Can Samsung Solve the 5-Inch Tablet's Identity Crisis?

In the planet of tablets, 10-inch screens reign supreme, but that hasn't ceased some companies from dabbling in specific shapes and sizes. Samsung, HTC, Dell and evaluation in movement have all attempted 7-inch tablets. Vizio's steering to marketplace with an 8-inch tablet soon. LG rocked the 8.9-inch display using the T-Mobile G-Slate. and you also may maybe recall the JooJoo, a 12-inch internet tablet that was roundly ignored subsequent launch.

But no display sizing is so perplexing since the 5-incher. may be considered a phone. may be considered a tablet. Nobody understands for sure. That's not stopping Samsung from getting a crack at it, a minimum amount of according in the direction of the rumor mill.

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From Yahoo information Korea arrives term inside the Samsung Galaxy Q, an Android-powered tablet that will reportedly possess a 5.3-inch screen. once the rumor is accurate, Samsung will show away the Galaxy Q—and presumably possess a complete whole lot much more details—at the IFA conference in Berlin this September.

Samsung wouldn't be the 1st to provide the 5-inch tablet a whirl. Dell took a shot last twelve weeks using the Dell Streak, also to the identity turmoil was evident through the start. regardless of the actuality that Dell named it a tablet, AT&T marketed a subsidized edition with each voice and information plans—something U.S. wireless carriers take place to be unwilling to make an make an effort to do with bigger slates.

But the Streak experienced a bigger problem: without the need of a contract, it cost $550 at launch, which could be pricey for just about any tiny tablet. Samsung may possess an extremely much better shot once the Galaxy Q is generally a few hundred bucks cheaper.

Even so, these tabletphones may maybe not scratch any particular customer itch. in circumstance you choose an enormous smartphone, you can at current purchase Samsung's Infuse 4G from AT&T (pictured), which carries a 4.5-inch display and is also for that reason much more almost certainly to meet your pocket. And for months, Samsung is becoming promising to begin the Galaxy S WiFi 5.0, an iPod Touch-like Android advertising participant using a 5-inch screen. I'm commencing to think Samsung doesn't know what to make an make an effort to do with this equipment size, either. Eventually, somebody will figure it out.

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