Samsung enjoyed quite a lot of success with its first generation Galaxy Tab. This also intrigued folks at Shenzhen to create clone and knockoffs of it. Here is one that is developed by Blue start electronic technology. It has same screen size as the tab and can even make phone calls (again, just like Tab), but the innards are totally different.
Rogers is now offering a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 with a new interesting plan. According to the photo of a document given below, starting November 8th (2011), when you activate two new lines on couples plan or family voice and data plan, you will be able to get a Galaxy Tab 10.1 for free.
A user at xda devs (khalpowers) has rolled out Ice Cream Sandwich theme for the first generation Samsung Galaxy Tab. It has skins for Voice Dialer, Voice search, FM Radio, Google Quick Search, Google Talk, Video Player, Browser, My Files, Task Manager, Phone, Contacts, MMS, Clock, Email, Camera, 3D gallery and calculator. The designer has also borrowed boot animations from the new Nexus S.
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 does not offers USB charging OOB (out of box). However, folks at xda-developers forum figured out that it is just a software restriction and have developed a little hack that enables it. So, here is how to enable USB charging on your 10.1 Tab.
A user named Pershoot has made a modified kernel that offers significant enhancements over the stock kernel. What are those advantages? Well, the tab is overclocked to 1.4GHz for better user experience. However, on top of all, you will be able to use Joystick (Xbox, PS3), mouse and browse NTFS file systems on flash drives. You will also be able to do USB charging.
Galaxy Tab P1000 (7 inch one) is not on the supported devices list for the Madden 12 game. However, if you own another Android device or can get the madden12.apk file from somewhere, you can actually force install it on your Tab. The game is available on the Android market for 7 dollars.
The 8.9 Galaxy Tab from Samsung is one of the best and most powerful tablets available in the market right now. It is appealing to a lot of business users especially as it is very portable to carry around and has same processor and innards as the 10.1 Tab. Rooting the 8.9 Tab will allow you to do much more with the tablet, including the ability to run apps that require root access. This guide is for the Wi-Fi only 8.9 tab.
The Galaxy Tab 8.9 is one amazing tablet. It is great for those who find the Galaxy Tab P1000 too small and the 10.1 one too big for their liking. We had a chance to play around with its keyboard dock and to be honest, it looks like Samsung took the keyboard of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and swapped it with a docking station for 8.9 one. What does that means? Read the full review to find out.
Pyro Skins are offering a couple of very ergonomic and functional cases for the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. One of those two cases is clip case that was reviewed by an xda user, task650. He loved the quality of the case and praised how snuggly the case fitted his Galaxy Tab 10.1.
Samsung is now finally shipping the HDMI adapter that lets you connect your Tab 10.1 to your HDTV. Many online retailers have it in stock. Some Verizon retailers also have it in stock which from where I bought one for myself.
This method describes how to unlock the Galaxy Tab P1000, which is the first generation Galaxy Tab. First of all, if you are running a US firmware, get the European firmware to get the Phone software. Then, on your phone dial *#7465625# and check if the Network Lock is set to [ON], if so then your phone is locked, so continue.
1. Use Superoneclick to root galaxy tab (the other z4root method may work as well, but this isn’t what I used).
There are 2-3 ways by which you can unlock the bootloader of your Galaxy Tab 10.1. The one which I prefer and recommend is by an xda user chainfire (which I will explain in this post). This method involves flashing the custom stock ROM that also unlocks the bootloader. After that you can flash any 10.1 custom ROM. Anyway, here is how to flash this ROM and thus, unlock the bootloader.
Many, including me, are not great fan of Touchwiz user interface and either like using stock Honeycomb interface or third party shell (like SPB Mobile Shell 3D). A user at xda-devs has come up with a ROM called "Task Phantom" that lets you enjoy vanilla Android Honeycomb experience.
Samsung has made it official that the company will be releasing the Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus WiFi Android tablet on November 13, 2011. Samsung will start accepting the pre orders for the 16GB model starting October 23 (2011).
Even though Android operating system lets you easily mount your tablet as USB flash / mass storage drive, it is not that simple to mount the 10.1 Galaxy Tab as USB storage. However, there is a way on how to enable it. Read this tutorial to know how.
