Hasta La Gadget!

After a rather successful re-entry in the high-end smartphone market, LG feels “ready” for the very challenging tablet market which is expected to grow by 30% every year as far as predictions go (2016). LG has studied people’s usage pattern and believe that form factors of 7” to 9” will represent more than half the tablet market by then, so 8.3” would be an ideal size to use.

LG’s data points also suggest that tablets are overwhelmingly used at home and where the studies really hit the nail in the head is when they present the contrast between consumers’ expectations (having a small “computer” in the PC sense) and reality: that they don’t carry tablets at all times and that it is not really fit to replace the computer. The conclusion that LG drew is that tablets have to co-exist with other devices, and that they need to have an ideal speed to size/weigh ratio. That’s how the LG G Pad 8.3 was born.

Now the question is whether or not it fulfills its goal of being the ideal tablet for what people “actually do” when they own tablets vs. what they wish they could do. Let’s take a closer look to see how the G Pad 8.3 performs in the real world.  (more…)

LG G Pad 8.3 Review original content from Ubergizmo.