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Tablet Reviews

It may seem like the Apple iPad currently has the tablet market cornered, but Amazon’s Fire tablets provide a cheaper alternative to Apple’s premium tablet. Oh, and Samsung also makes some tablets that are basically big versions of its Galaxy Note phones. If you’re looking for a tablet and need help sorting them all out, our reviews below should help.

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 2 review: an extravagant success
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Two screens, five cameras, one hinge, $2,000

Dieter Bohn
Fire HD 8 Plus review: the Amazon appliance
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A $110 tablet that’s good for watching Prime video and not much else

Dieter Bohn
Microsoft Surface Go 2 review: don’t push it
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Intel’s chips are holding it back

Dieter Bohn
Apple iPad Pro review 2020: small spec bump, big camera bump
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An iterative year-over-year update

Dieter Bohn
Microsoft Surface Pro X review: heartbreaker
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Better than expected isn’t enough

Dieter Bohn
Samsung Galaxy Fold re-review: here we go again
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Less fragile doesn’t mean not fragile

Dieter Bohn
7 good and 3 bad things in iPadOS
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Great for power users, but it’s a steep learning curve to get there

Dieter Bohn
Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 review: master entertainer, amateur worker

Samsung’s excellent hardware is let down by sloppy software

Dan Seifert
A $50 tablet can handle the basics, but not much more

Compared to affordable phones, budget tablets aren’t a great value

Cameron Faulkner
Samsung Galaxy Fold review: broken dream
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The future is still very fragile

Dieter Bohn
Apple iPad Air 2019 review: happy medium
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A good step up from the basic iPad

Dieter Bohn
Apple’s new iPad mini is a terrific small tablet with no competition
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Sometimes smaller is better

Nilay Patel
The best tablet you can buy right now

As we pick the best tablet, we’re focusing on the “tablet things” that most people want to do with a tablet. It should be good for watching video, playing games, and reading. It should also be thin, light, and have a battery that lasts long enough that you don’t have to worry about it dying on your commute.

Dieter Bohn
Microsoft Surface Go with LTE review: the best netbook

A little of the future with too much of the past

Dieter Bohn
Google Pixel Slate review: slapdash
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Great hardware undone by a hundred tiny software indignities

Dieter Bohn
Apple iPad Pro review 2018: the fastest iPad is still an iPad
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The thing about bullet trains is that they’re always on rails

Nilay Patel
Lenovo Yoga Book C930 review: two screens and lots of compromises

Easy to love, hard to live with

Dieter Bohn
HP Chromebook x2 review: semi-pro

The first detachable Chrome OS device

Dieter Bohn
Samsung Galaxy Tab S4 review: valiant effort

A new weight class of tablet

Stefan Etienne
The Surface Go is Microsoft’s hybrid PC dream made real

It’s time to think of Surface as Surface, and not an iPad competitor

Tom Warren
Microsoft Surface Go review: a little goes a long way
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It’s a good, tiny Surface — don’t overthink it

Dieter Bohn
Chrome OS isn’t ready for tablets yetChrome OS isn’t ready for tablets yet
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Apple iPad (2018) review: pencil it in
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Apple’s bare minimum still beats everybody else

Dieter Bohn
We need to talk about tabletsWe need to talk about tablets
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Lauren Goode
iOS 11 preview: keep it simple, smarty
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As simple as possible, but no simpler

Dieter Bohn
iPad Pro 12.9 review: a great iPad, one I won’t buy

But maybe iOS 11 will change my mind

Lauren Goode
iPad Pro 10.5 review: overkill
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Apple extends its tablet lead, but iOS 11 might end up being a bigger deal

Dieter Bohn
Samsung Galaxy Book review: one step forward, one step back

Samsung’s Surface competitor still doesn’t quite match up

Dan Seifert
Lenovo Yoga Book review: the unbearable lightness of computing

A convertible that makes sense

Lauren Goode
Huawei MateBook review: this tablet wants to be a PC, but misses the basics

Huawei’s got all the pieces, but can it figure out the puzzle?

Dan Seifert