Verizon Wireless continues to slam the Android operating system down the throat of Apple with the introduction of the Samsung Fascinate to its product line. The Fascinate is part of Samsung’s new Galaxy S lineup of phones which offers the same core features. What’s a bit confusing is the fact that the Galaxy S was a specific model of smartphone itself, but Samsung has shifted gears to allow the name to cover a line of phones.
 

Riding on the buzz its Galaxy Tab slate has generated, Samsung is apparently focusing on a larger device that should take on Apple’s iPad. According to J.K. Shin, Samsung’s mobile communications president, there’s a “larger tablet” in the works, allegedly scheduled for an early 2011 release.
It should be powered by Android 3.5, which will cause some to question of the early 2011 claim. Google is expected to launch Android 3.0 during the first quarter of next year, which means

Samsung’s Galaxy Tab is looking like it will be the first competitive Android tablet to hit the market, but its ultimate success is going to depend on pricing. As with any mobile product, pricing isn’t just a matter of what consumers pay for the the device, it’s also about what they pay for data.

Google is touting it as a “pure Google phone” with hardware that promises a very fast user experience coupled with the latest Android 2.3 OS:

Like a netbook, only not. The latest thing to drop into our "crazy rumor" inbox is the Windows 7 tablet conceptualized above