Samsung Galaxy Tab Video Teaser Reveals A Would-Be iPad Killer

The first of the would-be, Android-toting iPad killers is about to arrive in the Samsung Galaxy Tab. It’s set to debut at next week’s IFA conference in Berlin, but as you can see, Samsung’s already teasing the device.

We’ve got to admit: the rapid fire staccato of intercut images in the promotional video actually does get our pulse pounding a bit… well, as much as our pulse ever pounds for an Apple knock-off product, that is.

As far as specs, nothing’s official except it’s 7-inch form factor yet, but the Galaxy Tab is tagged to feature an AMOLED display (distressingly rumored to run at a resolution of only 800 x 480, the same resolution as the four-inch Galaxy S smartphone) and run Android 2.2. As you can see, the Tab’s shape is different than the iPad too, allowing for one-handed holding.

The one obvious advantage the Tab has over the iPad is video-calling support, thanks to a forward facing camera… but that camera’s also rumored to be pretty chintzy, only supporting a 320×240 resolution. There’s also a rear mounted 3.1MP camera, according to scuttlebutt.

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Can the Galaxy Tab trump the iPad? We doubt it: spec-wise, the Tab is looking underwhelming, even in the areas where it bests the iPad. Still, can’t fault an electronics manufacturer for trying.

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johnQ
Apple knock-off? you are the definition of fanboy
http://esloveniacorazon.si/ Carlitos
Yes, he is a fanboy, but he’s also right on this one.
reader5272
bests the iPad?
lincoln
tablets have only one form factor, a touch screen and a chassis so saying that it is an ipad knock-off is pretty much like saying that all touhscreen phones are an iphone knock-off, and considering that tablets were being built before the ipad was even announced (toshiba, hp, dell, fujitsu any umpc device like the benq S6 or others that could be found on ebay from china (most running ubuntu or MS ce and have hdd’s that easily kill the storage capacity of the ipad and were half the price of an ipad for a UMPC or double if it were a notebook version) you might want to think again about calling the samsung galaxy a knock off, considering that apple was the one who came late in the tablet game
yes they may be smaller, larger, slower, faster, more practical or more complicated than the ipad, but they were still tablets and they came way before the ipad.
The fact that this includes a video camera (which most touchscreen tablets and umpc’s include as standard. most using the 1.3 mp cameras however) and not just a rumored one (like they believed the ipad would have but it didn’t) already exceeds the ipad in that department, because it actually has one even if the res is going to be worse than using a stock pc webcam. depending on cost (and if they will bother to send it to australia) i may actually buy one. so ipad knock-off? yeah..you might want to have done some research before pulling the trigger at samsung, because not everything that proceeds apple in the production line is going to be a knock-off.
p.s. i just wonder if this guy also called the dell streak an ipad knock-off?
Johnny Rocket
Why is it journalist, bloggers, etc., always want the “next” thing to be a killer? We’ve gone through this with phones and now seem to be heading that way with tablets.
Why can’t we simply have an alternative? Maybe better, maybe worse. Some people are a Mac, some are a PC. Some drive BMWs, some drive Mercedes. (and some try Ugos).
Let’s just welcome the latest, newest, slightly different (or radically different) and now hype it as a “killer.” After all, the junkyard of former, alleged killers is getting pretty full these days.
[And video killed the radio star, or so the song went.]
Joseph
“We’ve got to admit: the rapid fire staccato of intercut images in the promotional video actually does get our pulse pounding a bit…”
The “rapid fire staccato” gave me a very different impression – that product is nowhere near finished so they have nothing to show us but a few flashes of software still in development. If they had anything more worth showing, they’d be showing it.
http://budurl.com/alexiaspage Alexia
It basically does seem like a ipad knock off but I’m definitely interesting in it coming out. I like the idea of the ability to do video chatting.
http://www.samsungle46c750.com/ samsungle46c750
At first place, kind of strange design which I was expecting from SAMSUNG, but very powerfull it seems to… The price of the phone will be interesting, becouse the phone has a very good processor, memory, and so on.. Lets wait and see !