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Hot on the heels of Honeycomb 3.1 and its USB hosting capabilities, Samsung’s US site has just listed a $20 USB adapter for the Galaxy Tab 10.1. The stubby add-on won’t do anything for your Tab’s slender figure, but it will convert the Apple-esque 30-pin connector into full USB and thereby open up a world of connectivity to “keyboards, mice, thumb drives” and potentially any other USB device that gets Android support. Unfortunately, the adapter is out of stock and listed as “back order”, but after waiting this long for USB hosting on Android tablets we can probably hold out a little longer.

Siloheutte-spoiling USB host adapter arrives for the Galaxy Tab 10.1 originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 16 Jun 2011 07:36:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Not a lot of surprises here, but T-Mobile has just confirmed a pair of earlier rumors surrounding three different Android-based phones from Samsung. That includes the Samsung Exhibit 4G and Gravity Smart, which will both indeed be launching on June 22nd, and the entry-level Samsung Dart (pictured above), which is available today for free on a two-year contract. The Exhibit 4G is the highest-end of the lot, with a 1GHz Snapdragon processor and Android 2.3, while the Gravity Smart drops things down to Android 2.2 but adds a QWERTY keyboard, and the Dart packs some specs that T-Mobile’s choosing not to highlight for the most part — though it’s apparently a variation on the Galaxy Mini, which boasts a 600MHz processor and 3.1-inch QVGA display.

Samsung Exhibit 4G and Gravity Smart coming to T-Mobile on June 22nd, Dart available today originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:09:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Samsung today issued a slew of press releases announcing the arrival of new tablets in Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Norway. The news, naturally, focuses on the company’s flashy Galaxy Tab 10.1, which will arrive in those countries in August. What’s really interesting here, however, is the mention of the more compact Galaxy Tab 8.9, which has been out of the spotlight as of late, reportedly due to screen problems. The issues (if there were indeed any) have apparently been resolved, and the 8.9 is set to be released in the aforementioned Nordic territories in September — either that or it’s going to take an extra month to shave an inch and change off of those remaining 10.1 models.

Elusive Galaxy Tab 8.9 hitting Nordic countries in September originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 15 Jun 2011 12:53:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Samsung’s 10.1-inch Galaxy Tab tablet runs Android 3.0 Honeycomb and has a 1280 x 800 resolution display. Photo: Charlie Sorrel

Attention all frequent flyers: Got the cash for first class? Those of you who do will soon get much more than a little extra legroom and some free drinks.

On Monday, Samsung and American Airlines announced they will provide Samsung’s new Galaxy Tab 10.1 to travelers in seated in premium cabins for a select number of transcontinental and international flights.

“American is the first North American airline to offer a branded tablet on board its aircraft,” says Virasb Vahidi, American Airline’s chief commercial officer in a release.

Current on-board entertainment devices will get the boot for 6,000 Galaxy Tab 10.1 devices on select flights between New York (JFK) and Los Angeles, Miami, and San Francisco, as well as between Boston and Los Angeles. International flights to South America and Europe will also receive the new Galaxy Tab 10.1 devices. The tablets will begin replacing the current in-flight entertainment system later this year.

If you haven’t traveled in a while, a number of airlines include touchscreen seat-back displays from which you can purchase film or TV offerings or even inflight games.

Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 is thinner and lighter than the iPad 2, measuring 8.6mm thick and weighing in at 595 grams. The original 7-inch Galaxy Tab debuted in November and sold over one million in units in its first two months.

American Airlines seems to be leading the way in embracing the tablet revolution. The airlines already offers in-flight movie streams to iPad users via Wi-Fi. But it’s not alone: earlier this year Alaska Airlines adopted the iPad for inflight manuals.

Hopefully other airlines will begin catching on to the trend. There’s only so many times I can see Country Strong on cross-country flights.

See Also:

American Airlines Streams In-Flight Movies to iPads
New Galaxy Tab 10.1 Thinner, Lighter Than iPad 2
Hands-On With Samsung’s Bigger, Faster Galaxy Tab
Samsung’s Galaxy Tab: iPad’s First Solid Contender
Boom! Samsung Sells 1 Million Galaxy Tabs
Silicon Art Hidden Inside Samsung’s Galaxy Tab

Samsung’s been a frequent source of frustration, teasing us with its fabulous flexible displays for years, while never giving us a date when we could buy one for our very own. However, word on the web suggests that Sammy is finally ready to unleash its pliant panels upon the world in Q2 of 2012. Apparently, the company’s mobile display division opened a new manufacturing plant with Ube (who produces the plastic substrate for the screens) last month to mass-produce bendy AMOLEDs for watches and phones. Let the countdown to the ductile display revolution begin.

Samsung to finally roll out flexible AMOLED displays for public consumption in 2012? originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 11 Jun 2011 15:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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