Samsung to introduce its Android tablet in Q3 2010

By on Jul 30, 2010 at 1:16 PM
General July 30, 2010

Add Samsung to the long list of hardware manufacturers that are confirmed to be jumping on the Android tablet bandwagon in 2010. Samsung was not forthcoming with details but did confirm on Friday that its upcoming Android-powered tablet will sport a 7-inch display, placing it squarely in the middle of the 5-inch Dell Streak and the almost 10-inch Apple iPad. Looking to snag early adopters, Samsung is getting into the game slightly ahead of its local rival LG by launching its tablet in the third quarter of 2010. Anyone interested in a super-sized Galaxy S?

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  • Tom

    hopefully we are talking tablet and not tablet/phone like Dell.

    With that said i still would like to see a SIM card spot to run 3g on it.

    • http://www.thepoliticus.com dee

      with andriod 2.2 you can connect your phone’s 3g coverage with it. So there’s no need to pay another 3g charge.

  • Idaho Jones

    Hmmm…. I don’t wanna iPad, have been thinkinig about a netbook… but an Android tablet… I’ll be an early adopter!

    Since I used to have an Android handset, I could probably re-download some of the same apps without have to buy them again.

    Then I could hold off on any cellphones so I can see what the final verdict for Win 7 phones are.

    Android tablet… yes please! I need a wi-fi internet appliance!

    • jarrett

      No, you want an wi-fi internet appliance. If you “Needed” an wi-fi internet appliance you would already have an iPad or Streak or whatever.

  • EggoEspada

    So LG, Moto, and Samsung are all coming out with tablets this year? Wow.
    I’ll wait for the Moto/Verizon tablet with Gingerbread. Course, if this Samsung Tab is anything like the Galaxy S, or better, I might get that. Decisions, decisions.

  • Chut Pata

    Still no dual station tablet that I can hold with my thumb like my pocket book, and read comfortably.

  • Sharquawnda@SprintPOS

    If it has a super AMOLED display panel I’m already sold.

  • Matthew Newton

    I’m an Apple FanBoy, but I don’t mind having an Android Tablet. If it’s cheaper than the iPad that is.

  • droid 2.2

    Will have to wait to see them but don’t want an ipad but would get a tablet with android…apple suxs sorry had throw last part in

  • Oswald

    As long as there is no TouchWiz and there is a Super AMOLED screen I want one.

  • OS Fragmentation sucks

    Let’s see how many Fandroids will get hype and buy this while they dismissed the iPad as a useless gadget that didn’t have a place in anyone’s life. Way to go hypocrites.

    • thedogscar

      I am not a “Fandroid” … but I did not buy the iPad, and it is useless to me.

      I do not want to ‘have to’ carry around two devices to get the benefits of a Large Touch Screen and make phone calls … and I do mean carry around, since the iPad can not fit in a pocket.

      The 7″ Samsung will fit in a pocket (I have an Archos 7; it is thicker, and it does), and with the combination of a built in phone, it is definitely worth looking at …

      I am also waiting for more Specs on RIM’s BlackPad, but currents rumors are it will not be 7″ … and will, like the iPad, be a companion to a second device (i.e. not make phone calls).

  • walt

    I’m sure there will be Touchwiz, but I can live with that. Been looking forward to this.

  • JJ

    i cant wait to compare the motorola 10″ & samsung 7″ when its available.

    • jaymax

      Size queen. (just teasing)

  • OS Fragmentation sucks

    Once again, Apple paves the way for technology. The changed the game with the iPhone and then create a new market with the iPad and now everyone has to play catch up and jump in.

    I think it will probably be a nice piece of equipment. An Android tablet does sound good. It’s the blackberry fanboys and fandroids that make me sick when they said the iPad was a useless device and no one needed one because “I have a laptop and a smartphone”, but now are ready to get the same type of device with a different platform. Obviously, those devices aren’t as useless as they thought. Just haters and hypocrites.

    • mezmryz03

      FYI, nobody gives a shit what makes you sick.

  • Listen2reason

    Kinda similar to the idiots that said Barack was great. Now they decide to change their minds. He didn’t change, they did. He’s still the same crappy person he was before he made it to office

    • RT

      he certainly has his problems, but atleast he’s a step in the right direction after that retard he followed. Here’s to hoping the next one will be another step in the right direction!

    • Lunchbox

      Looks like someone got lost. I’ll help him out…

      You actually want to go to http://www.foxnews.com/

      You’re welcome!

  • Rob

    All they are doing is copying…Google needs to learn how to innvovate not copy Apple’s ideas. Apple will always be a step ahead though

    • WalterSobchak

      Samsung is introducing this not google.
      Google didn’t want android on tablets, that’s for chrome(which is the most original idea to hit computing in a long time)
      Consumers and manufacturers have spoken however and want a product for grownups that does more than fingerpainting and making “teh fart noizes!”

    • phillip

      Stop trying to revise history. Google bought Android two years before the first iTurd. They had enough sense to wait until they had a robust product before launching it. There is still no freedom with the iPOS’s

      • jarrett

        @ Phillip,

        If you are going to write about history, at least have a the facts. Google Bought Android in 2003, iPhone was launched in 2007. Also, the development for iPhone began roughly around 2003 when Apple developed a touch screen that was actually tablet size. When Apple gives the world a new product it typically has five years of development behind it. Google’s purchase of Android was probably more to do with it’s Linux Kernel and the fact that it could be very scaled.
        You can not deny that Eric Schmidt being on Apple’s board of directors didn’t give Google an idea or two. That would be the equivalent of saying that Steve Jobs and the Apple crew and PARC (Xerox) didn’t give Apple an idea or two. Or that Microsoft developing software for Apple didn’t grab an idea or fifty from the Mac OS that was running on the Macintosh.

        Knowing a little about the history of how things come together could really help you out in an argument, especially when you are the person initiating the argument.

        Hating or liking a corporation is insanely extreme. If you like a product great, use it. If you don’t like a product, fine, don’t use it.

  • rctennis

    I love the iPad, but I just hate the price. If this undercuts the iPad by at least $150, then I’m sold!

  • zack

    7 inches seems pretty pointless; you can’t even type on a screen this small.

    I just really hope this isn’t a big galaxy s. People (including Apple) are just making blown up phones. What I want is a blown up phone optimized for the big screen but one that borrows true computer functionality such as MS office, printing, and more productivity tools. I hope Sammy can accomplish that.

  • joe

    Am I the only one that believes the tablet craze is just a fad that will pass??

    I’m all for big phones like EVO and Droid X, which still fit in a pocket and are phones… but a big slab that needs a briefcase or backpack, with no physical keyboard and less functionality than either a laptop/netbook or a phone just seems like a gimmick to me…

    • Greg

      +1

      • Hallo

        there’s a button for that you know.

      • Greg

        Oh yeah, thanks. I missed that. :)

  • walt

    I’m gonna bet it comes stock with Swype.

  • dan hesse

    out in october on sprint, the model number is p-1

  • Juke

    I think that Apple and Android were offshoots of the mediocre job MS did with the tablet software if you want to talk history. And if we are talking history then Apple took the shot in the dark in 1979 with the Apple tablet, and again in 1993 with the Newton.

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