The specs of the Galaxy Tab is nearly the same as a normal smartphone, it is just bigger.  It comes with a 7″ TFT-LCD display with WSVGA resolution (1024 x 600), 3 MP rear-facing camera paired with a 1.3 MP front-facing camera, and a massive 4,000 mAh battery.  All of these give you a 380g of weight.

The Galaxy Tab will be equipped with Android 2.2 – Froyo.  During the the launch event, the Samsung team has stated they have been working closely with Google and there will be new tablet in 2011 based the the next generation Android – Honeycomb (3.5?).

You can get more information of Galaxy Tab at its official site here.  There are some interesting accessories like car dock, desktop dock, keyboard dock, etc.  And you can find the video for the add-on apps that come with Galaxy Tab like reader hub, video call, etc.

[via samsungmobile]

Terry Myerson from Microsoft has some stories to tell for the development of Windows Phone 7:

“Today is the day that the Windows Phone team has been driving towards, and we’re very excited to say that we’ve reached the biggest milestone for our internal team – the release to manufacturing (RTM) of Windows Phone 7!  While the final integration of Windows Phone 7 with our partners’ hardware, software, and networks is underway, the work of our internal engineering team is largely complete.

Windows Phone 7 is the most thoroughly tested mobile platform Microsoft has ever released.  We had nearly ten thousand devices running automated tests daily, over a half million hours of active self-hosting use, over three and a half million hours of stress test passes, and eight and a half million hours of fully automated test passes.  We’ve had thousands of independent software vendors and early adopters testing our software and giving us great feedback. We are ready.

I last posted on this blog when we reached the Technical Preview milestone, and we’ve received some great feedback since then which we’ve been able to respond to and improve the smart design throughout the OS. For example, folks loved the Facebook integration in the People Hub, but they also wanted ways to filter their contacts so only the Facebook friends they really know will show up in their contact list  – we’ve added support for that.  We’ve also made it easy to “like” a post right from the People Hub, or quickly post a message to someone’s Facebook wall directly.

This has been one of the most incredible product development efforts I’ve ever been a part of. Today’s milestone is exciting not just because of what we’ll deliver to customers later this year, but how it sets us up for success over the long term in the mobile space… we’re really just getting started.”

[via windowsteamblog]

This release focuses on bug fixes with some new features:

• Games Center: the social gaming platform
• iTunes TV show rentals: for 99 cents per episode
• iTunes Ping: social capability of iTunes let let you share what you are listening and follow other people’s activities
• HDR photography: which automatically combines multiple exposures into a single HDR image
• HD video uploads: let you upload your HD recordings to YouTube and MobileMe

For more information, you can find it on Apple’s web site here.

From the features made available to the developers, we can see some new features of the upcoming WebOS 2.0.  There are things like Stack, an improved Card feature for the multitasking capability of WebOS, which stacks similar card together.  Palm also opens the Synergy so that third party developers can add services to other IM and messaging services to the famous Synergy Unified Communication feature .  The HTML5 and Java script functions have been improved as well.

Well, I am actually quite excited to see whether Palm will release new improved devices based on the new OS and sell them to the rest of the world.

[via Palm developers Center]

Sure, it looks like the Android 2.2 with the TouchWiz 3.0, but the underlying OS is Bada – the mobile OS created by Samsung.

Specs wise, the phone will come with a 3.2 Super AMOLED screen, 802.11n and a 5 megapixel camera with LED flash.  The Bada OS is upgraded to 1.1.  There is no price information at the moment.

From the video, it is suggested that the Galaxy Tab is having the following specs:

• Android 2.2
• 7 Inch Screen
• Swype Text Entry
• Video Calling
• HD Movile Playback
• Full Web Browsing

And it looks like there will be an official announcement on 2nd September.

So, stay tuned.

The official video can be found at: http://galaxytab.samsungmobile.com/

And Microsoft has just revealed some 60 launch titles for the Windows Phone 7 Xbox Live platform.  And there are quite a number of interesting titles.  Among them, Castlevania, Halo: Waypoint, Star Wars, Crackdown, and Guitar Hero are just some of the games that will be in the Marketplace at launch.  And the number is growing.

Besides these titles, Microsoft also shows off the Xbox Live integration with Windows Phone 7, which is not much of differences with its big brother, XBox.  There should be a good news for many Xbox gamers.

Engadget has a pretty good look at the platform, follow here to view it.

Garnet’s report for Q2 2010 smartphone market share is out.  The picture says it all.  Android has overtaken iOS and come very closed to Blackberry.  May be Symbian next year?

Google has just announced 2 new cool applications for your Android 2.2 phones (yes, only Android 2.2) – Voice Actions and Chrome to Phone.

Voice Actions is an extended version of your current voice commands for Android and it comes with a lot more commands, including voice to email and SMS.  The commands are listed below:

• send text to [contact] [message]
• listen to [artist/song/album]
• call [business]
• call [contact]
• send email to [contact] [message]
• go to [website]
• note to self [note]
• navigate to [location/business name]
• directions to [location/business name]
• map of [location]

Chrome to Phone is not exactly new.  However, it is made official now by Google.  Basically you can install the program in your Android phone, add the extension to your Chrome browser (or Firefox), then you can push a number of things to your phone from the browser.  You can:

• Send browser links from Chrome to your phone.
• Google Maps links launch the Google Maps application on Android.
• YouTube links launch the YouTube application on Android.
• Selecting a phone number will automatically launch the dialer with the number populated.
• Selecting text on a Web page will copy the clipboard to Android (long press a text box to paste on Android).

The video of the official Voice Actions is after the break.  Enjoy!

[via google mobile blog]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGbYVvU0Z5s&feature=player_embedded