14 DAY TRIAL // It looks like new tablets getting sold out within minutes or hours of their initial launch is becoming something akin to a tradition now that even the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 has gone through one such episode.
Normally, a product selling out within a day or less after being released is a rare occasion and one that doesn't leave one's memory easily.
Tablets, however, seem to have made this sort of happenings far less unique than they usually are, as it looks like yet another one pulled off a fast sell-out.
More specifically, the Samsung Galaxy tab 10.1 slate, after going on sale for the very first time in Indonesia (the first Asian country to get it), went out of stock about 7 hours after the fact.
In other words, it took the company just 7 hours to exhaust its supply of 1,200 units, all of them in Pacific Place Mall in Jakarta.
For those that want a reminder as to what features and performance level the product has, it is a 10.1-inch device based on the NVIDIA Tegra 2 SoC (system-on-chip).
The panel has a native resolution of 1,280 x 800 pixels, while a couple of webcams, WiFi and, among other things, 16 GB or 32 GB of storage are also present.
Furthermore, along with the various other I/O assets that Samsung threw in, the hardware is kept running for up to 9 hours by a battery.
For the sake of comparison, the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer, to give just one example, also sold out in a short time.
What remains is to see if the webOS-loaded HP TouchPad (or any of the slate devices that are set to go on sale sooner or later), reviewer criticism or not, manages to find any one country where it sees similar success.