Samsung, Toshiba unveil 'iPad killers' | Bangkok Post: breakingnews

Competition to Apple's highly successful iPad hotted up on Thursday as Samsung and Toshiba unveiled rival tablet PCs that they hope will steal some of the Californian giant's thunder.

Samsung's new tablet device, the "Galaxy Tab", on display at their booth at the 50th edition of "IFA" in Berlin. Samsung on Thursday unveiled what the South Korean electronics giant hopes will be a major rival to Apple's highly successful iPad tablet PC.

Samsung's Galaxy Tab, presented at the IFA electronics trade fair in Berlin, Germany, has a seven-inch (17.8-centimetre) touchscreen, slightly smaller than the iPad's 9.7 inches, and uses Google's Android 2.2 operating system.