Samsung’s first Windows 8 tablet leaks

By on Sep 13, 2011 at 9:45 AM
Tablets September 13, 2011

On September 8th, rumors surfaced suggesting that Microsoft’s Steven Sinofsky would show off a Windows 8-powered Samsung tablet this week during the company’s BUILD conference, and the latest leak lends a bit of credibility to those reports. A convincing image of the tablet in a BUILD-branded box with a Samsung logo was posted on Weibo, a Chinese social network similar to Twitter. It is hard to decipher how big the display is from the photo. Other rumors have pointed to a quad-core processor from Intel, but the full specs are still unclear. The BUILD keynote kicks off at 12:00 p.m. Eastern on Tuesday, so we’re sure we will hear a lot more about the device in just a few hours. Stay tuned.

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  • Anonymous

    Sweet

    • Anonymous

      I just got a $829.99 iPad2 for only $103.37 and my mom got a $1499.99 HDTV for only $251.92, they are both coming with USPS tomorrow. I would be an idiot to ever pay full retail prices at places like Walmart or Bestbuy. I sold a 37″ (HDTV) to my boss for $600 that I only paid $78.24 for. I use BidsOut.c om

  • Ryan Deen

    iPad resemblance = Apple lawsuit…. again!

    • Anonymous

       oh please shut up with the iPad resemblance. its a tablet its suppose to look the way it does it has four corners its thin and it has a display….for god sake this arguement is getting old and boring now…

      • Kyopoboy

        I think he meant to be facetious.

      • Anonymous

        Its just annoying now…

      • Anonymous

         i dont care what he was trying to say i think this samsung copied apple apple copied samsung is getting boring and old now…and to all the people on here arguing who is better and who is not again bloody get a life. android is good and iOS is good as well…more variety and choice for us the consumers the better i say…

      • Ryan Deen

        Yes, I was being facetious. I was being facetious because all of these lawsuits are ridiculous. It’s a touchscreen tablet. It’s rectangular. It has a battery…. the situation is getting old and it deserves all the facetiousness it gets.

      • Anonymous

        I’m not sure about thin. Look at the box. And there are definitely other designs besides the iPad one look at what Sony did.

      • Anonymous

         dont get me wrong the iPad for me is the benchmark for all tablets. if i was to get a tablet it would be that. again reason because the apps that the iOS has. but i do love the openess of android and i do love my galaxy s2. its hard to choose but again thats the whole point of having choices and being spoilt by it. so what apple is doing and trying to bully the way and get rid of the competition is wrong. speak to the company who you think is ripping of your work and come to an agreement and if that dont work then go to courts…its a dog e dog work i know

    • http://twitter.com/Liu_James James Liu

      M&M should sue Skittles too. They look the same.

    • AEROSPIKE

      MICROSOFT WILL BE APPLE’S WORST NIGHTMARE IF THEY GO DOWN THAT ROAD!!

  • Anonymous

    The future of fail.

    • shankapotomus

      the only failure here is your post

    • Anonymous

      @quietstorms:disqus Dude you stink man. Look around all the blogs. TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Engadget, BGR, ThisIsMyNext etc.. These are people that are there watching this new thing get revealed. Not a single one of them has written negatively or pointed out any HUGE flaw and some of these sites are Apple loving DIEHARDS like yourself. Except you can’t get over yourself and in turn you’ve become a **** head.

      The power of a desktop, the simplicity of a tablet, all in one. BTW expect Apple to follow suit on this (I better see you bashing that when it gets announced as well). Fact of the matter is Windows 8 is the future. Deal with it and stop being a douche.

  • Anonymous

    There are Videos at the source

  • numetheus

    Why the hell does Samsung always feel the need to out a clean black slate with no markings on the front except for a single button on the bottom center? Do they not have a design team of their own?

    • Anonymous

      You have any ideas on how a Tablet without a keyboard should look? Circular maybe?

      • numetheus

        How long have you been into PDAs/Smartphones? I have been around them ever since the Psion 5mx was released. Before the iPhone there were LOTS of very unique and different designs. The Sony Clie, Sharp Zaurus, Nokia phones. All had their own unique spin on it. They were different colors, had different button layouts, unique shapes, borders … you name it. They were ALL different. Now look at them after iPhone release. Every single one of them a black slate with a similar shape with a single button on the bottom front. Where has the innovation gone? It’s like they were thrown out the Window when (especially Samsung) decided to piggy-back on iPhone design queues. Do some research. Look at phones BEFORE iPhone, then look at them after. It’s like custom design was thrown out the Window. This applies to tablets too. There is absolutely no reason why they all need to be a black slate with the same shape and exact same button layout.

      • Anonymous

        The one “button” in the center is put there so it works equally for left handed and right handed people.

      • numetheus

        Yes. Although there is absolutely no reason why they are all black slates with a SINGLE button. Take a look at devices before iPhone. They were ALL different with different button layouts. Now look at devices after. They are all the same. Companies like Samsung feel they shouldn’t design their own stuff anymore. Just take what someone else made popular and move the button to another edge.

      • Anonymous

        Ok…so black is the “in” color right now. Perhaps it will change to silver again a few years from now.
        As for the individual button layout. I am seeing that more on every capacitive touchscreen device.
        Having an individual button that wakes the tablet or screen up is just plain cost effective. There is less hardware to design and implement on the circuit inside and why would you need need multiple buttons when one button can wake up the device and a simple touch can then allow you to navigate using the software?

      • F1

        The Post-iPHONE design era:

        “The Sony Clie, Sharp Zaurus, Nokia phones. All had their own unique spin on it. They were different colors, had different button layouts, unique shapes, borders …” 

        I could not agree more….it is like today, most have no passion or pride to innovate!Their thought process appears to be “if it works let’s use it…why reinvent the wheel…why spend the money to design something original”!

        At least SONY is trying, I still remember ” it’s a SONY”, today’s Best Buy sales staff, like yesterday’s Circuit City, say “it’s a APPLE, it works!”

        Although, ASUS/ ACER and to a lesser extend MOTO/ TOSHIBA/ RIM unlike HP & SAMSUNG are still producing somewhat different looks.

        Thank You

         

    • serpentor

      The button is placed on the long edge, where as ipad’s is placed on the shorter edge.

      Also this is closer to 16:9 and ipad’s is 4:3.

      If you’re reading BGR and you can’t even tell the difference, I see how the German court sided with Apple.

      • numetheus

        It is a black slate with a single button on one of the sides. Look at phones prior to the iPhone. They all had unique and varying designs. Unique and varying button layouts. Now look at Samsung after iPhone. Simple design with exactly the same layout. People like you who think being unique means simply moving a botton from the long side to the short side is what is ruining unique design. Can you really say that devices prior to iPhone all had a clean black design with a single button? They were ALL very unique. Sony Clie was one of the best designs in the smartphone world. My Sharp Zaurus was absolutely NOTHING like iPhone/iPad. Look at the countless windows mobile phones. None of them have the same design. Why does Samsung feel the need copy Apple design queues.

      • Anotherday

        skip……skip…..skip……skip……skip…..skip………..fail.

      • http://twitter.com/AliMazooji Ali M

        You’ve got to be kidding me!  What kind of an argument is this?  The iPad is based on an extremely generic design.  You’re basically arguing that if a TV manufacturer designs a TV that’s all-screen & no bezel, that nobody else in the world can make a TV without a bezel.  Everything was moving in the direction of the iPad.  Just because they were the first to come out with the product doesn’t mean they invented it.  This exact design was featured in 2001 (the movie), so why is Apple getting all the credit?  So now Android tablets don’t have any buttons on the screen.  If Apple does away with their button all together, are you going to be on here talking about “Look at iPad’s prior to Honeycomb tablets? They all had a single button in the middle & now they’ve removed that button…”  Give me a friggin break!

      • Anonymous

        Blah blah blah.
        The only thing left for you is uppercase.
        No one is listening.

  • Eric R.

    Look closely at Windows 8 and I will tell you what it REALLY is. It’s Windows 7 with more dressing and improvements, and they add a whole new layer that runs HTML and CSS and Javasscript for the touch screen apps. It’s a full screen explorer with new API’s to let it do touch and other functions. That’s it. It’s a PC. It’s a heavy PC. IT STILL HAD THE WINDOWS REGISTRY. It’s a windows pc with a full screen browser mode that “looks” like a touch screen interface. MS stated as much, when they said the Tablet is a PC and not a Phone. 

    Problem is, PC is too heavy a design methodology for tablets. And slapping ribbon toolbars on everything and adding a full screen web browser mode and calling it a “touch” interface is going to fail VERY hard. 

    MS should have scaled up Windows Phone, not tried to squeeze Windows down.

    Everyone laughed at the iPad for being like an over-sized iPod. But those folks (me, and most of you I’d guess) were wrong. It’s not “like” a giant iPod. It **is** a giant iPod! The simplicity in the system is what lets iOS (which is real Mac / BSD kernel in it’s core) run so well. Ask any of the 900,000 people a week STILL buying iPads if they care about any of the following: upgrading the hardware, fixing the registry, applying a theme…. they don’t. People don’t want to tweak their antivirus anymore. People want to USE it to read things, look at things, create things… the lack of options I don’t like, and that you probably don’t like, that us tech lovers don’t like, is exactly why most people LOVE it. And it’s the reason MS will fail because they are shrinking windows, not expanding windows phone.

    If they expanded the phone I would put every penny I have into MS Stock. But they are trying to shrink windows and it will not work. It’s too heave and PHYSICS gets in the way. Battery life, processor, weight, these items are simply not at the level to run a heave OS like Windows. On the computer windows 8 will rock, but on tablets it will fail. too heavy. 

    In 5 years Microsoft will be an enterprise company. People don’t go to the mall to buy something from SAP or Oracle. And MS will be the same way. B2B. Enterprise. Blackberry too. But at Best Buy, in people’s hands walking down the street, MS will dissapear in 5 years. 

    If you disagree with any of this, as a fan of ALL thinks tech I would love to hear what you disagree with and why. Show me the way and I’m happy to concede on anything. 

    • Anonymous

      >MS should have scaled up Windows Phone, not tried to squeeze Windows down.

      This is why MS is in trouble. What if tablets are the future of computing? Suddenly you have MS making $15 for every WP license instead of making the $100-200 they make on a Windows license. This doesn’t speak very well for future earnings forecasts.

      • Anonymous

        No, it doesn’t. Luckily for them your assumptions are wrong. 

        MS have a legacy business audience – in 2010 4.26% of all users were on any of the Mac OSX versions.  Linux has a higher usage. When you factor cost of changeover and training – believe it or not there are still a majority of business users who know nothing but the windows environment and will refuse to change to any alternative – this resistance to change is their saving grace.  That of course completely ignores the legacy personal market which even with the advent of tablets (apple and android) still completely dominates the industry.

        As for the soon to occur replacement of the PC – Do you really think work product will be created on tablets?  I’ll give you but one example, there isn’t an ipad app that can handle markups properly – one shows markups, the other only allows a simple version of markup the other accepts all markups and doesn’t show them. I know, I have them all, docs2go pro, pages, etc etc. So the ipad is useless to any business negotiating documents, which is most professional services firms.  When MS releases an ARM version of office this will come, but I won’t be reviewing a 200 page contract in markup on a tablet.  I’ll sit there on a ARM ultrabook running windows 8 and a full office suite.

        Do you see Apples’ issue and why PC’s won’t go anywhere anytime soon?  Don’t forget, the audience here and on other forums are tech focused, like you, like I.  But I have an ipad for home and my personal phone is a iphone 4, but I have a blackberry for work and use windows.  If windows sharpens 7 into 8 and gives me a form factor like my ipad, i’ll drop the ipad and the POS that is its itunes dependence and switch.

      • Eric R

        You just cited a perfect example of how MS is going to disappear! When you need marckups, or AutoCAD, or specialty software, you go MS. But the defualt will be think and light which right now is only iOS (on a tablet factor in any significant way). Steve jobs said it very suscintly when he said PC’s are now “trucks” and tablets are the new cars. MS will stay around, but B2B and enterprise. The problem is that all of their income is windows and office, and as people discover the iPad in their personal lives, companies will fill the void in the apps to get the iPad more and more into the business.
        @628cb79b038a491534a4db357aea5d91:disqus 
        You state something that can’t be done on the iPad, guess what? Write it! If you don’t someone else will and then your argument is moot. And it’s easy to do, since the other problems are solved (iOS running well 10 hour battery thin and light etc).

        Apple has paid over a BILLION of dollars to developers. BILLION. Anything iOS can’t do that Windows 8 can, is only one App away from being matched. The base, the foundation, iOS (the same iOS and API’s) on iPod, iPhone, iPad… not just an HTML/CSS layer ontop of heavy windows but a lean light and full API OS on all three devices (four if you count Apple TV) and you have a true ecosystem.

        Executives talk about ecosystem and value when on CNBC interviews, but apple actually HAS IT.

        Think about it. Great BSD kernel inside iOS, and the same iOS is on iPhone, iPod, iPad, and slightly modified for AppleTV too, and a major OS that is a clean superset of iOS (Lion) that is well on it’s way to having a similar GUI as iOS while maintaining the “truck” ability to run anyting heavy.

        Last big computer show, over ONE HUNDRED tablets were announced. Where are they? They are products, but Apple has the ecosystem (with a BSD core that is code so good it makes your head hurt).

        One of a million examples… ever see how damn fast an iPhone turns Wifi On, scans networks, and joins, and can browse over WiFi? I’ve had it do that in under two seconds VERY often. Try doing that on Windows. Two seconds. Time it. Good luck. But I digress.

    • Anonymous

      “MS will dissapear in 5 years.”

      Wow…. you try to make some good points in your post, and then end it with that, which completely negates any previous credibility. 

      Hardware is always evolving and is ever more capable.  The reason real “geeks” don’t like the iPad, TouchPad or Playbook are that they can’t do the things that they want to do if it were a full OS (windows / linux).  If MS can optimize the windows experience on a tablet without gutting it’s functionality, it will be a win.  If they can’t, then it will be a fail in the eyes of windows enthusiasts. 

      • Eric F

        I mean to say from the consumer space. They will be around for 20 years, but when was the last time your sister wanted to go to the mall and spend $500 on something from Oracle? Does she “love” her SAP CRM? Nope. Same for MS. Forgive my lack of clarification, I mean to say MS will disapear from the consumer space. And I bet (it’s agressive to say but I belive it 100%) it will COMPLETELY disappear from consumer space.

        Windows 8 : iOS = Zune : iPod

        How’s your Zune? Want to buy a Zune tablet? That’s what MS is trying to push, a Zune tablet that also have heave (and mouse and keyboard designed at it’s core) Windows 7+.

        Good luck!

      • Anonymous

        @3fa18a9aee846c085b92bbdb1f1e4ee6:disqus  Xbox says hello.

        Windows 8 said he’ll be coming by in about a year to kick your comment’s ass from here to kingdom come.

    • Anonymous

      As a fan of tech, I and anyone should take issue with what you said.

      All that you have here is speculation and bile of and for Microsoft. Seriously how do you think a full blown Windows 7 under covers will have the battery life and performance on these tablets? let me tell you as you as I’m sure you will agree it will not, so why to you think it’s going to be a full desktop install for these tablets? Heck it could even be a scaled up WP7 for all we know, since yes THAT HAS A REGISTRY TOO!

      As for Microsoft being an enterprise company, you must not have a MS Store near you. Maybe you missed its consumer push with WP7, Hotmail and Skype? Your reaching, think harder.

  • Anonymous

    And comes with a built-in 2-hour battery runtime.

    SWEET!

    Can’t wait for the 30second boot time either!

    Or the fact that after the Win 8 UI shell crashes, I’ll have to go rummaging for my USB mouse and keyboard…

    Tablet OS Windows 8 is NOT.

    • Anonymous

      w8 has a 8 second boot, it will be built for ARM and the tradititional x64/x86 intel chipsets.  So as a tablet which presumably all manufacturers will run ARM harware, you will get the same battery life as your ipad. As for the USB jibe, wow a tablet with USB, HDMI and mass storage sounds like they copied Apple, oh wait.

      I think you will see dual boot ipads and androids shortly after its release next year. 

  • Anonymous

    Oh hey, a Windows tabl… ZZZZzzzzZzz

    • http://www.searingarrow.com AlienSix

      Your troll name makes what you say invalid

  • Guest

    It has a screen, black bezel, and a button.
    They are soooooo sued.

  • John Dingler, artist

    Are you sure that it’s not an iPad with a Samsung logo on top?

  • John Dingler, artist

    I like that it looks like an iPad. Maybe I’ll buy one, but keeping it would depend on the length of battery life and weight. I can always return it if it does not meet iPad standards.

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