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Android tablets had a rocky start, but since Google released its tablet-specific operating system, Android 3.0 "Honeycomb" last year, we’ve seen a steady flow of high-quality Android tablets. And that's a good thing, since they provide viable alternatives to the Apple iPad, which has dominated the tablet market since its first release in early 2010. One of the major benefits of Android over the iPad and the never-quite-caught-on BlackBerry PlayBook, is that instead of a single hardware choice, you can access the OS on a number of different tablets.
The only hitch there: There isn't a single version of Android. Nine months after the Honeycomb release, Google unveiled Android 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich" (ICS) last November, which takes Gingerbread (the phone OS) and Honeycomb (the tablet OS) and merges them. Six months later and we've only seen Android 4.0 on a handful of tablets. (Only four of the 10 here currently run ICS.) Android has notorious problems with timely OS updates.
With ICS, Google continues to fine tune Android, making the tablet experience a very good one. The biggest issue with the platform, however, continues to be the lack of tablet-specific third-party apps and an easy way to find them through Google Play (formerly the Android Market). Android tablet apps are still in the low hundreds, while apps designed specifically for the iPad continue to climb into the tens of thousands (90,000K+ at the time of this writing).
Given its Google roots, though, Android continues to be the most configurable tablet operating system you’ll find. It's a master multitasker with an excellent notification system, and top-notch integration with Google services like Gmail, Google Chat, and Google Maps.
Turns out that one of the most compelling Android tablet we've seen so far doesn't even run Honeycomb, never mind Ice Cream Sandwich: Amazon's Kindle Fire uses a highly modified version of Gingerbread (Android 2.3), which is meant for phones. It's not perfect, but the smaller 7-inch screen, and Amazon's OS tweaks, along with its own high-quality content ecosystem and on-board Appstore make for one of the best tablet entertainment experiences you can find. And its $200 price, in a market where most tablets can cost more than twice as much, means Amazon has a real chance to steal some market share from Apple.
If the Kindle Fire doesn't do it for you, or you can't wait for an ICS tablet like the forthcoming Asus Transformer Pad Infinity, the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1, or others announced at Mobile World Congress, check out the slideshow for a look at top-rated Android tablets you can get now, or compare these tablets side by side.
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