It’s finally here. After those legal battles with Apple in Australian courts, the Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet (follow-up to the Galaxy Tab 10.1v) has hit Aussie shops starting at around $579. It’s thinner and lighter than the iPad 2, and Samsung’s TouchWiz UX interface for Android 3.1 Honeycomb is bright and inviting. We also now know which Galaxy Tab 10.1 accessories will be available in Australia. Let’s take a look.
The Age quotes Harvey Norman representatives as being unhappy about the Galaxy Tab 10.1 injunction. Not so much on technology grounds — moreso because there’s money out there that it’s not making and importers are.
Federal Court Justice Annabelle Bennett has just delivered her verdict on the temporary injuction against Samsung selling the Galaxy Tab 10.1. Apple has won the injunction, with the comment from the judge being that it was “appropriate” to grant a temporary injunction. Samsung’s issued its statement on the ruling, and Apple’s repeated its position from earlier in the case as its statement.
Federal Court Justice Annabelle Bennett is due to deliver her verdict on the temporary injunction against Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 at Midday today. We’ll report the verdict later today as soon as she’s finished delivering it.
This was all too inevitable — there comes a time when it’s not worth paying the lawyers any more — as Samsung’s lawyers have stated to the Federal court that they may scrap plans to launch the Galaxy Tab 10.1 unless it can happen in the next two weeks.
This isn’t a huge surprise — I guessed as much in my post on it this morning — but the word coming out of the hearing between Apple and Samsung is that Samsung’s agreed to hold off on launching the Galaxy Tab 10.1 until at least next week.
The Australian notes that a decision on the temporary injunction against Samsung selling the Galaxy Tab 10.1 could be handed down tomorrow. It won’t be the end of Apple and Samsung’s legal squabbles, but could clear the way for sales of the tablet to begin.
Chalk up a peripheral victory for Apple in its long-standing battle against Samsung; The Sydney Morning Herald reports that less than two weeks after announcing he’d sell it, Kogan’s decided to withdraw from selling the Galaxy Tab 10.1. But he’s still selling iPad 2.
Apple and Samsung are back in court in Sydney today, contesting the fate of the Galaxy Tab 10.1. Apple says Samsung is “crashing through” its patents, but Samsung states that design should have nothing to do with the patent case.
