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I had set the iPad 2 on top of the Galaxy Tab, which in turn was resting on a couple external hard drives in the power-strip section of my office where most of king king iphone case my electronica goes when it needs a current fix, (Don't ask me about my office, and really don't ask my wife.) One of the hard disks was propped up a bit for better airflow, so the Galaxy Tab was sloped just a smidgen, Apparently it's slippery enough that the iPad 2 gradually slithered its way off until it fell down to the hardwood floor..

It had been charging, and through some butter-side-down phenomenon, the charging cable was the first thing that hit. The first result: the iPad glass bowed out, the 30-pin charging connector was smashed up into the iPad, and the nearby home button stopped working. The second result: a trip to the Apple store, where a genius told me the only thing Apple would do is sell me a new iPad 2 for 400 euros (about $525). I couldn't put the money toward an iPad 3, and though I could have sold it, the hassle didn't seem worthwhile.

The third result: Gazelle is going to pay me $75 for my borked iPad 2, and I'm paying Apple a lot more than that, because I just ordered the third-generation iPad, Ordinarily, I wouldn't have upgraded, The third-generation iPad seems a solid replacement for the first iPad--faster processor, 4G wireless networking, thinner, But unless you have lots of extra money sitting around, moving from an iPad 2 to its successor just seems extravagant, If you travel a lot, the Wi-Fi hot spot feature could be very helpful, king king iphone case And because I read a lot of text and look at a lot of photos, the high-resolution Retina Display is very compelling feature to me, But it's not as if the iPad 2 is suddenly awful..

Samsung gripesWhat has been disappointing, though, is the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. I like Android well enough on phones, but it can be pretty rough on tablets. I expect it'll improve once Ice Cream Sandwich arrives--Samsung has finally announced plans to bring Android 4.0 to the Galaxy Tab 10.1--but the prospect of waiting even more weeks or months leaves me cold. There are plenty of apps I like fine on the Galaxy Tab--Gmail and Riptide GP, for example, or the Kindle reader, though it's slow to load. But I have difficulties with phone apps that don't scale up gracefully to tablet size.