Good that you are looking at other than iPad. I have an iPad (gift) and the only advantages over my iPhone are that it has a bigeer screen. Otherwise I hate being locked into Apple, and it can't even make phone calls! It runs faster than my phone, but really, I have no real use for it. Tried to give it to my wife but she said no thanks.
Sometime I'll look at replacing it with an Android-platform 'pad'.