Samsung Galaxy Tab is in Currys

KOREAN HARDWARE GIANT Samsung's Galaxy Tab is being launched one day early at Currys in London's Tottenham Court Road today.

According to the latest figures, the 10.1 inch Android powered tablet has attracted 10 million pre-orders, while the sales figure was initially estimated at five million units.

This is of course was only an estimate, as earlier this week Samsung told us it had decided to stop reporting its mobile phone sales figures despite never having done a good job before then.

The INQUIRER noticed that Samsung had appeared to have sold six million of its Galaxy S II handsets. However, this was down to some bad maths - perhaps on our part - but more likely down to the vague way that the firm reported sales and pre-sales orders from distributors.

While we initially thought that Samsung had sold six million of its Galaxy S II handsets, we then learned that in fact it had sold only three million, which was the number of pre-sales. Then Samsung revised that figure up to five million, at which point we threw up our hands and went down to the pub.

The latest version of Samsung's Galaxy Tab tablet has a 10.1in screen and runs Google's Android operating system. It will be out in the rest of the UK tomorrow and is estimated to sell about one million, no, 11 million, in pre-orders. We think. µ