Samsung Reveals ''World's Thinnest Tablets''

[gregor]

iPad 2 has better hardware? hmmm
I prefer to think of Apple as the Harley Davidson of the computer world, and no thats not a compliment...

 

[RobinPanties]

[citation][nom]TEAMSWITCHER[/nom]There is nothing about these devices that makes me want to buy one. The iPad 2 will likely cost a bit more, but it has better hardware. Does Samsung really think that they can make it .01 thinner than the iPad 2 and call it a victory? Apple has a proven track record with portable devices - they are the Pixar of portable devices, the Steven Speilberg. Samsung is more like an M. Night Shyamalan.[/citation]

Only if you're talking about underpowered tablets with mobile phone OS's...last time I checked, Samsung does pretty well in other market segments, like Televisions and memory. If you ask me, Samsung is a better long term bet. Apple used to be successful for hardware and software supremacy, now it's success is based on style appeal and trendiness... and only those people still wearing parachute pants, fanny packs, with your 80's perm and dancing the Macarena know that fads come and go. Marketing can get your far, but quality coupled with low manufacturing costs transferred to consumers by means of competitive pricing will always win in the end. Also, Apple is an American icon, but Samsung is a global juggernaut. Goto Wiki, In addition to Samsung Electronics being the world's largest memory chip maker since 1993, here's some other world ranking highlights: Samsung Heavy Industries, the world's second largest shipbuilder;[6] Samsung Engineering was ranked 35th..., Samsung C&T... 72nd...; Samsung Life Insurance was ranked 14th.... ;Samsung Everland theme park is the fifth most popular theme park in the world, beating out Epcot, Disney MGM and Disney's Animal Kingdom. Trust me, they're not sweating Apple. Samsung's television department is doing pretty well, how's that Apple TV working out for you? Samsung revenue was around $137 billion in 2010, Apple did $65 billion. Samsung is Michael Jackson, Apple is Justin Beiber. Apple just better hope that Beiber can continue to produce... because 43 years after the Jackson 5 signed a record deal with Motown Records, MJ is still sells...

 

[Shodar]

[citation][nom]gregor[/nom]iPad 2 has better hardware? hmmmI prefer to think of Apple as the Harley Davidson of the computer world, and no thats not a compliment...[/citation]

You really shouldn't insult Harley Davidson like that. =)

 

[falconqc]

Well, I know what I'm buying this summer!

 

[Guest]

@TEAMSWITCHER

wanna guess who makes those cortex chips for apple...... better hardware as made by Samsung, love the M. Night comparison, if i recall the last film he made was 'the last airbender' yes that was real quality work there, just like apple as per your assertion

 

[kartu]

[citation][nom]lamorpa[/nom]No, I think that's 1 billion...[/citation]
Welcome to real world.

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/12/boom-samsung-sells-1-million-galaxy-tabs/

 

[waylander]

[citation][nom]TEAMSWITCHER[/nom]There is nothing about these devices that makes me want to buy one. The iPad 2 will likely cost a bit more, but it has better hardware. Does Samsung really think that they can make it .01 thinner than the iPad 2 and call it a victory? Apple has a proven track record with portable devices - they are the Pixar of portable devices, the Steven Speilberg. Samsung is more like an M. Night Shyamalan.[/citation]

1. Then why are you posting at all?
2. How does it have better hardware? Have you read a review on it at all? 1/2 the ram, shitty cameras and still no expansion ports (usb, sd...etc.)
3. Apple would so why can't anyone else?
4. You have absolutely no idea do you?

 

[megamanx00]

Nifty, but too expensive. You can get a semi-decent laptop for that price. Samsung needs to take a lead from the Archos 101

 

[ProDigit10]

Too much!
It costs more than a netbook, and is less handy!
For that price I had expected to be a sim card slot in there, either 3G or 4G unlocked, so the tablet could be used as a phone (skype phone or something).

 

[sentico]

@TEAMSWITCHER

There is nothing about these devices that makes me want to buy one. The iPad 2 will likely cost a bit more, but it has better hardware. Does Samsung really think that they can make it .01 thinner than the iPad 2 and call it a victory? Apple has a proven track record with portable devices - they are the Pixar of portable devices, the Steven Speilberg. Samsung is more like an M. Night Shyamalan.

iSheep have used quality, design, integration etc in defense of their iDevices, but when did they start using the better hardware card? If you're going to use "better hardware" as an argument, at least get it right.

 

[eddieroolz]

May be thinnest, but don't make it also the most expensive.

 

[dark_lord69]

will start at $469...
I'll pass... these things need to get a lot cheaper for me to bother.

 

[znegval]

They won't beat a consolidated product that pretty much became the standard for that form factor using the same price tag. They have to make it cheaper.

 

[PudgyChicken]

I'll buy a 10.1 WiFi as soon as I have the moolah. Apple can go eat a fat one.

 

[iam2thecrowe]

anyone that would buy a tablet over a laptop should take a tablet to cure their mental illness.

 

[Guest]

I'd buy a Galaxy tab just to steal sales from Apple, even though I don't need one. A year and a half after getting suckered into an iPhone purchase, I've confirmed my suspicion about Apple technology. Crappy, buggy OS, horrible battery, locked down features, iTunes. Fool me once....If it weren't for trendy hipsters, they wouldn't survive with this horrible tech. I'll give it to them, that they brought us the touchscreen smartphone idea, but something about resting on laurels...Of course this is nothing new; they have always done something innovative and then stopped and failed to evolve. Rant over

 

[zak_the_great]

Hmm after looking at IPD2 internal design, copy cats at work... before IPAD2 time they had no idea on how to make a tablet , very intuitive in creative original designs.

 

[mayankleoboy1]

im sick of so many tablet releases

 

[silverblue]

There's alleged to be over 80 competing tablet designs coming to stores this year... if you're sick now, give it a few months. 😛