The most informative comment on the original article was this:

"Maybe, but I bet they are talking about units shipped or sold into chain, not sold retail. As assistant manager of an electronics outlet store, I see 30+ iPads leave the store every day, sometimes more, and we are often sending people away to wait for the next shipment. This is a city of only 300,000 and we are not the only seller. We've had the Galaxy Pad in stock for only a short time now, a couple of weeks, but have sold....ZERO. NONE. People complain mostly about it's form: thick, kind of heavy for it's size, too small (or too big - that was my own thought, as it seems 'almost' pocketable). It's not a bug, it's a feature?"

Posted By JW, Sackville, NS.: December 3, 2010 8:18 AM

That's just an anecdote, not data. Samsung has confirmed that it's devices sold, not shipped.

I apologize for my previous flippant grammar-Nazi comment. I was on thin ice as it was, but that I was also wrong—that is inexcusable!

it's != its

The parent comment quotes an original source with two examples of this error, but you are not obligated to repeat it. :-)

Compare

"Samsung has confirmed that it is [the number of] devices sold [that the number refers to]."

with

"Samsung has confirmed that its [Samsung's] devices have sold in quantity."

I think the snake was right. :)

Good Lord, I'm mortified, and apologize to the snake and to everyone else. It looks like my anti-it's zealotry has finally crossed the line.

Face <-- egg

How is that informative? That it supports your gut feelings?

There is nothing informative about that. It's notable that Canada is remarkably iOS centric (one of the most anywhere), so values here don't necessarily translate- http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_os-CA-monthly-200911-20101...

That +1 was not so much for the comment itself, but for not folding yourself into Halifax. I had the pleasure of living in Eastern Passage, Dartmouth and Halifax a couple of decades back, and every one of the old cities and towns has its own feel. (And yes, dammit, I miss the area. It's like living in a small town, except that there's one of everything a city should have handy.)

I am shocked, considering it is $600 in Best Buy and doesn't look at all impressive. What am I missing?

Hardware that’s waiting for 2.3 to come out.

Dumb question. Why would someone pay more than an iPad to buy this?

Dumb answer, I guess, but perhaps because they want it more than an iPad? For me personally the form factor is better in various ways and I greatly value the increased flexibility of Android over iOS, plus getting the "real" full web instead of Apple's definition of that.

Having said that - I won't argue for a minute that it isn't too expensive. I'm as curious as anyone about who is buying these.

I bought one for a very particular reason, it acts as a router for up to 5 devices. As a freelancer I am always on the road. The wireless hotspot was $300 with no contract and the Tab was $500. So for $200 more I got a tablet. Given that the kids also play pbskids.org and disney.com games we where holding out for an android tablet that supported flash. That said, I am extremely happy with the Tab, quality wise I think it is as good as the iPad, the voice recognition is far better than the iPad and the 7" form factor makes it easier to type on the virtual keyboard.

Interesting. Is the screen as good as the iPad? (Samsung should be able in this area.)

The killer iPad feature for me is that I can browse web pages as on a normal computer. At least my eyes can't handle 7".

Does the Galaxy have a trick with its keyboard? In vertical mode, I'd start to get more faults with a smaller keyboard than the iPad.

On paper I think the iPad has better specs for the display. But the Tabs display is very vivid videos almost look 3D. I do not notice a difference between the two. It seems at least for me, that 7 inches is the perfects size for a new style of thumb based typing where you type with your two thumbs. It is really fast and I like it now that I have used it for a little while. If you think about holding a Tab in the vertical position with your fingers under the Tab, and your thumbs above it, that is the way you hold it when typing, the 7" (at least for me) is the perfect size to efficiently reach every key. It is not as fast as a physical keyboard, but then again none of the virtual keyboards are. That being said, the voice automation and dictation is second to none, and free me from using the keyboard for simple items. You can get turn by turn directions by just speaking directions to "somewhere", you can email a contact by saying send email to "jim" "hey lets do dinner tonight" same with a SMS and several other commands, search the web and a host of others. The nice part about the Tab is it comes with a widget on the desktop that you just click the mic speak and off it goes. The voice activation alone is worth it to me.

  On paper I think the iPad has better specs for the display.
  But the Tabs display is very vivid videos almost look 3D

Ouch. There is „accurate color representation“ (which IPS offers), and there is „very vivid videos“.

The Tab has an IPS display as well.

Though of course IPS (S-IPS) by itself means nothing. The iPhone 4 has a bad color gamut. It's bright and very dense, but it is quite heavily undersaturated, and not in any way from an "accuracy" perspective.

Alas, accurate colors tend to look undersaturated to those used to boosted vividity.

I'm saying that from a scientific measurement perspective the iPhone display is very undersaturated. It is more than just a perception thing.

OK, thanks.

Hmm, voice integration with mobile devices should be neat.

The feature for me with the iPad (except for appstore and Apple ui/integration) is the size; it is a real platform where you can (almost) view content as in a normal computer. I haven't tested yet (started selling here in Tuesday), but serious 80 col editing in upright position must work! (Emacs with external keyboard!)

Maybe could use something on the backside for holding on easier, with one hand?

Perhaps not every person in the world likes the IPad.

They don't pay more. If we compare apples and apples, Verizon sells this for $30 less. Sprint sells it for about the same price ($10 more over 2 years), after taking into subsidy and higher monthly fees.

I know two guys over in Europe who have bought one. Both cited Flash as the primary driver.

Samsung claims 7 hours battery life compared to 10 hours for the iPad, but it seems satisfactory in the reviews. Not sure if it will last one whole day without charging, especially if you used to watch movies on a road trip, for example. Any experience with the battery life?

The first flexible (or partly flexible) , collapsible device similar to an iPad or the Samsung device is going to blow them all away I'm surprised nothing has come out yet and no doubt there are prototypes ready to go.

Why is this getting upvotes? There's plenty of devices like this. Dell just introduced one. They always flop. So much for "blow them all away".

Something smells fishy here.

Fr something that has allegedly sold more than 1M units, I soulve seen at least one in the wild (in NYC). It did nt take long iPads to appear.

Who exactly is buying these?

Frankly I think if anything Samsing has shipped 1M units, which of course means something entirely different.

Considering how much more popular the Galaxy S Phone is in Korea than outside of it, it's entirely possible that the Galaxy Tab is similarly popular there.

I suspect that's true, as you can't presently buy the Wifi only version in the U.S. (but apparently you can elsewhere).

The only breakdown Samsung has released is that 100,000 of the 1M are from Korea. US carriers aren't releasing numbers. All the articles I've found on this are just parroting the press release.

There is still a huge question here of who are the buyers. Being more expensive than the iPad and there being plenty of anecdotes of slow to nonexistent sales (at least in the US), I can't imagine who that might be.

I have only seen two iPads so far, because friends of mine bought them. The world's population is bigger than 1 Million by an order of magnitude.

Also, several of my friends at least twittered about playing with Galaxy Tabs, so they are out there in the wild.

Rest of Asia and EU. Bunch of Galaxys here.