News: Samsung will Upgrade Galaxy Tab to Gingerbead 2.3 (In this order: UK, Europe, US, Asia). I got my 2.3.5 update Nov 5, 2011
I bought my wife a Galaxy 10.1 WiFi for home use, but for out on the town my 7 inch with 3G service is the way to go. I find I use about 300 MB per month over the 3G the rest is WiFi at home or work. Check out the Galaxy 10.1 Tips page.
Galaxy 7 and General Tips
I bought a Verizon Samsung Galaxy Tab on the first day they went on sale, and the next morning I left on a one week vacation with only the Tab, no laptop. Here are some tips and tricks and other things I have learned:
- Menu key (bottom left) use it to get to settings and other options
- Home key use to exit out of any application.
- Back key (a bent arrow) to go back one screen.
- Press and hold on things to get more options, i.e. on fields to get a choice of keyboard to enter data.
- Turn OFF roaming, it is on by default and even works with maritime roaming when at sea on a cruise (don't ask, it is painful how much that mistake cost me).
- Flash on demand. I recomend in the browser to use the on demand setting for Flash: use the menu key -> settings -> Enable plug-ins -> On demand. This will cause the browser to not download a flash object unless you click on it. (faster and less data hungery)