14 DAY TRIAL // Users might have heard of the rumors surrounding possible changes to the Galaxy tab 10.1, but it seems that Samsung isn't about to let the iPad 2 interfere with its plans if it can help it.
As end-users may or may not know, quite a few tablet PCs were unleashed during the 2011 editions of the MWC (Mobile World Congress) and CeBIT trade shows.
Many of them are based on the NVIDIA Tegra 2 SoC (system-on-chip) and run the Android 3.0 operating system (Honeycomb OS).
Samsung's Galaxy tag 10.1 is just one of these slates and we were able to get our hands on it while at MWC last month.
All in all, it looked to be quite capable for its kind, until, of course, Apple unleashed the iPad 2 and pretty much broke most companies' plans.
The slate, being thin and cheap enough to rob others of their market share also has an advantage in terms of pricing.
Samsung was even said to have reached the conclusion that its own 10.1-incher was too expensive compared to it and that some modifications may be necessary.
Another rumor implied that the outfit would be delaying the launch of the product in order to change it enough to act as a greater contender to Apple's own.
AllThingsD now reports that this won't happen and that Samsung is not as perturbed as one may have thought, planning, instead, to stick to its release schedule.
Of course, this does not mean much for the average consumer, considering that Samsung hadn't really said exactly when shipments will start in the first place.
“We will continue to make every effort to provide the most powerful, well-designed and productive mobile device to customers,” Executive Vice President Lee Don-Joo is quoted as saying.
What remains is to see how many other tablet products the outfit has planned.