Samsung today unveiled a ‘rollable’ 13-inch ‘Galaxy Tab Vellum’ at CTIA Euro in Stuttgart, Germany.
Upon release, Samsung’s 13-inch device will run Google’s next-gen Android operating system, code-named “Rhubarb Pineapple Upside-Down Cake” and features a unique malleable, flexible polymer-based, paper-thin (0.092mm) display that users simply roll-away when not in use. The OLED display’s HD resolution is 1366 x 768 pixels (16:9 aspect ratio). The device’s weight totals just 2.5 ounces (70.87 grams) and, when rolled-away, creates a tube just 1.2 inches (30.47 mm) in diameter by 8 inches (203.2 mm) long.
Samsung’s chief marketing officer, Lie-Wee Ken, said that that the new ‘Galaxy Tab Vellum’ is the “thinnest and largest tablet” in the industry. “Apple cannot compete with this,” he added.
Reporters were not allowed to touch or photograph the device, which Samsung showed in its rolled-away (transportable) state within a seamless, airtight lucite case. Those in attendance at Samsung’s announcement were also shown a video featuring CG footage of the device in action along with the positive reactions of three professionals from New York City who got to test a thicker prototype of the prototype device: Freelance travel writer Joan Hess, independent film director Karl Shefelman, and the CEO of a leading New York real estate firm, Joseph Kolinksi. All three called the device “truly revolutionary and magical” and they couldn’t wait to try the rollable version instead of the 2-inch thick plastic pre-prototype Samsung provided them for testing.
Accordingly, Samsung’s new Galaxy Tab Vellum was awarded CTIA Euro’s 2011 Virtual Prototype Award.
Several analysts’ notes this morning expect Apple’s iPad to lose significant share to Samsung’s new tablets and Google’s next-gen Android OS in general. Pauper Jeffrey analyst Herman Munster wrote, “Expect really, really long lines for this one, Grandpa!”
Samsung did not release pricing or shipping information other than to say that the price would be “competitive” at launch.
MacDailyNews Take: Apple is doomed.
is this mdn april fools joke?
About 2-3 lines in… i figured out today was April 1st. Had me going for a second.
MDN, i haven’t had my Energy drink yet… dont do that.
It can’t be. I mean, the true reason why it’s flexible and can be rolled, is simply so that I can wipe my ass with it.
Ah, how nice! My first April 1st joke!
I believe everything I read.
Me, too. That’s why I’M doomed…
Ha-ha!
I just hope I can dump my AAPL while before it sinks below $200
Sounds like the “piece of paper” computers on Caprica. 🙂
Yup. Doomed. 😉
Nice April’s Fools
I’m in April Fools’ mode now. I am willing to believe that pigs can fly.
April Fools’ Day, right?
april fools?
Knowing the responses from MDN.. I didn’t even read the whole article.. I saw MDN say Apple is doomed and knew instantly it was April Fools day…
It’s a tablet – it’s a flyswatter!
Roll it up and swat those pesky crane flies!
April Fools!
Hilarious! 🙂
In other news:
Democrats and Republicans sit down together and vow to work together for the average American. ” For too long we have been bought off by big business, unions, foreign companys and the like. We acknowledge we are all crooks, thieves and liars and we must do better. Government workers at all levels will henceforth act like they care, and any Congressman or Senator who takes a job with Golman Sachs after leaving office will be flogged in Times Square”.
Yes, it is April 1st.
Ok, I was looking for a link to see it. The last time I saw that kind of device was on a The Next Generation Start Trek episode. The humanoid alien kept looping back in time to save his wife and he could not save her. Her video was able to be played on a rolled up screen device like that.
Correction. You are referring to an episode in Stargate SG-1 in which Col. O’Neill and T’Leac kept going back in time (about 18 hours) like in the movie “Groundhog Day”. The alien human did have a roll-up screen device with his wife’s picture on it. Also “Earth: Final Conflict” had a similar device that had a camera and a expandable screen. It was used for wireless communication and as a computing device. And finally “Andromeda” had the flexies. Paper thin multi-media storage devices that displayed stored audio/visual information. Harper used one to build the android avatar of the ship’s AI.
Hey guys, don’t forget the epic, “Battlefield Earth.”
Greatest. Movie. Ever.
Correction correction: The dude’s name is T’ealc.
Love it. I made it all the way to “Pauper Jeffrey analyst Herman Munster…” before I picked up the smell of an April Fool’s Joke.
For me, the give away was the phrase ‘Galaxy Tab’ and I knew it was a joke.
I predicted this back in 1994 when I met a young designer at Samsung named Poison Ivy (He was french) who had worn the tip off of his eraser on his pencil and said he was going to find a better way.
Samsung’a chief marketing officer, Lie-Wee Ken…
Love that name… How’s it pronounced again?…
LIE, We Can…
Happy 4/1/11 everybody!
you forgot to mention that it runs flash and has an unfoldable USB port.
SamLowry, incorrect, the port is inflatable.
I thought only the specs were inflated.
May well be an AFD joke, but…
The Philips ‘Vision of the Future’ Corporate Concept book showed a neat mockup of the flexi-screen Shiva Devil PDA, back in – wait for it – 1996.
It’s only a matter of time folks!
I want one, were do I line up for it. Anybody interested in an iPad 2 for sale going cheap.
Samsung is working hard on toilet paper roll resolutions and texture, that will make this a widespread consumer item with mass appeal.
Most announcements from Apple’s competitors are equally as valid as this one.
The lawsuits are going to fly on this one. Not only does Microsoft have a patent on vaporware and virtual products, but Apple invented this tech decades ago but hasn’t released it as a product yet because Sir Steve says we’re not ready yet.
Rhubarb Pineapple Upsidedown cake and Lie-Wee Ken…. Classic guys!!
Very nice MDN:
http://wp.me/p19WFc-dxc
Not only is Apple doomed, Samsung will be rolling the foldable tablet out loaded with Windows 8.
Now that would be the surprise of the century.
That’s some damn expensive toilet paper.
If it rolls up it might have a use in the toilet.
Cool. Put some magnets on it and I can use it as an iPad cover!
Ha, ha, ha, you got me MDN, I was about to comment when I realized it was a joke.
It’s my b’day so I should know better, but I still fall victim, every year.
The gist, however unmentioned here, is that it’s also a wearable gym device. With a 15 lbs console jacket to be donned on the user, the rollable display can be inserted in one of the pockets. These two display/wearable-console communicates with each other using the newest yellowtooth technology.
Once officially launched, 2011 will not be 2011.
Who could ask for more? Use the tablet to order some whaky tobaccy online, and when it arrives, roll it up in the tablet itself and light up . . . . ;-D
What, April fool!!! I sold all the stock I bought at $70!!
Roll the tablet out…… Place it on the floor….. AND I am going to drop a Big Brown Zune on that thing…. SamDUNG!
I ponder that rhubarb pineapple cake is not only upside down and half baked… I also fear that it will give users the runs!
An Apple a Day keeps the SamDung runs away. 😉
Yup Apple is Doomed.
Only 13″? I heard it’s 46″ and weightless!
Have you noticed the icon for “Flash”? If you have click 2 flash its all over the page.
It’s on the internet so it’s TRUE!!!!
😀
In got to “Google’s next-gen Android operating system, code-named “Rhubarb Pineapple Upside-Down Cake” until I realized it was an April Fools Day.
Nice one MDN!
You had me goin thar for a few lines lol
On a serious note: S**T rolls downhill.
I so wanted to cry Bullshat! But someone had to call 4/1 before I could post.
Too funny, MDN. You had me there for a minute. Rhubarb operating system, Marketing Officer Lie-Wee Ken, LOL! The part I liked best was that reporters were not allowed to even touch the device: it was displayed in a clear lucite case. This sounds more like a summary of CES 2011.
I want one. I read that it had a Fart Recognition Embedded App. You fart and it matches the profile in the address book and pulls up your face and information automatically. I think thats the killer app we’re missing!
But it’s on the internet! It MUST be true!
I’ll bet you my $500,000 sterling pound lottery winnings that it’s true!
Love the Click2Flash icon!
April Fools!
Well, then length is about right, but the girth just won’t cut it.
They were awarded “Virtual vaporware” in Europe.
This is no April fools joke. I heard rumors of the prototype of this prototype’s prototype months ago. In January – and it wasn’t even the first of January. It was the tenth of January. So there is no chance this is a joke. Sell. Sell. Sell!
“CTIA Euro’s 2011 Virtual Prototype Award”
Didn’t President Obama win that award from the Nobel committee for his “future of peace” a couple January’s ago?
Meanwhile Microsoft announce a big ass table that fits in your pocket. Steve Ballshit said This is the end of Apple they haven’t even invented a small ass table yet and here’s ours that fits in a pocket, all be it a 50 by 50 inch one lined with carbon fibre and supported by wheels taken from a 747.
I loved the reference to Herman Munster; Gene should be amused.
It’s the Marauder’s Map!
Someone is up to no good. 😉
Impressed! I want one! Let me know at 2025 when it comes out! I’ll have enough time to save the 2.500$ cost by then 😛
aka “does it blend?”
DOES IT SMOKE?
It’s not a joke, i saw one on Japanese TV on the coverage of the Fukujima nuclear disaster, (or was it rolled-melted by the radiation?)
Old news!
Come on MDN. I know you guys aren’t the quickest to deliver up to the minute news stories (besides quarterly reports and new product presentations), but isn’t this like a week old?
Hm…. If the screen rolls up how would it stay rigid when you tap it? Try picking up paper hold it in the air and write! Not particle anyways!
Coby would’ve been a better choice for joke quotient. But the real reason I’m here is to comment on the now too long ongoing joke that is the MDN iPhone app. Where the hell is it and WTF is taking so long?
Apple is not doomed, Apple will do this device many magnitudes better I’d say.
This smells like an April Fool’s joke.