Android might be the king of smartphone operating systems, but when it comes to tablets, it has found the going tough against Apple’s formidable iPad range, which has by and large dominated the tablet market with its potent mix of interface and apps.

The only real challenge that it has faced -- mainly in the US -- has come from Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet range. Not to be confused with the Kindle devices, which are e-book readers, the Kindle Fire tablets run on Android, which is heavily Amazon-ified, and, as a result, is unlike any Android device you have ever seen and used.