Tablets of 2011: What to Look For

The LG G-Slate sounds most interesting of these.

I'm looking to Chinese tablets to save the day. Many of them are crap, and I suppose that they'll always be a generation behind, but they do start to get better specs. For under $200 (including shipping from China) you can currently get a 1GHz Cortex A8 CPU with 512MB RAM. Only 800x600, resistive touch screen, no GPS... but for the price I think it's decent hardware. I'll be waiting for Android 3.0 to appear on these tablets, so they provide a decent UI.

The hardware on the Blackberry Playbook is the most compelling of all, and I think this article has given it short shrift. (as have many of the articles I've read).

I own an iOS device, personally I'm very excited to see how the Playbook will do. I think too many folks place too much emphasis on the ecosystem. Most people use less than 10 apps regularly (discounting gaming).

There is also a mistake in the table: the Playbook doesn't run QNX Neutrino. It runs Blackberry Tablet OS, which is a QNX-derived OS. (it's not the same as Neutrino).

You kind of forgot to mention number of cores on each product.
Comparing A4 to A9 and saying "1GHz", clearly biased.

I have been sitting on the fence for a while. I skipped buying IPad when it was first offered. I waited for the next generation of the IPad along with I wanted to see what the competition could do. Over the year sitting on the fence, I upgrade my IPod to the latest version and my phone is Samsung Captive.

I going to buy the newest IPad and for me the deciding factor is the apps. I find more useful apps for my IPod than what is being offered by the Android Market Place. I not talking about games, I only have two installed on my phone. But apps that I find useful in my personal life or my hobby photography, I can find then in Apple App Store and they are installed on my IPod.

Maybe in a year or two the Android Market will be on the same level of apps being offered as Apple?s App Store, but I no longer waiting. I really do not care about the hardware, the brand or even features. What I really care about it what I can do with the device, can it make my life easier. Right now my IPod while it cannot make phone calls is more useful to me because of the useful apps that are being offered.

nice work . will read again if i want to buy a smartphone in future .

Price going to cause others to go for Gome Flytouch 1 Epads, Maylong M150, PanImage, CVS Tablet Special an etc. Other choices are eLocity A7, A10 or CobyUSA Kryos MID7026 or MID7015 both with HDMI and one has Camera if you need it. Of course those that I just mentioned don't have tablet OS. Xoom is the first one with tablet OS. What's going to happen with Quad or 12-core versions coming out but that won't be until 2015? Right now here you have it Android or Apple. Which one? Windows 8 is being pushed as a Tablet supported OS using Apple iPad like GUI but that not going to appear at the estimated projected date of 2012. So for now we have the above to use. Still printing is an issue if you must print you can create PDF and save on the trees which I do on all platforms.

Wow....just wow. The apple CPU is called the A4. It uses an ARM cortex A8 core. Do your research before posting.

i went to best buy there was a zoom at $800 and an ipad at $500. nothing else to look at.
last month and every month before that for the last year there was just the ipad. galaxy missed my best buy store? toshiba tablets never showed up? perhaps i need to buy online without having ever touched the product? i keep hearing there are all these tablets to choose from but where are they? i just picked up the friken ipad as i am tired of waiting. if i wanted that i could have had it a year ago, i dont want an ipad but how much longer should i wait before there is one to compare or how much longer before there are 3-4 i can touch and compare? i will head back around xmass hope to find a selection then.

I may be missing something, why does your chart not display the battery life (at least the manufacturer buttered-up reported life) ?

Early iPad 2 benchmarks: CPU performance remains mostly unchanged

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2...costs-remain-largely-unchanged-for-ipad-2.ars

What to look for.. nothing. I'll stick with my desktop, laptop and 4.3inch screen smartphone thanks.

Ipad 2 has 512MB of RAM. Just google, "ipad 2 ram 512mb" for proof.

No wonder they won't publicly reveal how much RAM it has, cause it's only half of what the other tablets have!!

very nice article keep up the good work