The Samsung Galaxy Tab is the South Korean gadget giant’s big move into the consumer tablet space. At 7-inches, it’s noticeably smaller than the Apple iPad, but it still packs a mighty punch: inside, it’s packing a 1GHz processor, up to 32GB of storage for all your apps and media, plus WiFi, 3G, Google’s native Android apps and a front facing camera. Continuously updated.
October, 2010
After a huge year for iOS, Apple’s set to remind us tonight that it still sells Macs too. Its “Back to the Mac” event at its Cupertino headquarters kicks off at 6pm today UK time, so if you want to find out what type of wild cat OS X 10.7 turns out to be, how it integrates with the iPhone, and whether there will indeed be a new MacBook Air, just tune in to the homepage then for all the headlines as they break.
Morning all! It’s freezing outside, but we’re just about to kick off another glorious day of gadget news. Before we do, catch up with all the latest headlines from around the world, rounded up right here in your techie breakie.
The HTC Desire HD we got yesterday straight from HTC itself and unboxed certainly looked the part. Unfortunately, it soon became clear that the software wasn’t final, so we’ve had to return it while we wait for the finished software due later this week. Apologies for the delay, folks! Fortunately, that gives you more time to tell us what you want to know for our HTC Desire HD review instead.
At Electricpig towers we’ve been watching the great wave of Android tablets begin in earnest. The Samsung Galaxy Tab is one of the most talked about, firstly because of its form factor, and more recently because of the sky high prices announced. In contrast we’re seeing more budget options, and while tablets from the likes of Next don’t hold much promise, the Advent Vega looks like an absolute bargain, sitting at £250 for a 10.1” Android powered tablet. So how do the two stack up? Is the Tab worth the extra couple of hundred quid you’ll have to shell out?
Peeped our Fallout: New Vegas review yet? If not, you should know, you’re in for a treat, whether you’re an Xbox, PS3 or PC gamer. Just as Fallout 3 earned a place on all three of our Best Xbox games, Best PC games and Best PS3 games Top 5 lists, so has Fallout: New Vegas. This time though, its’s claimed a few crowns as well.
That Steve Jobs Android slam from Apple’s earnings call. Well, Google has swung into action with…a tweet. Andy Rubin, Google’s Android chief has put his dormant Twitter account into action to send his first tweet. So what brutal putdown did he offer to Steve Jobs, master of communication? ??Well to the untrained eye, a load of gibberish…
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Along with its native music hub for the Samsung Galaxy Tab, 7digital also announced today that it has developed an image recognition app for Android, which uses the camera on the Samsung Galaxy Tab to take a picture of album artwork or promotional material, analyses it and zips straight through to the 7digital store. Sounds familiar? That’s because it’s not completely new. This one we’ve seen today though, is super-fast, and very clever. Click through to see it in action…