Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 to launch on 8th June, arrive in India by July

Samsung has announced the launch date of the Galaxy Tab 10.1, which is now scheduled to hit shelves in the U.S. on 8 June 2011. It will be launched globally within 30 days of this, and Samsung assured reporters in the country that it will come to India soon after, by July. The Galaxy Tab 8.9 for now doesn’t have a fixed date, and will arrive sometime after the 10.1 tablet launches.
The super-slim Galaxy Tab 10.1 is an Android Honeycomb tablet that Samsung hopes will take on the tablet-defining and also super-slim Apple iPad 2 directly. While Samsung has not announced when exactly it will be releasing Wi-Fi+3G versions of its tablet, it has priced its Wi-Fi version at the same price as Apple, with the 16GB version set to retail for $499 (approximately Rs. 22,000), and the 32GB version for $599 (roughly Rs. 27,000).

As always, you can expect the products to be quite a bit more expensive on Indian shelves. In other news, Samsung India has now announced that its Galaxy S II flagship Android smartphone will be arriving in the country sometime in May.