Samsung Galaxy Tab (7-inch, 16GB, Wi-Fi)Thebookclick/To tablet patrons, size matters: the top two best-selling tablets behind Apple's iPad have 7-inch screens, creating them roughly half the scale of the iPad. this type factor makes them easier to hold in one hand, when reading or watching videos for extended periods of time ... and indeed, both tablets are marketed as e-readers.
Not all of the 7-inch tablets out there are strong iPad competitors. One 
has been within the news lately for its abysmal sales performance, whereas another may be a largely generic Android tablet that's seen several iterations currently. It's getting a brand new Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0) version soon, though. It's ...
The Samsung Galaxy Tab
The original 7-inch Samsung Galaxy Tab was, for awhile, essentially the sole "Android tablet" out there. it was released before Google made the Honeycomb version of Android especially for tablets, and essentially worked sort of a large smartphone ... it could even make phone calls.
In March, Samsung can unleash an upgraded version, "starting from UK" and presumably coming back to the u. s. afterwards. it'll feature basic smartphone-esque specs, but can run the latest Ice Cream Sandwich version of Android, letting it run apps designed just for tablets.
The Nook Color and Nook tablet
Barnes and Noble's 1st color e-reader tablet, the Nook Color, came out in 2010, round the time of the primary Samsung Galaxy Tab. It took awhile for an app market to be added, and it still has solely some thousand titles or so. It had full multitouch web browsing from the beginning, though, and a recent software update added Netflix support.
The new Nook tablet was introduced late last year, with essentially constant design but a Hulu plus app and a lot of powerful innards. When it was released, the Nook Color's value was dropped to $199, constant as
