The best Android tablets under 10 inches (2022)
As smartphones get bigger, we get less and less compact tablets. Yet such a device is extra handy to take with you and sometimes you just don’t need a larger screen. These are the best devices in the dying breed of small tablets.
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1. Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 Lite
The Galaxy Tab A7 Lite was announced in May last year as an affordable and compact tablet running on Android 11. It then appeared alongside the Galaxy Tab S7 FE. This tab A7 Lite has an 8.7 inch LCD screen with a resolution of 1340 x 800 pixels. The housing is made of plastic and there is room for a set of stereo speakers and a 3.5 mm audio jack.
Under the hood is a 2.3 Ghz octa-core processor that works with 3GB of RAM and 32GB of storage. If you can’t do that, you can expand that storage. The battery of this small tablet is a 5100 mAh one and you can charge it with the 15W charger.
Buy Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 Lite
This tablet is available in a WiFi and a 4G model. You can buy it in a gray or white color.
2. Lenovo Tab M7
This tablet may be the odd one out, but that’s what makes it just as special. Lenovo has released a very affordable tablet with the Tab M7 that works on Android 11 Go. That is a lighter version of Android that is specially optimized to make less powerful hardware work smoothly. That does not alter the fact that this small but fine tablet has a housing that is completely made of aluminum.
The screen is a 7 inch LCD panel with a resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels. It uses a 2.0GHz mediaTek chipset and runs it with 2GB RAM 32GB storage. That storage can be expanded via microSD. The battery of this tablet has a capacity of 3750 mAh. That may seem like a small battery, but thanks to the light chipset and lower slot resolution, it should perform just fine.
Buy Lenovo Tab M7
This tablet is available in a WiFi and a 4G model. You can buy it in a gray color.
- Lenovo Tab M7 Wi-Fi – Bol.com – 120 euros
- Lenovo Tab M7 Wi-Fi and 4G – Amazon.nl – 105 euros
Where are the small Android tablets?
You will notice that your list of small Android tablets is very short. Most smartphone screens today are already close to 7 inches, which is why tablets often only start at 10 inches. A brand that bets much more on small tablets is Apple, because the iPad Mini from 2021 appeared with an 8.3-inch screen. That device also felt really refreshing and it is by no means the little forgotten brother of the series.
When we look at small Android tablets, this is much more often the case, because small tablets are often less noticeable and they also usually come with less powerful specifications. Nevertheless, a revival of Android tablets has started, Nokia could tell Androidworld in the autumn of 2021. And the arrival of the Android 12L update aimed at tablets can also bring a positive change. But whether the glory days of the ASUS Nexus 7 tablet will return remains to be seen.
