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Tablet PCs take on the iPad

Tablets take on Apple’s iPad at IFA tech show

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Rivals to the iPad have been unveiled as the IFA tech show gets underway in Berlin. Samsung's Galaxy Tab and Toshiba's Folio 100 run on the Android 2.2 operating system.

It allows the mini computers without keyboards to play flash video - the most popular format in the world. But their sizes also set them apart from the iPad as BBC Technology Correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones found out.

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