After Apple introduced its ultrathin iPad 2, Samsung claims to have gone back to their drawing board (which likely has iPad diagrams and schematics permanently embossed upon them).
“The company had just shown a new 10-inch tablet a couple weeks earlier, but quickly realized its product was a bit bulky to compete,” Ina Fried reports for AllThingsD. “‘We went back to the drawing board,’ said Samsung Mobile executive Omar Khan, noting that the company already had some things cooking in its research labs. ‘We will not be outdone. It accelerated some of the commercialization of technology we already had in the works.”
MacDailyNews Take: We will not be outdone by iPad 2 thinness, only by its unit sales.
Fried continues, “Barely a month after showing the first 10.1-inch tablet, the company had a new, thinner [8.6mm] design ready to announce. The actual devices, however, won’t ship until summer. Indications that the products are still a work in progress abound at the Samsung booth. Although the company has working units of both the 8.9-inch and 10-inch tablets at its booth, all are in older, thicker shells. Even the working versions of the 8.9-inch model, which was only ever introduced in a thin casing, bears remnants of the older, thicker design.”
“And perhaps even this design is not final,” Fried reports. “‘Product design and specifications are subject to change without notice or obligation,’ reads a sign next to the product.”
MacDailyNews Take: “V-A-P-O-R” in 100-foot-tall, neon-lit letters. In other words: “We actually have been outdone by iPad 2 thinness, but we’re going to baselessly claim otherwise anyway.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Make your big pronouncements when you have an actual product to ship, Omar. This article posted from an 8.8 mm thin iPad 2; available in U.S. stores today (if you can find one) and 25 more countries starting at 5pm local time on March 25 (again, if you can find one). BTW: If 0.2mm is going to be your big selling point, you might as well just quit while you’re way, way behind.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Brawndo Drinker” for the heads up.]
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Companies like Samsung and Motorola are always behind when it come to Apple.
This thinnest craze is start to get stupid what are these things supers models. It they make these any things any thinner I think I am going cut myself and most kids will never ever come closet to touch one them.
I love those MDN Takes! 😉
These Asian companies do not get it: it’s about the software stupid. Apparently it’s much easier to make the physical product than the software. 1/4 of an inch thicker- so what? What about what it will do?
Apple said the wannabe’s (samsung) would go back to the drawing board, and they were right.
Samsung make crappy devices, they are stuck in the olden days which have removable memory and batteries.
So this new model may be out in say….2 years and by then it will be too late…again.
Hey. Samsung… You’ve already been outdone by iPad 2. It’s been shipped. Douche bags.
I heard that Samsung’s new tablet will be so thin that you can’t even see it until you turn it on. Eat your heart out, Steve Jobs.
“Barely a month after showing the first 10.1-inch tablet, the company had a new, thinner [8.6mm] design ready to announce”
Great. So the same old POS device is smashed into a thinner shell. Good golly gosh. A serious iPad killer. zzzzzzzzzz
Seriously folks. Is this the state of electronics today? Is this all there is? LAME-ly playing follow the leader with half-baked clones that cost more than the real thing and have terrible software security? The appeal is what? The market is what? The excuse for total lack of innovation is what?
Wake me up when something original happens… zzzzzzzzzzz
All these other companies need to just cede the tablet market to apple. Oh wait, they already did. They will NEVER catch up, even if they wanted too..