As new users unwrapped their new tablets from Santa, throughout the day app downloads measured a remarkable 20 million downloads per hour. By day's end, over 328 million apps had been downloaded.

BlackBerry 10 will make or break RIM. The "Bring Your Own Device" trend is upending traditional IT models, as employees walk through the office doors with an iPhone 5 or a Samsung Galaxy S III, fully expecting to sync with all the corporate systems.

Indie video games, priced from $10-20 on WiiWare, Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network, don't generate Halo money, but a top-seller can still make its creators multi-millionaires in a matter of weeks after launch.

Nexus 4 battery life. Starting at around 6-7am, I regularly get 12-14 hours of use, per the above scenario, and have about 20-30% charge around 8pm or so. I consider that very good performance.

HP (22%) leads the Windows 8 market. Dell (10%) is in second place, but trails significantly. Rounding out the top five are Acer (9%), Asus (9%), and Toshiba (7%).

The most obvious competitor is the Google Nexus 7 which sells for only $199 for the 16GB model. That's a pretty good deal too. With the Fire HD 8.9" you do get a larger screen, the aforementioned Dolby, and lots of content.

Thanks to continual upgrades to its Play Store, both in terms of content, and apps along with quantum improvements to aesthetics and usability, Google has erased the wide lead Apple had in years past in terms of user experience.

The HTC Droid DNA "offers the clearest image with the best tone for each of the individual colors" while Google's Nexus 4 (made by LG) "looks washed out."

The Surface Pro could face serious competition from the MacBook Air, which can be configured with similar specs for about the same price. However, I've decided my next laptop should be touch-enabled.

We recommend the iPad version (4.5 out of 5 stars) of Next Issue. Not only will you get a larger selection of magazines, you'll also get faster downloads and smoother overall performance.