The first wave of tablets after the iPad – call them the iPad echoes – have hit the shelves, and one of the front runners is the Samsung Galaxy Tab. It’s a tab not a tablet, and we’re not sure why, but it might be because it’s 2 inches smaller in screen size and about 10 ounces lighter than The Mighty iPad.
How does it measure up otherwise? Well, the details haven’t all been revealed, but it looks like it is a pretty legitimate challenger, depending on price (something that Apple notoriously inflates). It’s got a similar processor, and runs the Froyo Android 2.2. OS which has gained quite a following so far in the Droid phones. It’s got a 32GB internal drive allowing you to add more capacity with SD cards (which the iPad cannot). But where it really starts to out-class the iPad is with the cameras.