Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Review: The Sleekest Honeycomb Tablet

I remember standing in the audience of Samsung's CTIA press conference as it announced, for the first time ever, pricing and availability of its unreleased Galaxy Tab 10.1 and 8.9 before shipping. The smartphone (and early tablet) industries have gone this long without having to really compete based on price, mostly because in North America the carriers subsidize much of the cost. If every device costs $199 under contract, why get carried away with details like how much it actually costs?

The Galaxy Tab however was playing in a different space. While Apple ultimately caved to the pressures of carrier subsidies with the iPhone, the iPad remains completely unsubsidized and its followers buy it by the millions. The magical price point is $499 and it was at Samsung's CTIA press conference that it announced it would be matching Apple's $499 price point, and even dropping slightly below it for the 8.9-inch version.

At the time it seemed like a bold move, enough to give Honeycomb the fighting chance it needed. The Galaxy Tab would be thinner and lighter than the iPad 2 but competitively priced as well. This wouldn't be another Xoom.

Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 (top) vs. ASUS Eee Pad Transformer (bottom)

Then ASUS showed up. At $399, the Eee Pad Transformer not only offered a different usage model to the iPad and Galaxy Tab, it brought a lower price tag as well. Availability has been slim thanks to component shortages, but with the Eee Pad selling for $399 the Galaxy Tab at $499 all of the sudden seems overpriced.

Based on specs alone you'd be right. Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 has the same NVIDIA Tegra 2 tablet SoC inside, 1GB of LPDDR2 and 16GB of NAND on-board. You get a 10.1-inch 1280 x 800 PLS display and 802.11n WiFi support. 

Where Samsung gives you something more for your money is in build quality and form factor. While Eee Pad Transformer feels surprisingly good for a cost reduced tablet, it doesn't feel nearly as slim or portable as the Galaxy Tab 10.1. It's no wonder Samsung went back to the drawing board on this one, the result is something that in many ways feels better than the iPad 2.

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Toshiba Thrive Android Tablet - Wtih Honeycomb OS

Toshiba is intend to announce its Thrive Android tablet i. The Thrive is essentially the US version of the company’s Regza Tablet introduced. It is powered by Tefra 2 dual core processor that can manage Full HD 1080p video playback and runs Android 3.1 Honeycomb OS.

The Thrive's got a of the sense of touch display and a button to lock the screen operations. it also has a removable battery that's grade up to seven hours of successive HD video playback, and it give the  expectations to recharge up to 90 % in an hour and a half..The Toshiba Thrive will be available  for the price $429 for 8GBG, $479 for 16GB and $579 for 32GB.

Toshiba’s Thrive characterizes a 10.1-inch 1280×800 capacitive touchscreen, a 5 Megapixel back camera, a 2 Megapixel front camera for video chat and HDMI output. It uphold a Bluetooth and WiFi connectivity and furnish USB connector and SD card slot. It arrives with 8GB, 16GB or 32GB storage. Running Android Honeycomb, the Thrive arrives  with the Swype keyboard pre-installed for comfortable typing.

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Toshiba Android 3.0 Honeycomb Tablet specs

Toshiba combines the Android industry with its Thrive – a 10.1 inch Android 3.0 Honeycomb Tablet. The Toshiba Thrive is powered with NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor and carry a 10.1 inch multi touch display with 800 x 1280 pixels screen resolution.

The device equipped with Dual Cameras – a 5MP rear camera for HD video playback and recording, and a secondary 2MP front camera, the Thrive – a 10.1 inch Android 3.0 Honeycomb Tablet also provide video calls, music player, stereo speakers, 3.5 mm jack, 1GB RAM, 32GB in-built memory and external memory card slot.

This Android Tablet also supports HDMI, Wi-Fi, EDGE, USB, Bluetooth, GPS connectivity and IM & Email. It is equipped a standard battery and weighs 770 grams and the dimensions are 10.7 x 6.9 x 0.6 inch. It runs Android 3.0 Honeycomb OS and supports Document Viewer and Google Applications. The Android also supports Adobe Flash content.

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Dell Streak 10 to launch mid-June with Honeycomb

The new Dell’s new 10.1 inch Android tablet comes in June 2011. It will feature the new version of Google’s Android OS, Android 3.0 Honeycomb.

The rest of the specifications is unknown now, but there`s some rumors that it could have similar hardware to the Dell Streak 7, which is pictured above. So it will probably feature an NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor and a five megapixel camera on the back and a 1.3 megapixel camera on the front, as Dell Streak 7 has.

Actually, at this time there isn`t any more details of the new tablet.

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Google Android 3.0 - Honeycomb Preview

The tablet market today is a far more interesting place than it was just over a year ago. Since the launch of the iPad, there hasn’t been a real competitor to iOS in the tablet space. We’ve seen customized versions of Android for larger devices like the Galaxy Tab, but they’ve all had their fair share of limitations. In fact, Android releases up to Gingerbread were never really designed to be used on larger screens. But Honeycomb has the potential to change all that and it could be just the catalyst manufacturers need to come up with the next iPad-killer.

It’s been public knowledge that Honeycomb (v3.0) was going to be the next major release of Android after Gingerbread (v2.3). It all started when Andy Rubin showed up at the D: Dive Into Mobile event with a mysterious looking tablet that was later revealed to be the Motorola Xoom running Honeycomb. CES gave us a sneak peek at Xoom and a host of other tablets that would run Honeycomb. At the Honeycomb launch event a few weeks back, Google gave us a full-blown preview of the OS. Now, with the Xoom releasing this month, the time has come for Google's official answer to the iPad.

Honeycomb has been designed ground-up for use on tablets. Google also confirmed that Honeycomb is a tablet-only OS for the time being and that some of the new features would eventually transition over to phone versions of the OS. That’s where the next release of Android codenamed Ice Cream comes into picture; more on that later. Honeycomb represents Google’s first effort to be a serious contender in the tablet market. Make no mistake here Honeycomb is an absolutely massive release with a smorgasbord of new user and developer features; some of which are so well implemented that they could give iOS a run for it’s money. Without further ado, let us dive into the juicy bits.

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Motorola Xoom Review: The First Honeycomb Tablet Arrives

A year has passed without a significant Android competitor to Apple's iPad. Today that all changes as Google and Motorola unveil the world's first Honeycomb tablet: the Xoom. With better hardware than the original iPad, read on as we find out just how well the software stacks up. 

Can Google build a tablet OS that's as appliance-like as iOS but without compromising on its Android roots?

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