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There’s a whole lotta Android love from Samsung this morning, with a white version of the Samsung Galaxy S smart phone available from the Carphone Warehouse, and the Samsung Galaxy Tab pictured with a brand-spanking new Super AMOLED screen.
The white Galaxy S is available for pre-order from Carphone. The Android 2.1 handset, which will be bumped to 2.2 with an update this month, is available free from £30 per month. The HTC Desire is another high-end Android phone available in white, with the Far Eastern companies sticking it a little to Apple — it looks as though Cupertino will never release its white version of the iPhone 4.
We recently reported, meanwhile, that the Galaxy Tab’s 7-inch display is cheaper to make and inferior to the one on the larger 9.7-inch iPad, but it looks as though Samsung has already made a move to solve this problem. It’s fitted a new version of the Galaxy Tab with a 7-inch Super AMOLED display, and was showing it off at the FPD International show in Japan, according to OLED-display.net.
Super AMOLED is a major improvement on AMOLED screens on smart phones, with brighter colours, higher saturation and less reflectivity. The new Tab display keeps the same resolution, 1,024×600 pixels.
This upgrade will allow the second-gen Tab to compete with the iPad 2, which is expected next spring, and could well adopt the retina display of the iPhone 4 — undoubtedly one of its most attractive features. It also wouldn’t be a surprise to see a Super AMOLED screen on different sized versions of the Tab — 5-inch and 10-inch models have been rumoured.
So Big Sam continues its big Android push. With the £179 Samsung Galaxy 551 Android 2.2 smart phone with Qwerty keyboard still to come this year, the company has firmly hitched its carriage to Google’s mobile train.
Image credit: OLED-display.net
