Samsung has been pretty keen on releasing their upcoming 3rd generation tablets over the past couple of months. They’ve already introduced 3 tablets of different sizes and they’re ready to unveil their prices and US availability this time. Samsung has released three tablets on the inauguration of their next generation tablets with a price-tag of $199, $299 and $399 respectively for the 7.0, 8.0 and 10.1-inch tablets in US. Most of the online retailers and other retailers like Walmart, Amazon.com will start to ship those tablets within July 7 and Samsung is ready to accept pre-orders from June 25.
The three tablets share some of its specs except for the display resolution and some other criteria. For starters, the 7.0-inch tablet features 1.2 GHz Dual-Core processor accompanied by 1 GB RAM as well as massive 8 GB internal storage. Well, if the storage seems short, you can always upgrade it up to 64GB through microSD card slot. It also sports a TFT screen display with a resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels. Except for that, it has 3.0-megapixels rear and 1.3-megapixels front faced camera which means it’ll support video calling features. As well as the Samsung’s own built-in apps, it runs on Android Jelly Bean 4.1.
The 8.0-inch Galaxy Tab 3 sports extended processor like Exynos 1.5 GHz Dual-Core equipping 1.5 GB RAM. The display resolution is upgraded to 1280 x 800 pixels for crispier view and better viewing angles. Internal storage has been doubled up to 16 GB and you can of course increase it via micro-SD card slot. It features 5-megapixels rear camera and 1.3-megapixels front facing camera on its specifications. The tablet is supposed to run pretty smoothly on Jelly Bean 4.2.
The Galaxy Tab 3 10.1-tablet is the first one to make its debut in US for having an Intel Atom Clover Trail processor with a clock speed of 1.6 GHz. It shares the same display resolution as the 8.0-inch tablet but it has a lower PPI. But, it features massive 6,800 mAh battery to back up several days’ usage. The rear camera is downgraded to 3.0-megapixels with the RAM being decreased to 1GB only. It also comes with Jelly Bean 4.2 and 16 GB internal storage.
Samsung is offering $10 worth Play Store voucher and free 50 GB Dropbox storage up to the next 2 years for all of the 3rd generation models.
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