I have had a Ipad 3 and 4 and on both the batteries have been excellent, will get 4/5 days standby and can easily normal browser for 2- 3 days or kids Youtubing solid for about 6-7 hours.

Kids smashed the screen so Im just wondering what the screens are like on Androids these days, at the beginning they would last a few hours at best, and standby on Android is always not so good.

Still not so good I guess. While there are lots of different tablets and specs to choose from, ipads batteries normally last longer than any other tablet I have tested myself. I have a Samsung tab 3, a Samsung note 10.1 and they both don't last very much. I have also had 2 lenovo tablets and this were a bit better, still there is loads of bloatware in all this machines that keep the OS busy, hence the battery drain.

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Even on prime brand tablet I reckon than you won't get the same battery life as with an iPad (and I'm known to be an Apple-basher).

On the other hand, unless you're really wealthy, giving tablets that cost as much as high-end iPads to kids who will break them over and over sounds a bit pointless to me. For the price of these two iPads you can buy half a dozen middle-range Android tablets and big power banks.

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Even on prime brand tablet I reckon than you won't get the same battery life as with an iPad (and I'm known to be an Apple-basher).

On the other hand, unless you're really wealthy, giving tablets that cost as much as high-end iPads to kids who will break them over and over sounds a bit pointless to me. For the price of these two iPads you can buy half a dozen middle-range Android tablets and big power banks.

Make sense......and...add gorilla glass..

The Lenovo Yoga tablets are probably the best for battery, they also have a nifty kick stand built in for watching videos etc.

Samsung Tab S2 gets fairly decent battery life, but then again I am proactive at not keeping apps open in background, turning off Bluetooth etc when not required

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Even on prime brand tablet I reckon than you won't get the same battery life as with an iPad (and I'm known to be an Apple-basher).

On the other hand, unless you're really wealthy, giving tablets that cost as much as high-end iPads to kids who will break them over and over sounds a bit pointless to me. For the price of these two iPads you can buy half a dozen middle-range Android tablets and big power banks.

The tablets will be for me so I want a fairly decent one, unfortunately as much as you promise yourself you wont let the kids touch it, their persistence sometimes win and thats when it all goes wrong.

Every iPad so far has needed at least one new screen maybe 2 even with the case on.

I have a 5 or 6 year old ipad and the battery life is so much better than my Samsung 10.1. Having said that, I prefer my 10.1.