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Two days earlier to this, South Korea based Samsung Inc., announced that it would start selling its tablet PC "Galaxy tab" in US from 11th of November this year. The price of Samsung Galaxy tab would be $600 and it will be running on Google's Android OS.

On Friday, Hewlett-Packard launched its tablet computer which is run on Windows Operating System. Right now, HP's tablet PC is the latest entry in the tablet computers market and is mainly aimed at the professionals as it has the ability to handle spreadsheets, documents and other applications from Microsoft. It is called as HP Slate 500.

HP Slate 500 has an 8.9-inch display screen i.e, 22.6cms and is slightly smaller than the Apple Inc.'s iPad. The weight of this gadgets is just 1.5 pounds i.e, about 0.68 kilo-grams. It has got 2 camera's in it - one for stills and another for video, has got USB (Universal Serial Bus) port where users can connect a mouse, keyboard or printer to it. This gadget offers the connectivity for Wi-Fi but doesn't have 3G cellular access. The battery backup for this device is about 5 hours. It runs on Microsoft's Windows 7 OS.

Coming to the cost of this latest gadget, Slate 500 will cost $800 which is almost same price as the Apple Inc.'s iPad.

After the success of the Blackberry handset, Research in Motion Ltd. has now started to focus on manufacturing tablets as well. Few days back, Research in Motion Ltd. revealed their tablet pc for the first time. This gadget is been named as the "Playbook". This new gadget will be launched in early 2011 and it will have an international rollout later in the year. RIM has now started to challenge Apple Inc.'s iPad by focusing on their tablets which will be of lighter weight and small in size.

Apple Inc.'s "iPad" was introduced in the month of March and has become the leading seller of tablets in the market. Dell has also launched its very own tablet pc called "Streak" in the month of August. Samsung Electronics co. will be launching its tablet pc "Galaxy tab" next month. Cisco Systems Inc. will be also be launching its tablet pc called "Cius" in the early 2011. So RIM will have lot of competition in this field when Playbook is launched.

Now coming to features of the Playbook, this gadget has got a 7-inch display screen which is half the size of iPad and the weighs almost same as that of iPad. This tablet has got 2 cameras in it, one in the front and other one in the back. This gadget can be used as the second screen for the Blackberry phone with the help of short range wireless link hence an larger display screen for the Blackberry phone is achieved. This gadget will also work as a stand-alone gadget. RIM's main focus is to give complete web experience to the users which can give the ability to display flash & interactive material on the web.

As of now, RIM did not tell about the exact pricing of the Playbook. But it has said that this tablet will be costing in the same range as that of iPad, which starts at $499.

Acer Inc. which is one among the top netbook manufacturing companies in the world are now working with their latest upcoming project which will be an laptop with dual screen. This latest gadget will have two 15-inch multi touch display screens. Among the two touch screens, the lower one can also display a trackpad and an virtual keyboard. This latest gadget will be powered by an Intel Pentium Core i5 processor mostly a Core i5-580M model which will be having a core speed of 2.67GHz. Acer's dual screen laptop will be run on Microsoft Windows 7 operating system. For now, there is no information regarding dual screen laptop that when it will be released, what will be the price of this gadget or whether it will be coming into the market or not.

As the competition among the gadget manufacturing companies are increasing day by day, new trends are being introduced. New technologies, gadgets are becoming very important in our daily lives but we don't know where this will lead us or take to. All we can do is to just wait and watch the show.

On Thursday, Samsung corp unveiled its android based tablet which is called Samsung Galaxy Tab at the IFA electronics show. This latest android tablet will definitely make a direct competition with the Apple's iPad.
Samsung Galaxy Tab is much smaller in size when compared to that of iPad. This is done because they want the device to be more portable and handy. Galaxy Tab weighs just 380 grams which is half in size that of Apple's iPad.
The features of this latest Android tablet is, it has a 7-inch touch screen with a resolution of 1024x600 pixels, tablet's touch sensitivity is very quick which means it responds very quickly to the touch, the display screen is very bright which helps in easy visibilty of the text and can be read easily, the processor used in this gadget is a ARM based processor A8 manufactured by Cortex which has the processing speed of 1.0GHz, has a PowerVR SGX540 graphics processor, It comes with an internal memory of either 16GB or 32GB which is supplemented by a microSD port that helps to accommodate flash cards of up to 32GB more.

Other features include, it supports 802.11 a, b, g, and n but not Wi-Fi connectivity, while coming to the cell networks, it supports 2.5G (GSM / GPRS / EDGE technology) and 3G (HSUPA at 5.76Mbps and HSDPA at 7.2Mbps), it supports bluetooth earpieces,
As of now Samsung has not told anything about the pricing of this latest Android tablet but it has said that the price will be competitive. But according to me the price will be little cheaper as the tablet is smaller in size. Samsung will start shipping its Galaxy Tab in late september.