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What Was The Best Tablet PC In 2012?

What is the "best" tablet as of 3/4/2012?

  • Hello Yahoo! Answers, I am looking to finally purchase a tablet, and am hoping for a little help in picking one out. I know "best" is always subjective, but I am finding a ton of outdated "top 10" lists and guidelines as to what tablet actually does what and there are so many different versions out there I don't even know which one is the "latest" from a certain manufacturer. I would like a Wi-Fi tablet that I can use for browsing the Internet, and book reading, and video playback, and light gaming. It needs a camera, long battery life, fast, and ability to attach a USB drive or storage card to it. It needs to be a 10" tablet, because without ever owning one, I think a 7" tablet is not big enough for my needs. And it should be at max $500. I think it has to be an Android tablet. And it should be upgradable to the latest and greatest "Ice Cream Sandwich" some way. If I have to "root" it, it needs an "easy" process to do it, because I am new to the rooting thing. I would love the idea of having all of Windows available to me but I don't know if there will be any Windows 8 tablets coming out anytime soon that would be worth the wait? Or any tablets at all that are coming soon that would be worth the wait? Tablets I have looked at include the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, Motorola XOOM, Motorola Droid Xyborg, Asus EE Pad Transformer, HP Touchpad I do not want to touch an iPad of any version. I don't have any Apple programs so the whole "experience" to me is pointless. I don't like their closed app store, or anything about them so please don't recommend an iPad. I read that the Asues EE Pad Transformer was really good (it sounded amazing) but its Purple. Don't they have any other colors? Sorry, I just do not feel confident enough to carry around a purple computer with me. Why did they make it purple? Or it just light from the screenshots I was looking at? I was also reading that it had problems with Wifi -which could be a problem for a Wifi only tablet - and that this was caused because of the way it was built so that it wasn't fixable with a software update. HP Touchpad - What is it? Is it Windows? Or Android? Or something else? I can't even look at the "official" site for it because its sold out... at least let me look at it, HP!! Motorolas - not sure which one is newer XOOM or Droid Xybot. I have the Droid 3 and love it, so I am really open to Motorola products, but a lot of places say "There are much better tablets for the money" (but don't say which ones!!) It looks to be the best tablet out there but there doesn't seem to be any talk of it. Yet, from the reviews I can't see that anyone said there was any huge issues with it Samsung - I loved the price and they have them on sale at a nearby Best Buy, but I don't know which one is the newest one and it doesn't look like its upgradable to "Ice Cream Sandwich" and there look to be lots of issues with the "Honeycomb." I have had Samsung phones and have been MAJORLY disappointed in them, yet I have had Samsung MP3s and TVs and other electronics that have been good quality. Nook, and Kindles - I definitely need more than an e-reader. I have read that you can root the kindles, is it worth it? Can it stand up as a usable tablet or would it be massively underpowered like trying to shove a square peg in a round hole? *****Any and all help is greatly appreciated. Again, any tablet that is available now or coming within the next 3 months please let me know and help me decide! ***** And also. if you could throw me any links to reviews that would help as well I would really appreciate it. Where do you go for this kind of information? CNET came to mind but they don't seem to have anything but a running list that has 3 iPads on it as "best" tablets.

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    For $600 you can get a full slate computer instead of a tablet and do everything on it if you want, they even have cases that double as keyboards to turn it into a full netbook an example of what i'm talking about is : http://www.vendio.com/stores/ordereverythingshop/item?lid=23163574&source=Vendio:Google%20Product%20Search or: http://www.amazon.com/HP-Slate-500-8-9-Black/dp/B00465QM6Q but the samsung series 7 slate has way better specs and you may even find a tutorial on how to put android on it if you looked hard enough

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I think the iPad is one of the best but Sony makes good tablets too.

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Apple iPad 2 MC775LL/A Tablet.The iPad is not a laptop and is not principally a production computer, that is, a computer on which you are going to develop web pages, do serious graphics editing, or write a book.The iPad 2 is absurdly thin. More importantly than it's thinness is its tapered edge which feels more natural in your hand. One of the biggest complaints about the original iPad was it really wasn't tremendously comfortable to hold for long periods at a time

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