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The iPad 2 has over 65,000 apps for it in the App Store, and every digit of those is a feature -- most of which aren't mutual by tablets that run Google's Android operating system. There are ease some paper apps in the Android Market.

There's a greater difference of Android tablets themselves, though, and each digit has whatever fashion feature the iPad doesn't -- and probably won't -- have. Here are a some examples.

Motorola Xoom -- Widescreen display

Don't conceive this digit matters? You'd be surprised how much it does. Movies look meliorate and squander less concealment space, and typing is easier in both orientations. Laid discover in genre mode, the Xoom gives your fingers more shack to type; held in portrait mode, it's easier to type with your thumbs. I seriously thoughtful purchase a Xoom meet because I liked its design (insert jape most my demand of taste here).

Admittedly, it looks a bit silly to stop a Xoom in portrait mode. But there's no meliorate artefact to endeavor Air Attack HD.

HTC Flyer -- Pressure-sensitive stylus

Common wisdom says that if your paper has a stylus, you're doing it wrong. And at $499 nonnegative $80 for the stylus, the Flyer is definitely a status product.

But patch everyone else is making their tablets to be "better" than the iPad, the Flyer is unapologetically meliorate for whatever people than the iPad is. There may ease be some paper apps acquirable for it, but HTC appears to have put a lot of impact into the Flyer's built-in apps -- aforementioned its book reader that lets you compose and its handwritten notetaking app that syncs with Evernote.

Incidentally, the Flyer also serves as an OnLive game console, if you've got a someone handy. That's digit feature the iPad's not probable to garner up for awhile.

Asus Eee Transformer -- "Laptop" keyboard

There are a lot of keyboards acquirable for the iPad, including cases that essay to alter the iPad into a laptop. The Asus Eee Transformer was fashioned with this idea in mind, though, the aforementioned artefact the iPad 2 was prefabricated to impact with its Smart Cover. The laptop cut plugs into the Transformer, and even extends its shelling life.

The Transformer includes its possess iWork-style duty suite that's prefabricated to impact with the keyboard, nonnegative a multi-touch laptop-style touchpad letting you select things onscreen without achievement up to touch the glass. And with the Transformer's MyCloud app, you can use it to control your PC or Mac, using the aforementioned controls that you would on a laptop.

Nook Color -- $250 price tag

Barnes and Noble's Nook Color e-reader runs Android under the cowl and is easily upgradable to the "full" edition of Android should you so desire. And it's half the cost of an iPad 2 -- sufficiency said.

Jared Spurbeck is an open-source code enthusiast, who uses an Android sound and an Ubuntu laptop PC. He has been writing most profession and electronics since 2008.

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