Galaxy Tab 8.9 unboxing caught on video

By George Wong on 09/22/2011 11:13 PDT

Despite being accidentally given to a Best Buy customer this week, the Galaxy Tab 8.9 isn’t available to the public yet. Well, the folks over at netbooknews.com managed to pick up one of these Android tablets from Taiwan and have performed the inaugural ceremony for the public by posting an unboxing video of the tablet online. For those of you who have been waiting to get your hands on one, I’m sure you’ll be pretty excited about this news.

The Galaxy Tab 8.9 is Samsung’s mid-sized Android tablet, in between the original Galaxy Tab (7″) and the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in terms of size. It packs a dual-core 1GHz processor, an 8.9″ (1280 x0 800) display, Android 3.1 Honeycomb (with TouchWiz of course), 16GB of internal storage, a 2-megapixel front facing camera, a 3-megapixel rear camera, WiFi, USB 2.0, and Bluetooth. The tablet also comes preloaded with Google Apps, and Samsung’s own Hubs as well. The Galaxy Tab 8.9 is expected to go on sale today, anyone of you planning to pick it up? Check out the unboxing video:

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