Tech review: Apps for your new tablet

So you got a new iPad or Android tablet for the holidays and are looking for suggestions on apps to download.

You're in luck! There are more than 100,000 apps developed for the iPad, in addition to hundreds of thousands of iPhone apps that run reasonably well on the larger screen. Also, there are several thousand Android apps that work and play well on the many tablets that run Google's mobile platform.

Here is our list of tablet apps to help you get started.

Once you complete your note or work memo, you can store it within the app, email the document or share it with others via Facebook and Twitter.

The Siri Office Assistant for the iPhone 4S is showcasing how smart devices can operate with voice-recognition instruction. While Dragon Dictation doesn't do everything Siri can do, it does run on iPads (which Siri does not) and should convince you not to pony up for an extra keyboard.

Alhough Dragon Dictation is not yet available for Android smartphones and tablets, developer Nuance Communications created the FlexT9 Speak-Trace-Write-Tap app for the platform. FlexT9 costs $4.99 and offers seamless transitions between voice and text-based inputs.

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