I sent back the iPad 2, but I’m keeping the new iPad. Two years ago I wrote my first iPad skeptic’s review, a more oblique – and personal – opinion on Apple’s tablet than the traditional SlashGear review. A year later I did the same for the iPad 2, finding it improved but, from a combination of hardware and software, not sufficient of an upgrade for my needs to justify keeping it. Now Apple is up to its third-generation tablet, criticized by some as another “minor” refresh but in fact a considerable step up in the overall user-experience.
When I wrote my first skeptic’s review, my Android tablet experience had been with the original Samsung Galaxy Tab, the 7-inch model running a smartphone version of the Google OS with some UI tweaks from Samsung itself. Since then, we’ve seen a rush of Honeycomb tablets and, within the past couple of months, some models running Ice Cream Sandwich too. The size range has exploded too, with everything from 7-inchers (if we discount the Galaxy Note as a large phone rather than a tiny tablet) through to 10.1.
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