14 DAY TRIAL // Samsung Galaxy Tab, the first tablet PC the South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung brought to the market with Google's Android operating system on board, is expected to surpass the 1 million units sold mark before the end of the ongoing year.
The slate comes with a 7-inch tounchscreen display, while featuring a 1GHz application processor inside, and support for 3G networks.
Samsung has included the device in its Galaxy line of Android products mainly due to the similarities it sports when compared to the Galaxy S smartphones.
According to some, the Galaxy Tab would actually be a larger Galaxy S, as it includes the same processor, the same OS, and almost the same features.
However, due to its larger form factor, the Galaxty Tab cannot be mistaken for a smartphone, that's for sure.
Thus, while Galaxy S already sold millions of units within the following months, Samsung seems to be expecting a smaller number of Tabs to be moved to end users.
On the other hand, with the holiday shopping season and all, the actual number of Galaxy tab units sold may be larger than 1 million, one should agree.
For comparison, Samsung managed to sell the first million Galaxy S units in its homeland market South Korea in about two months, and already reached 7 million worldwide.
The slate was already pushed to shelves in various markets around the world, and should become available for purchase in the United States starting with the next week, via major wireless carriers.
The hype around this Android-based tablet PC was high, and chances are that end-users would indeed receive it very well, though some would argue that its price tag was set to high when compared to competitive solutions.
However, while the 3G version of Galaxy Tab might seem too expensive, a Wi-Fi only flavor of the device is reportedly headed for the market too, sporting a lower price tag, but nothing was unveiled officially on it.