Android Tablet: Best Android Tablet 2011

Saturday 20 October 2012

Best Android Tablet 2011

Apple products just attract an indecent amount of attention and not everyone is necessarily mad about the tablet anyway. It’s also not the most comfortable slate to hang on to unless you find a suitable surface for plopping it down. And then there’s the unavoidable fact that it runs iOS and not Android, which means it didn’t have a chance on this list in the first place.

1. Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1: It’s time to Tab with the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 (not 8.9) which costs upwards from $499.99. The company may have been placing its bets on the 7” version initially, because those were times of uncertainty. It was when no one was sure whether they wanted a large Android phone or a netbook without the keyboard from a slate. Well, they could have taken a cue from the iPad and just given us the Galaxy Tab 10.1. At any rate, we’re not complaining considering its 1,280 x 800p WXGA display, Honeycomb 3.1-readiness, 1GHz dual core Tegra 2 processor, 8MP rear camera and more.

2. Motorola Xoom: The second in our Android tablets roster is the Motorola Xoom which comes powered by a 1GHz dual core Nvidia Tegra 2 chip and Honeycomb 3.1. A 10.1” 1280 x 800p WXGA touchscreen display stretches across the front and there’s 3G, Wi-Fi and 4G connectivity. The tablet renders around 10 hours of browsing over Wi-Fi and embeds a 5MP rear snapper with 720p recording capabilities as well as a 2MP webcam on the bezel. It can be ordered from the Motorola website starting at $499 for the plain Wi-Fi flavor.

3. Asus Eee Pad Transformer: Depending on whether you’re shopping for the 16GB or 32GB Asus Eee Pad Transformer on Amazon, you’ll be shelling out approximately $394 or $469, for the respective variants. A 1GHz Nvidia Tegra 2 processor supplies all the steam for multi-tasking and HD video playback. The screen happens to be a 10.1” LED backlit WXGA one with 10-finger multi-touch accommodation. We need hardly mention that it works with Honeycomb, Android 3.2 in this case, and provides Adobe Flash 10.2 support