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Samsung Shows Off Galaxy Tab, Android Allegiance
cgriffin21 writes "Samsung is making no bones about it: Google Android is its future. And with the revealing of the Samsung Galaxy Tab, the company is showing that it's all in when it comes to Android. At the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin, Samsung finally pulled the curtain off the long-rumored and teased Galaxy Tab, the electronics maker's touch-screen tablet and answer to the Apple iPad."
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The Galaxy looks pretty sweet...but I'm excited about the plethora of tablets that will be hitting the market soon. Having choice is a good thing, and it will be nice to not have choice limited to a locked-down "appliance".
Living With a Nerd
Linky.
"The agriculture ministry is not in charge of Gundam" - Japanese ministry official.
which include the first Android device from Samsung, the Galaxy S.
My Samsung Moment and the Intercept would beg to differ. The writer didn't do much research on Samsung's product offerings.
You might not have heard if you have been living under a rock for the past 2 or 3 years, but Android uses the Linux kernel. Whether you can run your _own_ Linux distribution on there is another question entirely. Sooner or later, I'm sure someone will crack it if Samsung has decided to lock it down. As with most (all?) Android devices, you're not forced to use the market.
Yeah, except plenty of useful information has in fact been released:
http://www.infosyncworld.com/reviews/internet-tablets/samsung-galaxy-tab/11309.html
It's just the price we're waiting on.
A couple of reviews of Flash running on Android 2.2 have come out. I submitted this story awhile ago to the editors but for some reason (anti-Apple bias?) they chose not to run it.
"shockingly bad" http://newteevee.com/2010/08/31/video-flash-on-android-is-startlingly-bad/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+OmMalik+(GigaOM)
"Weak Android player proves Steve Jobs right": http://blog.laptopmag.com/mobile-flash-fail-weak-android-player-proves-jobs-right
From the reviews:
"Adobe needs to have a better answer to whether or not Flash is still relevant in a world where other technologies have rapidly started displacing it. Based on my early experience with Flash Player 10.1 for mobile, it could soon join the floppy drive in the tech graveyard, something else Steve Jobs helped kill."
and
"While in theory Flash video might be a competitive advantage for Android users, in practice it’s difficult to imagine anyone actually trying to watch non-optimized web video on an Android handset, all of which makes one believe that maybe Steve Jobs was right to eschew Flash in lieu of HTML5 on the iPhone and iPad."
So is it better to have a sucky experience or none at all?
Create an open source ebook system and expand the Android marketplace to make it dead simple for authors to skip the middle man and sell directly to Android users.
1080p support on most electronics actually refers to "output" and not selfsame screen resolution
Brian Fundakowski Feldman
the price is not, it is 700 Euros which is more expensive than the iPad 9 inch version and it only has seven inches screensize.
I just wonder how many of those Samsung wants to sell here with their pay more get less politics...
As with most (all?) Android devices, you're not forced to use the market.
"Most" is correct. AT&T-branded Android devices don't have the option to install APKs from "Unknown sources".
That story states that it has a 1024x600 screen, yet 1080p HD video playback. It has no video output port, according to the description.
False advertising or bad fact checking when writing the description?
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7" is too big. It isn't really portable as in throwing it in your pocket or using a belt clip.
7" is too small. It really won't hold a full page PDF/Comic.
If I was on the go I would prefer pocketable 5" (Dell streak size).
For at home or a transportable (requiring a bag) I would actually prefer 10+ and about 1200x800 resolution for looking full screen at PDFs/Comics.
An attempt to fill both niches meets none of them very well.
I would expect this to be the standard 30-pin PDMI connector also found on the Dell Streak.
I wouldn't mind if they'd said full 720p on a 600-line screen, but it's 1080p. That's almost double the resolution the screen is physically capable of.
That's some serious stat-padding.
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Its 600 lines PER EYE. Since most people have two eyes I think we can all agree that 1200>1080.
That story states that it has a 1024x600 screen, yet 1080p HD video playback. It has no video output port, according to the description.
From what I have seen from the (unofficial) list of accessories, there is an HDMI out adapter for the connector on the device. I'm assuming that this means 1080p capabilities for the video out.
It does have HDMI out. There is an HDMI dock for it.
Aha! According to Engadget, the 30-pin dock connector does include HDMI.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/02/samsung-galaxy-tab-preview/
So I'd say the ability to play 1080p video is a valid thing to brag about.
steveha
lf(1): it's like ls(1) but sorts filenames by extension, tersely
I bought a Samsung i7500 last October that came with Android 1.5. The most recent update? Android 1.5. Samsung don't give a shit. Last product I will ever buy from them. Last time I will have an o2 mobile phone contract.