Okay. Hands up. Does anyone think, that at a screen size of 9.7 inches, the Apple iPad is TOO big? Aparently, a lot of people do. Supporting that assertion, there have been nagging, persistent rumors of a second-generation iPad, with a 7-inch screen. The Taiwan-based, Chinese-language newspaper Economic Daily News reported last Tuesday that the new model will be 28% lighter, down to 500 grams, from 700, and will use an In-Plane Switching LCD display for wide viewing angles. Of course, these are the same folks who brought us the iPhone Nano rumour back in 2008, and we all know where that went.

But. Samsung appears to be taking the feedback to heart, and in a planned event on 2nd September, one day after Apple’s event, and a day before the IFA trade show in Berlin, Germany, will demonstrate it’s Galaxy Tab, a 7-inch tablet computer, powered by an in-house Samsung-developed processor, and fueled by Google’s Android 2.2 operating system.

We know that NetBook sales in Europe have taken a big drop, and it seems like Samsung is heading down the tablet PC trail to try to pick up the slack. Sources claim the company is expected to ship 100,000 tablet PCs per month initially.