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Want a tablet? Don't want Apple's slate? We round up the best of the rest...
Want a tablet? Don't want Apple's slate? We round up the best of the rest...
The Apple iPad lorded it over the tablet market last year, gaining more than 90 per cent of the market according to analysts. Its second-generation slate - the iPad 2, pictured above - arrives on UK shelves on Friday but whether 2011 will be the year of the iPad 2, as Apple hopes, remains to be seen. There is no shortage of rival slates crowding in to try to grab a slice of tablet pie.
Many of these would-be iPad killers are set to hit the shops this year and run Google's Android mobile OS - recently tweaked to have a distinctly tablet flavour, via the Honeycomb iteration of the platform. But Android is not the only tablet OS game in town. From old faithfuls such as Microsoft's Windows OS to shiny newcomers such as RIM's BlackBerry Tablet OS, tablet operating-system options are lining up.
Still, the iPad 2 sets the bar high - the iOS slate has a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, a 9.7-inch widescreen touchscreen display with a screen resolution of 1,024 x 768 pixels, front- and rear-facing cameras for video-calling and HD video-recording, up to 10 hours of battery life, a gyro, accelerometer, GPS, compass, plus wi-fi and 3G connectivity options.
Dimensions are 241.2mm x 185.7mm x 8.8mm, weight is 601g. The price of a 16GB wi-fi-only iPad 2 is £399 - rising to more than £600 for the top-of-the-line model. Of course if you want Flash support, an iPad is not for you.
Click through the following pages to see our round-up of the best iPad alternatives for tablet buyers. Willing to wait for the right slice of hardware to come along? Then read on.
Caption by: Natasha Lomas
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