iPad 2 has Samsung fixated on "inadequate" aspects of new Galaxy Tab

The iPad 2 that Apple announced this week is already making competing manufacturers second-guess themselves. Samsung in particular is feeling pressure to step up to the iPad 2's level—"we will have to improve the parts that are inadequate," Lee Don-joo, executive vice president of Samsung's mobile division, told the Yonhap News Agency.

Announcing the iPad 2's svelte form factor appeared to be a proud moment for Steve Jobs at the product's event yesterday as he landed blows against other tablet manufacturers for being "copycats," Samsung among them. The iPad 2 measures 8.8mm, about 4mm thinner than the original iPad and 3mm thinner than the Galaxy Tab 10.1 that Samsung just announced last month.

The first Galaxy Tab managed to scrape under the first iPad's thickness measurements at just under 12mm, but its out-of-contract price was higher than the iPad's. Samsung was going to vault the price of their 10-inch Galaxy Tab even higher than the original's, but now the company "will have to think that over, " Lee said.