News: Samsung to Launch Slate Later

Samsung will launch a ‘slate PC’ in direct competition with Apple’s own ‘slate PC,’ or as it’s currently known to its friends, the iPad.

Samsung plans to release a device with PC-grade processing power and strong connectivity in the second half of 2010, according to APC.

“The problems I see with the iPad are its processing power and (lack of) connectivity to a certain extent,” Newton said during a panel discussion at the recent Samsung Forum in Singapore, which Tone attended.

“I do feel that that slate-type platform has legs but I think the legs need to be far more powerful, for example an Atom-based product which has far greater flexibility, not to mention inputs and outputs. This has more potential than an iPad.”