14 DAY TRIAL // Anyone wondering what Samsung has been doing besides having a hard time in court have their answer now that an event in South Korea has taken place.
It is reported that the company is not about to neglect the market segment of tablets running Microsoft's Windows operating system (OS).
Small as it is, this niche market is expected to break out of its narrow confines when Windows 8 comes out.
Until then, however, someone has to keep carrying the torch, and though it isn't the only company to make Wintel tablets, Samsung is the one who made the latest offer in this field.
The tablet is called Slate PC Series 7 and, as the name implies, it isn't so much a media tablet as it is a PC shaped like one.
The Super Bright Plus display has a diagonal of 11.6 inches and features a brightness of 400 nits, plus touch support (naturally).
The insides are what one would expect to see in today's notebooks (Intel CPU, RAM, SSD).
With a Core i5 central processing unit at the heart of it all, Samsung threw in 4 GB of RAM (random access memory), as well as a solid state drive of 128 GB.
HDMI is present as well, along with USB ports and the wireless connectivity of the WiFi technology, which is a must on any mobile device nowadays.
Unfortunately, all these components, as well as the larger than usual display, come at the rather hefty price of 1,790,000 won, which translates into $1,600 (1,158 Euro).
Now, all that remains is to wait and see how Samsung acts on the opportunity provided by a certain other mobile platform that debuted a short time ago, the NVIDIA Tegra 3.
If it manages to make a lawsuit-proof Galaxy Tab, it could be an early foil to ASUS and its Eee Pad Transformer Prime.