Samsung Showcases Orion Tablet PC

South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics is getting ready to bring to the market a new tablet PC, supposedly the successor of Galaxy Tab, which was showcased at the ARM Technical Symposium 2010 in Taipei this week.

The upcoming device supposedly sports the name of Orion, the same as the dual-core Orion processor, which was introduced in early September.

The tablet PC that Samsung unveiled at the event was only a prototype, but its alleged specifications should make almost all users want to purchase one.

Inside the device, Samsung reportedly packed a quad-core ARM Mali-400-based GPU, which should be able to encode and decode of full HD 1080p videos.

Moreover, there should be an HDMI 1.3a output included into the mix, so as to offer users the possibility to project content from the slate to larger displays, such as those of TV sets.

According to a recent article on DigiTimes, Samsung showcased the internal structure of the device at the aforementioned event on Thursday.

The slate should include a ARM Cortex-A9-based dual-core processor manufactured by Samsung themselves using the 32nm lower-power consumption process, the same Orion chip that Samsung announced officially about two months ago.

For the time being, however, no specific info on what screen size the upcoming device would boast emerged, though we already knew that the Orion processor was aimed at powering larger screens than the one on Galaxy Tab.

The Android slate was launched on the market with a 7-inch touchscreen display on board, and was rumored before to be followed by a 10.1-inch Android device from Samsung (not to mention that the slate's internals would successfully handle a larger screen).

Until more info on the matter emerge, we can only conclude that Samsung is indeed set to bring a pretty appealing tablet PC to the market next year, since the Orion chip can reportedly deliver up to five-times the 3D abilities of its predecessor.

Previously, Samsung announced that Orion should land during the fourth quarter of the ongoing year, but the product is now expected to arrive next year, when mass production will also kick off. No specific details on when the slate would land on shelves emerged for the time being.