Samsung Galaxy Tab review

Yesterday, Samsung announced their new tablet PC, Samsung Galaxy Tab, in Indonesia.

Samsung Galaxy Tab is bundled with one of Indonesia carrier, Indosat.

More than 2 million books, 2500 magazine title in 20 languages provided by this tablet and various contents from several medias such as Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Autocar, FHM, Trax, and Harper Bazaar from Mugi Restu Abadi (MRA) media group.

Samsung Galaxy Tab is packed with key features and specs such as the following :

• PoverVR SGX540.
• Diplay 7 inch TFT LCD 1024×600 pixel
• Proccesor Cortex A8 1Ghz
• RAM 512MB
• Mobile Ap router to connect with 5 others to 3G Networks
• dual camera 3.2 MP and 1.3 MP with video chat
• multimedia
• mobile telephony
• Android 2.2 Froyo

The price projection of Samsung Galaxy Tab Indosat Indonesia is about 7 million rupiah.

Android (operating system)

Android is a mobile operating system initially developed by Android Inc., a firm purchased by Google in 2005.^[4] Android is based upon a modified version of the Linux kernel. Google and other members of the Open Handset Alliance collaborated to develop and release Android to the world.^[5][6] The Android Open Source Project (AOSP) is tasked with the maintenance and further development of Android.^[7] Unit sales for Android OS smartphones ranked first among all smartphone OS handsets sold in the U.S. in the second and third quarters of 2010,^[8][9][10] with a third quarter market share of 43.6%.^[11]

Android has a large community of developers writing application programs ("apps") that extend the functionality of the devices. There are currently over 100,000 apps available for Android.^[12][13] Android Market is the online app store run by Google, though apps can be downloaded from third party sites (except on AT&T, which disallows this). Developers write in the Java language, controlling the device via Google-developed Java libraries.^[14]

The unveiling of the Android distribution on 5 November 2007 was announced with the founding of the Open Handset Alliance, a consortium of 78 hardware, software, and telecom companies devoted to advancing open standards for mobile devices.^[15][16] Google released most of the Android code under the Apache License, a free software and open source license.^[17]

The Android operating system software stack consists of Java applications running on a Java based object oriented application frameworkon top of Java core libraries running on a Dalvik virtual machine featuring JIT compilation. Libraries written in C include the surface manager, OpenCore^[18] media framework, SQLite relational database management system, OpenGL ES 2.0 3D graphics API, WebKit layout engine, SGL graphics engine, SSL, and Bionic libc. The Android operating system consists of 12 million lines of code including 3 million lines of XML, 2.8 million lines of C, 2.1 million lines of Java, and 1.75 million lines of C++.