The Asian dragons leave at the assault on the iPad. While the Apple touch Tablet is virtually alone on this new market, it will now have to count with two serious candidates: the Korean Samsung Galaxy Tab, and the Folio of Japanese Toshiba. Both were the highlight of the presentations of the two constructors to IFA, the European trade fair for consumer electronics in Berlin yesterday.
It is Samsung that could build in the most serious competitor for Apple. Its Galaxy Tab will be sold beginning in September in South Korea and will be available in the first half of October in France. -Side technique, it integrates the Android operating system, supports Flash, and on-board camera for filming or hold video conferences. -Side use, she deliberately takes the opposite of Apple, by positioning itself on the ultramobilité. First by its format - 7 inch, against 9.7 for the iPad - then its weight-380 grams against 680-, which makes it a terminal more easily transportable than the iPad. Especially, it has the phone functionality. Given the size of the-7 inch screen, when a "smartphone" into account average - 3.5, this addition may look like a simple gadget. Except that the Korean all aboard the last Bluetooth 3.0 standard, which allows to use the kit effectively wireless device.
Business packages
Its price is currently set at 699 euros. But it will be subsidized by operators, and will therefore be accessible less expensive for the user. In fact, Samsung is negotiating with three French operators and is confident to offer packages linking offer voice and data.
The group is also floor on business packages - a priority market for this product-, and others allow the user to have a single subscription phone accessible interchangeably since the Tablet and the "smartphone" to the user. Operators might be interested in this product, so they did not like to be removed from the distribution of the iPad, which is directly marketed to distributors. In the United Kingdom, Vodafone has already announced that it will market the Samsung tablet.
Remains the critical issue of the content on such terminal. Samsung is full France negotiation and should disclose a week before the first content. But already, the Group has identified three major services: games, video on demand (an agreement with one partner other than a chain is on track), and e-books. The Galaxy Tab will also carry a supply of books, which will add a local supply: in France, Samsung is negotiating with Hachette advanced to offer titles from the Publisher.
For its part, Toshiba therefore builds on Folio 100, a tablet that is very similar to the iPad. Available in October in France, it integrates Android, the Google operating system, and will be for the time being only available in Wi - Fi. Toshiba and target home use, as its format (10.1 inches) is not a very mobile terminal. At the level of content, the Japanese group account feed its new "Toshiba Marketplace" with different local partnerships, on which the French subsidiary Board currently. His main asset remains for the time being its price, since it will be sold to 399 euros in France.
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