14 DAY TRIAL // The first Android 2.2 tablet manufactured by Samsung, the Galaxy Tab was officially introduced at Orange Romania yesterday during a glamorous event. This marks another first exclusive from Orange, which also brought the iPhone to Romania.
The tablet is available starting today in selected Orange stores for as low as 349 EUR with a two-year Colibri 35 contract (35 EUR monthly fee). The plan includes unlimited Internet traffic (first 15 GB of data with speeds of up to 14.4 Mbps and, after that, with speeds of up to128 Kbps) as well as 60 free minutes of video-calls in the Orange network.
Samsung Galaxy Tab is the first Android 2.2 tablet that comes with GSM voice calling features included. The device includes a 7-inch TFT capacitive touchscreen with 16 million colors and 600 x 1024 pixels resolution.
It comes with features such as TouchWiz UI, multi-touch input method, accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate, three-axis gyro sensor, touch-sensitive controls, proximity sensor for auto turn-off and Swype text input.
The tablet sports a 3-megapixel camera with autofocus, LED flash, geo-tagging, video recording capabilities (720x480@30fps), but also a 1.3-megpapixel secondary front-facing camera for videocalls.
Galaxy Tab is powered by an ARM Cortex A8 1 GHz processor (PowerVR SGX540 graphics) and features full HD video playback capabilities (up to 7 hours) and support for Adobe Flash 10.1.
When it comes to connectivity, Galaxy Tab is a real “swiss-knife” as it embeds a wide range of data transfer technologies such as HSDPA 7.2 Mbps, HSUPA 5.76 Mbps, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 3.0 with A2DP, GPS with A-GPS support, proprietary USB 2.0.
The device boasts 512 MB RAM and 16GB internal memory, which can be expanded up to 32GB thanks to the included microSD card slot.
Romanian customers have no less than thirteen purchase options to choose from, with prices ranging from 349 to 699 EUR.