After a good few months’ wait, Samsung’s new tablets refreshed with the Android 4.0 operating system are going on sale in Singapore from this weekend.

The 10.1-inch version of the Galaxy Tab 2 will be available this Saturday, on June 16, for S$798, while the 7.0-inch Galaxy Tab 2 will ship a week later on June 23, and cost S$598. Both will be 3G-enabled, said Samsung on Thursday, adding that it will release more details on Wi-Fi-only versions later. …

At this time last year, Samsung was agonising over how slim its Galaxy Tab 10.1 was going to be to challenge Apple’s iPad 2.

Just like Apple this time, its updated Galaxy Tab 2 tablets, unveiled recently at the Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona, seem more poised and you could say, possibly more confident of the response from potential buyers.

Besides having Google’s Android 4.0 or Ice Cream Sandwich operating system out of the box, no big changes exist in the two versions of the Galaxy Tab 2, either in their 7-inch or 10.1-inch versions.

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