Recently, there were quite significant coverage on Apple vs Samsung in the European courts where Apple has managed to put an injunction to prevent Samsung from selling the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and other Samsung smartphones as well.
The end result is that the courts cited tons of prior art before the iPad (or you can say that Apple actually copied the ideas from others and should not claim to be their own, or another way to look at it … Apple’s patents are worthless!). The Dutch court even went as far to say that with the minimalist design of the iPad, it makes it almost impossible for Apple to claim anything. Everything was thrown out except for the part for the Gallery application violated the “feel” of scrolling between images whilst browsing.
That aside, I was lucky enough to be able to get hold of a Galaxy Tab 10.1 and even had an iPad next to it to determine for myself whether they are the same. It is DEFINITELY not the same nor similar! The iPad form factor is much better than the Galaxy Tab 10.1 probably due to the 4:3 ratio instead of the 16:9 ratio. The Galaxy Tab also doesn’t have the “home” button on the front. Anyway, I am not here to judge on this technically but it sure doesn’t look the same at all to me.
That aside, a tablet is a tablet. They are all rather similar but the Galaxy Tab 10.1, like the Apple iPad, is quite light and the trade off is the lack of extension ports such as USB or SD card slots. But it is definitely more portable than other tablets that I have had the opportunity to try out.
How does the docking station fare? It has a very white white surface that looks really good. The chiclet style keyboard is great and you can actually type pretty well on it. The tablet itself slots in very smoothly and it is angled at a comfortable typing angle (see below).
(I know I didn’t really say much about the Galaxy Tab 10.1 … let’s hope I do a better job with the Asus EEE Pad Transformer soon 
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1 comment:
good tablet..no need to say much :P
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