Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Rivals iPad In Design, Specs., And Execution

ITBusiness.ca’s Melissa J. Perenson says that the first Android tablet to market with the Honeycomb 3.1 OS offers a slick design, a brilliant display, and is also lighter than the iPad.

Ms. Perenson contends that Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 Wi-Fi is the first Android tablet to effectively challenge Apple’s iPad 2 at what Apple does best: design, and at CAN$499 for a 16GB version (the 16 GB WiFi iPad is CAN$519)- the Samsung device has that in spades, moving to the head of the Android pack.

She further observes that the Tab 10.1 achieves perhaps the greatest design compliment an Android tablet can hope for in that it was often mistaken at first glance for being an iPad 2, even by Apple iPad users. With its svelte 8.6mm, (0.34-inches) profile and weighing in at 1.25 pounds, to the iPad’s 1.33, the Tab 10.1 is both 0.2mm slimmer and lighter than the iPad 2, and from the side, the two tablets look very similar, although the Tab 10.1, currently shipping in white livery, wil also eventually be available in Metallic Gray. The Tab 10.1’s screen has slightly different proportions from the iPad’s, measuring a more widescreen 10.1 by 6.9 inches at 1280 by 800 pixel resolution, compared with iPad 2’s 9.5 by 7.3 inches.

The Tab 10.1 is powered by Nvidia’s Tegra 2 dual-core 1GHz processor, has 802.11 a/b/g/n Wi-Fi, rear- and front- facing cameras (3- and 2-megapixels, respectively, with rear flash), gyroscope, accelerometer, digital compass, and ambient light sensor, and like the iPad is I/O port and slot impoverished, with no ports other than its docking port. The Tab 10.1 supports Adobe Flash, although not as a default install.

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