What Was Samsung Thinking?

On Wednesday pros were excited to see the latest tablet from Samsung hoping it would offer an alternative to the iPad. But there was a problem.

Samsung priced the new tablet at $499 – that’s the same price as Apple's iPad and the screen resolution on the Samsung gadget is lower than the iPad.

“I’m disappointed ,” says Pete Najarian on CNBC's Fast Money Halftime Report. “What’s the incentive to move away from the iPad?”

Samsung is hoping that other features will attract buyers.

The gadget, called the Note 10.1 - is equipped with a state of the art digital pen and can run two applications side-by-side on a screen divided in half.

"I think the video on the left and note-taking on the right half of the screen can be widely used for educational purposes," says Lee Sei-cheol, a technology analyst at Meritz Securities.

And Samsung has improved the pressure-sensitive pen to make it feel more natural and accurate since the "S Pen" digital pen was first introduced with the Galaxy Note last year.

“But the Android component is free,” muses top venture capitalist Bill Gurley. “I would have expected a lower price point.”

Posted by CNBC's Lee Brodie

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