Samsung thinks it's got an Android 2.2-based iPad clone that'll eat Apple for lunch.

The seven-inch widget's called the Galaxy Tab and it's smaller and lighter than the 9.7-inch iPad. As much a big version of the South Korean's Galaxy S phone as a slate, it'll take pictures and do video chat from front and back cameras. It'll also run the Adobe Flash Player 10.1 that Apple scorns. Battery life is supposed to be on a par with iPad.

It'll start shipping in Europe through smartphone carriers like Vodafone around the end of September, early October and hit the states maybe through Verizon by the end of the year.

Besides making calls, something iPad can't do, it should play music and - thanks to Adobe - more videos than Apple, e-mail and function as an e-reader. Memory is expandable.

No pricing yet.

Samsung expects to ship 10 million units and claim a third of the global tablet market next year according what it told the Wall Street Journal. There's a family of Galaxies of various sizes in the works.

Meanwhile, Toshiba's got an Android widget with a 10.1-inch screen called the Folio 100 due out in Europe in Q4 about the time South Korea's LG Electronics wants to field its Android dingus and a slew of wannabes behind them. KT, the South Korean telecom with an exclusive on selling iPhones, expects to be selling its seven-inch Android-based Identity Tab this month.

Apple sold three million iPads its first 80 days and is generally expected to dominate.