Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 available for pre-orders

It has been a really good 12 months for tablet makers and the tablet buyers who really like them. As we noted yesterday, a new Nielsen survey reveals that People in america who own equally tablets and laptops -- or tablets and e-readers -- often favor the tablet around the other gizmos in the household. Look at this a single telling stat: 35 percent of tablet owners who also owned a desktop computer system noted employing their desktop much less generally or not at all.

In other words, get a tablet pc these as the Samsung Galaxy Tab ten.1, and your sturdy outdated desktop -- which you've dutifully utilised for years -- commences to glimpse rather boring. Or obsolete: The success of tablets has one thing to do with their a person-dimension-fits-all performance. Why get an e-reader and a desktop and an MP3 player, when you can get all a few, in 1? Much more on the Nielsen report right here.
You know who took the iPad two start fairly critically? Samsung, that is who. Just as we had heard, the company's executives had been impressed by Apple's potential to slim down its tablet and, effectively, it turns out that it took it as a challenge to come up with some thinner tablets of its private. That's right, in addition to the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 that we have seen repeatedly teased around the very last several weeks the company's announcing a entirely revamped Galaxy Tab ten.one, and both slates are incredibly thin yet incredibly effectively spec'd. On top rated of that, equally will be the initial Honeycomb tablets to stray from the pure Android three. experience and add what Samsung's taken to calling its TouchWiz UX or TouchWiz four.. We've got all the particulars and some fingers-on impressions waiting under, so hit the break!

Updated: Samsung arrived clean with the pricing at its press conference this early morning. The WiFi 10.one will hit on June 8th -- the 16GB edition will cost you $499 and the 32GB $599. The eight.9 is $469 and $569 for 16GB and 32GB, respectively.
Samsung helped lead the Android tablet cost very last yr, with the first Galaxy Tab, a 7-inch slate which even Google admitted may have been released prior to the OS was all set. Now, with Android 3. Honeycomb tablets like the XOOM, G-Slate and Eee Pad Transformer on the industry, Samsung is back again with its second try, the much larger Galaxy Tab 10.one. Heavily reworked - even soon after its first official physical appearance - in purchase to far better compete with the iPad 2, Samsung has higher hopes that this is the slender slate to knock Apple off its pedestal. SlashGear brought back again the Samsung Galaxy Tab ten.one Restricted Edition white edition from Google I/O 2011 this week verify out the complete assessment immediately after the cut.
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.one was first introduced to us on February 13rd at Mobile Planet Congress in Barcelona, and right after some improvements it was unveiled yet again on March 22nd at CTIA Samsung Unpacked Event in Orlando. Starting up June 8th, (the declared release day for the Samsung Tablet) the customers can purchase Galaxy Tab ten.1 on-line or from Samsung Merchants.