Tablet Comparisons

Technical Specifications

Operating System: Apple iOS 4

Size and Weight: 9.5" tall x 7.31" wide x 0.37" thick at 1.33 pounds

Screen Details: 9.7-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit glossy widescreen, multi-touch display with IPS technology, 1024-by-768-pixel resolution at 132 pixels per inch (ppi).

Memory and Processor: 16-64 GB of storage, 1 GHz Dual-core A5 processor

Battery Life: Up to 10 hours of use. Charge with power adapter or over USB connected to your computer.

Connectivity: WiFi and/or 3G, Bluetooth 2.1

Features

eBook Formats: Apple iBooks is the built-in ebook reader. You can use your ebooks from Barnes & Noble, Amazon (Kindle), Kobo, or Sony Reader with their respective iPad ebook apps. You can also purchase and read PDF and EPUB ebooks from other independent ebook stores.

Available Apps: Just like on the iPhone, you can get apps for the iPad from iTunes. Most iPhone apps can be used on the iPad and there have been many more created specifically for the iPad.

Camera and Video: Front and back facing cameras. Supports Apple's "FaceTime" video chat if you have the 3G model and a wireless plan for making calls. HD video recording and still photos.

Music: iPad comes with iPod built in.

Internet: Apple's built in apps for internet are Safari for web browsing, and Mail for email. You can also use all of your favorite social networking apps for Facebook, Twitter, etc. Adobe Flash is still not supported. The YouTube app comes standard.

Other Features: The iPad 2 has custom covers available that magnetically align themselves to the edges of the iPad. They also fold to create a stand that you can use in both the vertical and horizontal orientations.

Technical Specifications

Operating System: Android 2.2 Froyo

Size and Weight: 7.48" x 4.74" x 0.47" at 13.58 ounces

Screen Details: 7.0" WSVGA Display, 600 x 1024 pixel resolution, 16M TFT Display Technology

Memory and Processor: 16-32 GB memory, 1GHz A8 Cortex Processor

Battery Life: not found

Connectivity: WiFi or 3G with carrier, Bluetooth 2.1

Features

eBook Formats: There are some great ebook apps available. My favorite is Aldiko. (Get Android ebooks and instructions for Aldiko.) Aldiko supports PDF and EPUB with or without DRM. You can also use your Kindle, Nook, Kobo, or Sony Reader ebooks with their respective Android apps.

Available Apps: You can get apps on the Android Market.

Camera and Video: 3 MP rear camera with flash and 1.3 MP front camera for video chat. HD recording and playback.

Music: MP3 and other music file formats supported

Internet: Web browser, email, instant messaging, SWYPE%u2122

Other Features: Animated wallpapers, widget gallery, media hub, Adobe Flash compatible

Technical Specifications

Operating System: Android 3.0 Honeycomb

Size and Weight: 249.1 x 167.8 x 12.9 mm at 708-730 grams

Screen Details: 10.1-in. display size, WXGA (1280x 800 pixels; 150 pixels / inch), HD 720p

Memory and Processor: Up to 32 GB on board memory, 1GHz Dual Core

Battery Life: Approximately 10 hours of regular use

Connectivity: WiFi or WiFi & 3G, Bluetooth 2.1

Features

eBook Formats: There are some great ebook apps available. My favorite is Aldiko. (Get Aldiko ebooks and instructions.) Aldiko supports PDF and EPUB with or without DRM. You can also use your Kindle, Nook, Kobo, or Sony Reader ebooks with their respective Android apps.

Available Apps: You can get apps on the Android Market.

Camera and Video: 5 MP camera and 2 MP web cam. 720p video recording and playback.

Music: Android Music Player

Internet: Google mail and POP3/IMAP supported. Adobe Flash supported. Browse the web with the built-in Xoom web browser.

Other Features: GPS, Google Mobile services, wallpapers, voice commands

Technical Specifications

Operating System: BlackBerry® Tablet OS with symmetric multiprocessing

Size and Weight: 7.6" x 5.4" x 0.4" at 0.9 pounds

Screen Details: 7" LCD display, 1024 x 600 screen resolution

Memory and Processor: 16-64 GB memory, 1 GHz dual-core processor, 1 GB RAM

Battery Life: not found

Connectivity: WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1

Features

eBook Formats: Mobipocket, Kobo eReader app for Blackberry

Available Apps: You can get apps from the Blackberry App World.

Camera and Video: 3 MP 1080p HD forward-facing camera, 5 MP 1080p HD rear-facing camera, video chat, MPEG4, WMV HDMI video output

Music: Music Store by 7 Digital, BlackBerry® Podcast app

Internet: Full internet browsing, email, social networking, etc.

Other Features: Adobe Flash support, Microsoft Office support

Technical Specifications

Operating System: Android Honeycomb

Size and Weight: 9.5" L x 6.8" W x 0.3"D at 1.5 pounds

Screen Details: 9.4" diagonal, LCD, Resolution:1280 x 800

Memory and Processor: 16 or 32 GB memory, Processor NVIDIA Tegra2

Battery: Li-Ion 5000mAh

Connectivity: Bluetooth version 2.1 + EDR, Wi-Fi : IEEE802.11b/g/n

Features

eBook Formats: PDF and ePub with eBook apps such as Aldiko Book Reader

Available Apps: Android Market

Camera and Video: Front - 0.3 Megapixel, Rear - 5.0 Megapixel

Music: MP3

Internet: Web browser, email, instant messaging, Adobe Flash, HTML5.

Technical Specifications

Operating System: Android OS 2.2

Size and Weight: 202 x 140 x 11 mm, 426 g

Screen Details: 7" TFT-LCD Display

Memory and Processor: 4 GB Internal Memory, Samsung Cortex A8 1.0 Ghz

Battery Life: not found

Connectivity: WiFi, Bluetooth

Features

eBook Formats: There are some great ebook apps available. My favorite is Aldiko. (Get Android ebooks and instructions for Aldiko.) Aldiko supports PDF and EPUB with or without DRM. You can also use your Kindle, Nook, Kobo, or Sony Reader ebooks with their respective Android apps.

Available Apps: You can get apps from the Android Market.

Camera and Video: 2 MP camera, 1080 HDMI output

Music: MP3 and other standard music file formats.

Internet: Full web browsing, email, social networking, etc.

Other Features: Adobe Flash supported.

Technical Specifications

Operating System: Android Honeycomb

Size and Weight: 1.6 pounds

Screen Details: 10.1" High-resolution Multi-Touch LED Backlit display, 16:10 aspect ratio

Memory and Processor: Internal 1GB DDR2 RAM, 8GB+ storage, NVIDIA® Tegra%u2122 2 Dual-Core Mobile Processor

Battery Life: Prismatic Lithium Ion Battery (23Wh)

Connectivity: Wi-Fi® Wireless networking (802.11b/g/n), Bluetooth® version 3.0 + HS

Features

eBook Formats: There are some great ebook apps available. My favorite is Aldiko. (Get Android ebooks and instructions for Aldiko.) Aldiko supports PDF and EPUB with or without DRM. You can also use your Kindle, Nook, Kobo, or Sony Reader ebooks with their respective Android apps.

Available Apps: You can get apps from the Android Market.

Camera and Video: 2 MP front-facing camera and 5 MP rear-facing camera, 720p video capture

Music: MP3 and other standard music file formats.

Internet: Full web browsing, email, social networking, etc.

Other Features: Adobe Flash supported. Built in Toshiba entertainment apps. Choice of colors.

The prices shown are the most current prices I could find at the time that I last updated this lens. I attempted to go with the most "official" price from the main website for each device, rather than any sales or promotional prices. You can always shop around to find a better price!

At the time that I created this lens, the tablets shown above were the most current and/or popular. I will be trying to keep this updated as new tablets come on the market.

I have included the technical specifications that would be most important to me when shopping for a tablet. If there is something else that you need to know you can visit each manufacturer's website for full details.