Samsung has now officially outed the Galaxy Tab , its eagerly awaited 7-inch Android tablet. But how does it match up to the Apple iPad, which has set the standard for slate computing? Sure, the iPad has a bigger screen.
Samsung’s Galaxy Tab device might not have been the best kept secret in the world , but its arrival at IFA still saw a lot of excitement and clamour to try out the new tablet. The dinky device, which has a 7-inch screen and weighs in at only 380g, is meant to be the portable and pocketable answer to the heft of the iPad, and certainly feels that way when you first play with it. Running Android 2.2, the Galaxy Tab is certainly a cutting-edge device when it comes to the specs – svelte chassis aside, it’s also packing a 1024×600 WSVGA screen, making it much higher resolution than Apple’s iPad. It sits nicely in the hand, with one-handed operation easy thanks to the seven-inch screen, and the rear of the Galaxy Tab (which comes in black and white) is smooth plastic but easy to grip
MegaReader – 1.8 Million Free Books ($2.99) by Inkstone Software, Inc. is an app that gives you access to almost 2 million free books right in the palm of your hand. Yes, there are several apps in the marketplace that do this – give you a ton of free books to read and download at your leisure. But MegaReader is different.
Orange seems to be the latest company to jump on the iPad -shaped bandwagon, with a new report claiming that it is working on its own tablet computer. Les Echos , a French newspaper, is claiming that an Android tablet is being manufactured by a “large Asian manufacturer” which will end up being one of the cheapest on the market. The tablet is said to be priced at around 250 Euros – a smidge over £200. 3G ready The tablet would come with Orange branding and would be 3G enabled, which would mean that Orange would be able to offer subscriptions for the data package.
Checkbook for iPad (with Sync) ($0.99) by iBear LLC turns your iPad into your new replacement checkbook. Before people start complaining about no capabilities to download your accounts, that’s not the point of this app. The point of this app is to turn your iPad into a digital checkbook replacement, that does a whole lot more than your paper checkbook