Quite on the lines of the popular Apple iPad in terms of the price-tag, Samsung will officially release its $400-priced Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 for the US markets next month ---thereby underscoring that tablet wars among bigwig rivals are still far from abating!

The Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 - scheduled for US release on May 13 - will give Samsung a taste of the $400 price-tag at which Apple is selling its iPad 2, while also highlighting the fact that Samsung is apparently continuing with its strategy of manufacturing an Android-based tablet in every imaginable shape and size.

More like an enhanced version of the Galaxy Tab 10.1, the forthcoming Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 will be thinner and lighter, and will boast a WXGA 1280 x 800 pixel resolution screen, and a dual-core Texas Instruments OMAP processor at 1GHz per core.

The tablet will have 16GB on-board storage, with a microSD card slot to expand memory by 32GB; and will also give the users a glorious 1 year of 50GB of storage with Dropbox.

Running the latest Android 4.0 `Ice Cream Sandwich' version along with updated TouchWiz UX, the Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 will be abound in attractive apps right out of the box; each of them brought on board with the aim of giving the users an instantaneous access to their other Samsung devices.