Three Reasons to Wait on Buying an Android Tablet (ContributorNetwork)

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Ask yourself this: "Did I seriously considered buying a tablet as the iPad or BlackBerry playbook?" Then, think what you were probably one tablet with Google's Android operating system, like most PCs run on Microsoft's Windows operating system.

Well, they are not necessarily bad ones. I'm kind of liking for Xoom. But you might want to wait until later this year, if you have your heart set on buying one. Here's why:

The current program is flawed

Do not take it from me, ask the people who bought a Xoom, it was the first tablet tablet version of the Google Android operating, called Honeycomb, and still have some issues to take care of them.This means annoying insects interfere with their games and surfing.

Google is difficult to correct errors, while bringing many of the characteristics of honeycomb Android smartphone version. The result is a new version of Android, called Ice Cream Sandwich, which runs on both tablets and smart phones and hope that has the bug fixed. Should be later this year in time for the holidays.

Think of it this way: honeycomb is Windows Vista and an ice cream sandwich will be Windows 7. Believe me, it is better to wait.

There is almost no applications

It is true that there are thousands of programs in the Android Market. However, most of them are for Android smartphones. More than 65,000 applications designed just for that, and shows no signs of losing momentum.

Applications, it is a tablet, it is likely that you can do what you want and the less likely you will be left behind when the most recent and leaves. So for now, it might be better to wait and see how large the selection grows before committing to buy a tablet Android.

The tablets are much closer to leaving

As the transformer Asus 2, based on the surprise success of Asus Eee Pad transformer. Android These tablets are priced $ 100 less than the iPhone 2, and an additional $ 150 you can buy a dock with a keyboard and a touchpad (in addition to the extra battery life of the transformer). It's like a tablet that becomes a laptop … in contrast to the Atrix Motorola, which was essentially a laptop that works with high-end smartphone plugged into it.

The transformer 2 is expected to have a quad-core processor, and – of course – will run the ice cream sandwich instead of a honeycomb. If you keep the same price of the first transformer, which is not to love? And as it should be out in the fourth quarter, not too long to wait for a more powerful and less buggy compressed.

Jared Spurbeck is passionate about open source software, Android phone that uses a laptop and Ubuntu. It 'was written about technology and electronics since 2008.