Speculations rise over Samsung’s delay of Galaxy Tab release

Samsung Electronics abruptly canceled a press event to unveil its tablet PC, the Galaxy Tab, stirring speculation about technical problems or price discords with its distributor SK Telecom.

The conference was originally scheduled for Thursday.

A Samsung Galaxy Tab, a 7-inch touchscreen mobile tablet, with the Android 2.2 operating system, is displayed at a news conference in New York, U.S., Sept. 16. (Bloomberg)

“We decided to defer the press meeting and the domestic release in a bid to offer contents and applications which are more customized for local users and to provide the most optimized product for them,” Samsung said in a statement on Tuesday. 

Samsung had been expected to release the device within this month. A new date has yet to be set for both the press event and the release, they said.

The notice came only a day after the global electronics manufacturer notified reporters that it will be holding a launching event, attended by its mobile businesschief Shin Jong-kyun.