Tablet reviews
Detailed reviews of all the latest tablets.
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Surface Pro 12-inch review: A downgrade, but it sure is cute
The Surface Pro is light, thin and can handle basic work just fine. It's also as cute as a button, so you probably won't mind that it has sub-par performance and a lesser screen than the 13-inch model.
iPad (2025) with A16 review: No Apple Intelligence, no problem
Apple’s latest entry-level tablet isn't very exciting, but it still meets most iPad users where they live.
Battle of the dirt-cheap tablets: Amazon Fire HD 8 vs. Walmart Onn 8
The world's two richest retailers also sell some of the cheapest tablets you can buy. We put their latest 8-inch slates head-to-head to see what a sub-$100 tablet gets you in 2025.
iPad Air M3 review: A modest update that's still easy to recommend
The iPad Air still hits the sweet spot in Apple’s tablet lineup, offering a lot of additional features over the basic iPad while keeping a relatively affordable price.
Kindle Colorsoft review: The missing link in Amazon’s ereader lineup
After years of waiting and requests, Amazon debuted the $280 Kindle Colorsoft, its first ereader with a color display. Amazon’s promising the Colorsoft gets color E Ink implementation right thanks in part to the custom tweaks it made to the display. And, unsurprisingly, Amazon’s ready to charge you a premium for it. So is it all it’s cracked up to be?
Kindle Paperwhite Signature (2024) review: A luxurious reading experience
The new Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition is a remarkably premium ereader, but is it worth $90 more than the standard Kindle?
iPad mini 7 review: Safe, boring and everything I want in a small tablet
The 2024 iPad mini is a solid and necessary update to the best small tablet on the market. It still delivers the full iPad experience in a compact package.
Surface Pro Copilot+ review: The best Surface tablet ever made, no thanks to AI
The Surface Pro is the fastest and most efficient Microsoft tablet we’ve seen yet, especially when paired together with its Flex keyboard. The new OLED screen is wonderful to behold and its NPU allows for powerful AI features.
Lenovo Smart Paper review: A solid e-ink tablet spoiled by the cost
Lenovos's Smart Paper is now available in several countries, including the UK. At around $400 (in the UK, £500) it's expensive. But with offline handwriting recognition, does it offer a seamless way of sharing notes across devices?
Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 Ultra review: A little too big, a little too expensive
The Galaxy Tab S9 Ultra is a powerful, well-designed and massive tablet. The 14.6-inch screen makes it awkward to use in your hands, but the S Pen is a great stylus, and using it with a keyboard in Dex mode makes it a powerful productivity tool.
Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 Ultra hands-on: A premium tablet with water protection
The flagship Galaxy Tab S9 is only the company’s second “Ultra” tablet, and there are many similarities to last year’s Tab S8 Ultra, with its 16:10 screen, dual-camera array on the back and magnetized stylus holster. This year, Samsung has upgraded the processor, the screen and added some serious water protection.
Google Pixel Tablet review: Clever accessories transform an unexciting tablet
The Pixel Tablet is a competent smart display that is also a tablet that's always charged and ready when you need it. Some quirks aside, it's a versatile product that deserves a spot in your home.
Amazon Kindle Scribe review: Better than pen and paper but not the competition
Amazon’s first Kindle that supports stylus input offers an excellent reading and writing experience. But don’t expect handwriting-to-text conversion or sophisticated note-taking and syncing tools.
Apple iPad Pro review (2022): An impressive stopgap
Apple just released two new iPads. One of them, the basic 10th-generation iPad, was rebuilt from the ground up. The new iPad Pro, on the other hand, is a much simpler update. The company took last year’s model, swapped the M1 chip for the M2, made a few other small tweaks, and called it a day. The iPad Pro is still ludicrously fast, and it’s still extremely expensive, starting at $799 for the 11-inch model and $1,099 for the 12.9-inch.
Apple iPad review (2022): An expensive facelift
A year ago, I thought each of the four tablets in the iPad lineup was differentiated well from the others, and it was fairly easy to see what features you got as things got more expensive. The new 10th-generation iPad throws a wrench in things, though. It’s a complete redesign from last year’s model that cribs heavily from the Air while also bringing a handful of compromises to upsell potential customers on Apple’s more expensive tablets. But the new iPad also contains a few puzzling decisions and a $120 price hike — the base model now costs $449. Muddying the waters further, last year’s iPad remains available at $329. And while I think the improvements Apple made to the 10th-generation iPad are significant, I’m not sure how many people in the market for an inexpensive tablet will find these changes worth their cash.
Microsoft Surface Pro 9 5G review (SQ3): A beautiful lie
The 5G-equipped Surface Pro 9 is a handsome hybrid tablet PC, but its custom ARM processor severely limits its performance and app compatibility.
Apple's redesigned iPad is mostly worth the higher price
Apple's new entry-level iPad has been completely redesigned -- and it costs $120 more than last year's model. It's no longer quite the bargain it was, but the upgrades here are mostly worth the extra cash.
The new iPad Pro is ludicrously fast (just like last year's model)
Evaluating the new iPad Pro is a simpler task than the basic iPad that Apple announced alongside it last week. That iPad has been completely redesigned. But the 2022 iPad Pro is a minor iteration of the model released in early 2021, which was powered by the M1 chip. Now, with M2 Macs out in the wild, Apple decided its best tablet needed one, too. That new chip is by far the most notable change here. Otherwise, the design, screen, cameras, storage options, accessories and price are all the same. That’s not a big problem, though, because the iPad Pro was already an outstanding device — and the Liquid Retina XDR display Apple introduced on last year’s 12.9-inch model is still a simply outstanding screen. There are a couple new tricks here, like the Apple Pencil “hover” feature and the ability to shoot video in Apple’s ProRes codec, but by and large this iPad Pro isn’t angled at people who bought that M1 model. Instead, it’s just a case of Apple flexing its muscles by making the most powerful, spare-no-expense tablet that it can.
Amazon Fire 7 (2022) review: You don't get much for $60
Amazon's Fire 7 tablet is still very basic, but its battery lasts longer, and it's only $60.
iPadOS 16 preview: Apple's software is catching up with its hardware
A look at Apple's upcoming iPadOS 16 software.