The slate comes with Wi-Fi support and 8GB storage

Apr 24, 2012 17:01 GMT  ·  By

Samsung has just launched the affordable Galaxy Tab 2 (7.0) Android tablet in US. The slate is now available for purchase through Best Buy for only $250 USD (190 EUR).

Unveiled back in February at the Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona, the Galaxy Tab 2 (7.0) is powered by the latest Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system integrated with TouchWiz UX user interface.

Although Galaxy Tab 2 (7.0) was announced along with the Galaxy Tab 2 (10.1), the latter has yet to make its debut on the market.

According to the latest hearsay, Samsung stopped production of the 10.1-incher in order to tweak the slate’s specs sheet to make it more competitive at launch.

In this regard word is that the South Korean company plans to replace the tablet’s dual-core processor with a quad-core CPU.

Given the fact that Samsung denied it would improve the Galaxy Tab 2 (10.1) configuration, it’s unclear if the company intends to temper with other hardware components of the slate as well.

Anyway, Best Buy is now offering the Wi-Fi only Galaxy Tab 2 (7.0) in titanium silver. The tablet comes with Wi-Fi support and only 8GB of internal memory, which can be expanded up to 64GB via microSD card.

On the inside, the tablet is equipped with a “standard” dual-core TI OMAP 4430 processor clocked at 1 GHz, the same that should have powered the Galaxy Tab 2 (10.1) at launch.

In addition, the slate packs a PowerVR SGX540 graphics processing unit, 1GB of RAM and dual cameras: 3-megapixel rear camera with full HD video recording and VGA front-facing camera for video calls.

As the name suggest, the slate sports a 7-inch PLS LCD capacitive touchscreen display that supports 600 x 1024 pixels resolution and 16 million colors. Last but not least, the Galaxy Tab 2 (7.0) embeds a 4000 mAh Li-Ion battery.