Here at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the Tab 10.1 is attracting more buzz than just about any other device, especially after pictures were leaked at the weekend. So is it worth the wait? I made a beeline for the Samsung booth to find out.
An important disclaimer up front: I’m a hard-core iPad user, so any tablet I use is inevitably going to be viewed thr ough that lens. But I’m also not best pleased with the lack of features Apple left out of the first generation iPad (and the lack of new features currently being reported in iPad 2), so I’m prepared to be impressed by its rivals.
Speaking of lenses, that’s one of the first things you notice about the Tab 10.1: an 8-megapixel camera on the back and a 2-megapixel camera on the front. The dual-core Nvidia chipset, new for the 10.1, means it can support HD video recording at an impressive 24 frames per second. The happiest experience I had, and this was true for other show attendees I watched playing with the Tab, was taking snapshots, recording videos, and playing with the camera settings. Had video chat been possible on MWC’s spotty wifi coverage, I suspect we would have enjoyed that too. Take that, Apple!
But that, unfortunately, is as good as it gets with the Tab 10.1. Every positive feature of the device comes with a large “but.R 21; Yes, it is supremely...
