Basically, here are the differences between this and the Galaxy 10.1 or the Galaxy 8.9. It’s smaller, at just seven inches. It’s a little faster, with a 1.2GHz dual-core processor vs. the 1GHz on the other two. And it has an HSPA+ radio, which should make downloads nice n’ speedy (though that makes it negligibly thicker). It also sports Samsung’s bright and cheery TouchWiz UI over Android 3.2. It’s basically a faster version of the original Galaxy Tab 7. The bad news is that means that if you bough the original Galaxy Tab 7, which launched with Froyo, and you’ve been hoping for a Honeycomb update, this thing probably just took a pee a your dreams.
No word on pricing yet, but given that the screen isn’t quite as fancy as the Galaxy tab 7.7, it’ll probably be cheaper. Seriously though, Samsung, what’s up with all these look-alike tablets? Where’s the creativity? I fell asleep twice while trying to write this three paragraph post. It will likely be available by the end of October.
BenDTU
Saturday, October 1, 2011 at 4:54 PMI hope OEMs are planning on making 7″ Windows 8 tablets.
lambomann007
Sunday, October 2, 2011 at 11:39 AMI’m pretty sure I read somewhere that Windows 8 will support screens as small as 7″. What would be cool to see is a 7″ tablet with xbox buttons, dpad, 4 bumpers (cause having triggers on it would be rather odd) and two thumbsticks (like the ones on the PSP) on it. Xbox Portable FTW :)
hahah what the phuc
Saturday, October 1, 2011 at 5:16 PMof course its amazingly similar to their other tabs… what did you expect?
they are just giving different size options
Steve
Sunday, October 2, 2011 at 2:49 PMI know choice is always a good thing. But seriously? 10.1, 8.9, 7.7, 7, 5.4 (Note), 4.3 (phone)… this is getting ridiculous.
Ozoneocean
Monday, October 3, 2011 at 1:58 PMThey’re not really directly giving consumers that choice actually.
With the way these things are brought to market they have to do it that way: predominantly all these different choices of device are mostly sold to consumers through subsidised contracts with telephone companies. Each company in various regions tends to demand exclusivity over certain devices for a period of time, so what you have are different models of Samsung device (and other Android devices) all competing against each other in a bid to attract consumer attention to a particular phone company.
Ozoneocean
Sunday, October 2, 2011 at 3:45 PMI still have my original Galaxy 7 and ever since it upgraded to Gingerbread it’s been wonderful. I don’t really care that much about Honeycomb on it, it’d probably be too slow and laggy with the newer OS anyway.
den
Tuesday, October 4, 2011 at 6:51 PMI find the designs for their tablet and smartphone range to be just dull. I mean their TVs…and basically everything else they make are pretty nice. I don’t understand it to be honest.