14 DAY TRIAL // South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung has unveiled a new tablet PC that runs under Google's Android 2.2 Froyo operating system, called Samsung SMT-i9100, and which is expected to make an appearance on the market only on the airwaves of KDDI in Japan.
This is the second Android-based tablet PC that Samsung brings to the market with a 7-inch touchscreen display on board, following the launch of Galaxy Tab in early September.
While Tab was set to land in Japan on the airwaves of NTT DoCoMo, Samsung also came up with a device for KDDI, so as to enable more users in the country benefit from what its Android slates have to offer.
However, the new Samsung SMT-i9100 sports a different look than the already available Android slate, and reportedly includes a series of different specs too.
What makes the two resemble includes the Android 2.2 Froyo mobile platform, as well as the 7-inch screen, which boasts a WSVGA (1024 x 600 pixels) resolution.
Other hardware specifications of the new slate are different than on Galaxy Tab, including the 3.2-megapixel photo snapper on the back (compared to the 3.2-megapixels one on the Tab), or the lack of a front-facing camera.
Interestingly enough, the tablet PC comes with an Ocean Observation UI on top of that Android OS, and not with the usual TouchWiz solution.
The specs list of this device also includes 512MB RAM, Bluetooth 2.1 and Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n connectivity options, 4GB of flash storage, and a microSD memory card slot with support for up to 32GB of additional storage space.
The battery life that this slate would be able to offer is not very impressive either, as it goes up to only 2 hours of continuous usage time, or up to 12 hours of standby time.
The new Samsung SMT-i9100 should arrive on the market sometime in early next year, a recent article on Samsung Hub reads. No info on the slate's pricing was unveiled for the time being.
