Lots of rumor in that article, but it should easily be possible. Samsung can launch with an item that can only be produced in small quantities. Apple can't go iPad retina display until they can produced in huge quantities.

There was a similar effect during the Macintosh clone period. As Motorola would tick out faster processors, the cloners would launch as soon as they could get silicon, meanwhile Apple had to wait until they could get enough processors stockpiled and the Motorola's production rate up enough to support a new Apple model. It created a market where the cloners were perceived as the higher performance machines and Apple was always late to the party.

jws : Your point about Samsung's ability (or rather say safe play) to produce & launch in small quantities is absolutely spot on. That's what makes me (personally) very bullish about Samsung's future prospects in Tab market.

Why do I doubt Samsung's ability to pull that off?

I used to doubt that too but having seen how they have dominated Electronics market and for that matter Mobile market, I am bit bullish about Samsung's performance in Tab market. Rest time will tell.

There's doesn't seem to be a reason to doubt it to me. Samsung has emerged as a top-tier player in the mobile and consumer electronic world.

Apple has been producing retina displays for their phones for almost 2 years now. And they are able to produce them in large quantities.

Meanwhile, if we consider SUB-pixel density and not just pixel density (because creating that many elements and maintaining quality is going to be hard) then it is not clear that anyone else has the ability to even manufacture a similar screen at any sort of commercial level.

LG makes the iPhone 4 screen, not Apple.

Be great if this was true. Hope it doesn't have a 2-hour battery life though.

Yea..b8ry has always been an issue. But I hope, samsung will definitely be working on this issue. Lets just hope that Samsung make this thing true.