Samsung launches 8-inch Note 510 tablet

Samsung has officially launched the Galaxy Note 510, its new 8-inch tablet in India on Friday. The device comes equipped with 8 inch HD display and an S-Pen. Though the company has not tagged a price for the tablet so far it is expected to be around Rs 25,000 in the country.

The device sports an 8-inch 720p HD TFT LCD display supporting native 1280×800 pixel and an 189ppi density. The mid-size tablet can be held in one hand, as a smart diary. The user can make Phone calls and Video calls directly from the tablet itself and it does have an earpiece. When the S-Pen is pulled out, the tablet automatically detects the stylus and actives the S-Pen supporting menus as well as apps.

The tablet is powered with a quad-core 1.6 GHz ARM Cortex-A9 based processor with 2 GB RAM and comes in 16 GB and 32 GB models – (both with a memory card slot supporting up to 64 GB micro SD card) and a Non-removable Li-Ion 4600 mAh battery. It supports WiFi and WiFi+3G.

The Note features a 5 MP rear camera with LED flash and also record HD videos and a front facing 1.3 megapixel camera for video chatting and self-portrait images. The Note 510 will come with version 4.1.2 of Jelly Bean (OS) onboard and the new TouchWiz Nature UX.

The device features AllShareCast, Samsung ChatOn and Smart Stay. Also Multimedia content can be downloaded from the Samsung Hub that includes Learning Hub, Game Hub, Music Hub, Reader Hub and Video Hub through the Galaxy Note 510.

The tablet will hit store shelves only by end of March or early April later this year as per the company.