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Samsung teases its new tablet

by Scott Bicheno on 24 August 2010, 17:46

Tags: Samsung (005935.KS)

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You little tease

The flood of Android tablets is about to commence. Yes, Dell has had the five inch Streak out for a little while, but between now and Christmas we expect to see a lot more launched, starting with the Samsung Galaxy Tab, it seems.

As anticipated a couple of weeks ago, Samsung's tablet will be unveiled at IFA on 2 September - the day before the consumer electronics show officially begins.

A new teaser site and video doesn't give a tonne away about the Tab, but it does confirm a few details, namely:

  • A seven inch screen
  • Android 2.2
  • Full web browsing
  • Video calling
  • Augmented reality

Here's the vid and the site offers no more right now. We guess there'll be more on the 2nd.

 

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Posted by burble - Wed 25 Aug 2010 09:14
I'll be keeping my eye on this. I'm looking for a 7" tablet for use when I'm travelling. Currently I put films and the like on my iPhone which works well enough but I would be happier with a bigger screen.
Posted by Unique - Wed 25 Aug 2010 10:04
this could be interesting if you could run remote desktop access software on it, especially if you can plug in a keyboard and mouse. the iphone is a bit too fiddly to use a lot, the lack of a real keyboard to use shortcuts is the main problem. with a usb socket you can always borrow your office keyboard for a while

the big question is how much is it going to cost?
Posted by scaryjim - Thu 26 Aug 2010 23:41
uni
this could be interesting if you could run remote desktop access software on it

Since it's android, you can. There's a number of free VNC / Remote Desktop viewers available…
Posted by Unique - Fri 27 Aug 2010 06:30
scaryjim
Since it's android, you can. There's a number of free VNC / Remote Desktop viewers available…

cool. can you get teamviewer on android?

i was never too convinced about the idea of cloud computing from central servers, but i think perhaps it might work, but based on remote access from your own pc/server at home/office, of course we need a faster/better internet structure for this, but as time goes on things improve. we may be using mobile phones and slates etc to access and run programs on our home pcs and the slates/mobile devices are slim and low powered as they are just being used as screen and input device