Display shortage forces Samsung to lose its competitve edge over the iPad 2
Samsung may be forced to fatten its tablet devices due to a display shortage. The Korean company gleefully proclaimed its revised Galaxy Tab line was thinner than the iPad 2 and repeatedly showcased the tablet's lean and mean design.
An unfortunate display shortage has forced the company to drop its thinner GFI display and replace it with a thicker GFF display. This Glass Fiber Filter display is almost 40 percent thicker and has lower light transmittance than its thinner counterpart. Samsung might be forced to make two variants of the Galaxy Tab, one with the original spec and one with a slightly heftier profile.
Display shortages are an unfortunate part of electronics manufacturing. AMOLED display shortages delayed the full rollout of the several Android handsets inducing the DROID Incredible. More recently, Apple is thought to have cornered the market in tablet displays, forcing manufacturers like RIM and Motorola to scramble for the leftovers.
[Via Electronista]
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Doesn't Samsung make their own displays?
June 11 2011 at 5:18 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replydoesn't Samsung make their own displays
June 11 2011 at 5:17 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Leonick
Well, if you can being a hair thinner than the iPad 2 having a competitive edge...
June 10 2011 at 5:54 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyOuch, thats gonna smart for all the phandroids that crowed about how it was "equal or better than the ipad 2".
June 10 2011 at 5:49 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyQuite ironic considering that Samsung's display division is screwing their mobile division. It's issues like this that prevent Apple from using the latest, bleeding-edge tech in their devices. Apple has higher sales projections, so they need to use components that they can reliably obtain in mass quantities.
June 10 2011 at 2:12 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyCOMPETITIVE. Doesn't anybody spell-check their headlines anymore?
June 10 2011 at 2:04 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI like the use of the word "anorexic" to describe the galaxy tab - not as though thinner is a *good* thing. Honestly, just because this is an apple centric blog doesn't mean you have to hate on all of the competition, believe it or not that too is a good thing.
June 10 2011 at 1:34 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI wasn't entirely sure it was a jab. I just signed in to comment on the same thing, but was going to ask: "Kelly, is 'anorexic' a good thing in your eyes?"
June 10 2011 at 1:41 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyGuys you have to learn to chill, do you want every single article to simply say "thin"? There are only so many ways of saying it without repeating yourself over and over. If you want to be anal about it, I'm pretty sure the writer didn't mean it was eating a lot of apps and then deleting them right afterwards, right?
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