad HD might appear this september hehe..

  16. Avatar for Cocopako Cocopako says:

    Ung una ko tablet galaxy tab 7 got it free from smart(walang kwenta ) natanso ako don! Very poor ang performance, and then i got ipad2, wala ako masabi sa performance, superb! Sulit ung inayad ko,

  17. Avatar for r41n r41n says:

    sony s1! if it would be less 30k

  18. Avatar for EdwinC EdwinC says:

    ‘Yung Archos di yata kasali sa honorable mention. At ‘yang Motorola at HTC ba’t ba ang mamahal ng mga ‘yan? Ano bang meron d’yan na wala sa iba? Ako hihintayin ko ang Gen 9 internet tablets ng Archos. Tentative worldwide release sa October. Baka ice cream sandwich na ‘yun paglabas.

  19. Avatar for julie julie says:

    dito ba sa pilipinas ang tindahan na ito? parang nsa tate ah.

  20. Avatar for ty ty says:

    ill go for the asus transformer…

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