Samsung Releases Galaxy Tab 8.9 Tablet and Couple of Media Players
Samsung gave the first look of their brand fresh8.9 in Samsung Galaxy Tab that has Android 3.1 Honeycomb operating system of Google. The 8.9-inch Galaxy Tab will enter the market on October 2nd. But that’s not all that Samsung unveiled, the company also unveiled a couple of fresh media players, the Samsung Galaxy Player 5.0 and Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0.
In his statement, the president of Samsung Mobile, Dale Sohn, said “the inclusion of these three products in the Galaxy class shows our commitment towards offering the customer an unparalleled array of selections for information and entertainment on-the-move.”
“The modern customers want their mobile devices to meet their life-style, and the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 and the pair of newly launched Galaxy players offers exactly that, by means of unparallel portability and power to fulfill the widest of the customer requirements.”
The 8.9 inch Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 will be a Wi-Fi only tablet and will be available in two versions a 32GB variant priced at $569 and a 16 GB tablet priced at $469. The newly launched media player Galaxy Player 4.0 will cost around $269 and the Galaxy Player will cost around $229, and both the media players will be entering the US market on 16th of October, 2011.
The tablet was kept for pre-orders at www.samsung.com on Monday, though the media players were offered for pre-orders from Tuesday.
The Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 joins the 10.1 Galaxy Tab in Samsung’s lineup of tablets. Just as the bigger devices, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 is also rather thin measuring 8.6 mms only and has a light, transferable design which easily weighs below a pound. The WXGA multi-touch TFT display of the Galaxy Tab 8.9 has native resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels and has been bastioned by Gorilla Glass.
The Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 will also be having TouchWiz UX UI of Samsung, which is custom made on Honeycomb which boasts the Live Panel widget for rapidly accessing email, photos, news and a lot more from the home screen, one-touch superimpose access for normally used apps through Mini Mode Tray, and for comfortable distribution of links, photos and a lot more through social sharing websites and email, the Indicator Quick Panel and a photo editor. The Indicator Quick panel allows the users to rapidly toggle connectivity, sound, notifications and brightness, settings off and on at the low-right hand side of the display.
Apps could be obtained through Google’s Android Market, and the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 will be fitted with the AllShare service of Samsung for sharing content among the tablet and some other DNLA-powered devices such as HDTVs, digital cameras and monitors.
Some other specifications for the tablet include a dual-core 1.5GHz T205S CPU, mobile printing capabilities, a 6,100 mAh electric battery, FindMyMobile technology which finds out the whether the device is lost or stolen. The device also a 3 MP rear-facing camera and a 2 MP front-facing camera having autofocus and flash, and will be offering 1080p video replay and complete support for digital imaging and video chatting.
Consumers oriented features for the device includes the likes of Samsung’s Music Hub, Media Hub, Readers Hub and Social Hub services, though enterprise functionality comprises support for on-device encryption, Exchange ActiveSync edition 14, Sybase Mobile Device Management, Cisco WebEx and Cisco VPN.
The 4 in and the 5 in Galaxy Players will run Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread, and will be having rear-confront and front-facing cameras, and will also be having 8 GB of memory having a microSD slot which further could elevate the storage capacity to 32GB. The Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0 weighs around 4.27 ounces, whereas the Samsung Galaxy Player 5.0 weighs around 6.42 ounces.
