Book-loving tablet fans have not one but two cheap big-name tablets to choose from: Amazon’s Kindle Fire and Barnes & Noble’s Nook Tablet. How do they stack up?

10 Tablet devices we think are worthwhile considering this Christmas, including Apple’s iPad, Sony S, Asus Eee Pad, Blackberry Playbook and for children, the Vtech InnoTab

Dell and HP – yes, the same HP that ditched the TouchPad and told everyone it was getting out of the personal computing business – have announced their wholehearted support of Windows 8 Tablets.

Archos has unveiled two brand new Android tablets: the Archos G9 80 and the Archos G9 101. They’re better specified than their predecessors and they’re cheaper too, so has Archos come up with some killer kit?

If you’ve been dying to get your hands on an HP TouchPad, your wait is nearly over: pre-orders start on the 19th of June and the tablet goes on sale in July.

Tablets are replacing a range of devices: not just traditional PCs but laptops, netbooks, e-book readers, portable media players and even hand-held games consoles.

Of all the tablets to be announced in the last few months, Motorola’s Xoom is the one most often described as an iPad killer – and it’s the first tablet to ship with the tablet-friendly Android 3.0 Honeycomb release.

Panasonic’s Viera HDTVs are brilliant, so a Viera tablet should be a brilliant tablet too. That’s the theory, anyway. Does Panasonic deliver?

Mobile World Congress (MWC) is a very big deal – especially now that smartphones are outselling PCs. As more and more of us do our computing on tablet devices, MWC is a kind of crystal ball showing what we’ll be using in the months and years to come. So what were the stars of MWC 2011?

The Viewpad promises the best of both worlds: all the horsepower of a Windows tablet for work, and the fun of Android for touch-related tomfoolery. When it’s good it’s very, very good, but it has a couple of serious flaws – not least that you can’t actually buy it yet.

The tablet that kick-started the tablet revolution is about to be replaced, but it’s still comfortably ahead of many rivals – and Apple’s ongoing software updates mean it’ll stay fresh for some considerable time to come.