Last week, Samsung unveiled their newest baby, the Samsung Galaxy Tab. It’s patterned after their Galaxy line of Mobile phone devices, but it’s a 7” touchscreen tablet with a TFT capacitive touch display rocking a 600 x 1024 resolution. Their announcement came at the IFA conference in Berlin and the buzz has gone nonstop since that time.
There are now rumors that Samsung might be putting on a US press conference to introduce the device near the end of next week. Not sure this is necessary, as we all know just about all we need to know about this device. The bottom line is that I want one and this thing has the real chance of rivaling the iPad. It actually brings to the table, some options that the iPad doesn’t yet.
The Galaxy Tab is a 7” touchscreen tablet that runs Android 2.2 at launch and will support future versions of Android too, such as Android 3.0 otherwise known as Gingerbread, scheduled to release as early as this fall. The tab will support Flash 10.1 and will come with 16 or 32GB of memory. It has two cameras, front and rear facing, GPS, a gyroscope and accelerometer. The tablet is powered by a 1GHz ARM Cortex A8 processor and 512MB of RAM.
As I mentioned, this is the slightly larger tablet version of the Galaxy Smartphone models that are nearly all launched and available. Sprint has the Samsung Epic 4G, AT&T has the Samsung Captivate, and T-Mobile has the Samsung Vibrant. Verizon is the only exception right now as their model, the Samsung Fascinate is scheduled to release this fall, but is not available for purchase yet.
Samsung’s entire line of Galaxy S mobile devices are high performing and appear to be selling very well. Samsung customized their own special User Interface (UI) for this line, known as TouchWiz. It sits over the top of the Android OS which graces each phone and Galaxy Tab.
Samsung has announced their goal is to sell 10 million units worldwide by the end of 2010. An aggressive goal to be sure, but at over 1 million sales behind them already, and with some impressive hardware on the way, they could just pull it off.
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December 14th, 2010 on 12:38
” Sprint has the Samsung Epic 4G, AT&T has the Samsung Captivate, and T-Mobile has the Samsung Vibrant. Verizon is the only exception right now as their model, the Samsung Fascinate is scheduled to release this fall, but is not available for purchase yet.”
How much is it possible?