rswong21 I am a noob to the P3 world and was in your position just a couple days ago. Although I converted from PC to mac after 25 years in the corporate world I will confess that my opinion here is biased towards Mac now that 7 of my 9 computers are Macs. We were in the market to purchase a
dedicated mobile device strictly and specifically for flying the P3A. After reading a bazillion posts - mostly P3 pilot veterans - and researching every single mobile device (see very bottom of DJI's spec page:
Phantom 3 Professional & Advanced - Specs | DJI) available as well as their prices on Amazon, eBay and Craigslist I was lucky enough to find a used iPad
Air 2 for a third of its retail price. If you do lean toward an iPad I would recommend the
'wifi +cellular' vs the wifi only feature; however, bear in mind that you will incur the extra, minute expense of biting into your data package plan's monthly allowance depending on where & how often you utilize the cellular feature. Another feature is reducing lag time from your camera to the mobile device screen among many others, of course. Making sure to have an
A7 or A8 iOS processing chip greatly improves that lag. I considered the iPhone 6S+ as I was due for an upgrade but decided that I wanted to have more screen real estate an
Air 2 provides over the smaller, iPhone screen. Over the time that I was researching the whole "best-tablet-for-me" issue I did get the overall impression (especially on this forum) that it's really a matter of
personal preference outside of DJI's minimum technological requirements. And there's some truth to the whole
you-get-what-you-pay-for thing. Hopefully, this small noob's opinion is helpful to you and doesn't start another pissin' contest between the droid v apple audience. Good luck and happy flying.