Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Sprint to Launch Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 on June 24 for $499.99

Sprint to Launch Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 on June 24 for 499.99 Sprint to Launch Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 on June 24 for $499.99

Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, Sprint Galaxy Tab 10.1, HD Touchscreen, Android 3.1

Sprint customers will be able to enjoy the convenience of Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 16GB Wi-Fi version beginning June 24 through direct ship sales channels, including Sprint Stores, Web sales (www.sprint.com), Telesales (1-800-SPRINT1) and Sprint Business Sales for $499.99 (excludes taxes). It will be available for purchase in Sprint retail stores on July 24. 

This powerful tablet boasts a brilliant 10.1-inch HD touchscreen (1,280×800) display delivering sharper movies, better game graphics, and crystal clear video chats. At just 0.34-inches, it is the world’s thinnest mobile tablet. It comes with Android 3.1 Honeycomb with Android Market providing access to more than 60,000 apps for Galaxy Tab 10.11 and an immersive, lightning-fast Web browsing experience.

 

“Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 expands Sprint’s tablet innovation, growing our lineup to five options,” said David Owens, Sprint vice president of product development. “This gives Sprint customers a one-stop-shop for all of their tablet needs. Galaxy Tab 10.1 is a dynamic tablet, but it is even more amazing when paired with the Sprint 4G network through our Overdrive Pro 3G/4G Mobile Hotspot by Sierra Wireless or MiFi 3G/4G Mobile Hotspot by Novatel.”

 

Galaxy Tab 10.1 is designed with a brilliant 10.1-inch HD touchscreen display with WXGA 1,280×800 resolution, delivering vibrant colors and crisp clarity. The aspect ratio of the display is ideal for widescreen viewing of movies, TV shows and photos. It features two cameras – a rear-facing 3-megapixel camera with camcorder, flash and zoom, and a front-facing, 2-megapixel camera – enabling video chat.

 

key features include:

 

Productivity

 

1GHz Tegra 2 Dual Core Processor

10.1-inch enhanced HD touchscreen display with pinch-to-zoom

Android 3.1, with access to more than 60,000 Android Market apps for Galaxy Tab 10.1

Google mobile services, including Google Search, Google Maps, Google Talk, Gmail, YouTube , and syncs with Google Calendar

Mobile Email—IMAP and POP, Gmail, MSN Hotmail, and Yahoo!

Messaging – personal and business email as well as IM through a downloadable Android Market app

Quick Office to open and make changes to Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or PDF documents

Full HTML web browser with Google Search and Flash Support (Adobe 10.3)

Wi-Fi – 802.11 a/b/g/n

 

Entertainment

Dual camera: 3-megapixel camera with HD camcorder, flash and zoom, and front-facing, 2-megapixel camera enabling video chat

Stereo speakers

Stereo Bluetooth 2.1

Media player with 3.5mm stereo headset jack

 

Specifications

Dimensions: 10.1 inches x 6.9 inches x .34 inches

Weight: 19.9 ounces

Display: 10.1-inch Enhanced HD touchscreen (1280×800) touchscreen

Battery: 7000 mAh Lithium-ion battery

Memory:  1GB RAM; 16GB of storage

 

Galaxy Tab 10.1 customers can expect a software update planned for this summer that will enable more favorite features and services including:

 

Customized User Experience “Samsung TouchWiz UX”

Samsung’s TouchWiz user experience is designed with a Live Panel menu for customizing the home screen of Galaxy Tab 10.1 with digital pictures, favorite websites and social network feeds. In addition, the TouchWiz UX includes a “Mini Apps” tray of commonly used features, such as task manager, calendar and music player, which can be launched while other major applications are already in use.

 

Samsung Media Hub

The software upgrade will introduce the evolution of Samsung’s popular movie and TV content service, known as Media Hub. Media Hub has been redesigned with a new user interface for even easier downloads of rented or purchased content. The new version of Media Hub also includes an HD Extender, which allows the user to play back Media Hub content on TV through an HDMI cable from the Galaxy Tab 10.1 dock or adapter.

 

Readers Hub & Social Hub

It will also gain access to Samsung’s Readers Hub service, which is a robust library filled with more than 2.2 million books, 2,000 newspapers and 2,300 magazines. Also, the software upgrade will install Samsung’s Social Hub service, which aggregates email, instant messaging, contacts, calendar and social network connections into a single interface.

 

Versatile Content Sharing

Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 will also receive Samsung’s Allshare service, for seamless content transfer between the tablet and other DLNA-enabled devices, such as HDTVs, monitors and digital cameras. The software upgrade will also transform Galaxy Tab 10.1 into a device capable of accepting streaming content from a TV to the tablet itself.

 

Sprint was unbeaten among major wireless carriers for customer satisfaction according to results from the 2011 American Customer Satisfaction Index. In addition to tying for first place among wireless carriers, Sprint was also the most improved company in customer satisfaction, across all industries, during the last three years, according to the survey.