Lack of the iPad 2 four characteristic tablets

IPad 2 has more than 65,000 apps for it in the App Store and each of those which is a feature - most of which are not shared by the tablets running Google's Android operating system. There are still a few tablet apps in the Android market.

However, there is a greater variety of Android tablets themselves, and each has some signature functionality the iPad not - and probably do - have. Here are a few examples.

Motorola xoom -Screen panoramic

Do not believe that this matter? You'd be surprised how much it. Movies best aspect and less waste, and typing screen is easier in two directions. Set out in landscape mode, the Xoom gives your fingers more space to type; in portrait mode, it is easier to type with your thumb. I have considered seriously buy a Xoom just because I liked his design (insert joke about my lack of taste here).

Of course, it seems a bit silly to take a Xoom in portrait mode. But there is no better way to play Air attack HD.

HTC Flyer -Pressure-sensitive pen

Conventional wisdom says if your tablet is a pen, it hurt. And at $499, $ 80 for the pen, the prospectus is certainly a niche market.

But while everyone makes their shelves to be "better" than the iPad, the prospectus is unapologetically better for some people than for the iPad. There are perhaps a few tablet apps available for it, but HTC seems to have put a lot of work in integrated apps of the Flyer - as its reader book which allows to annotate and his handwritten notetaking application which synchronizes with Tito.

Incidentally, the prospectus also serves as an OnLive game console, if you have a handy controller. This is a feature that the iPad is not likely to take some time.

Asus Eee transformer -"Portable" keyboard

There are many keyboard for the iPad, including trying to transform the iPad into a laptop. The Asus Eee transformer was designed with this idea in mind, however, the same way the iPad 2 was made to work with its Smart cover. Dock the laptop connects to the transformer and even extends its battery life.

The processor includes its own suite bureautique iWork-style which has been to work with the keyboard, multi-touch touchpad portable-style letting you select screen things without reaching to the tap of the glass. And with the transformer MyCloud app, you can use to control your PC or your Mac, using the same controls that you would on a laptop.

Corner color -$ 250 price tag

Barnes and nook color of Noble e-reader runs Android under the hood and is easily scalable to version "full" of Android should you wish to. And it is half the cost of an iPad 2 - enough said.

Jared Spurbeck is an avid open-source software, which uses an Android phone and a laptop PC to Ubuntu. He has written on technology and electronics since 2008.