Galaxy Tab 10.1 Pro at CES: Samsung builds the thinner iPad Air - STERN.DE

The Galaxy Tab 10.1 and 8.4 per Apple iPads to the tablet throne encounter © Samsung

E s is a constant back-and-forth: Apple brings a new gadget on the market, Samsung quickly reinforced this gradually squeezed every possible technology in the device. With its marketed as an all-rounder devices, the South Koreans have become the number one on the mobile phone market. More than 160 million times the Galaxy S smartphones have been sold worldwide. However, there is pent-up demand for the tablets, here dominated time rival Apple for years. The iPad, it seems, defying any competition. This is now changing: With a large tablet offensive at CES in Las Vegas Samsung wants Apple from the throne come

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The heart of the new tablet lineups is the Galaxy Tab 10.1 Pro. (: IPad Air 9.7 inches for comparison) with a resolution of 2560 x 1600 pixels, as the name suggests, the flat computer has a 10.1-inch tablet. Thus, it is sharper than Apple’s Retina display. The Galaxy Tab weighs in WiFi variant 469 grams and thus exactly the same as the iPad Air, which was celebrated at its launch in October because of its light weight and small dimensions. Like almost all Samsung products are the new tablets made of plastic, making the device even is slightly thinner (7.3 instead of 7.5 mm), but has a less noble. Practical: The Galaxy Tablet can be in contrast to the Apple counterpart expand via microSD up to 64 GB, as well as the eight-megapixel camera on the back has a flash

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The Galaxy Tab 8.4 is expected to Pro next to the LG G Pad 8.3 probably the worst challenger to the iPad Mini to be. Despite the somewhat larger displays the device is lighter and thinner, the equipment is otherwise identical to the 10.1-incher.

new items are the Sheet Pro 12.2 and the Galaxy Tab 12.2 Pro: With 31 inch screen size, the mega Tablets are more reminiscent of netbooks as on portable flat computer. This step comes as no surprise: to offer Samsung’s strategy in the smartphone market, equipment in every conceivable screen sizes for different demands of customers, will now be implemented consistently with the tablets. At the same time Samsung follows the procedure of Apple in all devices and provides the same technical equipment to. With the oversized 12.2-inch Samsung could be the competitors even preempted: Industry experts expect for 2014 a kind of iPad Pro, which should be primarily directed at business customers

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The success in the tablet market is crucial for Samsung. Despite good sales of smartphones the company for the fourth quarter of 2013 expected earnings. Compared to the record results for the third quarter Samsung calculated with a decline of 18.3 percent. Shortly before the beginning of the last quarter, Apple had launched its new iPhone models on the market. This could be the sales of South Koreans have slowed with expensive smartphones, while the competition from Asian low-cost carriers is growing in favorable devices. The tablet market, however, is still considered a growth market.