12 Best Tablets (2024): iPads, Androids, and More Tested and Compared

We trial tons of tablets each year. Here are a fewer others we like, conscionable not arsenic overmuch arsenic our picks above.

iPad Mini (2021, 6th Gen) for $469: Want thing a small bigger than your phone, but inactive pocketable and casual to question with? The 8.3-inch iPad Mini (8/10, WIRED Recommends) should beryllium up your alley. You get a compact tablet with a modern look. It has the A15 Bionic processor, the aforesaid powering the iPhone 13 range, and Touch ID embedded wrong the powerfulness button. It besides features Center Stage successful the camera, which volition set the framework to support you successful the shot, and USB-C for charging. It's unbelievably tiny and cute, and you tin connect the second-gen Apple Pencil to it for on-the-go sketching. It's worthy noting that Apple is expected to denote a successor either successful September oregon aboriginal 2025, truthful if you are successful nary rush, it's worthy waiting.

Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 FE Plus for $529: The Galaxy Tab S9 FE is the “Fan Edition” mentation of the flagship Tab S9 series, which fundamentally means it makes immoderate sacrifices for a much palatable price. It comes successful a Plus and standard variant—I tested the former—and some see a stylus. It performed much amended than the older Tab S7 FE tablet I tested, with not galore stutters. The 12.4-inch LCD surface is immense and a rarity to find astatine this terms successful the satellite of Android tablets, but it's a spot tricky to comfortably hold, particularly erstwhile you're browsing apps successful bed. I inactive similar the OnePlus Pad and Pixel Tablet implicit it, particularly astatine this price.

Samsung Galaxy Tab S8 Series for $600: Whether it's the Tab S8, Tab S8+, oregon Tab S8 Ultra, it's ever astute to bargain the erstwhile flagship tablets erstwhile they spell connected sale. (Make definite you don't wage MSRP!) They're not that antithetic from the newer Tab S9 series, but the smallest slate is stuck with an LCD sheet present alternatively of AMOLED, and determination is nary IP68 h2o absorption rating. You inactive get a stylus that magnetically sticks to the backmost of the tablet, Samsung's DeX mode to get immoderate enactment done, and agelong bundle support.

Barnes & Noble Nook 9-Inch Lenovo Tablet for $150: Want a inexpensive Android tablet with the Google Play Store (aka, not an Amazon Fire Tablet)? Check retired the caller Nook from Lenovo and Barnes & Noble (6/10, WIRED Review). It runs Android 13 and isn't a precise almighty machine, but it's capable for browsing societal media, reading, and catching up connected immoderate shows.

TCL Tab 10 Nxtpaper 5G for $240: You tin lone bargain this TCL slate if you are a Verizon customer, which is disappointing, but it's an different beauteous bully Android tablet for the money. The prima of the amusement present is TCL's Nxtpaper technology, which offers a matte, glare-free show that's casual connected the eyes. It does person a backlight, dissimilar immoderate erstwhile versions, truthful you tin usage it successful immoderate lighting. Performance has been beauteous coagulated overall, I haven't seen excessively overmuch lag arsenic I browse the web oregon scroll done Instagram, and it has fantabulous standby artillery life. The 5G enactment is simply a bully interaction if you privation connectivity wherever you go.

TCL Tab Pro 5G Android Tablet for $400: This exemplary is somewhat older but it has amended specs, with a 2K-resolution LCD screen. Its speakers are nice, arsenic is performance—it ran each the accustomed apps conscionable fine. However, the 10-inch surface size isn't ample capable to marque immoderate apps divided into 2 columns erstwhile successful a vertical orientation. At slightest you get a fingerprint scanner. It's lone disposable done Verizon.