Galaxy Tab may be accessible only to CDMA carriers, Froyo will not be tablet friendly
Samsung has been reported to adopt a different marketing strategy, in comparison to Apple. With the greater part of the US carriers receiving Galaxy S phone, Samsung ruling out the scope of the carrier exclusivity. Samsung will take on board this approach, making its upcoming handsets available to the majority of the US carriers which include Verizon, AT & T and Sprint.
Samsung P1000 Galaxy Tab will run Google’s latest version of the operating system Android 2.2 Froyo. However, the director of Google’s products for mobile handsets has said that the version of Froyo has not been premeditated for tablets. Hence, some of the applications will not run smoothly on it. The Froyo cannot be accessed on the tablet devices from the Android Market. He further said that, the operating system is unit specific, but nothing concrete regarding the P1000 Galaxy Tab. Rumor has it that the 3.0 Gingerbread branch of Android will be tablet-ready.
Despite all these, Wall Street Journal has quoted three figures stating that the Samsung P1000 Galaxy Tab will be available to only CDMA and GSM carriers, even probably WiMax too. Strangely, the carriers of Verizon, AT & T and Sprint are said to be receiving a Galaxy Tab, whereas, no T-mobile has been heard of, anywhere.
This is still not beyond Samsung’s capability to have different carriers for different alternates of the I9000 Galaxy S. They surely have that kind of hardware for it. Though the pricing of Samsung P1000 Galaxy Tab has still been a hush hush, it will probably range somewhere between 200 to 300 US $ in United States.
Samsung is planning to sell some 10 million sets of the Tab. It sounds like a good idea to put their eggs in more than one basket. While, this information remains unconfirmed, Samsung will reportedly release the P1000 Galaxy Tab in US on 16th of this month.

