AT&T will sell two Samsung tablets starting Friday:the Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 for$499.99 and the ATIV Smart PC for$799.99.
Both are eligible for a$100 discount when purchased with any Samsung Galaxy smartphone on a two-year contract.
The 11.6-in.ATIV tablet from Samsung will sell for$799.
The 11.6-in.ATIV,available exclusively at AT&T,runs Windows 8 and can be upgraded to Windows 8 Pro.As a result,it runs existing software and apps that run on Windows 7,Vista and XP,among others.A trial version of Office 2010 is also provided.
The ATIV has 64GB of storage,a microSD card slot and offers LTE network capabilities.The Intel Atom dual core processor is clocked at 1.5GHz.
The ATIV is distinguished by its detachable keyboard dock,so that a user can switch between a clamshell laptop and a tablet.
The Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 has a 10.1-in display,runs Android 4.0 and supports LTE.
Wireless access will cost$10 a month for each tablet under the AT&T Mobile Share plans,which require purchasing a monthly allotment of gigabytes of data that can be shared with up to nine other devices.
Samsung announced the ATIV in August,along with other tablets and a smartphone using the ATIV name but didn't divulge pricing.
The$800 price tag for the ATIV Smart PC is considered a premium for a tablet by most analysts,especially when some standalone tablets are going for$200 to$329 with much less storage and no detachable keyboard.Microsoft has defended the higher price partly because of the interoperability of Windows 8 with previous versions of Windows.
