14 DAY TRIAL // South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung has just announced the reaching of an important milestone for its Android-based tablet PC, the Galaxy Tab. According to the company, it already managed to ship a number of more than 1 million Galaxy Tab devices since the official release of the slate about two months ago. Today, the company announced officially that it managed to pass the one million sold units mark for its Galaxy Tab, an achievement showing that the tablet PC segment is slowly but surely gaining more ground on the market.
“We were able to achieve 1 million global sales as initial supplies ran out quickly around the world after the Galaxy Tab's launch,” Lee Young-hee, head of marketing at Samsung's mobile division, stated, a recent article on Yonhap News reads.
Previously, the company did say that it was hoping to be able to ship a number of 1 million Galaxy Tab units before the end of the ongoing year.
However, since the company managed to reach this milestone one month before the end of the ongoing year, there are great chances that it would be able to ship around another million Galaxy Tab units before December is over.
The holiday shopping season is only beginning, and sales of various communication devices, tablet PCs included, are expected to increase.
Not to mention that Samsung already managed to push the device to a wide range of markets around the world, and via a great deal of wireless carriers, with more of them planning the release of Galaxy Tab soon.
In the US alone, the slate was launched via all four large operators (AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon), and via smaller ones too.
Packing a 7-inch touchscreen display and a fast 1GHz application processor inside, the tablet PC offers 16GB of internal memory, complemented by a microSD memory card slot with support for up to 32GB of additional storage space.
The Galaxy Tab also sports dual cameras, along with support for 3G networks, WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity, and Google's Android 2.2 Froyo operating system, which comes with Adobe Flash Player 10.1 for enhanced web browsing capabilities.