A flood of Android tablets are on the way, with Google and its partners expected to bring them onto the market in the months ahead. So said Nvidia's CEO Jen-Hsun Huang at the company's third-quarter earnings call when discussing its Tegra chip. He admitted that the much anticipated processor was delayed by "a few months" because Nvidia is working together with Google to ensure that new tablets built using the processor will fare well against Apple's iPad.

What caught my attention was a swipe by Nvidia's CEO at the Samsung Galaxy Tab tablet, which Huang was dismissive of, saying "It's a tablet that uses a phone operating system on a large display. A tablet is not a large phone." I was at the launch of the Galaxy Tab in Singapore a few weeks ago, and one of the capabilities being demonstrated (and hyped on) was the Galaxy Tab's ability to make normal phone calls via a Bluetooth headset.

According to Huang, Android tablets using the new dual-core Nvidia Tegra 2 processor will give higher performance and "much, much better multitasking and better graphics." All of these combined will result in an altogether different experience compared to that of the iPad, Huang said. Referring to the work being done over at Google on the next version of Android for phones and tablets, Huang enthused that, "I think it's going to really, really surprise people and delight consumers everywhere."

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