Samsung's Galaxy Tab will cost between $200 and $300, depending on carrier subsidies, and hit shelves later this year. The tablet wars are heating up. One of those tablets, perhaps one that will actually be able to rival the iPad, is the Samsung Galaxy Tab. While we do not have an exact U.S. release date yet, we now know the price.
The Galaxy Tab will retail for between $200 and $300, but the final pricing will vary based on wireless-carrier subsidies; no U.S. carriers have been announced. According to sources Samsung with multiple carriers be sold by Samsung, but rather through the carriers that agree to carrier the device. The Galaxy Tab is technically similar to Samsung’s Galaxy S smartphone, which is now being carried by T-Mobile, Sprint, AT&T, and soon to be Verizon.
The Galaxy Tab is expected to be available worldwide in time for the holidays, and Samsung has claimed that it expects to ship 10 million Galaxy Tabs this year, which would give it one-third of the tablet market in the world. This Tab will feature a seven-inch touch screen, an Android 2.2 operating system, Bluetooth 3.0, two cameras and a 1 GHz Cortex processor. Check out our head-to-head between the Galaxy and the iPad for a full list of the specs.
News Source: www.digitaltrends.com