Samsung has decided to take its competition with Apple right into Apple’s living room.  When Apple unveiled the iPad, it stormed into the tablet computer market and shook things up, mostly by making people actually pay attention to tablet computers.  However, while the iPad is basically two iPhones glued together but without the ability to make phone calls, Samsung is going in the other direction.  Their 7-inch tablet computer, the newly-announced Samsung Galaxy Tab, is a tablet computer that can make phone calls!

Samsung’s announced Galaxy Tab is positioned to be a great iPad for people who don’t like Apple products, except with more functionality and flexibility thanks to full Flash 10.1 support.  The Galaxy Tab is powered by Android’s FroYo OS with a 1-Ghz Hummingbird processor, can function as a desk-positioned speaker phone, has a 3 megapixel camera in the back and a 1.3 megapixel camera in the front, has a maximum 64GB of memory (16 or 32 onboard, and 32 via MicroSD card slot), and it taps into the 70,000-item Android Market for apps.

Samsung is in this market for the long haul.  As they said in their press release, “this is the first of the company’s tablet devices, representing a new category of mobile products for Samsung.”  Given the Tab’s beefy specs, it’s looking to support Android OS 3.0 and beyond.

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