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Study: iPads are the most responsive tablets in the world

Updated Dec 19th, 2018 8:43PM EST
Tablet Touch Screen Responsiveness

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A few weeks ago we shared Agawi’s first touchscreen responsiveness test, which found Apple’s iOS smartphones to be more responsive than the Android competitors. Agawi is back with TouchMarks II, comparing touchscreen latencies in flagship tablets from Apple, Android and Microsoft’s Windows RT platform, and once again Apple seems to have topped rival devices by a healthy margin. Agawi used the same method to test the tablets as it did with the smartphones, “by measuring the time between when the user touches the screen and the device updates the display.”

As the chart below shows, the iPad mini had the quickest Minimum App Response Time (MART) at 75 milliseconds, with the most recent full-size iPad clocking in slightly slower at 81 milliseconds. Agawi was surprised to find that the Nvidia Shield, an Android-based portable gaming device, came in ahead of Amazon’s Kindle Fire HD as well as popular Android tablets from Samsung and Google. The Surface RT also sneaked in ahead of most Android devices.

The report concludes with a recommendation which suggests Android devices for everyone shopping for a tablet on a budget, but if “you’re into latency-sensitive applications like games or interactive music apps, then your best bet might be an iPad.”

Jacob Siegal
Jacob Siegal Associate Editor

Jacob Siegal is Associate Editor at BGR, having joined the news team in 2013. He has over a decade of professional writing and editing experience, and helps to lead our technology and entertainment product launch and movie release coverage.