Let the tablet wars begin - Dan Gillmor - Salon.com: "In fact, the Tab's size strikes me as nearly ideal. I'm using it, among other purposes, as an e-book reader and video player, ideal for travel and for around-town activities. It's definitely not ideal for everything, as I'll explain when I do a more thorough review in the next few days, but no device can do everything you want; tradeoffs are always part of this game.
I suspect that Samsung will sell a lot of these, especially if it cuts the too-high price its resellers -- mobile phone operators -- are currently charging ($600 for a tablet without a data plan; typically around $400 with a two-year data plan). And some early anecdotal evidence supports my hunch. At a conference in Phoenix yesterday, two people told me they owned iPads but wished they'd waited."
The war really started when Apple came out with the iPad while everyone else was fiddling around with MIDs (mobile internet device) mostly based on Android (1.5 and 1.6). There have already been many fatalities (The JooJoo being the latest)
There has been skirmishing with several Android 2 tablets being released (mostly from China). The Dell Streak was the first salvo in the "big boys" war and now the Galaxy Tab is the first significant counter-offensive.
Pass the popcorn, its just starting to get good.
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