Tech giant Samsung is on the roll. After the successful release of its flagship phone Samsung Galaxy S3, it released another revolutionary tablet - Galaxy Note 10.1.

Samsung impressed the press with a media event with a theme "Creativity" as it presented new ways to use a tablet. The company mentioned that tablets are conventionally used for content consumption and cited that the Galaxy Note 10.1 will focus on the creation of content.

The Galaxy Note 10.1 has new features that enable content creation in ways new to tablets. Samsung brought creative professionals to the event to describe how a few weeks of working with the Galaxy Note 10.1 improved their work processes.

The main features enable and facilitate creation. The event focused on the S Pen, multiscreen function, and apps written specially for the new environment. The software adds true multitasking with multiple apps on-screen. And then there's the pen. It makes many apps more natural to use, including Adobe Photoshop Touch.

The S Pen is not a simple stylus and does not use a conventional capacitive interface to the tablet. The interface uses electromagnetic resonance, a radio frequency technology used in pen tablets such as those from Wacom.

No battery is needed in the pen, as weak energy is induced in it by a magnetic field generated by a sensor board in the tablet.

Similar to the Galaxy Note, the S Pen can be used for handwriting recognition. The software also can perform shape matching, in which basic shapes like polygons drawn by hand are recognized and transformed into regular shapes.

Perhaps the most revolutionary software feature in the new tablet from Samsung is its multiscreen function, a multitasking capability Samsung built onto the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich OS on which the Galaxy Note 10.1 runs. Samsung promised an upgrade to Android 4.1, a.k.a. Jelly Bean--the OS running the Google Nexus 7 tablet--sometime this year.

The multiscreen function of Samsung is different from other tablets' version. Multiscreen allows the user to have multiple apps on the screen, either tiled next to each other or in a popup window called popup play. Users also can drag and drop content from one app to another using the pen.

Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 is equipped with a 1.4-Ghz quad-core processor and has 2GB RAM. It includes a MicroSD slot, dual front speakers, and multiple codecs. The 16GB and 32GB variants cost $499 and $549, respectively. Samsung said that the device will be available Thursday at a large number of retailers.