Seems to have dropped to £470 at PCW and Tesco.

Getting there, only another few hundred less and I'll thing about it.

£470? That's a 16gb iPad and a shed-load of apps, or a meal out with the wife.

How many people will get their Galaxy home and wish they'd bought an iPad?

Not many, for a start the Galaxy Tab can play video - it's DivX certified. It's also got a, IMO, superior operating system.

Oh, and Angry Birds is free on the Galaxy.

Well, it seems the Tab matches the iPad for the first point, then. I just watched a video about how the iPad plays video. As for the other two, I don't feel qualified to give an opinion.

The iPad won't play DivX content, and the vast majority of AVI files I come across are DivX....

'kay, if no-one else is going to say it - or two meals out without her...



That's the OS that the people who made it don't recommend using on a tablet, right? Whatever, I just wish they'd stop making 7" widescreen tablets - fugly to read on in portrait mode.

Not yet, anyway. There's nothing, nothing to stop Samsung issuing Android updates in the future to more tablet-friendly versions.

Of course there isn't, but have they said that they will? Are you prepared to gamble 470 notes of your hard-earned on the chance that they might?

No, but then like I said I'm far more interested in the Blackberry Playbook.

I have a Galaxy S, so same internal cpu etc AFAIK and with the built in media playing apps I can play...

Audio: mp3, wma, wav, ogg (these are only ones I have tried and have to hand)
Video: avi (divx and xvid), mp4, mp2 (h264) and also the ogg video format

That is with the built in stuff, I was watching a 720p version of Big Buck Bunny on my phone with no lag or stuttering at all as it decodes it on the GPU and looks amazing. The iPad I have seen struggle with anything above SD

Shame on the price, but it will drop quickly, and the app store is picking up speed with quality developers, just needs a proper iPlayer app soon over beebplayer with some live playback over wifi and it'll be awesome

IIRC the Galaxy S is the first smartphone to be DivX HD certified - it was one of the major selling points for me, but I ended up getting the Desire instead because the Galaxy S didn't have a flash for the camera. Your post just goes to show that as a video player, not only is the Galaxy Tab less likely to tire your arm out than the iPad, but it also plays a superior range of formats at a superior speed (especially HD content).

Toshiba Folio pulled by PC World following customer complaints

Now we know why it was so cheap, they probably rushed it out...

Would make an epic price match if you could find another local retailer selling it

£329 in one place, £999 in C/PCW
£670 difference, so 10% extra (if they still do that) so £269

Actually, I'd take a netbook at that price

Just download VLC for free from the app store. Or use Handbrake to rip your movies to mp4. I forgot DivX was still knocking about.

VLC won't be available on the App store for much longer (licensing issues), and using Handbrake to convert videos is looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
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PS. Isn't the compression and quality (for the file size) for DivX also superior to MPEG-4 anyway?