Samsung is coming to market with a whole whack of tablets over the next few months, the 10.1v is coming out in advanced of its thinner lighter sexier counterparts in Q3 of this year. We’ve got a few unboxings from consumers below, but it should be pretty clear that Samsung has taken Apple’s template and added its own flavour to it; keeping the iPad’s 10-inch display and glossy black bezel, but covering the rear of the device with a textured plastic and moulded this grip to best fit your fingers when holding the tablet in landscape view.The 10.1-inch LCD display looks brilliant, even though it doesn’t share the AMOLED tech of Samsung’s Galaxy S phones. Its 1280×800 (WXGA) resolution looks crisp and sharp, and the colours are bold and vibrant.
With Google’s Honeycomb in place, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1v is an outstanding device for personal media and web consumption. There isn’t much Samsung can do about the sub-par app support for Android tablet so far (but this is bound to improve), though we do think not including HDMI or DLNA in the out-of-the-box experience is missing a trick, to say the least. On top of this, the lack of micro SD card support and a user-replaceable battery isn’t going to win favour from those who refuse to buy an iPad for the same reasons.




If you’re thinking of picking this up we’d warn you that you’ll be getting jealous moments in a few months. Samsung has already announced updates to its Galaxy Tab models arriving in Q3 2011. Boasting a thinner profile and the possibility of larger storage, good things may come to those who wait.