Samsung Galaxy Tab hits Sprint on November 14; pre-orders begin today

By on Oct 25, 2010 at 10:25 AM
Breaking October 25, 2010

The pricing and launch date might look familiar thanks to an exclusive we ran earlier this month, but Sprint fans with a hankering for relatively tiny tablets can now rest easy — a release date and pricing information are now official for Sprint’s upcoming Samsung Galaxy Tab. The 7-inch tablet will launch online and in select stores on November 14, and it will run $399.99 with a new 2-year contract. As far as what that 2-year contract entails, Sprint is making two data plans available alongside its first tablet offering: a 2GB option for $29.99 per month and a 5GB option for $59.99 per month. Pre-orders begin today at participating Sprint stores across the country. Hit the jump for the full press release.

Award-Winning Samsung Galaxy Tab,  Sprint’s First Android-Powered Mobile Tablet,  Debuts Nationwide on Nov. 14

As the perfect combination of e-reader, media player and mini-PC, Samsung Galaxy Tab features the reliability of the Sprint 3G network, a super fast 1GHz processor, Android 2.2 and two cameras

Starting today, customers can pre-order Samsung Galaxy Tab at any Sprint Store; For more information, visit www.sprint.com/tab

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. – Oct. 25, 2010 – What do you get when you combine an entertainment device for e-books, movies, music and games with an amazing 7-inch screen and fast and easy access to the Web, video chat and apps in an incredibly portable design?  Samsung Galaxy Tab™, the award-winning1 mobile tablet, available from Sprint beginning Sunday, Nov. 14, at select Sprint Stores, Business Sales, Web sales and telesales at 1-800-SPRINT1.

Beginning today, customers can pre-order a tablet at any participating Sprint Store with the purchase of a $50 Sprint gift card.  Customers who pre-order Samsung Galaxy Tab will have their name added to the Device Wait List and be contacted to set up an appointment to complete their Samsung Galaxy Tab purchase beginning on Sunday, Nov. 14.  Through the pre-order process, customers will have peace of mind knowing they are able to get the device they want and receive the full retail experience, including Sprint’s Ready Now customer service experience.

It will cost $399.99 (taxes not included) with a new line or eligible upgrade and two-year service agreement on a 3G Tablet Mobile Broadband plan.  Sprint customers will have two rate plans to choose from for their Samsung Galaxy Tab: a 2GB data plan with unlimited messaging for $29.99 per month or a 5GB data plan with unlimited messaging for $59.99 per month (plus taxes and surcharges).

“Samsung Galaxy Tab is another Android innovation for Sprint, adding a new category of wireless devices to the Sprint portfolio,” said Fared Adib, vice president – Product Development, Sprint.  “Samsung Galaxy Tab is a powerful entertainment device and business tool that offers our customers high-end features, including a blazing-fast processor, beautiful touchscreen for watching videos and Web browsing, two cameras, video chat capabilities and access to the Sprint 3G network with affordable rate plans that let customers take advantage of the advanced data capabilities their device offers.”

Samsung Galaxy Tab weighs less than a pound and features a brilliant 7-inch enhanced TFT touchscreen display, Android 2.2, 1GHz Hummingbird Application processor, supporting 3D graphics and smooth Web browsing, as well as dual cameras for video chat on-the-go. It offers two fast and easy ways to enter text onto the tablet – a virtual keyboard and SWYPE technology for faster and more intuitive text input with one continuous finger motion across the virtual keyboard.

Samsung Galaxy Tab features two cameras – a 3-megapixel camera with camcorder and flash, and a front-facing, 1.3-megapixel camera enabling video chat.  It also offers mobile hotspot capability as an optional add-on to simultaneously connect up to five Wi-Fi enabled devices for an additional $29.99 per month (plus taxes and surcharges).

Additional key features include:

  • Android Market™ for access to more than 80,000 useful applications, widgets and games available for download to customize the experience
  • ThinkFree Office to open and make changes to Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or PDF documents
  • Sprint Navigation can also be added for $2.99 per day or $9.99 per month (plus taxes and surcharges)
  • Stereo speakers
  • Wi-Fi – 802.11 b/g/n
  • Integrated GPS
  • 2GB onboard memory, 16GB microSD card included, with support for up to a 32GB microSD card
  • 4,000 mAh battery

On-The-Go Movie Theater Experience

Samsung Media Hub offers an easy-to-use mobile video store with movies and TV shows available for purchase or rental and video content set up for an HD-like entertainment experience.  Users can quickly get downloads of a full library of video content powered by some of the biggest names in entertainment using Wi-Fi, including MTV Networks, NBC Universal and Paramount.

Samsung Galaxy Tab will also enable sharing user-generated video content with other devices with Samsung’s exclusive AllShare service.  AllShare wirelessly shares stored music, pictures and HD-like video (720p) to other DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) certified™ home electronics, including HDTVs, monitors, digital cameras and printers.  Through AllShare, users can capture special moments with the phone’s camera and camcorder and wirelessly show them to friends or family on their DLNA-certified HDTV or download music from a PC to Samsung Galaxy Tab and take it on the road.

To make staying connected faster and easier, Samsung Galaxy Tab includes Samsung Social Hub, designed to integrate social networking services, messages, personal and business email, calendars and contacts. Calendar information from portal calendars, such as Google Calendar and social networking services, are displayed together in one calendar with two-way synchronization.

For more information about Samsung Galaxy Tab, visit www.sprint.com/tab.

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  • MacMan

    5GB for 60 ???

    Yeah I’ll pass.

  • Monique

    not worth it to sign off on a 2 year contract with those data prices…just get the wi-fi version for $100 more at best buy then root your Droid/Evo/Android phone for wireless tether…

    • Don

      Or BB, or any other phone for that matter just as you can do with an iPad as long as it has bluetooth.

    • Mark

      Just buy an iPad…..

  • bloggerX

    Pass.

  • martin

    Looks like a giant iphone

    • Jarrett

      No it doesn’t, it looks like a giant Galaxy S phone. You are thinking about the Galaxy S phone looking like an iPhone.

      Companies copy in a certain order. Generally one company brings a product to market and then several (all) other companies build similar products (hardware and software wise).

      • martin

        Doesn’t look like my Captivate at all….way more like the iphone 4 I just sold.

      • Jarrett

        You didn’t have an iPhone 4.

      • martin

        haha…you know nothing.

  • Perspective

    So the two year cost of this thing is $1120 – 1840? Wow. Verizon has a better idea; larger up-front cost but no contract. Of course, Verizon doesn’t feel compelled to subsidize the Galaxy Tab because they’re selling the iPad, something Sprint isn’t yet doing. Comedy.

  • sean76

    Seriously? That much on a data plan..I’ll pass as well, I just don’t get it with these prices from these networks! They are all way overpriced.

  • diego

    No unlimted plan what a shock…why not 5gb for $30.

    • Jarrett

      My guess would be if people are not smart enough to figure out they are paying a total two year cost of $1100+ at $30 per month data, that they will be equally dumb and willing to pay $1700+ for this at $60 per month.

      • http://justskate.me netposer

        I wish people would stop adding the monthly data cost (x24 months) to the price of the gadget as if in the end you are paying thousands for a hundreds of dollars device. It’s not interest and for a cell phone/smart phone it’s kind of hard to make use of the device without service.

        You are not paying $xx per month just to own the device but rather you are paying for a service (cell data).

        What get’s me is you don’t ever pay less by bringing your own non-subsidized device to the carrier.

  • 3 Phones Jugglin

    Love the product. Glad Sprint will have it. But i dont think its that serious to have to Preorder it. Just my opinion.

  • Killah Kyle

    I like how they promote you can add Sprint Navigation for 2.99/day or 10.99/month. When it already has Google Maps Navi for free. And 60/month for 5 Gb… I guess that stimulus package really did help the economy.

    Soon enough, tablets will be part of society, and just another bill like utilities, car insurance, etc we will adapt to.

  • http://www.verizonwireless.com VZW

    Verizon has a much better deal for data pricing.

    • Steel

      It better be for $300 more for the device!

  • Erik

    We really have to dump this whole2-year contract BS.

  • http://theandroidguru.blogspot.com The Android Guru

    Ummm Yea…..for $500, I think I’ll wait for Android 3.0. There’s no telling how long it will take Samsung to update this thing to 3.0 when it comes out anyway! That is eactly why I would NEVER buy a “skinned” Android device of any kind. The G1 & N1 have spoiled me on having the latest & the greastest Android OS first!

  • Steel

    Read my lips, Sprint: No more contracts for these things. Same for you Verizon. Sell me a fixed amount of data, ~3gb will be plenty, at a fixed price, and roll over what I don’t use to the next month. You know, since I’ve paid for it and all.

  • …BobC

    The 5GB plan is the same one that’s currently available for netbooks and notebooks. I don’t understand why people would be complaining about it.

    • jim

      Probably because for $29.95 a month I have unlimited with NO contract on my iPad!

  • Speed racer

    Sorry but this Tab – from Sprint to Verizon, looks to be an absolute and utter failure. I mean first of all, from a pricing standpoint alone, people will NOT pay that much to buy it when a comparable (larger, more established and sadly trendier) alternative exists (literally RIGHT next to it in VZ’s case).
    Then factor in a mandatory 2nd contract (obviously for 3G models)?
    Ugh – no thanks!

  • Slapshot94

    Sprint & Verizon: Please tell me why I would buy this thing, with a contract and a data plan, over an iPad, where I don’t have a contract and don’t need data plan (if using WiFi)??

    • Monique

      no contract needed for the vzw tab…and its priced cheaper than the 3G iPad (albeit $30 cheaper)…best buy will have the wifi version for $100 cheaper than the vzw tab…

  • always cool

    Sprint is known for always willing to try anyhthing.

  • Eludium Q36

    I am extremely disappointed by this corporate idiocy and wrote to Dan Hesse, CEO of Sprint as follows:

    Dan, I’m very disappointed to see the customer terms of acquisition for the just introduced Galaxy Tablet. I was really looking forward to this iPad competitor becoming available on Sprint till I saw the terms. It’s not the price of the unit that gets me, it’s the additional monthly data fee. I’m already paying $150+/month for an Everything Data Family plan (3-lines) where we don’t even use HALF of the alloted 1500 minutes and a fraction of a gigabyte in data. But instead of permitting me to leverage all those unused resources you’re wanting to eek out another $30 – $60/month from me! Do you not see what a recipe for product failure this is ?! I am very, very disappointed in you and Sprint for doing this to the Galaxy Tablet. Shame on you.(I’ve been a Sprint [Premier] customer since 1998).

    • serpentor

      Well, to be fair to Sprint, with their unlimited mobile to mobile it would be difficult to use up all your allotted minustes.

      And you would regularly pay $20 to add a device to your Everything Data plan so this is only $10 more. Yeah, it’s less data than what you’re allowed with a smartphone but I’m guessing Sprint figures people will be using more data on the Tab then a smartphone.

  • Brian

    I will pass as well. Give me the wifi only version and I will save money and have a better experience.

  • Raul

    The odds are this is the first thing Shakira thought about and bought when she got out of bed today. She’s loca right?

  • Jje

    Tmobile will have better deal 40bucks 5gb I’ll wait for that.

  • jfr

    I’m sure the lines will be forming soon, and they’ll be around the block.

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