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• ukit

  Samsung Galaxy Tab - $900

  

  Cisco Cius - $TBD

  

  Sep 4, 10, 5:19 p.m. – Permalink

• formed

  "The Samsung Galaxy Tablet price is still unknown, but expect it to be above the standard $199 tag that comes with a two-year contract."

  My bet is not much more than that. It'll have to come in cheaper, with more features, to shake the iPad's status.

  • "list price will be €799 in Europe for the unsubsidized version"– ukit1/2

    if I say it enough, it will be so– formed2/2

  

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  Dog-earSep 4, 10, 5:29 p.m. – Permalink

• Andrew_D

  I wanna like Android, but every time I use it, I just think how much better iOS is. I've just upgraded my 3G to iPhone 4 and when the iPad gets a redesign (camera update and whatnot), I'll probably pick one up as well.

  That CISCO tablet would be cool for my office at work, though.

  • Why so? Android is awesome but this is from a non-iPhone user.– 404NotFound

  

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  Dog-earSep 4, 10, 5:37 p.m. – Permalink

• CyBrain

  I can't believe they'd ask more for and Android tablet than an iPad. How much better could it be? And even if it were that much better, you'd still be selling to a cheap audience.

  • They aren't– formed1/3

    haha, why do you keep saying that? http://www.geek.com/…– ukit2/3

    if I say it enough, it will be so– formed3/3

  

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  Dog-earSep 4, 10, 7:44 p.m. – Permalink

• formed

  We'll see, but everyone would agree it'll have to be better/cheaper to draw buyers at this point

  

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  Dog-earSep 4, 10, 8:50 p.m. – Permalink

• georgesIII

  Screw the galaxy,
  I'm getting the Archos 10, as soon at it comes out,
  It looks decent and I'll use it mostly to read comics
  

  

  
  http://www.archos.com/products/t…
  http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/…
  

  

  • Nice.– Lillebo1/6

    that looks awful– ernexbcn2/6

    Disgusting UI.– dMullins3/6

    nice? not.– mnmlst4/6

    I've had a bunch of Archos, they're neat but the interface makes baby designer jesus cry.– zarkonite5/6

    the wider screen looks nice but thats about it– moIdero6/6

  

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  Dog-earSep 5, 10, 1:15 p.m. – Permalink

• ukit

  Galaxy Tab is a stupid name, can we agree on that

  • Yes Sir.– spraycanII1/6

    Makes me think of Captain Kirk droppin e with Spock– ukit2/6

    *writes fan film script*– Lillebo3/6

    yes. indeed.– akrokdesign4/6

    Spock and Kirk on e? I don't remember that episode.– CyBrain5/6

    It is, but iPad caught a lot of flack too.– 404NotFound6/6

  

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  Dog-earSep 5, 10, 2:04 p.m. – Permalink

• clearThoughts

  It's going to the same as with Desktops and Laptops.

  Apple sets the style and all the other manufacturers will be catching up and selling it at half the price 3-4 months later...

  It's pretty amazing how now pretty much every single phone out there looks like an iPhone and every single tablet will look like an iPad.
  Including all the UI design elements, etc...

  I think the only company that really stood out in all this was Blackberry. For coming up with a complete different smart phone design, that some people actually prefer to the iPhone.

  • good observation. It seems to be the case.– Samush1/4

    Blackberry sucks!– 404NotFound2/4

    Good thoughts here. I feel it's true that Blackberry was pretty awesome until the iPhone came along and reinventing the wheel.– dMullins3/4

    wheel.– dMullins4/4

  

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  Dog-earSep 5, 10, 2:05 p.m. – Permalink

• Boz

  I don't see how Android is the same as iOS? I agree.. it will be exactly the same as with computers.. meaning Apple will drop down like a brick in marketshare by end of next year to probably like 15%..

  I'm just curious how exactly devices look like iPhone or iOS? I think that's utter nonsense.

  Android OS is nothing like iOS and is actually IMO much better OS in the way it handles multitasking, notifications and openness in general. I like the UI as well and the fact that you can put widgets on the screens. So basically, nothing like iOS.

  HTC phones, Motorola phones and Sony phones are nowhere anything like iPHone design wise.. Droid, DroidX, Desire and shitload of others don't look anything like iPhone and have a lot more things on them (like dual cameras - actually Apple came out with this only with iPhone 4), phisical keyboards and tons of other things. If you are saying that DroidX or EVO4G looks like iPhone I guess you need to examine your eyesight.

  The ONLY phone that remotely looks like iPhone is the Samsung Galaxy S phone (the Vibrant). That one looks like an iphone.

  • dude - remember how before the first iPhone came out most phones had keys? who started with all this touchscreen hype??– clearThoughts1/4

    it was full of prototypes, but Apple was the first one to put a successful touchscreen phone out. The same with a tablet computer.– clearThoughts2/4

    most phones also steal the same sort of homescreen layout as the iphone too with the square icons– PIZZA3/4

    I've had a touchscreen phone since 1999, Palm Treo.– zarkonite4/4

  

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  Dog-earSep 5, 10, 4:42 p.m. – Permalink

• ukit

  Apparently Blackberry has a tablet coming out, rumored to be called...I shit you not, the Blackpad. hahaha

  • thats worse than ipad? Both suck imho– formed1/3

    Wow, that is bad. Why not Blackboard at the very least?– bjm2/3

    I heard Blackboard, but I don't think anything is final– formed3/3

  

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  Dog-earSep 5, 10, 4:55 p.m. – Permalink

• ukit

  Honestly the whole tablet craze is giving us some of the worst product names of all time

  iPad
  iPed/ aPad
  Galaxy Tab
  Blackpad

  • and they're dumb devices as well.– CyBrain1/2

    I agree. Dumb devices.– 404NotFound2/2

  

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  Dog-earSep 5, 10, 4:58 p.m. – Permalink

• georgesIII

  Thank god for Apple,
  without them there would be no tech in technology,
  but enough with the sarcasm,
  I still wonder how many of you actually tried android because everytime I hear a comparison between android and ios it makes me cringe.
  they have some similarities but saying ios is better is just full o'crap,
  when as usual, apple creates and customized his os to work on a single machine when android is an os that is created to work on dozen of phones, tablet, etc..

  • so that means it's allowed to suck?– ernexbcn1/3

    Right.. you do realize they don't invent crap.. they just know how to package it nicely– Boz2/3

    thus, the power of design– lambsy3/3

  

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  Dog-earSep 5, 10, 11:17 p.m. – Permalink

• akrokdesign

  Samsung Galaxy Tab - $900.

  nine hundred!...i pass.

  • i saw the comment that it might be 199 but with 2yr contract.– akrokdesign1/3

    that still don't beat the ipad. which you have month to month.– akrokdesign2/3

    but time will tell, i guess. :-)– akrokdesign3/3

  

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  Dog-earSep 6, 10, 10:42 a.m. – Permalink

• ernexbcn

  All I know is I'm getting a 2nd gen. iPad

  • what can it have? retina, cameras? only thing it needs now is more ram– raf1/5

    I won't even consider an iPad until it has a retina display, the iPhone 4 screen is so crisp.– bjm2/5

    I needs a lot more than RAM before I'd consider it.– CyBrain3/5

    A USB port would be handy.– 404NotFound4/5

    i bout the ipad for my 2year old daughter, ill get the one with the cam for myself– moIdero5/5

  

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  Dog-earSep 6, 10, 10:43 a.m. – Permalink

• Boz

  Samsung Galaxy Tab is not $900.. it's going to be around $200-$250 with carrier and around $400 without.

  • < that's better. :-D– akrokdesign1/2

    http://tech.fortune.…– ukit2/2

  

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  Dog-earSep 6, 10, 11:03 a.m. – Permalink

• uan

  in 2-5 years we all will have 2 and more pads lying around our desks, 1 to watch tv, one to make music, 1 to sketch, aso.

  • don't forget the "private browsing" ipad hidden in the toilet– clearThoughts

  

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  Dog-earSep 6, 10, 12:16 p.m. – Permalink

• georgesIII

  and then in 50 years,
  our kitchen will clean themselves,
  everyone will be given two jetpacks,
  we will eat plastics to combat impotency,
  cats will actually talk,
  cars will drive us when we're too drunk and sometime even give us oral sex,
  war will be a thing of the past,
  duckfaces will actually be done with cloned duck faces...
  ....

  • ducks actually wear dog masks– ernexbcn1/3

    still no hoverboard *sigh– tymeframe2/3

    In 50years I'll be neouropluged to the playstation17 and hanging out at virtual beaches– uan3/3

  

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  Dog-earSep 6, 10, 12:50 p.m. – Permalink

• toulouz

  haha, yeah wonder where its all going? Frodo is the biz on a desire ! can't beat it !
  multi tasking, flash 10.1, HD vid .. n loads more !! dwarfs Iphone and much cheaper !

  • haha "Frodo"– ukit

  

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  Dog-earSep 6, 10, 3:02 p.m. – Permalink

• mnmlst

  .... and the turd tsunami of copycat tablets roll in after spending a few months picking apart what Apple spent the R&D to develop. Funny thing is they don't even copy it will. Anybody used an EVO? Besides the battery lasting 10 minutes (my fandroid friend carries an extra battery), the UI is a bad cluttered ripoff of iOS. So sad.

  • TURD TSUNAMI. Lolza– clearThoughts1/3

    ROFL– clearThoughts2/3

    you are clearly delusional.. The fact that everything looks like Apple ripoff to you, should concern you.– Boz3/3

  

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  Dog-earSep 6, 10, 3:50 p.m. – Permalink

• georgesIII

  Check the video, the galaxy looks pretty fast and well built.
  and for once it will come out here before the US,
  still €900 is a lot
  http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/…

  

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  Dog-earSep 12, 10, 1:53 p.m. – Permalink

• georgesIII

  I Finally ordered the 101,
  it looks like the best droid tablet for the use I want to make of it,
  network streaming / support external hdd/ USB host/ internal sd and off course tethering,
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  • how much?– ernexbcn

  

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  Dog-earNov 18, 10, 5:14 a.m. – Permalink