Rumored Tablet next to a Galaxy S Phone

Speaking with Reuters, Samsung confirmed that they plan to release an Android based Tablet PC in Q3 this year. This places Samsung firmly in competition with LG, Acer, Dell, Toshiba and others that have announced Android based tablets. Samsung is the number 2 handset manufacturer worldwide second only to Nokia (who is struggling to gain a foothold in the smartphone market in the US). Though not many details are known regading the Samsung tablet device it is said to have a 7″ Super AMOLED screen according to Samsung. The device is also rumored to sport a 1.2Ghz CPU in the Hummingbird family (the same family used in Samsung’s Galaxy S phone series), Carry 16GB on internal storage with a microSDHC slot for external storage, A 4000 mHa battery and run Android 2.2.