Android Tablets are gaining momentum in the race against Apple’s iPad 2 – Part 2

This makes the Prime a contender to the iPad. It becomes a beautiful netbook with a powerful processor and graphical gismos.

However, the iPad still remains high on 3G network for data transfer and web browsing. Here’s where Motorola Xoom 2 or Xyboard comes in.

This Android-based tablet offers a dual-core processor but it also supports Verizon’s 4G network. At times the Xoom transferred massive data at speeds from 10 to 20 MB per second. The new device is also good at other stuff.

It gives seven hours on the battery while web browsing on 4G network, playing music and watching full length movie. However, it is a little low on browsing through menus and applications, it gives a stutter.

Both Transformer and Xoom 2 sport Gingerbread version of Android but are up for the newest upgrade to the Ice Cream Sandwich, the latest operating system from Google Android. It has ornamented the mobile phones like Samsung Galaxy Nexus but is still to arrive
on the tablets.

There is one more thing that keeps the Android market chasing the tail of iOS-based iPad 2 and that is dearth of applications on Google’s app market.

The app market is waterlogged with smartphone applications for Android operating system but the tablet category is still in process of evolving. There is a lack of developers for the Android tablets but there are a number of techies developing applications
for smartphones.

However, prerequisite to luring more and more developers to tablet industry is to grab a big market chunk from Apple; the bigger the customer pool, the better. On the other hand, if the Android market is offer more, they have to reply heavily on two issues,
the battery life and best specs inside the hood.

The Apple flagship slate is doing just that in presenting the best tablet option to the customers.

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Posted by Usman Khalid on Dec 26 2011. Filed under Sci-Tech. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry