[ort888]

Adamantium

[CRASH HARDDRIVE]

Nah. You don't have to go up in outer space and run a whole bunch of blue people out of their tree to get at adamantium.

[imitchellg5]

Originally Posted by turtle777 

So they use metal, but make it look like plastic ? Smart move.

-t

It looks pretty metal to me in the Engadget video, especially the lid looking like a brushed aluminum of sorts.

[turtle777]

I didn't watch the video, but the pics looked plasticky to me.

-t

[freudling]

Originally Posted by imitchellg5 

It looks pretty metal to me in the Engadget video, especially the lid looking like a brushed aluminum of sorts.

turtlehead trollhead.

imitch, you're right. Samsung said they were inspired by water and leaves. The way it looks when it's folded together does kinda look like a leaf. When I saw the screen, I was blown away. It's incredibly bright and vibrant. It is not plastic, either, nor does it look like plastic. The brushed composite aluminum looks more like metal than the MacBook Air.

This is just another example of many starting this year where the competition has really caught up to Apple. Apple's industrial design is no longer the only game in town.

I wish Apple would start doing more in terms of different designs. While they are good, we've had the same grey, sharp edged, alumitub portables for years. No change really at all.

[turtle777]

[testing freudling's ignore filter]

freudling is an Android fluffer

[/testing freudling's ignore filter]

-t

[freudling]

[The Final Dakar]

If you feel compelled to capture and post pics in response to a person ignore, you may be missing the point of the function.

[turtle777]

It's not working

-t

[LegendaryPinkOx]

Its like at the dinner table when two family members are fighting, and not addressing each other directly, so they make general statements toward others about their feelings for one another.

[The Final Dakar]

Someone tell LegendaryPinkOx that his observation is quite accurate.

Also, to pass the potatoes.

[Eug]

[exca1ibur]

[The Final Dakar]

I love you people. Even that dirty hotlinker Eug.

[ort888]

[Stogieman]

Originally Posted by Eug 

That's not what he's saying.

[freudling]

User's speak: 40 reviews on Amazon, average 4.5 star rating:

Amazon.com: Samsung Galaxy Tab (T-Mobile): Cell Phones & Accessories

[Laminar]

User is speak?

[Uncle Skeleton]

I think it means they have speak

[freudling]

http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Galaxy...4648542&sr=8-1

[Uncle Skeleton]

Did you forget that you already posted that link 12 hours ago?

[ort888]

This thread is about potatoes now.

[brassplayersrock²]

Originally Posted by Uncle Skeleton 

Did you forget that you already posted that link 12 hours ago?

It’s his new way of bolding. He just repeats what he previously said/linked.

[imitchellg5]

Wow. Nobody here has every Ca$hed in on that strategerie yet.

[Stogieman]

Originally Posted by ort888 

This thread is about potatoes now.

Wrong! It's mo naked hoes.

[Stogieman]

Looks like Samsung inflated the "sales" for the Galaxy Tab.

Samsung during the call for its fall quarter results admitted that its actual sales of the Galaxy Tab weren't nearly as strong as claimed. Although it had said it sold 1.5 million Galaxy Tabs in 2010 and two million by this month, company official Lee Young-hee when pressed said that these were only sales to carriers and retail stores, not real customers. She wouldn't say how many had shipped but was aware that it was "quite small" relative to the number reaching stores.

Samsung reveals Galaxy Tab's real sales are 'quite small' | Electronista

[olePigeon]

Lol. Microsoft did the same thing with Windows Phone 7. They held a press release about how many Windows Phone 7 phones they've sold... to retailers. They refuse to expound on how many actual customers have bought.

[Cold Warrior]

Wow, a really loser move Samsung. They happily threw around the 'sales' figures knowing they were being dishonest in the presentation.

[brassplayersrock²]

I see that macnn has done some throwing of its own recently.

[olePigeon]

Just read today that the Galaxy Tab has a 16% return rate.

[Cold Warrior]

Well, the 10.1" version is nearly here. The 'metal-looking bezel is in fact silvered plastic, and looks as tacky as the dime-store toy-tablets' we'll see everywhere soon. It got other rave reviews, such as

• 'decent enough effort'
• 'Honeycomb feels like Linux on the desktop before Ubuntu'
• 'somebody made a toy plastic iPad'

[imitchellg5]

Why does Samsung refuse to make the Galaxy product lines feel expensive? They've been able to make cheap featurephones feel very expensive feeling but yet the Galaxy S phones and Galaxy tablets feel iPhone 3G-cheap.

[olePigeon]

Apple's the only company I know of that mills cases out of blocks of aluminum and glass. It could be an expensive process to get into, and Samsung doesn't want to invest in it if they can go with carbon fiber or plastics for a lot less.

[imitchellg5]

You don't have to mill out cases from aluminum to feel expensive, you just have to have a textured back such as every HTC phone has had for the past 6 years.

[ort888]

Doesn't Samsung make the screens that go into the iPad? I find it weird that they seem to have a problem competing cost-wise with a product they themselves make the most expensive component of.

[imitchellg5]

No, LG, Innolux, TPK, and Wintek supply the iPad display. Samsung does provide the A4 chip though.

[OreoCookie]

Originally Posted by Cold Warrior 

Well, the 10.1" version is nearly here.

You forgot the following tidbit:

Originally Posted by wired.com

Honeycomb turns out to be pretty sweet, and as far away from Apple’s iOS as you could imagine. In fact, its closer to something like Windows XP in terms of the look and feel, albeit with a very responsive, finger-friendly touch interface.

Look and feel of Windows XP? Hello, 2001 called, they want their interface back!

[imitchellg5]

Weird, I'd say it has more of a Windows 7 look, especially with the bottom bar.

[Cold Warrior]

Samsung is fragmenting the not-iPad tablet market all by itself. Some sort of 8.9" version is coming soon.

[Shaddim]

Bought a Nook Color, rooted it, overclocked it to 1.1GHz, and it's been amazing. Can't see why a person would buy anything else, if they want a 7" wifi tablet.

[freudling]

Good for Samsung:

Samsung Apps marketplace hits 100 million downloads – MacDailyNews - Welcome Home

[Phileas]

Originally Posted by Shaddim 

Bought a Nook Color, rooted it, overclocked it to 1.1GHz, and it's been amazing. Can't see why a person would buy anything else, if they want a 7" wifi tablet.

I've been contemplating this, we need an Android device in the office. I'll probably be picking one up from ebay.

[olePigeon]

Originally Posted by OreoCookie 

Hello, 2001 called, they want their interface back!

[Spheric Harlot]

I was going to post that, but decided against due to lack of mouseover text.

[Cold Warrior]

They had the thinnest on the market, for a couple days anyway until everyone realized that it is neither on the market nor thinner than the iPad 2.

AppleInsider | Samsung caught presenting actors as Galaxy Tab "consumers," fudging thinnest tablet claims

I guess the only things that went back to the drawing board were the marketing materials.

[Spheric Harlot]

That is so embarrassing - though not quite as devastating as the "two million shipped (erm, to dealers)" lie.

[freudling]

Originally Posted by Spheric Harlot 

That is so embarrassing - though not quite as devastating as the "two million shipped (erm, to dealers)" lie.

Shut up:

iPad tops tablet sales as Galaxy Tab makes gains | Mobile Devices | ZDNet UK

[Spheric Harlot]

Why so rude?

Don't you remember the Samsung exec admitting that they'd lied?

Also, that article AGAIN talks about shipments, not sales, AFAICT, and does not take into account returns. Since it makes total sense to overship for Christmas, we'll see how it pans out.

[Cold Warrior]

The article also can't take into account iPad 2 sales. Real sales.

[Eug]

I went and played with the iPad 2 today (since I don't have one yet). In all honesty the biggist size still feels a tad awkward, but it feels nicer than the original iPad, and it's a much smoother experience than the Tab in terms of the OS. Despite the likeable form factor, the Tab still just seems half-assed because of its OS.

Despite my complaints with the size though, it's reasonably decent, as it's already 132 ppi. I think that's one of the reasons it's the size that it is. It maintains that desired 1024x768 screen rez for surfing, but ups the ppi to reduce physical size. Increasing the ppi to say 150 ppi would introduce other issues.

P.S. At the same time, I tried a Viewsonic tablet (7"). After 1 minute I still couldn't figure out how to use the thing. WTF?