As expected, Samsung has released the Galaxy Tab in the UK on its 41st birth anniversary. Users can pick up Samsung’s first Android tablet for a non-contractual price of £530 but if you’re willing to sign the dotted line, you can get a good deal, depending on the choice of your carrier.

The tablet is being sold by Vodafone, Orange, O2, Talkmobile, Carphone Warehouse, Amazon.

O2 has tied up with Samsung to provide a special edition Monte (S5620) phone. The phone will be exclusively sold by O2 and it comes with special Iron Man bundle to commemorate the Iron Man 2’s launch. The first Iron Man movie will be loaded in the SD card as well as get some exclusive Iron Man 2 content like a trailer and interviews with the cast and the crew.

Apart from that, you’re basically looking at the same Monte with a 3-inch WQVGA touchscreen display, TouchWiz 2.0 UI, 3G, Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth, FM Radio with RDS, 3.2MP camera, 3.5mm audio jack, microSD card slot.

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The latest report suggests that Samsung’s Android phone has been delayed in UK but if you’ve been wanting it badly, you can pick one up on both Orange and O2 network. Phoneslimited is selling them and if you’re ok to bind yourself with a 2-year contract and £35.00 monthly rent, you can take the device home for free. A white Galaxy I7500 will also make an entry soon.

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The Instinct line is available on Sprint and has never sailed outside of North America, so a confirmation from Samsung’s PR to Pocket-lint comes as a surprise. The recent leak of InstinctQ led them to ask if InstintQ will see a launch in UK on which the PR replied:

FYI, this was the question.
“Will Samsung’s InstinctQ Android handset be coming to the UK?”

Samsung and O2 are committed to providing customers with the best user-experience, each device therefore goes through a stringent “customer experience” testing prior to launch. Samsung and O2 have been working together to ensure the device meets customer expectations and the device will be available for purchase shortly.

Well, I draw at least three theories to this above statement.

1) This is real. O2 might bring the device with GSM bands.
2) The PR mistook it as Galaxy I7500 since the question asks about Android handset. Also, O2 is the official carrier for Samsung’s Android phone.
3) Looks like a standard answer (which does not even mention the phone’s name).

Though this development looks unlikely, we’ll definitely keep an eye on this one.

We already know O2 will be the official carrier in UK and now first hand news comes from Register about the phone’s launch. According to some employees at retail outlets who consulted O2’s stock management system told Register the phone will arrive in stores next week. The price at which the phone will sell is unknown at the moment.

I7500 Galaxy is the first Android phone from Samsung that boasts a 3.2-inch AMOLED display, Android OS running Cupcake update, 5MP camera, 3.5mm headphone jack, 8GB internal memory, GPS, microSD card slot.

O2’s been selling I7500 Galaxy in Germany and its UK division has announced that they’ll handle the retail duties within the UK from August. This confirmation however, does not come with a price but according to O2, it will be available on contract.

Samsung’s I7500 Galaxy runs the Cupcake update of Android and comes with huge 3.2-inch AMOLED display, 5MP camera, 3.5mm audio jack, GPS, 8GB internal memory with microSD expansion slot and much more.

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Germans can now buy the most powerful Android offering available in the market from O2. The Galaxy I7500 goes on sale for 70 Euros on contract and gives Android goodness with high-speed 3G, 3.2” AMOLED screen, 5MP camera, 8GB internal memory and GPS.

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Yes, it’s true but the above line is only applicable if – you reside in UK and sign a contract with O2 for its mobile broadband service. If you pass the aforementioned conditions then you’d happy to know that from Feb 27, O2 will offer three Samsung laptops distinguished as O2 Mini-Laptop (NC10) , O2 Performance Laptop (R510 with Celeron Dual Core) and the O2 Multi-Media Laptop (R510 with Pentium Dual Core).

The monthly charges start from £29.38 and goes up to £44.04. Performance laptop is an exception to the free tag; customer needs to pay a one-time payment of £78.29.

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