In a recent poll of holiday gift recipients, iPads accounted for a full 22.7% of all gadget or hardware gifts, making iPads the single largest category in our gift poll, outstripping the nearest runner-up by nearly 14% of votes.
That runner-up was Amazon's Kindle -- not surprising considering that the Kindle is the best-selling product in Amazon's history.
In third place in the Mashable holiday gift poll were Android smartphones, another device category that's had a blockbuster year by any standards.
But while Android smartphones continue to grow and dominate the mobile scene, Android tablets are just getting started. These gadgets accounted for around 2.5% of our holiday poll.
And while Windows PCs and Windows Phone 7 devices fared relatively poorly when compared to their Google- and Apple-made counterparts, Microsoft had a killer showing in the gaming department. The Kinect for Xbox has been predicted as the smash hit of the year for some time, so this is hardly a surprise to those who follow video game console happenings.
Here are some handy graphs and charts showing some of the more interesting Q4 showdowns in our poll.
