2010 was Apple’s year with the iPad’s dominance of the tablet market, though one other tablet deserves some attention - the Samsung Galaxy Tab (7-inch), the next best-selling tablet, and the only Android tablet that has sold over 2 million units worldwide. Samsung has already announced two new tablets – the Galaxy Tab 8.9 and the Galaxy Tab 10.1, which were shown off at CES, and then updated versions (slimmer, customized) were shown at at MWC this year. The tablets, especially the 10.1-inch Galaxy Tab, will be directly competing with the new Apple iPad 2.
The Galaxy Tab 10.1 sports a WXGA TFT touchscreen display with 1280×800 pixels screen resolution, an 8MP primary camera with LED flash, 2MP secondary camera for video calls, HD video playback and recording, 3.5 mm jack, 16GB internal memory and more multimedia features. It is loaded with Android Market, Android Browser, Google applications, Social networking, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and USB data connectivity. The Galaxy Tab 8.9 sports similar features with a smaller screen size.
Now that India is too big a market to ignore (corroborated by Apple finally launching the iPad 2 here), Samsung seems to be planning to launch the Galaxy Tab 8.9 and 10.1 in India as soon as June 2011. The Samsung Galaxy S 2 is also slated to launch in the first week or so of June. The Galaxy Tab 10.1's global release date is June 8th, so only expect it to arrive sometime after that, will the 8.9 following in a while.
“We will launch the 10-inch tablet PC at around Rs. 35,000 and the 8-inch device will be priced around Rs. 28,000. While the tablet PC market today stands at around 25,000 units a quarter, we expect it to grow exponentially here on.” said Ranjit Yadav, Country Head, Samsung Mobile and IT, Samsung India.
The exact prices at which all versions (Wi-Fi / Wi-Fi+3G, 16 GB or 32 GB) will be launched are a bit hazy, but it will soon be clearer with time passing by. We’ll bring you the latest updates as soon as we get them.
Source:thinkdigit
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