On Wednesday morning, T-Mobile announced its Galaxy S 4G smartphone and G-Slate tablet. The phone will be available sometime this month (we’re speculating a release in conjunction with the forthcoming Mobile World Congress), while the tablet has an even more vague drop date of “spring” availability. Neither have confirmed price points as of yet.
The Samsung-manufactured Galaxy S 4G isn’t drastically different from its 3G predecessor, the Vibrant. It’s got a 4-inch capacitive touch screen (like the Vibrant), a 1-GHz Hummingbird processor (see: Vibrant), plus a 5-megapixel camera capable of capturing 720p video and a pre-installed 16-GB microSD card (Vibrant, Vibrant, Vibrant).
In fact, except for the newly-installed front facing VGA camera for video chat and 4G-capable ST-Ericsson radio, this thing ain’t much different than a Vibrant. (The 4G does, however, come with Inception loaded onto the phone in its entirety, instead of Avatar, like the Vibrant.)
But Samsung’s first Galaxy series of smartphones did break the 10 million sales mark in early January, so popularity and user-familiarity could outweigh a lack of product innovation.
The T-Mobile G-Slate with Google by LG (yes, that mouthful of a title is accurate) is a bit more exciting to us. The 8.9-inch capacitive touch screen will be capable of both playing and recording 3-D and full HD video content, complete with in-box 3-D glasses to watch your 3-D home movies with (here’s to hoping they aren’t the cheap cardboard kind).
The “with Google” branding counts for something as well. The G-Slate will run the much-anticipated Android version 3.0 (a.k.a. Honeycomb), Google’s Android OS update “optimized for tablets.” And just like the forthcoming Honeycomb-powered Motorola Xoom tablet, it’ll be running on a 1GHz Nvidia Tegra 2 processor.
The tablet will also include a back facing 5-megapixel camera capable of recording 1080p HD video as well as taking snapshots, and the front facing 2-megapixel camera comes stock for all your video chatting needs. The 32GB of on-board storage will hold your glut of jpegs and video files.
While the new Galaxy S 4G isn’t wowing us on pure spec-power alone, we’re excited to see what the G-Slate has in store for us.
Photo: Galaxy S 4G/ Courtesy of T-Mobile
See Also:
- Report: T-Mobile to Offer Upgraded Samsung Vibrant 4G
- Wired Explains: What U.S. Carriers Mean by ‘4G’
- Wired Explains: Everything You Need to Know About 4G Wireless …
- Hands-On With T-Mobile’s 7-Inch Tablet, Due Feb. 2
- Verizon Memo Leaks Motorola Xoom Pricing: $799
- Motorola Previews New Android Tablet, Droid Smartphone
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