Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 will go on sale on April 11 and it will bear a hefty price tag of $399, which is $70 more than the iPad Mini. Will consumers be willing to pay the price of the tablet?

Samsung's new 8-inch tablet definitely outbest the iPad Mini. The Galaxy Note 8 boasts a sharper resolution of 1280 x 800 and a quad core processor. It is also equipped with a microSD slot up to 16GB, which is lacking in the iPad Mini.

The Note 8.0 biggest weapon against the iPad mini is the integrated S Pen, which lets you take notes as well as hover over items to get previews, a featured called Air View. For instance, you can see the first few lines of an email without even opening it. Samsung also bundles the Awesome Note app for both note-taking and staying on top of your to-do list.

On the other hand, there is no stopping Samsung in releasing more devices. The South Korea tech giant Samsung is set to release its Galaxy Tab 3 8.0 this summer coinciding with the imminent launch of iPad Mini 2.

Galaxy Tab 3 8.0 will come in both Wi-Fi and 3G versions with the former expected to launch mid-June followed by the latter sometime during early July.

The latest details come from the Sam Mobile, who is usually right about Samsung things, which indicated that the devices with the 'SM' prefix will be a part of the Galaxy Tab 3 range of devices. The insider says both the versions, SM-T3100 (3G version of the 16GB Galaxy Tab 3) and SM-T3110 (Wi-Fi version) will come in white.

"This morning RBmen (Dutch Blog) posted a list of SM devices they found on Samsung's service page. The codes: SM-T210、SMT210R、SM-T210X、SM-T211、SM-T215、SM-T310、SM-T310、SM-T310X、SM-T311、SM-T312 and SM-T315 are visible on Samsung's own website," Sam Mobile reports. These model numbers appeared on Samsung Japan's download support page in the tablet section.

Tab 3 8.0 is expected to be priced around $149, which places the device in the most affordable tablet category. Both the devices will ship with 16GBs of internal memory. Tech analysts are already considering the device a direct competitor to the upcoming iPad 5 and iPad mini 2.