It’s not as rigid, not as sturdy or deliberately constructed – at least that’s the way it feels. That’s because the back is plastic, glossy and thin. Like the Motorola Xoom, it’s proportioned in a way that it’s really meant to be used in landscape – it’s too tall, too long in portrait mode. But it’s still the first Android tablet, the first non-iPad tablet to feel the way that tablets should feel. Every millimetre, every gram counts, and in the Galaxy Tab 10.1, the maths is beautiful.
More on this later. But even if it’s exactly the same as the Xoom and every other Android Honeycomb in terms of power, performance, features – this is the new Android tablet to buy. Because it’s the first one to feel right.
DK Son
Wednesday, May 11, 2011 at 12:31 PMHO HO HO that looks sex!
Jon
Wednesday, May 11, 2011 at 12:53 PMAs an owner of the iPad 1, I always find myself using it landscape mode, especially for web browsing. Looking at the Galaxy tablet it looks as though it’s too long for it’s height. If web pages are going to maximise to fill the horizontal width, then the vertical range of the website is going to be limited compared to what the iPad (1 or 2) displays.
TSH
Wednesday, May 11, 2011 at 3:49 PM1280*800 is a standard notebook PC resolution. Somehow I don’t think that’s going to be a problem.
U jelly? :–P
yup
Wednesday, May 11, 2011 at 4:44 PMMMMMmm-Hmmm! I’m jelly!
Johnny P
Wednesday, May 11, 2011 at 2:08 PMYawn. Ipad to outsell Galaxy Tab 10.1 1000:1
haha
Wednesday, May 11, 2011 at 4:50 PMZzzz ipad.. who cares about what sells more. The Ipad has no real purpose for those who aren’t fanboys with too much disposable income.
Bob
Wednesday, May 11, 2011 at 7:54 PMTablets have their place. I have a laptop that never leaves the house, as it was designed for. It’s handy to carry from room to room, or out to the pool room to hook up to speakers and using YouTube as a video jukebox for a piss-up or bbq. Tablets are just sleeker instruments for the same purpose. The LT does just fine for now, but when photoshop gets their app up and running and I can use the touch screen feature of a tablet to work on .PSD’s, I’ll buy one.
Lakshan
Wednesday, May 11, 2011 at 8:33 PMA friend of mine got one and jailbroke it. He VNCs into his home computer over the wi-fi at our uni, so he has an ultra-portable desktop. He uses it for programming and it does surprisingly well, not that I would give up my netbook any time soon. But you cant just say something is useless till you try it.
Oddie
Wednesday, May 11, 2011 at 9:56 PMAnd this does?
Drew
Friday, May 13, 2011 at 3:49 AMQuantity does not equate to quality. Ipods have proven that. Bring on variety, gets boring with the same old same old, yawn.
BenDTU
Wednesday, May 11, 2011 at 2:28 PMVery Clever Gizmodo! You’re saying the Ipad is the first amazing Android tablet!
… OH WAIT.
Tim
Wednesday, May 11, 2011 at 3:01 PMLooks beautiful but man is Samsung going to get their balls sued off by Apple….
dogface
Wednesday, May 11, 2011 at 3:16 PMyeah tim, good one. so is apple going to sue everyone that creates a tablet .. somehow i think not.
jay
Wednesday, May 11, 2011 at 9:45 PMsomehow I think yes… *facefist*
Nodeity
Wednesday, May 11, 2011 at 3:44 PMOk,.. My B’Day’s coming up in July, so should I tell my wife to buy this one or is there something better coming up soon?
James
Wednesday, May 11, 2011 at 4:49 PMwow….. only took someone well over a year to build a worthy competitor to Apple’s giant.
I can’t see how they’ll gain any kind of foothold though. iPad is way too much of a recognised brand now. All these other competitors may as well have not even bothered.
*sigh*
Ivan
Wednesday, May 11, 2011 at 6:58 PMTo people who don’t buy things because they’re pretty and actually know how a product will benefit them because of the technology and software used will buy a honeycomb based tablet.
I am still yet to see any innovation in the iPad 2′s iOS. It’s still the same oversized iPhone/iPod layout seen in the iPad 1. All there is, is the same blank layout with your apps… You serious? These are Tablet devices we are talking about here, who said that was a smart idea?
Look at Honeycomb’s layout. You have full customisation. On your home screen you can have a selection of your apps, latest news/facebook/twitter feeds, and much more. When I see that, I know that someone has pulled their head out of their backside and seen what people desire. If I truely needed a tablet, I wouldn’t lay a finger on the iPad, the Galaxy Tab would easily be one of my choices of the Honeycomb tablet selection. Why? Because I know that I haven’t been given some half thought out idea of how a tablet should work and just let the idiots in the world buy it because it is a fashion statement.
But I digress, I know there are many people out there with a similar mindset as mine. Android based phones were late to the table as well and I already see amongst my friends alone that Android is now a 50:50 ratio. Alot of ignorant people like yourself said the same thing that Android wouldn’t kick off. But were wrong and will also be wrong in this case.
Brenton
Wednesday, May 11, 2011 at 7:12 PM@James
Good point, just like the 1 year head start the iPhone had, how recognised the brand was and the foot hold it had on the market when Android phones hit the shelves- We all know how that turned out. Someone must be buying the 400,000 Android phones that are activated every day. The current tablet market is a drop in the ocean compared to what it will be in a few years, people with Android phones will buy Android tablets.
Aaron
Wednesday, May 11, 2011 at 9:18 PMThe the IBM PS2 was also a really well known brand and I’m fairly certain HP, Compaq, Digital, Dell etc faced the same problem and it didn’t stop each of them becoming sucessful in the PC market.
Steve
Wednesday, May 11, 2011 at 11:20 PMThe iPad is only a year or so old. It took a single year to get a device like this out on the market (incredibly short), so why do you imply it’s been in development hell or something?
This is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard, why bother? The iPhone came out in 2007 and would have steamrolled the ossified Win Mob and Symbian platforms. Android again also started on the back foot and is now technically ‘winning.’
Why would tablets be any different?
aarick
Wednesday, May 11, 2011 at 5:15 PMIf only this had HTC Scribe Technology. That would be the perfect tablet!
pacificstorm
Wednesday, May 11, 2011 at 10:58 PMOhhh, it’s so sexy and so modern and minimalistic. iPad series are so yesterday news (yawn). Galaxy S 2 and Tabs are the new standards in which everyone must follow and yep, that include ancient Apple. The Tab may look like an iPad from the outside for some, while the iPads are pure Samsung inside. Fair trade-off, methinks.
Steve
Wednesday, May 11, 2011 at 11:17 PMDon’t know who would pick up the 10.1v at this point.
Samsung finally got it right, now just get the pricing right and I’m sold.
Argon
Thursday, May 12, 2011 at 8:50 AMWow it is amazing how well it is copied ….
Ashley lee
Thursday, May 12, 2011 at 7:35 PMI didn’t see Android Tablet PC yet.I’m Just wondering how is it different than iPad.
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Andrew
Thursday, May 12, 2011 at 9:54 PMStill love my 7″ tab, its not the newest thing, but with dropbox and openoffice, i never use my hideously heavy gaming laptop for uni any more. VERY little point!
Drew
Friday, May 13, 2011 at 3:41 AMThe Ipad looks like those cheap digital photo frames you would pick up at a dime store to give to someone you don’t like. Its great to have choice and naturally there will be similarities, a triangle tab would be dreadful.