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Samsung Galaxy Tab review: Hands-on first look

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By Alan Lu, 3 Sep 2010

We take an in-depth hands-on first look of the Samsung Galaxy Tab – the most promising Android tablet yet.

16GB and 32GB versions of the Tab will be available. The microSD slot allows up to 32GB of extra storage to be added, but we were a little disappointed that Samsung didn't take the opportunity to support the latest microSDXC cards which can be even larger.

The Galaxy Tab will be launched in Europe from October onwards, but Samsung representatives were unable to confirm specific UK availability dates to ongoing negotiations with the mobile phone networks. In the UK at least, Samsung expects most Galaxy Tabs to be subsidised by the networks and sold with a 3G contract.

The Galaxy Tab is the strongest Android alternative to an the iPad that we've seen so far. Samsung already has plans for Tabs with different screen sizes. What sizes will eventually be released will depend, we suspect, on how popular this 7in model is and how other manufacturers, including Apple, respond to it.

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Resoltuion?

So, according to your reviewer:
"We were concerned that the 1,024x600 pixel resolution on such a compact screen might make text look too small to be legible, but from our brief experience this wasn't a problem."

Amazingly, when the iPhone 4 has a high resolution on a small screen ("retina display") it's amazing, but putting it onto another device and it makes you "concerned"? Try being more balanced in the way you look at things like that...

By PhilA on Wednesday Oct 13