What Are They and What Products Are the Best Out There?
After the introduction of the iPad, people have fallen in love with the tablet PCs. Most people cannot afford to spend about $400 on the latest iPad and just pass on the thought of owning a tablet PC. However, people with smaller budgets can now still own a tablet computer by buying a cheaper Android tablet.
Android tablets are much cheaper than the iPad or the Galaxy. All Android tablets use the Android operating system to run the tablet. The latest version of the Android operating system is the Android 2.2 version that is otherwise known as Froyo.
The free Android operating system has allowed many manufactures to come out with Android tablets that are much cheaper than the comparable iPad. There are some Android tablets in the market today that you can buy for even half the price of the iPad or the Samsung Galaxy tab. Many manufacturers of tablet PC’s have taken advantage of the Cortex A-9 technology by installing it in their Android tablets.
Products like the iPad and Galaxy tablets are so expensive because the selling price includes a heavy marketing cost that has to be recovered.
Best Android Tablet Features You Need to Look For
In early 2010, after Apple’s iPad shown successful debut and signaled the beginning of new tablet PC market, many computer hardware manufacturers noticed and acknowledged the possible large market for tablet PC and prepared during the year.
The latest publicly release version is v2.3 code name Gingerbread. But most of the latest devices come with version 2.2. Now then what are the important features of Android tablet PC you want to look for when buying a tablet PC?
- Processor: The heart of the any computing device. CortexA8 1GHz and NVIDIA’s Tegra 1GHz are the popular 1GHz processors.
- Display size and resolution: Popular display sizes are 7 inch and 10 inch. It is known to be more adapted to the tablet PC. If you prefer Windows OS based tablet PC, you should be prepare to spend few hundred dollars more because Windows OS requires higher computing power and the expensive OS license fee too.
- RAM, Storage, and SD slot: RAM memory size should around 512MB is good, but higher end devices come with 1GB memory. If you want to keep your tablet PC with you all the time, you would probably want to buy 3G supported version.
- Touch Screen: Capacitive or Resistive? Resistive screen detects the touch when pressure on the screen is detected. The more important features should be Processor, Display Size and Storage size. Many other features are often provided as default features for the latest popular Android tablet PCs. But do not assume that the new fancy android tablet PC will have all the popular features.
In terms of price, you usually have to pay around $500 ~ $700 for Wi-Fi version and $600 ~ $1000 for 3G version for higher ends tablet PC, but if you are willing to sacrifice some of the features, you can get a nice decent tablet PC around $300 too. I hope that this introduction to the features of Android tablet PC helps you shopping for the best android tablet.
