Both of those tablets have similar innards.) The software experience is a Honeycomb experience – lots of floating icons and a reliance on big, live widgets dominating a multiple-panel home screen. It's much more complicated than the iPad, but quite good looking.
What matters most here is what the Tab 10.1 is like to handle. The Tab 10.1 is very thin (.44 inches) and made of classy materials, with a textured plastic back that is much easier to grip and less slippery than the 7-inch tablet. I have mixed feelings about the embossed silver "Samsung" badge on the back, but considering I carried around a cherry-red netbook for a year that had an embossed "Samsung" badge, I'm probably not one to talk. It feels very good, not very heavy at 21 ounces, but indeed very large; the 10.1-inch, 1280-by-720 screen is bigger than the iPad's.
Other specs: an 8-megapixel camera on the back and a 2-megapixel one on the front, HSPA+ 21 cellular networking with no voice calling, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, and either 16 or 32GB of storage. All this is backed by a pretty large 6860 mAh battery, but remember, that battery has to power that screen; Samsung didn't give a battery life estimate.
The Galaxy Tab 10.1 is going to set up a very interesting battle of the tablets here in the US, if it does indeed come here. It's the biggest tablet coming to market, but I'll be curious to see if it becomes any carrier's champion. Verizon has the Xoom, T-Mobile has the G-Slate, and Sprint is going its own way with the BlackBerry PlayBook. Will the Galaxy Tab 10.1 be AT&T's declaration of independence from the iPad?
The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 will be coming to Vodafone customers in Europe in March. There are, so far, no plans for a U.S. version or a Wi-Fi-only version, Samsung reps said
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