Samsung refines its Tablets to Rival Apple in Specs and Choices
Samsung refines its Tablets to Rival Apple in Specs and Choices
In what Samsung hopes will be enough to continue its onslaught to Apple's stranglehold on the Tablet PC marketshare, Samsung has just revealed its answer to the iPad 2—a new set of Galaxy Tab tablets. In terms of specs, they're just slightly better than Apple's offering. Apple's iPad created the new tablet PC market, and the company just revealed a brand new iPad 2 version that upped its game even before competing devices were really arriving on the market in meaningful numbers. The biggest challenger to Apple so far has been Korea's Samsung, whose Galaxy Tab 7-inch Android tablet was touted as the most successful rival to the original iPad (although it may not have sold in huge numbers).
Samsung "doesn't believe in the one-size-fits-all" strategy and have therefore announced two new Galaxy Tab tablets; a 8.9-inch edition and a 10-inch version. Apple has gone on record against smaller tablet form-factors when Steve Jobs made it clear how he feels about it, ""No tablet can compete with a smartphone. And given that all tablet users will already have a smartphone in their pocket, giving up screen area to fit in a pocket is a bad trade-off".
The "new and improved" 10-inch version has been tweaked a little since its limited debut at the Mobile World Congress because the company deemed it inadequate to the new Apple iPad 2. After Apple announced its iPad 2, on March 02, 2011, Lee Don-joo, executive vice president of Samsung's mobile division, told Yonhap News Agency, "We will have to improve the parts that are inadequate, Apple made it very thin." Samsung slimmed the 10 inch tablet down from it previously announced weight; it weighs in at 595 grams. The prior 10 inch device was originally 1.5 pounds or 680 grams, which was heavier than the iPad 2's 1.33 pounds or 601 grams. Looks like Samsung has met it's goal of being lighter by 6 grams. It also wanted to make it thinner than Apple's offering. Its in a super-thin chassis that's just 8.6mm deep. Apple's iPad 2 is 8.8mm deep.
Samsung "doesn't believe in the one-size-fits-all" strategy and have therefore announced two new Galaxy Tab tablets; a 8.9-inch edition and a 10-inch version. Apple has gone on record against smaller tablet form-factors when Steve Jobs made it clear how he feels about it, ""No tablet can compete with a smartphone. And given that all tablet users will already have a smartphone in their pocket, giving up screen area to fit in a pocket is a bad trade-off".
The "new and improved" 10-inch version has been tweaked a little since its limited debut at the Mobile World Congress because the company deemed it inadequate to the new Apple iPad 2. After Apple announced its iPad 2, on March 02, 2011, Lee Don-joo, executive vice president of Samsung's mobile division, told Yonhap News Agency, "We will have to improve the parts that are inadequate, Apple made it very thin." Samsung slimmed the 10 inch tablet down from it previously announced weight; it weighs in at 595 grams. The prior 10 inch device was originally 1.5 pounds or 680 grams, which was heavier than the iPad 2's 1.33 pounds or 601 grams. Looks like Samsung has met it's goal of being lighter by 6 grams. It also wanted to make it thinner than Apple's offering. Its in a super-thin chassis that's just 8.6mm deep. Apple's iPad 2 is 8.8mm deep.
Even though Apple's closed garden-approach gets a lot of slack (even by me); no one can argue the ease of use of its devices. You can hand an iPad to a 2 year old, a 102 year old person or anyone in between and they all can use it right away. I am not sure anyone has reproduced that on an Android device to date, well just have to wait and see. Either way you can argue that this is a victory for consumers, who'll now get an aggressively-priced Android tablet to rival Apple's iOS one, for way cheaper than the Motorola Xoom costs, and this sort of market diversity is a good thing. With Blackberry's Playbook and HP's Touchpad yet to be released, will they make tweaks to improve on or surpass Apple's tablets? It they do, the consumers will truly have great tablet choices this year? Sometimes just being better isn't enough, can anyone say Neo-Geo?
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