SI ogled long and hard.
SI fondled several Tablets, front, back and side. 
SI pored over countless reviews till the eyes glazed over.
Finally, SI took the plunge.
The iPad 2 plunge.
Folks, there’s only one tablet worth buying.
And that’s the Apple iPad 2.
The rest are like the humble Nirodh before the ribbed, flavored condoms you get in American drugstores! You get the point, don’t you?
iPad 2 comes in two versions: WiFi and WiFi+3G.
The latter costs a few hundred dollars more and is a ripoff because the data-plans from both Verizon and AT&T are laughably inadequate.
If you’re talking storage, the iPad is available in 16GB ($499), 32GB ($599) and 64GB ($699) versions.
iPad 2 – Ask Not What You Can Do
Ask not what you can do with an iPad 2, ask what you can’t.
You can play music, watch movies, browse the Internet, play games, read the newspapers, go on Facebook, make Skype calls and access tons of unique applications in so many categories, all on a large, 9.7-inch screen.
If you’re planning on buying an iPad 2 in the U.S. there are still some availability hurdles. So if you were to head over to the BestBuy store today, it’s unlikely you’ll find all of the iPad 2 models on display. Chances are you might not find any of them. You see, the iPad 2 is still selling like hotcakes and in short-supply at most stores.
Now to satisfy the insatiable curiosity of you quidnuncs, we got the $32GB version ($600).
Tablet Boom
Confounding all expectations including SI’s, the tablet market is going great guns.
Following Apple’s stupendous success, every Samsung, Motorola, Blackberry, Acer, Asus, Vizio, Dell, Sony and HP has jumped into the tablet arena now. And there are rumors of other big names like Amazon.com jumping into the fray.
Analysts predict that 50-million tablets will ship this year. Not bad for a category that didn’t exist until a couple of years back.
Apple, of course, is the leader of the pack with its wildly popular iPad and the later-model iPad 2 tablets.
Why iPad 2?
* We Crave Tons of Applications – iPad has over 90,000 dedicated iPad applications. None of the other vendors have anywhere near this number. Not even a small fraction. Hey, there’s even a free British Library application for the iPad with books on India dating back to the 19th century. Plus, the iPad lets you run another 100,000 plus applications that were originally developed for the iPhone. Continue reading »
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