Now playing: Watch this: Best budget 7″ Android Tablets 2:53 The iPad Mini has yet to be officially announced, but it’s kind of the worst-kept secret in tech right now. There’s a very good chance it’ll be revealed later this month (although what its final name will be remains to be seen) and even if …

The iPad and Kindle Fire HD are two different tablets intended for slightly different market segments. The iPad is a “does everything” tablet, while the Fire HD remains focused on media consumption. However, most people shopping for a tablet don’t have the funds to afford both (not that I’m at all encouraging anyone purchase both) and will therefore have to …

Thanks mostly to Asus, keyboards and tablets are kind of a thing. It started with the first Transformer, continued with the Slider, and Asus hasn’t really looked back since then. And why should it? The Transformer line has been very good to the company, even if the actual keyboard costs up to $150 extra (in addition to the tablet). The …

Just like two cute little snuggle bunnies! James Martin/CNET Anytime a major vendor releases a new tablet, I inevitably get asked the following question: can it take on the top dog? That “top dog” being the iPad, of course. The Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 is the latest such device to get the “How does it compare with the iPad?” treatment. …

The TF700 dares you to knock it over. Josh Miller/CNET The Asus Transformer Pad Infinity TF700 is the Transformer Prime as it should have been. A Gandalf the White to the Prime’s Saruman. Asus has clearly listened to the grievances — most notably, GPS issues — of some Prime owners and in most cases, addresses said grievances and then some. …

Now playing: Watch this: The Toshiba Excite 10 flexes its huge memory expansion… 2:27 Not two months after its release of the “thinnest and lightest” tablet, the Toshiba 10 LE, Toshiba is back with a new 10-inch tablet: the Toshiba Excite 10. It’s not thinner or lighter than the LE, but the Excite 10 does bring Android 4.0, a Tegra …

While the Tab 2 10.1 uses a PLS screen, its color accuracy unfortunately isn’t up to standard. Josh Miller/CNET The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 was one of the premier Android tablets when it launched in 2011, with specs that, at the very least, matched top tier Android tablets of the time. Unfortunately, the Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 feels almost like …

The Acer Iconia Tab A510 uses a normal LCD (not an IPS panel) as its screen technology. As you can see, the colors don’t exactly pop from the screen, and the viewing angle is less than satisfying. Josh Miller/CNET The first quad-core tablet, the Asus Transformer Prime, launched in December 2011, but the adoption rate of quad-core on tablets since …

Super IPS mode in effect! It’s not that the TF300 ‘s (left) screen isn’t bright (it is, reaching 331 cd/m2 at max luminence), it’s just that the Prime (right, with Super IPS enabled) gets so much brighter. Josh Miller/CNET Yesterday Asus launched its third tablet in a year with the name “Transformer” in it: the Asus Transformer Pad TF300. In …

Some would say the Prime had GPS “issues.” Others would say the GPS didn’t work at all. Thanks to its plastic body, the TF300 had no problems accessing satellites when outside in my testing. Josh Miller/CNET The Asus Transformer Prime was the great silver hope for Android fans — and by “silver” I mean “champagne gold” or “amethyst gray” or …