Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1″ Oil Slick Screen Issue

by Ian Williams on Oct.03, 2011, under News

Tablets are now getting very popular in the business world. Apples iPad, Motorola’s Xoom and Samsungs Galaxy all seem to be proving very popular.
Our technician has been testing the Samsung Galaxy 10.1″ tab. All has been going well for the last 6 weeks but we discovered a very annoying problem with it.
If you look at the middle of the screen there is a big patch of liquid that spreads around when you use the touch screen. It looks like an oil patch. After the problem was noticed we Googled it and found that there are a lot of people having the same issue!

People are reffering to it as the Newton rings, oil slick, oil blotch and moisture under the screen.

We took our tab back to the retailer and was told that as it was after 21 days we have to send it back to Samsung! The cheeky guy also tried to tell me that I must have got it wet… WE HAVE NOT GOT THIS TAB WET! I then went to look at some of the other tabs on display and funnily enough there was an identical Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1″ on display with the same problem! We are not impressed!
It must be said that one of the main selling feature of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1″ is that the screen is very bright, color contrast is amazing and the screen is generally very responsive. It is therefore a huge shame that the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1″ suffers with a problem on their best selling point – the screen!
Apart from this we were very much enjoying the Samsung Galaxy tab 10.1″ as it was so thin and light in design.
There have been other problems reported about the Samsung Galaxy Tab where it keeps freezing. This hasn’t happened to us as of yet.
In light of these problems we have decided that we are going to trade in our Samsung Galaxy Tab for the new Asus EEE Pad Transformer. Its the same spec but it has a better camera and can be docked to a keyboard and mouse!