U.S. Cellular Getting Samsung Galaxy Tab Too
Samsung's Android tablet is coming to U.S. Cellular.
Thursday Samsung Telecommunications America said that its Android-powered Samsung Galaxy Tab is heading to U.S. Cellular. The news follows previous announcements that the tablet is invading Verizon Wireless for $600 off-contract, Sprint for $400 and a two-year contract, and T-Mobile for $400 and a two-year contract (after $50 mail-in rebate).
By now the specs of this device should be rather well-known--a 7-inch enhanced TFT WSVGA display, a rear-facing 3MP camera and camcorder, a front-facing 1.3MP camera and camcorder, 802.11 b/g/n, built-in 2 GB with an additional 16 GB pre-installed microSD card, a 1 GHz Cortex A8 application CPU and more.
On the software front, the tablet uses Google's Android 2.2 (Froyo) which supports Flash Player 10.1. It also features Google Maps Navigation, Google Goggles, Samsung's Social Hub and more. The tablet also supports DivX, MPEG-4, WMV, Xvid, H.263, H.264 video formats.
Although the Samsung Galaxy Tab is coming to U.S. Cellular, neither company provided availability dates or pricing. Stay tuned for official numbers within the next few weeks.
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I hope this means that Samsung/US Cellular will eventually offer updates to Froyo for their current line up of phones. I was informed by a rep a few weeks ago that they have "no plans to update unless other products start shipping with 2.2". US Cellular has only started offering Android phones in July or something...
I wished companies would get off the standard 7" devices.
Get a 9 or 10" tablet.
In fact, I find a netbook can be 9", while a tablet should be larger (preferably 13").
I wonder why manufacturers always create things that are just not what people want or need.
If you want to read a newspaper page on a 7" tablet, you'd always have to compensate for the small screen area.
7" is perfect to put in your inside pocket, for the train, bus or airline journey. It is big enough to watch a movie at arms length or in your lap, and ultra portable. Keep your 13" for the house, but it is not as portable or as usable as the 7", if you must stretch the screen width ways to get an 8" or 9" and keep it poketable but 10" or 13" 4/3 aspect ratio no thanks.
Finally an upgrade from the outdated iPad. Why buy a tablet or phone with legacy software when you can have Android? The Samsung Tab is the most advanced consumer tablet computer ever created.