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Motorola's Xoom has officially launched in Australia at last, and while availability through Telstra is still delayed until May 24, its Android 3.0 Honeycomb OS delivers an impressive tablet computing experience.

With only hours to go before Apple launches the iPad 2, plenty of unanswered questions await their destiny, including what may be the most intriguing pre-launch question of them all: will Steve Jobs at all be doing the do and launching himself the iPad 2?

With the March 2 date for the expected iPad 2 launch rapidly approaching, some wonder about the specs, but the big question is whether or not iPads will jive on overdrive to iOS 5.

Vodafone's global network doesn't appear to be having the growing pains Vodafone Australia is suffering, so Samsung's global Vodafone deal makes sense, but Vodafone's Aussie woes could put a dampener on the Galaxy Tab 10.1 going galactic down under.

Holy cow, Batman'¦ HP has, after a bazillion years, finally unveiled its 'TouchPad', even though some thought it might be called the PalmPad, with Holy Pad being my contribution to a world of Jesus Phones, Jesus Tablets and Jesus Pads - let alone those from sweet Honeycomb powered tablets from ye olde Google.

A Sky News article has quoted an SMH article quoting Netgear's global CEO, Patrick Lo, who went so low as to take jabs at the lain-low Steve Jobs, while seemingly predicting doom for the iPhone at the hands of the Android.

Stop the presses! Extra, extra, read all about it! Read what? Read that roving eyewitness who may or may not be with Reuters, perhaps other than being in the same room as a Reuters journalist, saw an actual iPad 2 - but unicorns and fluffy puppies weren't also in attendance.

When it comes to RIM PlayBook's battery life, an analyst suggest it's not so good, but RIM says it's 'comparable' to competitors - let's hope for RIM's sake they're right, or some consumers might find the PlayBook is the PrayBook when it comes to there being power when you need it!

Although the status of the US as the world's consumer engine is supposedly waning, the US is still the world's top cultural engine, and what US consumers want still makes waves, with the iPhone 4 listed as one of eBay's 'gotta-have gadgets' in the No.1 spot.

In the quest to be 'different' from Apple, it looks like N-Trig's 'Pen and Multi-Touch' technology will see Android OS tablets able to work with finger tips through its capacitive screen, while also letting users have the accuracy that only a stylus can truly bring - will the iPad 2 offer the same?