Is it the iPad a cheap device?

Now appear in two different comparisons on price and performance the iPad about new competitors are emerging to try to get a piece of the tablet market in which Apple iPad now accounts for 95% market share .

Samuel Campos speaks from Applesfera the iPad, the Samsung HP Galaxy Tab and Slate 500, while Javier López Bowl speaks from his section of the newspaper El Mundo Bits & Chips iPad, Samsung and Toshiba Galaxy Tab Folio 100.

Since the release of IPAD much has been said of the price and whether offset your purchase rather than a laptop or netbook, and now it is speculated that sales of the new MacBook Air can cut the iPad .

Let's talk about the three competing models and compare the iPad:

• Samsung Galaxy Tab: It may be the best answer to the iPad. The Galaxy Tab is a 7-inch tablet much smaller than the iPad (almost half of small). Android comes equipped with 2.2, 16 or 32GB of memory and Wi-Fi and 3G connectivity. The price is high enough to be pretending to be a killer iPad: 739 € for the 16GB version and 849 € for the 32GB. The iPad 3G, these versions cost € 589 and 691 €, ie about 150 € more.

• Toshiba Folio 100: is a 10.1-inch tablet, almost identical in size to the iPad (9.7 inches) but because the frame looks like a much larger device. Also equipped with Android OS 2.2 with several ports for connecting devices via HDMI and USB. It has no 3G connectivity option and its price is 399 € for the 16GB version only. The iPad costs € 488 in the 16GB version without 3G connectivity, ie 97 € more. There is a tablet as successful as the Galaxy Tab.

• HP Slate 500: more than one tablet, touch is a laptop equipped with Windows 7. At the moment only available in the United States at a price that some of the $ 800. It is, therefore, a direct competitor of the iPad since their audience and purpose is different than the others.

In addition to these three models will soon rival even the iPad, the most important Playbook Blackberry. But each company plans to manufacture its face killer iPad next year. It appears that 2011 will then be the final year of the tablet.

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