Samsung: We'll Ship 10,000,000 Galaxy Tabs

yup i just checked my multiplication tables and i was right


that number is indeed, over 9000.

Well atleast Samsung doesn't suffer from over confidence.

So that means they predict the global market for tablets will be 30 million next year? Seems a little much to me. They are basically larger PDAs which I thought nobody was interested in anymore because nobody wanted to carry both a phone and a PDA. Does this mean people are going to stop carrying cell phones now, and just Text and IM?

So that means they expect that 0.0015% of the World's population will want one...

Looks like Samsung is going to lose a lot of money. I doubt they sell more than 50,000 of these cheap, iPad wannabes.

Whoa, slow down there speed racer! Let's not get carried away.

Someones glass is half full. Me I'm more of a half empty kinda guy and say 1,000,000 at the best

Correction:
"Samsung: We'll Ship 10,000 Galaxy Tabs"
If I'm able to do on this table what I'm able to do on my netbook...then I will get one.
So that will be 10,001

sweet. after 5 months we might find them on woot for like 100 bucks...if they bomb.

This is a notebook replacement, not a cell phone replacement. Nobody is expecting you to carry around a 7"-10" tablet and hold it up to your face.

What I've come to realize is that most people, myself included, don't actually have a use for a laptop other than the fact that it is more portable than a desktop. I would much rather have a desktop and a tablet such as this than just a notebook. Think about what most people do with their notebooks... it's all nonsense. I've got a desktop I assembled, a MacBook Pro, and a BlackBerry Bold. I would love to sell the MBP, replace it with a tablet such as this, and rock on with the desktop whenever I need the heavy lifting.

Of course all of this is predicated on this device not costing an arm and a leg. Sorry but I don't sign contracts with cell providers and I'm not spending more than $400 on this kind of a device. If Samsung expects to sell 10,000,000 of these the price better be less than half of the estimated $1,000 and it better be WITHOUT carrier subsidies.

iFanboys stop saying this is a wannabe.... it can do flash, has usb... why does it want to copy crapple?

Agreed, calling this a "wannabe" makes no sense what-so-ever.

Good news. That device should end up within 400$ price range if they wanted to have that much market share. They already manufacture most of the components anyway so selling it within that price is feasible.

Wannabe...mmm...
Actually it's called Inverse Psychology. The iFanboys want the Apple iPad to be like the Galaxy Tab, with flash, USB, and even a memory slot... ;-)

I agree with the statements of pricing it low, if they expect to eat into the tablet market and expand it then they will have to drop that price! I STILL DONT SEE the coolness of the tablet frenzy but whatever melts your butter, or in this case melts your pockets

I like the size. If it has actual phone capabilities, I just might look into it. Looks just a bit bigger than the DROID X. Can't deal with small touch screens with a puny stylus

Now I am not saying that they won't reach this number. I just reckon there are a whole bunch of Andriod tablets coming on the horizon Samsung will have competition on their hands. For me the resolution is not there on this one. I will get an Andriod tablet but probably not this one.

The Galaxy Tab is indeed a phone replacement as well as a netbook replacement. I hardly think anybody, even Samsung, is expecting you to hold it to your face though, which is why it supports bluetooth and wired headsets, and video conferencing.

I think many here are missing the market that is most interesting to tablets in general but have been very slow to adapt to them so far, and that's in the business area, where managers and representatives want something that has a larger screen to view documents on, and something that has longer battery life and is less cumbersome than a laptop/netbook. Most of these people already have a company phone and use headsets, this is where the big market for these tablets are.

The iPad is too expensive for the average consumer, if this is priced right and offers the right features this could undercut Apple and really take off.

Last year over 58 million netbooks were sold, and we are expecting a slew of Windows and Android based tablets to hit for next year. I think an optimistic target of half the netbook market being either cannibalised or added to from an expanding market would be realistic.

i see tablets eating away at netbooks market if their prices and specs are competitive. all things equal i would go for a tablet instead of a netbook.

I assume they will be very cheap, only way to know for sure that they will boom not taking into account their use, just due to the price, if they are 100USD even though I wont use it.. why not grab one? Its just 100 and it looks nice.

For non-cell enabled models the prices should be almost the same, I personally would go for that option and get a Mifi to get the internet coverage. Prices for using a Mifi are a lot better than being screwed by the big cell-carriers who bump up the contract to pay for the subsidised hardware.

I have bad experiences with Samsung's smartphones.
Lots of problems but stil useable.
If one of those Tablet cost about USD200-300 (€150-250) without any kind of contract, I wil close my eyes towards the problems and buy one of those.

At the end of 2011...I will be having (currently) HTC Desire, Toshiba Satellite L550D, Panasonic FZ38, and (coming) a tablet PC in my pocket...
hmmmm....something is wrong here.... hahahahahaha

Why would I want to pay another $30 a month for this piece of carp?

What's the wifi price?

Just checked the price of a MiFi from "3" in the UK
£40 for the unit, £15 a month for 5Gb of usage and a rolling 1 month contract.
They can do a 15Gb a month for £17 but then tie you to 24 m onth contract, but seeing as you are not going to torrent onto your tablet I can see 5Gb allowance being relatively sufficient, even for those who like to watch Lolcats on Youtube for hours on end.

It is a wannabe, because it wants to get into the market that the iPad creates.

Instead of bashing Apple for this and that, why don't you ask the other vendors to try create a market themselves in the first place.

The tablet pc and umpc attempts previously failed miserably, because, everybody just try to squeeze a notebook into smaller form factor. Even the netbook are just attempts to make notebooks even smaller without trying to improve how to use them.

Bash Apple all you want. But without iPhone and iPad, do you think Samsung (or any other vendor with similar products in the pipeline) will be able design and release the Galaxy Tab in this year or next year?

Wouldn't buy anything Samsung. My Samsung 52" HD LCD TV, which is not 3 years old yet, is making a hissing sound and the first time you turn it on you get pink pixilation. I was asking that they have a recall, since many more people were experiencing the same thing. When I contacted them, they indicated that my warranty was for 1 year and said goodbye. Not a company that cares for their customers or the quality of their products in my opinion.

It only says they'll "ship" 10,000,000 Not that they'll "sell" 10,000,000 I suspect they'll be buried in the Arizona desert next to all the Atari ET cartridges.

7 in is too small. I used an jailbroken ipad and love the size. Sorry Samsung. I will be buying the best rated 10 in android tablet. Hopefully the Viewsonic will get froyo or Asus will come out with something nice.