I recently went the other way around. After exchanging my Galaxy Tab 2 times for random hangs and unexplained slowness I thought I will check out the iPad. I st

I recently went the other way around. After exchanging my Galaxy Tab 2 times for random hangs and unexplained slowness I thought I will check out the iPad. I still have an Android phone that I am perfectly happy with so throughout the day I go back and forth with iOS and Android. The experience on the iPad is undeniably superior after iOS5. The UI is way smoother than Honeycombs, I haven't found any beta behavior yet. BUT, usability wise I find iPad to be incredibly annoying and limited. I keep looking for the back button and I am yet to find the level of consistency that people claim is hallmark of iOS. Few examples - 1) Music Player UI is inconsistent with other apps - no navigation button at top left, it doesnt cover the 'desktop' fully for reasons I don't understand. Search field is at bottom right - considering it is commonly used it should be easy to locate and access. 2) Notifications - while they are lot better with 5.0, it is still inconsistent. I still see the old modal notifications from built in apps like email - twice now I saw old interrupting notifications from exchange mail - one was on Sunday evening for a meeting request on Wednesday! Oh and the notification bar doesn't cover the full screen when pulled down on the iPad unlike iPhone. 3) Always having to hit the physical home button for app switching is annoying compared to Android 4) You cannot subscribe to a podcast using the iPad on its own! I spent 30 minutes trying to do just that. It's not PC free, yet! 5) Background apps and notifications are flaky - Vtok for example was inexplicably killed some times. And when it wasn't it did not notify me using the new notification system. 6) Google integration is poor but this part I was fully expecting. 7) Finally I found that I was still confronted with iPhone only apps that looked horrible when run on iPad. This sort of thing works way better in Google land. But I am forced to keep it until Google and co get their act together on the tablet side. Right now the user experience on the best Android tablet is way shoddy compared to the iPad but if Google could get that fixed I am fairly certain there will be compelling reasons to switch back.