I almost never reblog anything but this is absurdly awesome.

I’d love to post about all sorts of exciting things like Android 3.0, Nokia picking up Windows Phone 7, the next gen of mobile CPUs and where I think the tablet market is going (no-where fast with current prices), but I’m currently drowning in dissertation work so by the time I can write anything that makes sense all this will have been and gone!

Once CES is over I’m going to try and make my second (real, this doesn’t count) ever post on here, expect lots of bullet points and some Android fan boy statements (I’m very excited about Honeycomb).

I’m an avid follower of tech news and these past few days have been a veritable barrage of ‘leaked’ news on the Samsung Galaxy Tab. I’ve been with Android since the day it launched in UK and I believe it is getting stronger by the day, so the idea of an Android tablet is something I’ve been looking forward to for a while.

As the Galaxy Tab is the first real pretender to the Android-Tablet-Throne it has been getting some close attention from the tech world. The specs are exactly what you’d hope for a 7” Super-AMOLED Screen, Android 2.2, 3G, 802.11n WiFi and an SDHC slot.

This all sound great, but it causes a few worries for me. The 3G is my main worry as this usually means ‘Sold by Mobile Operators’. The subsidising of Netbook prices by mobile phone operators hailed for many a gateway into a new world of computing often for ‘free’. For many of us who already have a mobile phone contract it meant quite the opposite, to buy these devices without a contract we would end up paying a price tag to rival a cheap laptop.

I can only imagine the tablet era will result in much the same problems, for newcomers there will be ‘free’ tablets but for anyone else you’ll have to buy elsewhere and you’ll end up paying around £300-400 for the pleasure of having what is essentially a crippled PC.