Samsung
has scored yet another victory in the ongoing patent war by releasing
Galaxy Tab 7.0N Plus in the German market, after getting a similar
import ban overturned by an Australian court in December 2011. The
original Samsung galaxy Tab was banned in by a European court who had
deemed its design too similar to Apple's iPad.
Samsung,
which is incidentally Apple's largest component vender for its
iPhones and iPads has been facing a series of patent litigations
filed by Apple Inc. for its Galaxy series of products. The Galaxy
series of smartphones and Tabs, which run on Android and feature
Hi-tech specifications similar to that of Apple's iPads have been
super-performers for Samsung over past year. Apple considers Galaxy Tabs as 'slavishly' copied iPad 2 running on Android OS.
Apple
managed to get the Galaxy Tab sales banned in Australia and Germany,
dealing a serious blow to the relations between two major technology
companies. Samsung Galaxy Tab, which is considered as one of the
major iPad competitors, was effectively kept out of the Australian
and German markets since July 2011 and September 2011, respectively.
The
industry has been abuzz with rumours about a possible change in Apple
component suppliers with Sharp reportedly being selected for
supplying displays for new iPad 3. However, most of the rumours have
proved to be just rumours so for.
Samsung
Galaxy 7.0N Plus still boasts of a 7 inch PLS-LCD display with
resolution of 1024x600 pixels. A dual core 1.2GHz processor powers
the device with 16GB of inbuilt storage, which is further expandable
to up to 32GB. Rest of the features are similar to Galaxy Tab 7
P1000.
The
redesigned tablet was showcased by Samsung at CES 2012 and would be
released in Germany later this month, and would set you back by 600
Euros.
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