Updated Microsoft's long-awaited tablet with Windows 8 Pro is the perfect example of the strengths and weaknesses of Windows 8. So what are they?

The white 8-inch tablet that looks like a dinky iPad 4 and is built to undercut the iPad mini. But can it?

Hisense might just out-Google Google with its new Android slates.

With a sharp 9-inch display, a lightweight body and Google Play the HD+ ticks some boxes. But does the usability match the specs?

Updated The Nook HD is the lightest 7-inch tablet with the highest screen resolution in its class, but is it any good?

Add this teeny keyboard to your iPad mini and pretend you're a giant using a regular-sized laptop.

Attractive price and full-blown Jelly Bean 4.2.2 features make this budget 7-incher one to watch.

The Aura HD is supposedly the sophisticated choice of ereader, but with its high price is it worth spending the extra money on?

Updated While Amazon's Kindle Fire showed what was possible from a £159/$199 tablet, Google and hardware partner Asus are ready to show consumers the real deal with the Nexus 7.

Has Samsung gone mad with so many different sized tablets and phones?

Some mobile parental filter software puts Google off-limits on this throughly basic but speedy and nicely-priced 7-inch tablet for kids.

Gone are LED backlighting, an HDMI output and some megapixels, but is a cheaper outlay and the arrival of Android Jelly Bean enough to save this 10.1-inch tablet?

A USB 2.0 slot adds some unique flexibility to an already impressive budget-priced Android 10.1-inch tablet, though there's no HDMI output or hi-res screen.

Updated Microsoft heeds its competitors' lessons with this Windows RT tablet, but proves that making the perfect tablet is still hard

Windows 8 tablets haven't exactly set the world alight so far. Indeed things have been positively low key. But is that set to change?

Updated The $159 (£129) Amazon Kindle Fire was a game-changer and spawned a popular line of tablets that disrupted the hardware industry.

Updated The Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet 2 runs the full Windows 8, but lacks the grunt do all that it entails

With a Bluetooth dongle that plugs into the dock connector on your iPad, e-pen's Mobile Notes will capture your handwriting from a variety of apps.

Does the iPad Mini Smart Cover offer the flexibility of its bigger brother?

MWC 2013 HP's first Android tablet is somewhat underwhelming, but it's priced accordingly.

MWC 2013 Meet the new Padfone, the phone-tablet combo that's no longer a joke. There's some serious tech inside.

MWC 2013 Sony is going all out with the bigger brother to the Xperia Z, offering a host of top end specs to convince iPad- and Nexus-lovers to look again.

A well-built Windows 8 tablet which is very close to being a viable laptop replacement. Shame then, that it lacks a bit of power.

Acer's tiny 10-incher overreaches. Too expensive for a tablet, too cramped for an ultrabook, and too frustrating to recommend.

Samsung and Intel attempt to bring long battery life to Windows 8 tablets. Can they produce the 'no compromise' machine we're after?