>Ability to add USB device. This is a big advantage of Android over iPad from a developer's standpoint.

Yupp.

>10" is a little unwieldy. I think a 7" tablet would be a better size. I suspected this prior to purchasing the GalaxyTab 10.1, and I even considered getting the older GalaxyTab 7.1, but I really wanted to get a device with Android Honeycomb OS.

The 7' is wonderful if you have to travel: put it in a vest pocket and whip it out as soon as you are seated -
PDF, Word docs and some HTML to be read as book. On real internet sites the viewing are sometimes is too small -
wonder how I will feel when trying the new 7.7 with 1280*800.... Perhaps the 8.9 is agood compromise.


>Tablets have no physical keyboard, so typing sucks (unless you dock it with a keyboard).

Raise you ;-) Typing sucks even more if you have to type in a non-english language [öäüß].
Also when you have to type english on a device set to non-english locale, and helpful hints in german pop up.
But much of that is probably delayed birthing pain for new device only.

>Tablets can't sit up like a netbook, so you have to hold them upright to be useful (or buy one of those fancy cases).

Which is a point for the 7' as it handles like a pocket book.

>Like every other device out there, using it in direct sunlight is, to say the last, challenging.

Why ? I think it is a very stylish mirror, showing the geeky side of you ;-)

>Summary:
>I think this device is something that gets left around the house on a kitchen counter or on a sofa table and is used for casual internet browsing, reading news, and casual game playing. It's a "family" device that's super quick to pick up and put back down. In this respect it's a fantastic device.

Full ACK. And it makes travel a real and sometimes billable joy - reading specs on it.
Was also astonished about the change in reading pattern with it -
much more [couch] surfin' for info than when doing it in front of the desk.
Even set up a router cascade and allowed wireless in a new corner of my net
when I previously cabled every device. [probably paranoid about security, but we have enemies too]

>For doing anything "real" give me a regular laptop any day (of course).

Not so sure about that: real keyboard for certain, but why not an USB or BT ?
On many desks the KB was "freed" of the cable, which I personally consider overblown,
as my eyesight forces me in front of the screen IAC.

regards

thomas