Anti-iPad” products from Samsung and Toshiba

The competition for the already commercially successful Apple’s iPad intensified even further since the Korean Samsung and the Japanese Toshiba revealed their own laptops, or tablet PCs.
Samsung present to an international electronics exhibition in Berlin, the Galaxy Tab, which has a seven-inch touch screen (16.8 cm) – less than the 9.7 inch screen of iPad – using Google’s operating system Android 2.2.

The Galaxy Tab weighs 380 grams (about half the size of the iPad) and will be released in Europe in mid-September at a price which at present has not been announced.
Toshiba on the other hand, present Folio 100, which has a 10.1-inch screen using also the Android as operating system. We should mention here that iPad uses the operating system of MAC iOS developed of course by Apple.

Folio will be in European stores in the fourth quarter of 2010 and reports estimate that its price will be 399 Euros. Moreover, the Korean LG Electronics has already announced that it will release its own tablet PC using also Android until December this year. Even Microsoft is rumored that will reveal soon its own tablet PC – the Courier-, while Hewlett-Packard and Dell also developed their owns tablet Pc’s, the Slate and the Stealth respectively.

The tablets PC’s have created a new category of devices, as they are smaller in size and memory in relation to desktop or laptop computers, but have much more capabilities compared to the “smart” mobile phones. The main innovation they offer is mainly the touch screen user interface plus easy to use options to watch video, to listen music, to play games or just to read emails or surf the internet.