Cheap: Barnes & Noble Color Nook. Runs Android 2.3. Is supposedly the best-selling Android tablet. $249.

Will be cheap: the new Amazon Kindle Tablet. TechCrunch has it coming in at $250, like the Color Nook. Look for it around Nov. 1, in time for Christmas sales.

Above $250, the jump goes to $450, where there are many options.

Hank

>I'm about to spring for a tablet and all the choices have me confused.
>The Ipad people are like crusaders, squashing anything that doesn't come from Apple and there are so many Android devices that I don't know where to start looking.
>Cheap is a good place to start.
>Any ideas?