Information Madness

We all know that Samsung is busy working on the Galaxy Tab, an Android powered tablet computer that will compete with the likes of the Apple iPad. It now seems that there is speculation that a formal announcement for the Galaxy Tab may be coming on August 11th as it appears that the Korean company has sent out invitations to members of the media for this date.

According to a new Reuters report, Samsung Electronics is planning to launch a tablet PC in Q3 of this year in order to compete with the iPad, but that’s not all. It will also be competing against all of those Windows tablets that Steve Ballmer is talking up. It’s a rather surprising move, but Samsung’s tablet (which we have heard may be called the ‘Galaxy Tab’) will run Google’s Android operating system.

It’s believed that this is when Samsung will unveil the Galaxy Tab, a device that was expected to launch in quarter 3 of 2010. The Galaxy Tab is a 6-inch tablet with Android 2.2 that includes a 1.2Ghz A8 CPU, 16GB integrated memory, and a Super AMOLED display screen.

Samsung will doubtless be hoping that it can make the same sort of impact as its namesake Galaxy S smartphone, which has produced some big waves in the high-end handset world of late. Although the company is going to have a great deal of competition, with a lot of manufacturers jumping on the tablet bandwagon, what with analysts’ predictions of tablet sales of 11 to 13 million units this year alone (the majority of which will be the iPad).