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Tablets are right up there with 3D-enabled 4K TVs in terms of gift appeal; no one can resist firing them up the moment they’ve been unwrapped. Maybe it’s their super-thin form factors; maybe it’s because they make great couch companions; or maybe it’s because they’re just plain fun. Whether it’s an Android, Windows 8.1 or iOS slate you’re shopping for, you’ll find suitable picks across all budgets below.

Filed under: Tablets, Apple, Samsung, Sony, Microsoft, Nokia, ASUS, Google

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We have already reviewed the Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 in great detail, and for those who wanted to pick it up, you would have been able to do so since yesterday for $399.99 a pop from various retailers, of course. Well, just as everyone wants to take the trouble to go green, so too, do the folks over at Samsung, where they have decided to ship the Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 in what they deem as 100% recyclable retail boxes. Of course, the Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 is not the only device from the South Korean manufacturer to come in a fully recyclable retail box, but the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S4, too.

This is nice to know, and it might even influence those fence sitters who were mulling over whether they should pledge their hard earned money into either one of these devices. Of course, the Nature UX interface that sees action on their products will be greatly complemented by the use of 100% post-consumer recycled paper in their respective retail boxes.

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Hmm, it does seem as though the Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0, which has been seen by many to be the upcoming competitor and soon-to-be bitter rival of the iPad mini, to be a tablet worth checking out, and we have only seen white colored versions of it to date.

The folks over at PhoneArena, however, have managed to receive an image of the Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 that comes in Charcoal Black from an anonymous tipster (it always works this way for some reason). First announced at the recently concluded Mobile World Congress 2013 in Barcelona, Spain, the Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 will rely on a 8.0” TFT display and runs on Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean that has the Touch Wiz Nature user interface on top of it, aided by an 8-megapixel camera, a quad-core Exynos 4412 processor that zips along at 1.6GHz, and 2GB RAM. Do you think Charcoal Black suits you better, or would you like to see other colors instead, just as any self-respecting consumer electronics device should?

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Samsung confirmed earlier this year it planned to unveil its Galaxy Note 8 at Mobile World Congress, and the company did just that earlier this week as they look to directly compete with the iPad Mini. And now that MWC is officially over, Samsung is reportedly very confident in its ability to sell the Android-powered tablet.

According to Taiwanese site DigiTimes, Samsung is aiming to ship around one milling units of the Galaxy Note 8.0 every month. This isn’t the first time the company has shown its confidence in selling its Galaxy products as earlier this year, they believed they would sell 10 million Galaxy S4 smartphones every month.

We know a lot of you like the Galaxy Note 2 and the iPad Mini’s success shows there’s a market for smaller tablets. But would this translate to one million Galaxy Note 8.0 sales on a monthly basis after it’s released? Only time will tell, although we think Samsung may be overshooting the amount of Galaxy Note 8.0s it’ll sell on a monthly basis.

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We know Samsung is working on an 8-inch tablet in the Galaxy Note family which we have a feeling will be making its debut at MWC later this month. Three variants are expected when Samsung finally unveils the device and we’ve seen photos of the device leaked on the Internet, but the company may have just ruined its own reveal by possibly leaking the Galaxy Note 8.0 in a promotional image.

The origins of the possible leak came from yesterday’s announcement of making a red Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 LTE available just in time for Valentine’s Day. According to the eagle-eyed readers of SammyHub, the small tablet that is hanging above the chef’s head may just be the Galaxy Note 8.

The tablet in question certainly isn’t large enough to be considered a Galaxy Note 10.1. The tablet also matches with the leaked images that were previously leaked. If that isn’t a shot of the Galaxy Note 8, then Samsung may have trolled the Internet by throwing up a completely fictional tablet in their promotional images. Chances are the tablet in question is indeed the Galaxy Note 8, which we still don’t know why exactly Samsung decided to place it in their ad for the red Galaxy Note 10.1 to begin with.

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