The 7-inch Dell Streak 7 tablet was first released last March 2011 for $380. Today, you can get the tablet for a much cheaper price, typically starting as low as $140. As we approach another holiday season you may be thinking of treating yourself to your first tablet. The Dell Streak 7 is a good introductory tablet because you’re not shelling out over $500 like you would for an iPad. But is the Streak 7 right for you? Let’s see if the tablet could still be a worthy choice for those who are currently looking for a reliable mobile device.

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Today we’ll be taking a look at the Toshiba Thrive. Toshiba is jumping head-first into the tablet market by releasing a 7 inch and a 10 inch tablet. It’s already a crowded market dominated by the iPad in the $500+ range and the Kindle Fire in the $200 range. The Thrive is priced as low as $379.99 for their 8GB tablet up to $559.99 for their 32GB tablet with 4G.

Display

The Toshiba Thrive makes it easy to read an ebook outside. It utilizes adaptive display technology for a screen you can read anywhere, even in direct sunlight, without having to mess with adjusting your settings. The 10″ tablet has 10.1 inch display with a 16:10 aspect ratio. The resolution is 1280×800 with a pixel density of 151.

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At first glance the Asus Eee Pad Slider SL101 might seem a little clunky. It has all the great features you’d expect to find in a tablet. And then it appears that, as an afterthought, they decided to slap a keyboard on it and call it a notepad. Surely they jest, you say? No. They don’t. It’s true. The Asus Ee Pad Slider is a tablet, with a sliding keyboard, but it works. Let’s take a look.

The Basics

The Slider has a 1Ghz dual-core Tegra 2 processor and 1GB of RAM. It calls up the Android 3.2 Honeycomb OS so you know you’ll have a wide array of apps you can use to customize your system. Connect via wifi or bluetooth and you’ve got front and rear cameras for still photos and web chats. And the touch screen is a full 10.1-inch display with 1280 X 800 pixels.

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Some of the reviews you’ll see for the new Amazon Kindle Fire are longer than ‘War And Peace’ and cover all the minute details like size – “it fits in my hand” – and speed – “it was pretty fast.” Rather than bore you with another ‘expertly detailed analysis’, let’s just cut right to the chase.

The Kindle Fire has 8Gb of storage which is really more like 6.5Gb after you allow for the OS. At that capacity the Fire can potential store 8 downloaded movies, 80 apps, 800 songs, or 6,000 books. While it might seem highly improbable that you’d ever reach that 6,000 book mark, the limit of 8 movies might be a little iffy , especially if you’re a huge movie lover. Don’t worry, though. Because you also get an additional 5 GB of storage in the Amazon Cloud Drive. If you’ve ever used Amazon’s Cloud then you’ll know this is a big plus. You can access it anywhere, anytime, with any device.

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The HP TouchPad is a tablet from Hewlett Packard that is a direct competitor to the iPad 2. But will their relatively new webOS be able to compete with iOS and Android? That question remains up in the air, but for now let’s get an in depth look at the HP TouchPad.

The first thing you notice is the screen, which is 9.7 inches with a 1024×768 resolution display. In the front there is also a front facing 1.3 megapixel webcam ideal for live video calling. The HP Touchpad stands 9.45 inches tall, is 7.48 inches wide and has a thickness of 0.54 inches. It weighs in at 1.6 pounds.

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The HTC Flyer tablet is a product that will surely compete with the likes of the HP TouchPad, the Samsung Galaxy and the iPad 2.

The HTC Flyer has a 7 inch touch sensitive display with 1024 x 600 resolution. Under the hood the HTC Flyer touts a 1.5 GHz processor. It has 32GB of internal memory (expandable with microSD card) 1GB of RAM and runs with Android with HTC Sense. It has Adobe Flash support and multiple window browsing with pinch to zoom.

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The multi-touch screen and advanced capabilities of the Apple iPad make it a unique way to access the web, email, music, photos and video.

The touchscreen of the iPad is able to simultaneously many distinct positions of input touches. It makes opening and closing files, or moving them around more interesting. You can easily resize a file or even group several into a bundle.

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