It’s no secret that Apple’s iPad dominates the fledgling tablet market, although Samsung had other plans that didn’t quite work out when they released their Galaxy Tab late last year. Now, Samsung is back at Mobile World Congress with a more worthy followup.
Engadget is reporting that Samsung has officially announced the Galaxy Tab 10.1, a bigger-screen version of last year’s seven-inch Galaxy Tab that should also be the second tablet to market with Google’s hot new Android 3.0 software. Samsung made the announcement on Sunday in Barcelona, Spain, where this year’s Mobile World Congress is now underway.
The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 features a 10.1-inch display (thus the name), powered by a dual-core Tegra 2 processor and will come packing either 16GB or 32GB of storage as well as a two-megapixel front-facing camera with a more capable eight-megapixel rear camera.
The specs for the Galaxy Tab 10.1 posted on Engadget show a more worthy rival for the iPad than the original Galaxy Tab, which was largely ignored after its much-hyped release since the device ran Android 2.2, which isn’t optimized for tablets. Google has rushed to fix that problem with Android 3.0, which for now is a tablet-specific version of its software that will first debut on the Motorola XOOM expected this month.
Check out Engadget’s hands-on video of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 (embedded below) for more details, and see if you think it will be a worthy rival for the iPad -- unfortunately there’s no price or launch date for the device as yet, so for now Apple continues to rule this roost.
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