Samsung P1000 Galaxy Tab 7-inch 3G + Wi-Fi Tablet (ARM Cortex A8 1GHz, 16 GB, 7-inch TFT LCD, Bluetooth, Android 2.2) - Sim Free

I would like to mention the pros and cons of GalTab here comparing the IPad, which I've been using since last month. 1. Running speed and performance - Galtab is generally a little bit slower than the IPad. I guess this is caused by the unstable OS - the froyo. The new OS version - gingerbread(?) - will improve the response speed. Otherwise, the performance of apps, widgets, sycronising and internet connecton in Galtab is fantastic. This would be from greater hardware spec. of Galtab. 2. Battery and portability - The battery is going all day with full brightening and consistant web browsing. Respectively satisfied. I wish the battery would be exchangable, but the Galtab isn't. The weak point of the battery is that it makes Galtab burn. I mean Galtab is getting hot when I played films and browsed webs for a long time. This made me buy a leather case, which solved the hitting problem of Galtab. Mabybe, this problem would be solved after upgrading to new OS version. And 7 inch Galtab is amazing in carrying outside. I am using it as mobile phone and mobile broadbanding device. The Galtab is the best suitable for businessman. 3. Screen and extension - a bit disappointed with TFT LCD screen of Galtab. We know Amoled is much better than the TFT. But, respectively good sizing and looking. This would be because of expensive price of Amoled panel. Fantastic indoor and night vision and bloody hell in sunshine outdoor same as IPad. And I am using a 8 GB micro-sd card for memory extension in Galtab. This is one of the good points of Galtab comparing IPad. Easy to input and manage music files, films, pictures, etc. It's like a common mp3 and mp4 player. This point makes people enjoy multimedia easier than ever. 4. Camera and sound - Good positioning 2 cameras on front and back. Nice performance in video chatting. Picture quality is good on back side of Galtab. But do not think the quality is better than common digital cameras. And, the soudn quality is awesome. Especially, it's the best if you are using headphones. My sony bluetooth headphone makes me take into another world of music, with pairing Galtab. Sound's good. 5. Android market and apps - The market is relatively good as Appstore, but the Appstore is much better in the quantity and quality of the market. I hope the Android apps would have stable and excellent apps in the future. So far, the Appstore and apple apps are the winners. 6. Touching and typing - Touching sense of Galtab is a little bit worse than IPad. Some delays and mis-touching happen occasionally. The new OS version should solve these problems. On the other side, typing is good and easy. You don't neet any keypads. I think this point would kill netbooks. To be honest, typing is so easy and accurate. 7. Price and 3G networking - The price of Galtab is a bit quite high. But, if you can use the device usefully and effectively, the price doesn't matter. Enjoy the high performance of Galtab. And you can choose 3G data networking by buying a new sim card or by using your current mobilephone sim card. Amasing performance in 3G, but remember high-cost in 3G data usage. To sum up, At present, Galaxy tab is 8.5/10 points. IPad is 9.0/10 points. In the near future, Galasy tab will have more than 10 points because of the possible firmware upgrade and development of Android market. I would like to say that Galtab is the frontier of the Android OS device and is the best suitable for businessman and college students.

I'll start with the positive this is a great device I mostly use it for watching TV and reading on acrobat reader. It is the ultimate portable tv (assuming you have wi-fi), it works well with the BT home hub and picks up any other wi-fi signals in the neighbourhood and will lock onto BTfone and openzone if the signal is strong enough, I read in one review that it looses signal within 2 metres of the home hub, I've not found this to be the case but I have found that if you plug the device into mains power while watching video it really helps. Apps are easy to download but when I downloaded acrobate reader it kept on asking me to open an account with google and I kept on refusing thinking I had to get out the credit card, but fear not it's only googlemail they want you to sign up to. Now for the negative rant - the bookmark on the browser has a slider that allows you to move the page down so you can see more bookmarks that you may have saved, but this slider is not isolated from the page so when you attempt to slide down the page you inevitably end up selecting to go to a bookmark that you don't want to so you have to press the back button and start again, after repeatedly doing this eventually the browser freezes up, the amount of times I've had to completely exit the browser then go back in just because of this problem with the slider is just maddening aaaarh!! Years ago I bought a Motorola A780 which has a touchscreen and uses a slider to move pages up and down but because the slider is isolated from the page and quite a chunky width it works a treat. Now for the acrobat reader, this also has a habbit of freezing up and refusing to turn the page and you just long for the ability to press a button (hardware or software) that will advance the book 1 page at a time reliably. Flicking through the pages is really cool when it works but when it freezes you have little choice but to close it down and start it up. My opinion of this device is when it works it's amazing unputdownable when it doesn't it's annoying frustrating, I'm still glad I bought it though!

Compared to an iPhone the UI or the apps are not as slick, but the 7" screen is what I wanted. Didn't really want a 10" device. The Samsung Galaxy Tab is a nice device to use... but sometimes it feels a little sluggish. I'm guessing there's something running in the background that's doing this. Very buggy however, some apps simply hang and I have to power down the phone and cold start. I've had it just over a year and it's very sluggish at times, disappointingly so, and there are frequent reboots. I'm wondering if I should root the device and install one of the custom ROMs out there. Battery life seems to be around two days of average use - drops to about a day if you use it heavily. I bought mine SIM free, so the Samsung apps don't work (needs a contract with someone!), however it is quite usable on wireless alone. I went for a network Three monthly renewal contract for about £5 a month that gives me a couple of Gigabytes of non-wireless access. The USB cable is a custom SHORT cable (why can't they be a lot longer!), and it won't really charge from a PC USB port (it pulls 2A from its own charger). The screen gets greasy VERY quickly but not too hard to wipe it clean.

I feel so guilty. It was all that talk about the Kindle Fire. It got me all het up, and then let me down by saying that I couldn't have one here in the UK. I felt rejected. :( So my thoughts turned to finding consolation elsewhere . . . Galaxy Tab 7 Wifi plus 3G Love it! And the full extent of my Kindle-infidelity is revealed further down. Spent more money, of course; a new love needs to be pampered if the romance is to blossom and last. Vierra G-STAND Black Case Cover with Adjustable Stand for new Samsung Galaxy Tab P1000 & FREE Screen Protector, Samsung 7 inch Tablet, ARM Cortex A8 1GHz / 16GB / 7" Touch Screen / Android 2.2 Froyo / Tablet Excellent, good quality, effective in use. Then I read a Graudian review where the cable got lost, so bought these too: Samsung Galaxy Tab Car Charger Black, 5V, 2A (Detachable Type) UltimateAddons Extra Long 3 Metre Sync, Data and Charge USB Cable for Samsung Galaxy Tab 7" GT-P1000, GT-P1010 And then I travel a lot, so I needed: UltimateAddons Worldwide Dual USB Mains Charger for Samsung Galaxy Tab (GT-P1000), with 2 Metre USB Cable, Charges 2 Devices at same time, including other Tablets, i.e. Apple iPad Over the top, I know, but when the heart rules the head . . . And finally : Usb Adapter For Micro sd Card - Supports Up To 32gb Micro sd Card by Serena SanDisk microSDHC 32GB Card Our romance was now perfectly equipped to begin, and also to last, I hoped. I can get wifi with no trouble - and downloaded a WiFi Finder Free App for when I am out and about. 3G - got a T-Mobile rolling 30-day Sim Card with 100 minutes and 300 texts plus unlimited internet for £10 per month. Unlimited with an asterisk saying that it isn't actually unlimited but subject to fair use, which means that you can browse and e-mail with no limits, but streaming video and downloading or uploading large files will come up against a ceiling. Fair enough - you can do that at home on the WiFi. BBC i-player and watching videos is superb. The only glitch was that the ear-phones provided were fiddly. You had to wiggle them in or out to hear, otherwise 1mm difference either made it blare out so everyone heard, or gave complete silence. Plus the wiggling, 9 times out of ten, stopped the playback. Solved by using a cheapo pair of ear-phones given free on an AVE train in Spain to watch the film. The other slight drawback, also solved, was that while on the internet, some sites where you were required to sign in (e.g. Which magazine), the browser wouldn't let you. There's Chrome for you! Tried a number of browsers from the App Store. Finally discovered that sign-in was possible with Opera Mini browser, although I prefer Dolphin HD for general browsing. Being an Android novice, I am still learning. The context-sensitive menus, while perfectly logical, are an occasional source of frustration as where you end up in the menu depends on where you start from, so I sometimes cannot find something I had before me 2 minutes ago. Still learning, and getting better at it by the day. I find it excellent for browsing the internet; responsive, pages well-formatted (thanks to Dolphin - some in the in-built Chrome browser weren't so good and I needed to zoom in and out). A great experience overall, highly recommended. E-mail (Yahoo) was set up with no problem; my contacts came over straight away. I am not a Facebook or Twitterer, so cannot comment on those, but text messaging is fine. The camera - with lens both back and front, for self-portraits, seems good too. And now I reveal the full shame of my infidelity. The first App I downloaded was, of course, the Kindle. Took a few seconds to register my device with Amazon, then I was able to download whatever I wanted from my Kindle Archive on Amazon. I was flabbergasted by the download speed - it took me longer to click on a book than to download it. I was also able to download from my computer via the USB lead. It IS nice to see the book covers, rather than just a sterile list, and in colour too . . . an attractive way of selecting what to read. Pity Amazon can't do it like this on its Manage My Kindle page for our Kindle Archive library. The Kindle reading experience is very good; you can GoTo, consult the dictionary, change the font size, and have the option of changing the page from white with black text to black with white text, or sepia with brown text; the latter seems kinder on the eyes. The "Does the Kindle have a backlight for reading in the dark" is solved here, of course, but Mr Bibliofila find it more distracting in a darkened bedroom than when I use the Kindle with lighted case. Haven't yet tested the Galaxy Tab outdoors in the sunlight for obvious reasons. But . . . The Galaxy Tab also has a built-in e-reader, which is e-pub. It gives you one book for free, and then you can log on to a bookshop to buy more. Haven't tested the purchase option, but downloaded from my computer some e-pub books (non DRM) left over from when I had the Sony e-reader. Yes, I'm afraid that I'm a serial adulterer in the e-reader world . . . Sony to Kindle to Galaxy . . . Here the page is sepia too, although paler, and there's an interesting page curl when you turn the page. I really liked that. No way of changing font size that I have discovered yet, but there is an in-built dictionary. Page numbers on bottom of screen. But the big thing is . . . Well, I am not only fickle, I am also shallow. Easily impressed by external appearances. Fall in love with a pretty face. What I really love about the e-book reader on the Galaxy is . . . the way it looks when you open it. It shows you open shelves in an attractive wood finish, with the books displayed cover outward. Just like in your local Library where they have some special section. You can browse the covers on the shelves to select your book. It's cute, I love it, I am so shallow. Now actually this is more than shallow, it's daft, to like, to LOVE, a book reader because of this trivial point. It only lasts a few seconds, for goodness sake! Pull yourself together, woman. The actual reading experience is better on the Kindle App (unless you miss that attractive page curl - a bit as though the e-pub reader is winking at you . . .), because it has greater functionality. But I do like those lovely bookshelves. Overall verdict: the Galaxy Tab 7 is a great device. Does masses more than I thought it would, does it fast and effortlessly, and I still have a lot more to discover. I wouldn't dream of giving up my Kindle, which is just perfect as a reading device, but my Galaxy, as well as offering so very many other things, will be a handy Kindle back-up. If only Amazon would call in a carpenter to set up some shelves . . . :)

First of all this is a review of the product. The seller was polite and delivered the product quick and kept me informed at all times. The product even second hand is a little over priced. A quality notebook will cost less and as long as you have a smart phone you can link to the net for email as ahub. The hard drive will be larger. Having said that.... The product is ok to use,i am using it now. Battery life is good (i play music for 5 hours a day 1_2 hours of sat nav and can still read emails and take notes in meetings) and it's very functional for email and diary work. You can take good notes on it our record whole meetings. Samsung could have put some more work into the screen layout but with a new third party app that is all solved. Samsung take a look at htc they know how to make a phone/pad look smart, their widgets sit in the centre of the screen for instance Will I keep it yes, if I needed a better way to spend my money I think a notebook and a smartphone may make more sense

This was an ideal size, with good graphics. I could only get the internet via my computer at home. I was hoping that I would be able to get the net on 3G, but there was no response at all. Unfortunately I felt obliged to return it to Amazon, who gave a very prompt refund. Thanks to Amazon for their excellent service.

After some desk research on US sites where the Tab is available for $539 odd, I bought from Amazon.co.uk for UKL 449 (around $700) and am delighted. Major irritation in US versions : you do not know which Tab offered by which vendor (Verizon, T-Mob, AT&T...) is usable with plain Wifi (as I live out of the US, I did not intend to use the SIM). This marketing confusion by Samsung is about the only major negative! US salespersons did not know any better, and furthermore there are "hidden" costs - it seems - in deactivating a "No Plan" version of a US Tab. If it is marketed as a No Plan Tab, then it should be that! Added to this, the ridiculous US pricing on a Unlocked Tab at $940! Added to that, there are all sorts of differing opinions on deactivation routines on "locked" Tabs in the US and these seem to vary by carrier! Apple's simplicity and price structure is all the more alluring...but I am glad I bought a Tab. In this respect, Amazon UK's offering even at UK 449 is great : this is a SIM unlocked Tab and I am happily using foreign SIMs painlessly on my Tab! And what a useful thing it is too : call quality in Sri Lanka over 3G etc. is excellent (very clear, no drops) and I am using it unexpectedly for phone calls without the included headphone/mic wires. Of course it does look a bit silly at 7" to hold against the ear (still better than walking with Bluetooth earpieces) but on the table, conversations are easily heard. The Tab's Android Froyo OS 2.2 is much better in use than I expected, having used a Nexus One phone (very happily) with the same OS. Tab's OS is noticeably fast[er], lovely scrolling, responsive, clear and bright...a delight. OS 2.3 should be even better but frankly 2.2 is very very convenient. I particularly like all the extra Tab functionality over current current iPads (no cameras, no multitasking etc.) and the 7" size is great to read in bed. Lots of free apps in the Marketplace although users outside the Western countries do not have Marketplace paid apps access. Though no patch for iPad apps, the Android Marketplace will do for most people including me with no grouses. Note: Skype availability requires some hunting but Skype Android Beta is available somewhere (I got it but not sure yet if it supports voice calls) but not on Skype's own website, strangely - Marketplace does not offer it at present to users outside the Western countries. Ditto Kindle app. Both non-availabilities are at time of writing, strange. Google should make Marketplace more readily available to all. The Tab did not come with any memory card but with a charger (based on a USB cord to a UK plugpoint). I guess you can use this cord to attach the Tab to a PC instead of buying a separate Tab USB cord as I did. The only negative was that the SIM slot is a bit "stiff". You have to push the SIM deep into the slot to activate the grabbing mechanism else it keeps popping out. But this is easily overcome and you need a coin to push in or detach your SIM. Battery life: easily lasts a day of good Wifi use. More if limited use. Recognises Wifi painlessly. You may need to configure APN for your ISP...easily done. The touch buttons at the base of the Tab are not illuminated when the Tab is sleeping so you need to know where to press to see the Menu icon. They are also rather close to the end of the Tab, but accessible. No great cons I can name...and I am not a Samsung "fan" but appreciate Google's openness. An excellent product and worth buying I think from Amazon UK if you live abroad (non US). Need a good case to protect the screen from being hit (the cheap silicon case is fine but the screen is unprotected). The price of the Tab needs badly to drop!

Having never used Android OS or a Tablet PC I cannot review the Galaxy Tab - but here are a few of my observations. It is about the size of a small paperback but only about 15mm thick,it does weigh quite heavy if you are holding it for some time (i.e. using as an ebook reader).The front is all glass and the rear white plastic ,it is solid to hold but quite slippery (suggest get a silicon cover).It has a USB port for connection to a PC (slave port only i.e. will not work to a mouse or printer) it is proprietary so don't loose the supplied cord or you will be not able to charge the battery. There are four touch sensitive buttons on the face which light up to show there position ,but only for a few seconds (to save the Battery)so you have to retouch a blank part of the screen to get them to show up again.The screen gathers fingerprints like mad but not so bad if you use a screen protector. If you have not used Android OS before it does get some getting use to .The printed manual does not explain much so the first thing to do is to download the online full manual from Samsung. The browser comes with flash 10.1 so can run most websites BBC iplayer is ok but I found TVcatchup had a very slow frame rate.It has both front and rear camera's but note Android only supports Skype audio (no video version yet) Everything seemed to work first time out of the box however I did find that if I switched it off the programs icons moved to there default positions and not where I left them !! I final got around to not turning it off at all - it seemed to use very little power in standby mode. The battery lasts between 3 to 5 hours of continual use and takes about 4 hours to fully charge. You can use it while it is charging though. I was persuaded to get this Tablet because it was a good price and it came with a so called free £200 media download of films games and mp3s - however to get the mp3 files you have to sign up and give credit cards details ,then cancel your subscription before having to start paying monthly - I declined not to go for that !