What Matters Most in a android 4.0 Tablet?

If you have to take notes while you are walking around or on the go, you'll likely want a tablet that's lightweight and has a long-lasting battery. If you live for movies, a tablet with streaming-video capability and a larger screen than your smartphone could be far more important. High-end tablets cost upwards of $600, but you can buy a low-end tablet for considerably less: the Kindle Fire, which dominates the lower end of Android sales, costs under $200 as of February 2012.

If you intend to write a lot on your tablet, choosing the right interface is important. The touchscreen keyboard works well for hunt-and-peck typists, but if you touch-type, your work speed will drop when you switch to a touchscreen. You can buy a keyboard for many tablets, although that makes them less portable. Styluses are also available for writing on Android and iPad tablets. Some tablets, such as those using Ice Cream Sandwich, Android's 4.0 operating system, offer voice-controlled typing. Another important consideration when working on long documents is screen size: a smaller screen reduces how much you can see without scrolling.

Mobile Media
If you expect to use your tablet to view mobile media, the shape of the screen matters. According to Consumer Reports, a tablet with a wide horizontal screen will display movies and high-definition television with higher quality than the iPad's square screen. Choosing a tablet with excellent screen resolution and brightness also matters. Wi-Fi, which you can use to watch video without a 3G/4G data plan, is now standard on tablets; in fact, MSNBC estimated that in 2011, as many as 75 percent of tablet owners used only Wi-Fi. CNet recommends the Kindle Fire tablet because Amazon makes new releases available for streaming sooner than Netflix does.

A 2011 Nielsen Company survey found that 42 percent of tablet owners use them to go online while watching television, primarily to read email but also for social networking and general Web surfing. According to Consumer Reports, the iPad's square screen is better suited for reading email, as it shows more of your inbox at a glance than a wide, rectangular screen does. If you use your tablet mainly at home or work, you can access the Web 24/7 via Wi-Fi; however, if you travel often and plan to take your tablet on the road, there's a definite advantage to having a tablet enabled for 3G/4G.

If you are debating between an iPad and an Android tablet, the shape of the screen is certainly not the only difference to consider. The iPad 2 has no USB ports or flash-card slots, so to back up your data, you have to send it to your laptop using either Wi-Fi or an adapter and USB cable. The iPad's iOS system doesn't support Adobe Flash, which means some Web images wont display properly unless the website uses Flash Media Server 4.5 or HTML 5. Additionally, if security is a concern, its worth noting that hackers distribute far more malware for Android tablets than iPads for the simple reason that there are more Android devices to target.

 

More than 500,000 apps are available for iOS devices as of November 2011, CNet reports, while Android apps number around 250,000. Apple exercises tighter control over third-party apps, which is supposed to ensure greater security against malware; however, two potentially harmful apps turned up in Apple's app store in 2011. Another consideration when you go shopping for a tablet is that an iPad can download a new iOS from Apple, but Android tablets depend on the manufacturer to provide updates, and some manufacturers take months after a new OS comes out to make the change. Another problem with updating an Android device is that software written for one OS doesn't always work on another, although Google has stated that Ice Cream Sandwich will provide a more unified system.