The world of consumer electronics 2010 was filled with tablet PC. Every company, whether ranked on top of the charts or ones that haven’t ever featured there had a tablet to show or is developing one for the forthcoming year. Tablets in their very unique way have toppled the stakes for the netbooks and are steadily become the most feasible and comfortable devices for web surfing and communication.
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1. Apple iPad
The most talked about and best selling tablet of 2010 the Apple iPad features a fingerprint-resistant 9.7-inch LED IPS multitouch (1024 x768) display and has a 1GHz Apple-built A4 processor under the hood. Measuring 0.5 inches thick and just 1.5 pounds body, the iPad with iPhone, iPod Touch style hardware features orientation sensor for switching between portrait and landscape modes. The tablet has a rechargeable Lithium-polymer battery that touts ten-hour battery life and a month’s standby charge.
Price and Availability: The iPad is selling in 16GB to 64GB of flash storage with and without 3G for $499 to $829 is available at Amazon.
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2. HP Slate
HP slate was the most talked of tablet of the year after the famous Apple iPad of course. Featuring 2GB RAM, 64GB SSD and Broadcom's Crystal HD accelerator for handling 1080p videos, the tablet draws power from a 1.86GHz Intel Atom Z540 processor. Based on Windows 7 Professional, the HP Slate features an 8.9-inch capacitive touchscreen, N-Trig active digitizer for taking notes and has an HDMI-out port.
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3. Notion Ink Adam
Indian entrepreneurs haven’t lagged behind when it come to developing tablets. A Hyderabad based six-man startup Notion Ink has developed an Adam tablet. The Android based tablet features an Nvidia Tegra 2 chipset and the PixelQi display. Supporting a 10-inch Adam’s PixelQi screen, the tablet has a rotating camera, it includes Flash and offers full HD video capability.
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4. Samsung Galaxy Tab
The blistering 7-inch Android-based tablet the Samsung Galaxy Tab surely gives the Apple iPad a run for its money. The Android 2.2 tablet has a high res display, which supports “Swype text entry, applications galore and talks up HD video watching, e-book reading, augmented reality and video chatting” abilities. The 7-inch Galaxy Tab measures only 0.5 inches thick, it’s comfortable to be grasped in one hand and functions well like a large Android smartphone with front-facing 1.3-megapixel camera and a 3 megapixel cam with LED flash on the back.
Price and Availability: Priced at $399 with a two-year contract, or as an off-contract model for $599 the Galaxy Tab is available from Sprint.
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5. Dell Streak
The cute and small table, smartphone combo the Dell Streak is a 5-inch high-quality device that fits perfectly in your hands. Based on Android 2.2 (Froyo) operating system, the Dell Streak is an unprecedented combination of processor power, screen size, and design quality. Supporting QSD 8250 processor, the Streak has a 5MP camera on the rear and a VGA camera on the front with 512 MB SDRAM and 2GB non-user accessible MicroSD for system & applications files. Featuring 16GB internal memory, the Streak supports 3G, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth.
Price and Availability: Priced at $199.99 with new two-year contract, the Dell Streak is available fromDell store.
