Back to school: Best tablets

An inexpensive tablet can assist your studies, we round up the best available.

Heading back to school or university? Why not aid your studies with an inexpensive tablet?

If you can't afford an iPad, there are a range of tablets available that won't break the bank. Most of these are Android tablets and you can find them at retailers for far less than their original RRP: examples include the Motorola Xoom, the Acer Iconia A500 and the Toshiba Tablet AT100.

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Motorola Xoom

Motorola's long-awaited Xoom tablet has a sturdy design and plenty of features, but like all of the latest Android tablets, it is still very much a work in progress.

  • Review Date:
  • Reviewer:
  • Manufacturer:
  • 5th May, 2011
  • Ross Catanzariti
  • Motorola
  • Rating:
  • Price:
  • 3.75
  • $ 840.00
  • Pros:
  • Stylish, industrial design
  • Large, vibrant touchscreen
  • Flexibility of Android Honeycomb OS
  • Cons:
  • Poorly positioned buttons
  • Doesn’t charge via microUSB
  • Android Honeycomb still a work in progress

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