<p><p>South Korea's tech-savvy customers have their eyes on Samsung's new tablet – the Galaxy Note 10.1. With functions that include a stylus type pen and split screens, it aims to set itself apart from rival Apple's iPad.</p><br /><br /><p>The new tablet launched on August 16 in the United States, Britain and South Korea, and has picked up positive early reviews from tech bloggers impressed with the S-Pen's writing and sketching performance and the tablet's ability to have two apps active at the same time on a split-screen.</p><br /><br /><p>Samsung has emphasized how the Note 10.1 is a "game changer" from rival tablets, which are primarily used to consume media - highlighting the device's ability to personalize and create. Samsung hopes the Galaxy Note 10.1 can help it narrow the gap with Apple in the tablet market, where it remains a distant second to the California-based firm.</p><br /><br /><p>The two firms have gone toe-to-toe in a multi-billion dollar patents dispute mirroring a struggle for industry supremacy between two companies that together control half the global smartphone market.</p></p>
