Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 preview: First look - GSMArena.com: "The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 is certainly in the running for the best Android tablet of the year. Slim and sleek, it has a screen that is hard to match in quality by anything of comparable size and this tablet also has plenty of power under the hood.
Our personal preference still lies with its smaller 8.9” brother and its more complete TouchWiz experience, but the update is coming to the Tab 10.1 too and we are sure not everyone shares our thoughts about the size. And we can easily see why – being able to enjoy the excellent picture quality on an extra 1.2 inches could be worth sacrificing some portability for a lot of people.
And there seems to be plenty of room in the 10.1” league for the largest Galaxy Tab to develop its potential. The XOOM is notably heavier and thicker and is yet unable to use its trump cards (the microSD slot and LTE support) due to unfinished software support, while the Eee Pad Transformer is in such limited supply that it is not making as much of an impact as we thought it would.
Yet even if the Galaxy Tab 10.1 did win the Android finals, it probably won’t be good enough for its manufacturer. You see, Samsung likes to think big and that’s why they probably won’t consider the slate a success unless it manages to challenge the iPad throne and steal some of its thunder.
Unfortunately, we cannot say how those two will really compare before we get a final unit of the Galaxy Tab and put Android 3.1 Honeycomb through its paces. The potential is all there, but we have to see it realized before we can wholeheartedly pass our judgment on this Android tablet compared to its iOS alternative."
Our personal preference still lies with its smaller 8.9” brother and its more complete TouchWiz experience, but the update is coming to the Tab 10.1 too and we are sure not everyone shares our thoughts about the size. And we can easily see why – being able to enjoy the excellent picture quality on an extra 1.2 inches could be worth sacrificing some portability for a lot of people.
And there seems to be plenty of room in the 10.1” league for the largest Galaxy Tab to develop its potential. The XOOM is notably heavier and thicker and is yet unable to use its trump cards (the microSD slot and LTE support) due to unfinished software support, while the Eee Pad Transformer is in such limited supply that it is not making as much of an impact as we thought it would.
Yet even if the Galaxy Tab 10.1 did win the Android finals, it probably won’t be good enough for its manufacturer. You see, Samsung likes to think big and that’s why they probably won’t consider the slate a success unless it manages to challenge the iPad throne and steal some of its thunder.
Unfortunately, we cannot say how those two will really compare before we get a final unit of the Galaxy Tab and put Android 3.1 Honeycomb through its paces. The potential is all there, but we have to see it realized before we can wholeheartedly pass our judgment on this Android tablet compared to its iOS alternative."
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