Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 with LTE headed to Verizon

By George Wong on 01/09/2012, filed in Home > Tablets

Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 with LTE headed to Verizon [CES 2012] Last December, the entry for the Galaxy Tab 7.7 popped up in Verizon’s inventory listing suggesting that the tablet was headed in Big Red’s direction. Well, today at CES it has been officially confirmed. The 7.7″ Super AMOLED Plus (1280 x 800) display-toting tablet will be arriving on Verizon’s network and unsurprisingly it will be sporting 4G LTE radios as well as the ability to turn into a mobile hotspot for up to 10 devices (on 4G).

The Galaxy Tab 7.7 will pack a 1.4GHz dual-core processor, Android 3.2 Honeycomb (with TouchWiz), a 3-megapixel rear camera, a 2-megapixel front facing camera, 16GB of storage (micro SD support for up to 32GB), DLNA, WiFi Direct, Samsung Apps, Samsung Media Hub and Samsung Social Hub. The tablet is 7.9mm thick and weighs only 340g (12 oz). As usual, no prices were mentioned but you can expect the tablet to go on sale in the coming weeks.

[Press Release]

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