it was the battery life that put me off the current android tablets, i believe the galaxy tab etc have better batter lifes but your paying as much as for an ipad. I can get 2-3 days out of the ipad before charging - it seems to usen very little power in standby. I got the ipad on a contract - its the 3 g version i have, found i was only using my android phone for checkimg emails and surfing the net. Didn't use it for calls really. So for £99 and £25 per month I got the 64 gb 3g ipad.
its pretty much replaced the laptop for me, its much quicker to pick this up. I can logon and do my internet banking and chevk e-mails in almost the time it takes to boot up the laptop.
I also find the on screen keyboard quite good, its quick to type on with even just 1 handed operation.
I haven't really missed not having flash installed, you can still get youtube and iplayer on the ipad.
I mainly use wifi in the house for Internet so as not to ue up too much of my 15gb mobile internet allowance. Out and about as long as I have a reasonable signal the Internet appears to be pretty quick.
Brian