Samsung has announced a cost of the iPad rival, a Galaxy Tab. It will price $600 as well as come contract-free upon Verizon’s 3G network. A data devise is discretionary as well as will price $20 per month for 1 GB, as well as a inscription will be accessible to buy upon November 11th.

It’s an interesting cost, coming in at only $30 shy of a cheapest iPad 3G, but with the shade only half a distance. You do get the couple of cameras, though — 3 MP back as well as 1.3 MP front — as well as a ultimate Android OS 2.2 Froyo using upon Cortex A8 the 1-GHz CPU.

I can’t theory how this will go. Samsung has, after all, sole 5 million of the Galaxy S phones in only 3 months, and most people will certainly conclude a pocketability of the not as big form cause. On the alternative hand, the iPad can right away be had upon Verizon for around the same cost, nonetheless you do have to use a MiFi hotspot to get Verizon 3G.

One thing is certain. The Galaxy Tab is a initial unequivocally viable alternative to a iPad, as well as it will show us if the non-nerd public is peaceful to buy tablets in general similar to they do cellphones, or if they have been usually meddlesome in Apple’s, as happened with the widespread iPad marketplace. We’ll see shortly sufficient.

Verizon Wireless Puts Samsung Galaxy Tab in Stores in November [Samsung]