I had previously bought a Wacom Bamboo tablet for use the PC. It works well but I wanted something that I could write on directly like pen on paper. I have an iPad and an iPhone but I know the app isn't ready yet. I couldn't find a good overview of the various Android tablets available and their use with Skritter on this forum so I decided to write one. In order to create an opinion on each tablet I went to stores which had the tablets on display. For the ones that had both network access and access to the Android market, I downloaded the latest version of Adoble Flash Player 11 and a program that I could use to quickly draw on (I used one called "Kana by Hand" because it is small in size and thus fast to download).

The tablets I looked at:
Acer Iconia A100, Samsung Galaxy 10.1", Samsung Galaxy 7", Samsung Galaxy Player 5.0, Asus Transformer Prime.

Skritter Performance:
The amazing thing I found is that the Skritter performance on these tablets was approximately the same on each! The processor speed and the number of cores didn't seem to matter much for flash performance. The flash app runs slower than on a PC. When you draw a curve on the Skritter flash app, many times it shows up as multiple line segments connected together (probably the touch sampling rate is too low). This does not seem to affect Skritter's algorithms so all is well. There is a little lag when you are writing and the animation which "auto-corrects" the current stroke is a bit slow. Overall, though, in normal mode Skritter works well. I haven't had much success with "raw squigs mode" on the PC and it seemed a bit slower on Android so I didn't try it out on all the tablets.

Stylus use:
These tablets don't seem to like stylus use; at least not with the Bamboo iPad Stylus I brought along. On almost all of the tablets you had to press pretty hard and keep with stylus at a 90 degrress angle with the tablet surface. The Acer Iconia A100 seemed to be particularly bad with this stylus. The Samsung Galaxy Player 5.0 (which is really a big phone with just Wifi) was the best of the bunch. This is probably because there is less surface area to cover. I could write normally with just a few missed strokes once in a while and which point I would press harder on the stylus.

Programs to get:
I've downloaded "Kanji Recognizer" and its corresponding "WWWJDIC" dictionary which is a good offline Kanji writing recognizer. Though in my opinion, Midori on the iPad/iPhone is better. For kana, "obenkyo" is a great app. It helps you study kana and has an "experimental" writing recognizer which seems to be pretty effective.

What I wound up buying:
I took home a Samsung Galaxy Player 5.0 because it seemed to have similiar Skritter performance to the others, in a small form factor and cheaper price. Like I mentioned, it's really just a big phone with only WiFi and not a tablet in the strictest sense. It also handled input from my Bamboo iPad stylus well. However, I have run into an issue with it. When you draw a diagonal or curved line through the middle of the screen, the segment "jumps" alittle. This doesn't seem to affet Skritter but is annoying in the other programs I have mentioned. I only found one mention of this problem on the internet so I don't know if it is widespread. I may try to exchange it. I don't really want to outright return it but I'll have to think about it. If you have any suggestions please let me know.

Please note that I only spent a few minutes with each tablet so don't take my views as being the result of comprehensive testing.
If you have any other comments on your experience with a Android tablet and Skritter, please post and let us know.

Here is a quick follow-up. It turns out that all the Samsung Galaxy Player 5.0 devices I have tried have the issue with the inaccurate drawing of lines near the middle of the screen. I returned mine for a Samsung Galaxy 7 Plus. It does not exhibit the same issues. As mentioned before, even though the Galaxy 7 Plus has a dual core processor, it is not faster running Skritter than the single core Galaxy Player. Overall I am happy with the 7" Samsung tablet. But I'll probably think about selling it on ebay once the Skritter iOS app is released.

Great writeups, Avenger! I think most of the performance problems with Skritter on Android are due to an inherent Android embedded Flash touch delay + low sampling rate, as you noticed above, rather than something that the faster CPUs can help. So that makes sense to me.