Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1

“This tablet’s main advantage remains that it’s the most portable 10” slate to hit the market. It's thinner even than iPad 2 and good 42 grams lighter than Apple's frontrunner, while still promising to match its battery performance. And that's no mean feat since tablets are going hard after netbooks, so they need to back their portability with battery longevity.”

“We said it at the outset, and we stand by it still. The (latest) Galaxy Tab 10.1 has the form factor that we wish Honeycomb had debuted on. That's really not a knock against the Motorola Xoom -- something had to be first, and we really don't know what kind of time constraints went into development of the Xoom and the release of Honeycomb.But Samsung has slimmed down the Galaxy Tab enough, and made it light enough, to make it a much more viable option. And Samsung did us a solid by actually announcing price and availability at CTIA. Come June 8, you'll be able to get the 16GB version for $499, and the 32GB version for $599. No, it's not cheap. But it's in line with the the other 10.1-inch Honeycomb tablets.What would we change? At this point, not a whole lot. Maybe a keyboard dock like the ASUS EeePad Transformer, but Samsung's well capable of bringing something along those lines.”

“So it turns out that making tablet hardware is easy. Building something that looks like an iPad 2, something that feels as light and solid and well-made, that takes a good photo and glides a smooth touchscreen and pumps out a punchy, colourful video, is apparently not that tricky to make. If this was a competition between specifications, iPad would simply be another funny word, instead of a noun, a verb and possibly a way of life. But that’s not the world we live in. As hardware converges into distinct families, software comes to the fore. Some things about Android Honeycomb would make anyone sing. The infinitely customisable home screens are simply unbeatable, delivering only the information you want and putting every aspect of search, navigation and functionality right at your fingertips. Google’s cloud music and navigation apps are the best out there today and voice search is also extremely handy. But Honeycomb is still riddled with bugs, especially compared with the less well specified but near-faultless iPad iOS. Then compare the anaemic Market to the well-fed App Store when it comes to tablet apps and the gulf is almost embarrassing. The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 is certainly one of the best Android tablets so far and deserves to be high on the list for anyone who can’t stomach Cupertino’s controlling neediness, but if a wider run of hardware connections are what you crave, you'll have to look elsewhere.”

“Samsung’s redesigned Galaxy Tab 10.1 might be the best Android tablet around. It is as thin as the iPad 2, and weighs less than any other 10.1-inch tablet. At the same time, it packs a dual-core Tegra 2 processor, a gigabyte of RAM, has an autofocus 3-megapixel camera, outward-facing stereo speakers, and Android 3.1 to boot. Unfortunately, it does have a plastic casing, you’ll have to deal with its one proprietary communications port, and there is no microSD or micro USB support, but at $499 for a 16GB Wi-Fi model, it costs about the same as Apple’s tablet, which has similar restrictions.”