Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 announced

I cannot understand what Samsung is up to here. Unless they are planning to sell this at below Nexus 7" prices this makes zero sense. The Tab series of tablets is going downhill fast.
 
Very disappointing. I'll stick with my tab plus thanks, basically the same thing.
 
BeVonk! said:
I cannot understand what Samsung is up to here. Unless they are planning to sell this at below Nexus 7" prices this makes zero sense. The Tab series of tablets is going downhill fast.
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They appear currently to not have a tablet strategy at all. Look at their branding it's totally messed up. Tab 7 1 2 and 3 are essentially the same. Tab 10 and Note 10.1 are the same. Their best screen is in a non-Samsung branded tablet. I keep waiting for them to release the bombshell sgs4 equivalent to take on iPad and it never happens.
 
If anything it's little more than a cosmetic change to bring it in line with the 'pebble' look ..that also manages to go backwards on specs that may actually be of value too! To me it seems that its only real value is in the fact of its existence pushing down the cost on the better Tab S2.
 
My money is on Sony. Samsung blows very hot and very cold ... weird ... as if there are two different Samsung teams ... an "A" team and a "B" team working on devices. This stupid tablet may even suggest a "C" team ... the special class.
 
cerebus said:
They appear currently to not have a tablet strategy at all. Look at their branding it's totally messed up. Tab 7 1 2 and 3 are essentially the same. Tab 10 and Note 10.1 are the same. Their best screen is in a non-Samsung branded tablet. I keep waiting for them to release the bombshell sgs4 equivalent to take on iPad and it never happens.
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This is what frustrates me with HTC ... no tablet strategy whatsoever. They were ahead of the industry with the Flyer ... a truly brilliant little tablet. We have many tablets of various brands and sizes at work and the techies all prefer the Flyers of which we still have three. Why HTC decided not to do another Flyer is beyond comprehension. People were shaking their heads about these mad Taiwanese that brought out this smaller tablet ... and now? Now everyone is into doing it. Samsung is even doing the stylus thing that HTC had with the Flyer. HTC, just like Samsung, makes some weird strategy decisions. HTC could have owned so much more of the market by now ... but some fool in the organisation killed the tablet ... (shakes my head in disbelief).
 
BeVonk! said:
My money is on Sony. Samsung blows very hot and very cold ... weird ... as if there are two different Samsung teams ... an "A" team and a "B" team working on devices. This stupid tablet may even suggest a "C" team ... the special class.
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Sony...well yeah but I had the Xperia ST 10' tab and I wasn't hugely enamoured of it. The new one looks good but it's $100 more than the iPad4 and it has marginally worse specs.

The one company I place blame for screwing up Android tabs here is squarely Google. They've made so many strategic fumbles:
1) Gutting the OEM pricing tier with the Nexus models (who can compete with a $200 Nexus 7? No matter that the Nexus7 makes zero margin on hardware itself).
2) Not leading the charge on creating a distinct tablet Android table app category in Play Store. So it's become an app vs tablet manufacturer vs Google/Android situation where everyone is playing who-blinks-first on competitiveness with Apple.
 
And yet, for all that it *appears* this thing is no improvement (and IS a couple of steps back to boot), it seems to be faster than the Tab 2. Lifted from that gsmarena page:

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BeVonk! said:
This is what frustrates me with HTC ... no tablet strategy whatsoever. They were ahead of the industry with the Flyer ... a truly brilliant little tablet. We have many tablets of various brands and sizes at work and the techies all prefer the Flyers of which we still have three. Why HTC decided not to do another Flyer is beyond comprehension. People were shaking their heads about these mad Taiwanese that brought out this smaller tablet ... and now? Now everyone is into doing it. Samsung is even doing the stylus thing that HTC had with the Flyer. HTC, just like Samsung, makes some weird strategy decisions. HTC could have owned so much more of the market by now ... but some fool in the organisation killed the tablet ... (shakes my head in disbelief).
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It baffles me how they didn't see what they had with the Flyer.
 
milomak said:
It baffles me how they didn't see what they had with the Flyer.
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Especially now that everyone copied them. Their first tablet effort was a masterpiece. The problem was the price, but when one looked at how well it was made and what materials were used one appreciated the premium price. The Flyer has a special place in my own gadget experience history. It was the one device that hit the nail right on the head. HTC must be kicking themselves for not following with a Flyer 2.
 
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