Back when I first got my hands on the new iPad, I bemoaned the fact that it wouldn’t fit the highly flexible Wallee case. The team behind the Wallee has announced it’s got new cases to solve that problem, as well as take on a new market, with a specific case for the Galaxy Tab 10.1
We learned back in February that Virgin Australia would be trialling the Samsung Galaxy Tab as an in-flight entertainment option, and that only business class passengers would be in the first round of testing. But it turns out the trial is even more restricted than that: it’s only running for a single week. Fortunately, there’s better news ahead.
You probably need a cheat sheet to keep track of all of Samsung’s tablets: the Galaxy Tab 7, the 10.1, the 8.9, the 7.0 Plus, the 7.7, and did I hear a niner in there? And now there’s the Galaxy Tab 2, with two models (7.0 and 10.1) that are very slightly improved, but not enough to justify a few hundred bucks.
The new iPad runs a little warmer than the old one, but is it actually “hot” by comparison to other tech gear we use every day? The answer would seem to be no, although nobody can quite agree by how much.
Available from today, the 4G Tablet will set you back $720 outright for the 16GB version or $840 for the 32GB variant.
At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Samsung’s just added a 10.1-inch size Tab 2 alongside the 7-incher, which was announced just the other day. The lager model features Ice Cream Sandwich and a 1GHz dual-core processor, but weirdly, is actually fatter and heavier than the original 10.1-inch Galaxy Tab.
Jetstar has had iPads since last year. Qantas is trialling iPads on one plane. Virgin Australia is also getting into the tablets-for-in-flight-entertainment game, but rather than going Apple, it will be using the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1.
Android docking solutions are few and far between, but it’s somehow fitting that iLuv would launch its first Galaxy TAB dock on Valentine’s day, along with the somewhat-suspect-sounding Vibro II for iPhone and iPod.
Quickflix is certainly picking up steam; it wasn’t that long ago that its streaming movie service was PC only, and then branching out to Sony PS3. It’s just announced that Samsung TVs, tablets and smartphones will get its service from the middle of the year.
Move over Galaxy Tab — according to one analytics firm, Amazon’s Kindle Fire is on track to become the king of Android tablets.
