Remember MeeGo, the Intel/Nokia collaboration whose mobile OS looked slightly doomed when Nokia climbed into bed with Microsoft? It turns out it isn’t dead: it’s moved to China.

Sharp’s expertise in computing and mobile phone technology means it was just a matter of time before it joined the tablet party, and it’s doing that this year with two tablets dubbed Galapagos.

Archos likes to do things differently from other firms, and its ultra-cheap Android tablet can also run a more traditional form of Linux if you prefer. So is this a tablet for Linux geeks, or is it useful for non-geeks too?