Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 drops on Verizon Wireless this Thursday

Verizon Wireless (VZ) will begin selling an LTE-compatible version of Samsung Telecommunications America’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 this Thursday. The Android-sporting device from the Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. subsidiary was first announced back in February before Apple Inc.’s (AAPL) iPad 2 was announced. The company acted quickly in response and the following month announced some changes to the Galaxy Tab 10.1, making it slightly thinner than the iPad 2.
Verizon will sell the 4G LTE Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 for $530 for the 16 GB model and $630 for the 32 GB model with two-year contracts. Monthly data plans range from $30 for 2 GB of data to $80 for 10 GB.
The device features Google Inc.’s (GOOG) Android 3.1 Honeycomb OS, Nvidia Corp.’s (NVDA) Tegra2 dual-core 1 GHz processor, a 10.1-inch touchscreen with WXGA 1280 x 800 resolution, a 3-megapixel rear-facing camera and 2-megapixel front-facing camera.