Samsung Gearing Up To Launch Windows 8 Tablets in 2012

It’s not as if we don’t expect it, but according to Bloomberg, Samsungs head of sales and marketing has given the go ahead with working on a tablet running Windows 8, which will be due to be launched in the second half of 2012. This conveniently coincides with the predicted release date of Windows 8.

It’s expected that the product will be a modified version of the Series 7 tablet that Samsung currently sell which runs Windows 7. This tablet packs quite a punch at the moment as it is. It runs on an Intel Core i3 or i5 processor, 64GB SSD, and 4GB of RAM. It’s even got an array of ports such as USB, micro HDMI and mico SD. Chances are Samsung might even beef up that spec a little more by the time Windows 8 hits the market and the tablet’s ready to ship.

Samsung Series 7 Tablet

Nam Seong Woo who is head of the PC business department at Samsung said that current Samsung Series 7 owners will be able to get an upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 8, but hasn’t said when, probably because not even Samsung know when Windows 8 will be released. He also said that this tablet is targeted more towards the business market since it’s so handy for carrying around spreadsheets and other documents, but I don’t see why it wouldn’t appeal to consumers just as much.

Samsung now joins other companies like HP and Dell who have all promised to bring out Windows 8 tablets towards the end of next year.

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5,000 Microsoft Developers Get Samsung Windows 8 Tablets

Well Microsoft certainly was feeling very gracious today, after Steve Sinofsky gave us a good look at Windows 8 for the first time he also showed just how easy it will be for developers. A Microsoft developer created an app there and then on the stage just to demonstrate how easy it is to do it much to the delight of the 5000 developers in attendance.

The Samsung tablet runs on a dual-core 1.6GHz Intel i5 chip and has an 11.6-inch screen and weighs just under 2 pounds. It’s actually quite a nice piece of kit and will be perfect for testing out and developing new apps for Windows 8. Microsoft have also added NFC (Near Field Communications) technology to it as well as several gyroscopes and accelerometers.

Then as if that wasn’t good enough, AT&T are also throwing in one year of free data access of up to 2GB a month.  The tablet also comes with 4GB of RAM and a 64GB storage drive.

The tablet was used several times throughout the demonstration of Windows 8 and seemed to be a good solid, quick device. Microsoft also briefly showed us Windows 8 running on an ARM based tablet but didn’t talk too much about it nor show us much which would lead us to thinking there’s still a bit of work to be done there.

There was a whole rake of Windows 8 tablets and PC’s on show at the conference today including a new breed of ultrabooks which were incredibly thin laptops with high performance and nearly instant boots.

One thing is for sure, Microsoft are onto a winner here with Windows 8, it’s definitely a brilliant tablet interface and is finally a credible competitor to the iPad, we just have to see how soon it gets to the market.

A developer preview edition will be available soon enough which can be downloaded from here

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Samsung Tablet Expected To Show Off Windows 8 Tablet Next Week

Next week is when we hope to get our first real look at Windows 8 from Microsofot. The Build conference is scheduled for the 13th-16th of September and we’ve pretty much been promised a good look at Windows 8. There’s even speculation that a technical preview of the new OS could be released. Another story that’s been going around the web is that Samsung will be demonstrating a new tablet running Windows 8 at the event.

This new tablet will be Samsung’s first collaboration with Microsoft in terms of it’s hardware devices. Of course it makes sense for Samsung to team up with Microsoft, especially since Google and Motorola have recently just teamed up. Apple is also trying to demolish Samsung from the market by filling lawsuit after lawsuit against Samsung because the Samsung Galaxy Tablets happen to look slightly similar to the iPad. So by teaming up with Microsoft, Samsung are probably hoping to gain a bit of security as well as be one of the first players into the Windows tablet market.

Now many people are expecting this Windows 8 tablet from Samsung to be running on Nvidia’s new ARM processor known as Kal-El. It will be known as Tegra 3 when it’s released at the end of this year and it’s a lot more power efficient and offers a lot more performance. However conflicting reports have come in from Cnet. They claim that they’ve heard from reliable sources that the tablet running Windows 8 from Samsung will have an Intel processor inside it.

Perhaps the reason for this could be that Nvidia’s new chip isn’t quite ready yet, or maybe Intel has got something new up its sleeve? Generally ARM processors are more energy efficient than Intels chips, but they’ve been working hard to close this gap. They’ve a new range of power efficient Sandy Bridge Core i  processors which will be used to power “Ultrabooks” which will be competitors to the Macbook Air.

It’s also been speculated that attendees to the Microsoft Build Conference will be given this Samsung Tablet for free to take away with them. That would be a nice little surprise and it would also mean that we’ll probably get a really good look at Windows 8 and a chance to mess around with it rather than just watching Microsoft’s carefully planned demonstrations.

So we don’t know for certain whether or not it will be a Samsung tablet, running an ARM chip or Intel one, but we shall know soon enough.

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