If you're looking for a tablet and don't fancy an iPad, then Android is currently the way to go.
There are many other options out there; Windows 7 tablets are now available, the BlackBerry PlayBook is on sale now and the HP TouchPad has come and gone in a flurry of £99 panic-buying. But Android 3.2 is currently the best OS rival to the iPad, and the products are still creeping onto the shelves one by one.
We've recently seen the launch of Nvidia's next-generation Tegra 3 chip which is designed to power 2012's quad-core Android tablets to new heights. The likes of the Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime are already beckoning in the new era, and with next year's full-on release of Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich), the iPad might soon be feeling the heat.
Some tablets have seven-inch screens, others ten, and there are big differences in processing power, battery life and on-board RAM. So while we wait for the likes of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 and Amazon Kindle Fire, let's see what the current best tablets are