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Samsung reveals all on Galaxy Tab tablet
AUGMENTED REALITY AND PHONE FUNCTIONS are attractive features for Samsung's Galaxy Tab that has been launched at IFA 2010 today.
The Tab is slim looking at 380g but can provide over 8 hours of video with its 4,000mAh battery, according to Thomas Richter, Samsung telecommunications Europe portfolio management head. For this battery life a Super TFT display was selected, as it is more power efficient compared to the better quality AMOLED, and less expensive. The battery was the reason for another design choice, the 30-pin connector. It was needed to ensure that the battery could be charged in good time.
Describing the Tab as a smart media device, Richter said that its phone function can be used with a Bluetooth headset and the Tab can act as a speakerphone. The front and back 3MP cameras meanwhile can be used for video conferencing and an augmented reality function for enhancing navigation.
Samsung mobile communications business president J K Shin said that weight "is critical to consumers". According to Samsung, through consumer research it found that a demand for portability drove the slim small form factor design, the choice of phone functions and having a front and a back camera. Shin said he expects the tablet market to grow very quickly, referring to a figure of 13 million units being sold this year, a figure produced by an Isuppli report last month.
The Tab will be sold only through network operators later this year, possibly starting next month. Samsung is talking to "major American carriers" but won't name them. Deals done with the networks will decide what music and media online services will be available. Samsung has what it calls a music hub and a reader's hub, for online services for music and newspapers and magazines. They will be part of the deal done with network operators but Richter declined to say how those hubs will be part of any contract or what networks the Tab will be available on.
The network deals will also determine whether the Tab will get Android Gingerbread as a future OS, which Samsung would like it to have. But the networks could offer a different colour Tab, which now only comes in white and black. What it does come with now is an SD card slot for cards up to a maximum of 32GB and the Tab can be used as an e-reader. Accessories for the Tab will include desktop, car and keyboard docks, a leather case, an HDMI output cable and a carrying case.
Finally, Shin said there is a tablet roadmap but no details were mentioned. He described the Tab as an "on the go device" tablet and not a "sofa or lap device", which could be one of Samsung's future products.
The INQUIRER's video demo of the Galaxy Tab can be found here. µ
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Hopefully there's a model without the "phone" crap built in.
Wireless is good for connectivity about the house and work, but personally I want a tablet that's _NOT_ a phone.
Zero interest in having another bit of kit that requires an ongoing service/subscription just to use it. (ie. the phone bit)
haha nice spot Jesus. Everysooften this lot at the inq show themselves to be complete tech novices! "mAmp" is wrong anyway, should just read "mA" if coppinger wanted to say milliamp.
Does a tablet PC really need 4 AMPS worth of current? Holy MOLEY.
Or maybe you meant the battery has a 4,000 milliamp-hour (mAh) capacity?
It looks like an oversized iPhone without the phone.
No doubt manufactured in chinese (or similar) sweatshops exploiting cheap oriental labor. But who cares about them eh!
only officially supports screen resolutions of up to 854x480 it's going to be interesting to see how Android apps cope with 1024x600.
The other problem is that, though 16:9 ratio screens may be better for wide screen video, they're not so good for reading and web browsing. Was it just a video player that you wanted? Not the positive compromise that people hereabouts seem to imagine.
No-one has mentioned it, not the Inquirer, not the BBC, and neither has Samsung on their website.
It does have the ability to browse the internet....... of course it does, its simply an overly large smartphone, and all smartphones can use the internet...... cant't they.?
Its got all of the necessary wireless connection types to be able to, but everyone is banging on about tghe phone, the books, the music and the video, and even e-mail, but they seem to be missing something....
I would be amazed if this can do everything but the internet, but as no-one has mentioned it I will have to wait and see if this is another heavily flawed tablet.
The Viewsonic Viewpad is already out and techradar have had a go at it.
Hopefully we can get an (a) vs (b) vs (c) comparison. Would be nice if it came from The Inq for once ;)