I realize this tablet’s not yet available to the masses, but I would like to hear (speculation? Informed reasoning? pure guess?) about how useful it will be *as a tablet* (vs. tied via subsidy to Verizon or eventually others).

However, my excitement about the Galaxy Tab has been deflated: the price is a big disappointment. If the wildly popular iPad (which isn’t for me, but Hey, if you like it, you like it) has a 8-10 hour battery life, a 10″ screen, and starts at $500, while the 7″-screen Galaxy (which will have some pretty direct competition — i.e. Android tablets with similar specs, some with 10″ screens) starts higher than that, that seems … well, interesting at least. Unexpected. I was hoping for more like $350 or $400; I know that many phones’ unsubsidized prices are quite a bit higher than that, but it seems like this is — no surprise — head to head against the iPad; higher price for weaker specs isn’t what I was expecting. (An interesting data point, though, when people talk about the “Apple tax,” as in, the premium Apple can charge for being stylish and enduringly hip — as far as I can see, there’s no big Samsung Tax )

I want to tell Samsung,

I have a Samsung Q1u, I still am now thinking that the Q1ultra was not bad, and difficult to find a replacer, hoping for the Intel Oak Trail to wait 2011. I am needing a Windows system on an UMPC. In the Android OS, you still are now unable to find a supporting for the RAW image in the image viewer.

Seems Samsung’s new 7” Galaxy Tab has not a directly video output port (HDMI), which is needed some the additional expenses to buy a docking device for the HDMI output, even is the USB port, if it is like this, very bad!

a docking device was neither a mini-shape nor a slight weight, would more be the trouble in the applied side. I cannot imagine the users would be willing to carry and using those otiose devices during the journey. Would be willing a journey to carry an otiose thing?

HDMI or USB ports ought to get directly designed within a main body. And not a docking device!

Website zdnet.de has a news reported the pricing would be like below,
Samsung hat auf der 50. Internationalen Funkausstellung (IFA) in Berlin sein Galaxy Tab wie geplant vorgestellt. Es wird ab Oktober für 799 Euro erhältlich sein. Das schlanke 7-Zoll-Tablet mit kapazitivem Touchscreen läuft unter Android 2.2, also mit Flash 10.1.

My God. Samsung Galaxy Tab is pricing 799 Euro! We knew that iPad is 499 Euro in Germany. And, the iPad is having an IPS screen in 9.7-inch, despite likely you like a screen 7-inch.

Samsung Galaxy Tab has two cameras, a frontal camera is for the cellphone and the Internet video, but the rear camera is absolutely a trash, merely seemed a pretext for Samsung raises up the price. Any one cheap of the compact camera would be better than the rear camera of Galaxy Tab.

The rear camera is absolutely unnecessary on tablet.

Samsung is probably already mad to want getting money. Well, we have to say goodbye Samsung, please get out. Apple will launch the 7-inch iPad in Nov, and the screen is also an IPS, not a TN screen.

In 2007, we have merely seen a few of UMPCs, and high-prices, but the 2011, we will get the much types and models!

I have to say, this is starting to look very much like what I have been looking for.