The nice people at Asus let us play with their Eee Pad Transformer TF101 tablet, and we were keen to discover if it was as good as it looks.

On paper, Notion Ink’s Adam is one of the most exciting bits of kit the world of tablets have ever seen. Unfortunately in the real world the picture isn’t quite so sunny.

Creative Labs have been making portable devices since God was in short trousers, and it brings its considerable expertise to the world of tablets in the form of the ZiiO. Unlike some other Creative devices this is a fully-fledged tablet rather than just a really big music and movie player.

After months of hype, reviewers are getting their hands on RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook – and to say the reviews are mixed would be something of an understatement.

Tablets, we’re told, are the future: desktops and laptops have had their day in the sun and it’s time for tablets to take over. Here’s the questions you should be asking before you buy one.