At CES in January we were introduced to the tablet version of Android – Honeycomb – and caught a glimpse of an Android tablet that made sense, because it does more. It bridges the tablet/laptop divide: through its keyboard dock it gains all the power of a netbook, but with the immediate start-up and swish touchscreen skills of the best of its brethren. Even when keyboard-less, it offers Android connections that allow you to expand and augment it, including miniHDMI and microSD. It’s affordable and it’s always first to get the latest Android releases – it even beat Android’s flagship, the Motorola Xoom. It’s the only tablet we can make a rational argument for over the iPad, as its additional skills compensate for the paucity of Android tablet apps. In short, it deserves the highest accolade of the year for giving us a choice; for taking on the iPad, and in many ways, winning.

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