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Barcelona – Amidst the fuss about Samsung’s new ten-inch Galaxy Tab and the Galaxy S 2 cellphone, an even more interesting product has gotten somewhat lost: a five-inch wi-fi-only mini-tablet, called the Galaxy S Wi-Fi 5.0.
The thin little media-player is somewhere between the already wrong-sized 7-inch Galaxy Tab and the regular Galaxy S cellphone, only without the phone or 3G parts of either. For such an odd product – kind of like the too-tall, gawky girl from school – it’s actually pretty great. The screen is way better for watching movies than the smaller display of, say, the iPod Touch, but despite the extra roominess it still slides easily onto a (back) jeans pocket. And the screen isn’t far off the size of a dedicated e-reader like the Kindle, either.
I played with the Android-based mini-tablet and immediately liked it. It is very thin and light but suffers from none of the plasticky feel of the new tat-tastic Tab 10.1. Multi-touch response is fast, and as far as I could see under the bright show lights, the LCD display gives a very nice rendering of movies.The Wi-Fi 5.0 also comes with a camera for Skype, and a phone-like speaker and mic setup for VoIP calling. And I have the feeling it would make an awesome Angry Birds machine.
One note. The picture up top shows the Tab Wi-Fi alongside a regular (Galaxy S) sized handset, for scale. What isn’t to scale is the hands that hold them: The kind girl on the Samsung booth that held the two for the photo has teeny mitts.
Photo: Charlie Sorrel
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