Tablets dominated much of the attention at the Mobile World Congress and with good reason. Some of the new phones were not terribly impressive, while there were plenty of new things in the tablet world.
Here is a quick summary of all those tablets:
Samsung
Predictably, Samsung announced the Galaxy Tab 10.1. its a 10.1″ tablet that runs Android 3.0 Honeycomb on a Tegra 2 platform, with 8MP main camera (with 720p video) and 2MP front camera. Its pretty thin at 10.9mm. Don’t forget to check out our hands-on.
The Samsung Galaxy Wi-Fi 5.0 also counts itself among tablets with its 5″ screen, even though Samsung prefers to promote it as a multimedia player. It runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread with TouchWiz and joins the previously announced 4″ Samsung Galaxy Player.
LG
LG continued its stereoscopic 3D push with the Optimus Pad. It’s an 8.9″ Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet, which packs a dual-lens 3D camera on the back. It also has an HDMI port to output 3D content to HDTVs. The tablet can display 3D imagery too, but you’ll need anaglyph glasses.
HTC
HTC joined the fray too, with their 7″ Flyer. It relies on Android 2.4 (and not the tablet-optimized Honeycomb), a fast 1.5GHz CPU and 1GB of RAM. The Flyer boasts an aluminum body and revives the stylus.
Motorola
Motorola unleashed their XOOM tablet with a 10.1-inch screen. It runs Android 3.0 Honeycomb powered by 1GHz Tegra 2 chipset with 1GB of RAM. It will be available in 3GZFi and Wi-Fi-only versions.
BlackBerry
The BlackBerry PlayBook boasts a brand new OS of their own, instead of relying on one of the existing OSes. And boy, the 7-inch tablet interface impressed us with looks and multitasking skills. The Playbook has a 3MP front camera plus a 5MP back camera, which records 1080p video.
HP
HP showed the TouchPad tablet with a 9.7″ screen and webOS making its tablet debut. The OS impressive multitasking with the card interface is supported by a dual-core 1.2GHz Snapdragon chipset.
Acer
Acer showed two Android tablets one 7-inch tablet (Iconia Tab A100/A101) and one 10.1-inch tablet (Iconia Tab A500/A510). Both are powered by a Tegra250 SoC. They also showed off the Iconia Tab W500/W501 10.1″ tablet, which runs Windows 7 on an AMD C50 platform.
ZTE
ZTE V9+ is a 7″ tablet with Android 2.2 Froyo, 1GHz processor and 512MB RAM.
Huawei
The Huawei IDEOS S7 Slim is another 7″ Froyo tablet.
