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According to Tech Gadget Site bloomberg.com, Samsung's unveiled new tablet Galaxy 7.7 encountered the same situation in Germany a month after its Tablet Galaxy 10.1 did. The new Android-based tablet was force to halt sales in Germany as Apple won the injunction again. Samsung has stopped promotion activity for the tablet there. Samsung's spokesman said this will "serevely limits customers' choices" but still "respect court's decission".
This is a bad news to Samsung as well as Android-base tablet manufacturers. It seems Google's acquisition of Motorola's 20000 patents hasn't worked yet. It also brings out the question how Google will protect their cooperator for the patent wars. Current statics from comscore shows Android has reached over 40% market share. However, Andorid-based tablets popularity still can't compare with Apple iPad's. Samsung's ambition to get one piece of the tablet cake faced a lot of troubles. And a shocking news comes out that an executive at Android tablet maker Lenovo claims that Samsung sold only 20,000 of the 1m tablets that it shipped last year as it tried to "buy share" from market leader Apple from guardian.co.uk. If this news comfirmed, it will largely lower the confidence of Samsung tablets.
Germany is one of the most smart phone subscribers with UK, Italy in EU. EU is always the first stop device manufacturers target to test their products. Samsung's newest smartphone Galaxy S II debuted successfully in EU. So when it launched in USA, it was highly sought after. While Samsung tablet doesn't have the luck. Android tablet still has long way to go.
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