May or may not become a rival to the Amazon Kindle Fire

Feb 9, 2012 08:13 GMT  ·  By

The user agent profile for the Samsung GT-P3100 has emerged, answering certain questions that have surely circulated all over the web ever since the rumors about an 11.6-Inch 2560 x 1600 tablet started.

Some time after the info about that super tablet leaked, another piece of info came to the Internet's attention.

Basically, Samsung turned out to be working on a pair of slates called GT-P3100 and GT-P5100.

Little to no info was known about them, though, as the Wi-Fi Alliance documents responsible for their exposure were not exactly rich in specs.

Hints seemed to imply that neither of the products was the fabled super slate, but hopes endured.

Now, the user agent profile of the GT-P3100 has been found, proving, at the very least, that if either of the two products is so mighty, it is definitely not the GT-P3100.

More likely, this is a sort of competitor to Amazon's Kindle Fire. That makes it an entry-level slate whose screen diagonal probably won't go beyond 7 inches.

The native resolution of the LCD is WSVGA (1,024 x 600 pixels) and the hardware revolves around an ARM11 processor.

The exact performance numbers haven’t surfaced in the UAProf (User Agent Profile), but speculation sprees can find a starting point in Samsung's line of ARM11 chips.

For those that don't know, Samsung has several chips of this type, with clock speeds of 533 MHz to 800 MHz.

All in all, we now know that there is an item coming to the low-end consumer market too, not just a beast for the rich.

The GT-P3100 and GT-P5100 may be put on display during this year's Mobile World Congress (MWC 2012). Samsung may have said that it is not going to hold a press conference there, but that does not necessarily mean the company won't show up with some things anyway.