Is Samsung Developing an 11.8-inch Galaxy Tab?

By Vincent Funaro, Christian Post Reporter Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Samsung plans to release an 11.8-inch Galaxy Tab with a high-definition display sometime in the near future.

The company's plans for the device surfaced during the Apple vs. Samsung trial now taking place.

This new Galaxy Tab will feature an 11.8-inch screen that will have an impressive 2,560 x 1,600 pixel resolution. This basically makes it a 30-inch monitor brought down to the size of a netbook display and should make the device on par with Apple's Retina display on the MacBook Pro and third-generation iPad.

Samsung's codename for the new tablet is P10, and it showed up on slide 83 of the company's presentation during the trial. Samsung voluntarily gave up this information, so it cannot claim that its plans for the device were leaked by another party.

An 11.8-inch screen would make this tablet's display slightly bigger than the smallest MacBook Air model. It also makes sense for Samsung to have a display on par with Apple's devices since the company creates many of the screens for iPads, and iPhones.

That fact also makes it difficult for Apple to accuse Samsung of stealing its ideas. Other features on this new Galaxy Tab will have to be pretty close to those on the iPad in order for Apple to build a case against them.

BGR was one of the first places to report on this bigger Samsung tablet, doing so at the end of last year. The site also stated that Samsung could have unveiled it at Mobile World Congress, however, that did not happen.

The Korean-electronics giant is expected to hold an event in New York City in the middle of August to introduce the updated version of the Galaxy Note 10.1. This could also be the place where the Galaxy Tab 11.8 will be unveiled since the company's documents point to a 2012 release.