Web Tablets Pros & Cons Group Members: Conor Nelson Shahrzad Barzin Justin Apostolico Fahad Anwar

Amazon Kindle (Fire)

The Amazon Kindle Fire is a color web-tablet with a 7 inch touch screen display, weighing approx. 14 ounces. The Fire has an 8GB memory with access to Amazon Silk web browser and . The takes approximately 4 hours to fully charge while it allows up to 8 hours of continuous reading. Battery life varies depending on wireless use.

Amazon Kindle (Fire) The Kindle Fire retails for $199. Not included, but offered, is a $79 membership to Amazon Prime. Amazon Prime is an annual membership that includes instant streaming of movies at no additional cost and thousands of books to borrow for free, with no due dates.

More Info… The Fire supports public and private Wi-Fi networks, and has a durable display and chemically strengthened display. Fire does not have a GPS navigation system, camera, or 3G connectivity. The Fire has access to over 18 million movies, tv shows, magazines and books. Free cloud storage for content.

Amazon Kindle (Fire) ADVANTAGESDISADVANTAGES Easy to carry, lightweight Access to millions of books, videos, magazines, newspapers Easy web-browsing and Android Apps availability Affordable, $199 Without 3G, camera, microphone, GPS 8 GB of storage, no expansion slot App selection less than Apple or Google’s Screen brightness compared to other tablets

Nook Tablet by BARNES AND NOBLE $ Fastest, lightest tablet with the best entertainment Movies, TV shows and music World's most advanced Touchscreen Over 2.5 million books, magazines, comics & kids' books Lightning fast , Web & smooth streaming video Thousands of must-have apps like Angry Birds. Extra-long battery life—yet ultra-light and thin Always free NOOK support in-store

Things you get Dual Core Processor 7-inch touch screen built-in Wi-Fi 16GB of built-in storage, and a micro SD expansion slot. Optimized for Netflix and Hulu Plus. Built-in Web browser + Flash support. Extra long battery ( 11+ Hours of reading or 9 hours Video)

Things you don’t get Access to full Android Market. No Bluetooth GPS Camera No video rental (or purchase) option. Contents of 1GB plus to be stored on SD Card.

iPad Shahrzad Barzin

Thin ◦It’s just 0.34 inch thin Light ◦little as 1.33 pounds Fully loaded ◦Technology so advanced, you’ll forget it’s even there IPad

Dual-core A5 chip Two powerful cores in one A5 chip mean iPad can do twice the work at once. Multitasking is smooth, apps load quickly, and anything you touch responds instantly

Instant On. Touch and go. Pick up your iPad, press the Home button, and it wakes from sleep instantly. That’s because iPad features fast, efficient, and reliable flash storage that lets you access data quickly. So everything effortlessly springs to life

Battery life keeps on going. So you can, too. Even with such a thin, light design, iPad has an incredible 10-hour battery life. Two cameras. And a big hello to FaceTime for iPad. Over 140,000 apps made just for iPad let you do all the things you do every day — like you’ve never done them before.

iOS. The world’s most advanced mobile operating system. iOS is the operating system for iPad. And it lets you see and do everything just by touching the screen. It includes all the powerful, innovative, and fun built-in apps you use every day, many times a day. It’s the platform for which more than 140,000 other amazing iPad apps have been created to take advantage of the large Multi-Touch screen. And now with over 200 new features in iOS 5, iOS is yet another reason no other device comes close to iPad.

iCloud iCloud stores your music, photos, documents, and more and wirelessly pushes them to all your devices. So if you buy a song, take a photo, or edit a calendar event on your iPad, iCloud makes sure it appears on your Mac, iPhone, and iPod touch, too.

LED-backlight iPad is one big, beautiful display — 9.7 inches of high-resolution photos, movies, web pages, books, and more. LED backlighting makes everything you see remarkably crisp, vivid, and bright. Even in places with low light, like an airplane. And there’s no wrong way to hold iPad. It’s designed to show off everything in portrait and landscape, so with every turn (even upside down), the display adjusts to fit. Because it uses a display technology called IPS (in-plane switching), it has a wide, 178° viewing angle

More Features Multi-Touch. Everything’s at your fingertips. Gyro, accelerometer, and compass. iPad knows your every move AirPlay. Broadcast live to your HDTV and speakers Video mirroring. See it here. See it there. AirPrint. Print everything wirelessly.

Built In Apps Surf the web, check , watch movies, play games, and more. Have your favorite subscriptions delivered straight to Newsstand. Join the conversation with iMessage. And remember everything and anything with Reminders. With iPad, how you do things will never be the same.

Price Three different models: 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB, priced at $499, $599, and $699, respectively. $130 more if you want a device with both WiFi and 3G:

Motorola Xoom 1GHz Dual-Core Processor 1 GB of RAM 32 GB memory Verizon’s 4G network Android “Honeycomb” OS. 10.1” Screen Front and Rear Cameras

The Good Faster Downloads Faster Web-Browsing More computing power Superior speed and performance HDMI output Good battery life

The Bad Price The screen in the sun Getting use to Android Some games “not quite” tablet ready. Heavy – 1.6 lbs