The tablet computer market place was brought to life terminal twelvemonth with the introduction of the Apple tree iPad. In its first year the iPad saw an incredible fifteen million unit sales, which is more every tablet computer e'er sold prior to 2022. Apple then followed up with the release of the iPad ii which is to this date another tremendously pop device.

The iPad was able to outclass virtually every other tablet computer feel before it, and it's not going too far in saying that it created a market that didn't even be. The combination of iOS on a larger screen and the momentum inherited from the iPhone helped to account for the massive tablet sales. Fast forrard to the present, everybody wants in, and most are taking advantage of the Android OS.

Only why take Android-based tablets been so slow to accept off in comparison? Part of the reason is that Android was not designed with tablets in heed. Google has been hard at piece of work designing and polishing the tablet version of Android known as Honeycomb, which saw the lite last February when Motorola launched the Xoom. Since then a good number of Honeycomb-powered devices have arrived to the market, among the most popular you accept Samsung Galaxy tablets and, of course, the Asus Eee Pad Transformer.

The Eee Pad Transformer goes across what about tablets are capable of by doubling as a Honeycomb-based netbook. Based on that premise and an attractive toll since launch, it quickly became i of the almost attractive Android tablets effectually. The 16GB version costs $385, making it ~$100 cheaper than the iPad 2.

The Eee Pad's TF101 docking station with keyboard and built-in bombardment cost an boosted $120, making the total toll for a complete Eee Pad Transformer netbook more like ~$500. Still, given the added usability the docking station brings, it makes for an fantabulous value package. The Asus Eee Pad Transformer comes with a ten.i" screen and is powered by Nvidia's dual-core Tegra 2 1GHz processor with 1GB of RAM, typical of today's Honeycomb tablets.

If you are willing to await past the widely ascendant iPad, we are paying another visit to Android Honeycomb (currently on version three.2) along with one of the most pop and well regarded tablets nether its umbrella. Read on.