It seems like an eternity that we talked about the Motorola Xoom and the RIM BlackBerry playbook. In fact, we did. For months, long enough for the iPad 2 made its debut, the press and analysts ask: What tablet would rule the performance and speed? What would be the best apps? How about the best user experience?
Until recently, all we had was hardware specs to compare the contenders, and we could only guess how well they can perform.But now that the two most popular non-Apple tablet market hit, we can answer these questions. We tested the iPad 2, Xoom, and PLAY, and have quality time to compare features in Apple's IOS with Google's Honeycomb and RIM's Tablet OS.
The biggest question of all remains: In the long term, not only tablet participant has the chops market dominated iPad topple?
If you can wait until later this year to get into the game, we'll probably have a clearer answer, like other tablets as promising second-gen Samsung Galaxy Tab,
HP TouchPad
, LG G-Slate, and
HTC Flyer
is on the horizon. But if you want to take a tablet today and you are located ON A iPad, which the Xoom and the play-though not perfect from the port is your best bet. Check out full reviews for the iPad 2, Xoom and playbook, and compare the key specs in the table below.
Apple iPad2


The clear standout in the ever-widening sea of tablets, the Apple iPad 2 brings a slimmer design, faster processing, dual cameras, and FaceTime video chat to a tablet that already had a leg up on the competition.
Motorola Xoom


The Motorola Xoom for Verizon Wireless is the best Android tablet yet, but with a lack of key features (like full Flash video and SD card slot support) and mediocre apps at launch, it doesn't measure up to the Apple iPad.
RIM BlackBerry PlayBook
When RIM pushes out the updates to make the BlackBerry PlayBook a better tablet for e-mail, video chat, and productivity, we'll revisit this rating. For now, though, the PlayBook is outmatched by competitors with more versatile and complete feature sets.