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Samsung Galaxy Tab Garners Favorable Reviews
Samsung's Galaxy Tab, a 7-inch tablet powered by the Android operating system, has made its rounds with gadget reviewers, and consensus says it's a solid but pricey device.
Reviewers at tech blogs and mainstream publications, including Wired.com, found that the Galaxy Tab offered a pleasing user experience despite some flaws. Many complained that the Galaxy Tab, priced at $600, is too expensive when pitted against Apple's larger $500 iPad.
The Galaxy Tab is the first official Android tablet on the market to compete with Apple's iPad. Samsung has marketed the smaller, pocketable size of the Galaxy Tab as ideal for commuters, while highlighting Adobe Flash as a key feature that the tablet supports, unlike the iPad.
Reviews of the Galaxy Tab were mostly positive, but the most dissenting opinion comes from Matt Buchanan of Gizmodo, who described the Galaxy Tab as a "pocketable trainwreck." A list of excerpts from reviews of the Galaxy Tab follows.
Christopher Null, Wired.com:
"The Tab ultimately reveals itself not as a competitor to the iPad but as a new class of mobile devices: a minitablet that is designed to go everywhere you do."
Walt Mossberg, The Wall Street Journal:
"The Tab is attractive, versatile and competitively priced, though monthly cell fees can add up. It's different enough from the iPad, yet good enough, to give consumers a real choice."
David Pogue, New York Times:
"With the Samsung Galaxy Tab, you're also buying delicious speed and highly refined hardware. It's just a shame that you're buying all that for $600."
Matt Buchanan, Gizmodo:
"This thing is just a mess. It's like a tablet drunkenly hooked up with a phone, and then took the fetus swimming in a Superfund cleanup site. The browser is miserable, at least when Flash is enabled. It goes catatonic, scrolling is laggy, and it can get laughably bad."
Joanna Stern, Engadget:
"It's the best Android tablet on the market. Now, that's...
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