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If you read tech news today, expect to see a story making the rounds concerning a “consumer poll” rating the iPad versus the Galaxy Tab. According to the report, an “overwhelming majority” of consumers prefer Apple’s tablet over its nearest Android competitor — a whopping 85 percent of those queried felt the iPad had a higher perceived value than the Tab. Sounds shocking, right? Except there’s one small problem. The “survey” (and really, you have to use the term loosely here) consisted of 65 people. Let’s just say that again: 65 respondents. That’s problem number one.

Problem number two is that the survey was conducted by Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, who is not only using a bizarre and somewhat useless metric like “perceived value” to judge these devices, but is also known for wildly miscalculating sales numbers and expectations for Apple products. In fact, Gene Munster should probably be close to the top of the most wanted list for irresponsible analysts. Some of his famous misses? Take the wildly speculative report that Apple would sell 5.6m iPads in 2010 (a baseless prediction which he quickly reassessed to more reasonable digits… the day after the device’s launch), or the prediction that Apple would build its own search engine (so far so good!), and of course, Gene’s news that Apple will have an HDTV on the market by 2011. Did we mention the $1,000 AAPL stock price call? No? Okay.

So this latest report, in which Gene apparently just polled the families living on his block, seems beyond disingenuous. The margin of error on a group of 65 people is so high that it makes the results of the iPad vs. Galaxy Tab study all but meaningless, and further demonstrates the insidious, dangerous power of some analysts and their fantasy football stock manipulations. The moral of the story? Next time you see the names Gene and Munster in the same sentence, don’t just take the news with a grain of salt — use the whole shaker.

55 people think the iPad is more valuable than the Galaxy Tab originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 02 Dec 2010 10:40:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Despite being hamstrung by an operating system designed for the smaller screen of a smartphone, Samsung’s Galaxy Tab has sold an impressive 600,000 units in less than a month. That’s pretty close to the iPad’s initial sales, which reached one million in 28 days.

It’s important to remember that the iPad’s first month was largely confined to the domestic U.S market, whereas the 7-inch Tab has been available all over the world since launch. In fact, according to the Korea Herald, Samsung has shifted just 30,000 Tabs in its own home market of Korea.

Remember, too, that a large proportion of these sales will have been subsidized by telcos, lowering the ~$600 price-tag in exchange for a data-contract.

But these numbers are impressive by any standards, and show that there is a huge demand out there for super-portable computers with the battery life and connectivity of a cellphone. It seems that the Galaxy Tab really is a real rival to the iPad, just like we thought.

Galaxy Tab global sales top 600,000 units [Korea Herald]

Photo: Jon “Michelangelo’s David” Snyder

See Also:

• Samsung's Galaxy Tab: iPad's First Solid Contender
• Samsung Galaxy Tab Garners Favorable Reviews
• Samsung Galaxy Tab: Cheaper Than iPad, But Not Really

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Seems that Russian president, Dmitry Medvedev, picked up a Galaxy Tab on his recent trip to Samsung’s home country of South Korea while seeking investment and trade opportunities. Unfortuntely, he doesn’t seem to be much of a fan of the GT-P1000’s camera according to a recent tweet made from his certified Twitter account. Apparently, he prefers the quality of his trusty Leica M9 camera spotted in the EXIF of the images he posted from Japan just a few days prior — the $17,500 Neiman Marcus edition, we presume. Proof once again that it’s good to be king Президент.

[Thanks, Oleg]

Russian president not fond of Galaxy Tab camera, <3s emoticons originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 22 Nov 2010 05:57:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Continue reading Samsung Galaxy Tab to ship with exclusive MTV content (update)

Samsung Galaxy Tab to ship with exclusive MTV content (update) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:12:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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