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Android tablets to rival iPad
xtabber:
It looks like there will soon be a number of serious Android-based challengers to the iPad from Motorola, Toshiba, LG, HTC and most likely others.
The Motorola Xoom (http://www.motorola.com/staticfiles/Consumers/US-EN/XOOM/index.html) should be available from Verizon by the end of this month and looks really good, except for the reported price: $800 not including a mandatory overpriced Verizon data plan.
The Toshiba Tablet (http://androidheadlines.com/2011/02/toshiba-tablet-goes-live.html) looks even better, but no pricing has yet been announced.
Unless the iPad 2 due this year improves substantially on the existing screen (9.7", 1024x768), the new Android devices look to be a better choice for reading ebooks, with 10.1", 1280x800 displays.
Deozaan:
Right now I'm saving my pennies for a new desktop machine. So even though I'm not in the market to buy one soon, I'm still really excited to see what these new Android tablets will have to offer.
Darwin:
I've been rather obsessively following tablet development - I wouldn't get too bent out of shape before Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) comes out. The 1.x and 2.x releases are SMARTPHONE OS's, so on tablets they're not optimal.
xtabber:
Both the Motorola Xoom and the Toshiba Tablet run Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) according to their web sites. Since the Xoom has been announced by Verizon for delivery before the end of this month, it would seem that Honeycomb is nearly ready to go.
xtabber:
And then, of course, there are the losers who expect to compete with the first iteration of the iPad long after it has been superseded by something else, such as this: http://www.palm.com/us/products/pads/touchpad/index.html that came in the (e)mail a few hours ago.
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