If it has an IR Xmitter I'm sold. It will be my new mediacenter remote and then some. I use to have the universal remote MX3000 which was a Windows Pocket PC based OS remote. Thing was incredible. I used it as a model to learn the programming on to train the installers at a local A/V store. But as the market turned down and sales slipped away they saw no need to leave a $1000 remote with me. . More than I would pay as I'm somewhat cheap. I'd pay $1000 for a remote running Android that met or exceeded what that MX3000 could do as a remote and that I could also watch trailers on and browse imdb... I was about to look into a BT to IR solution for my Samsung Galaxy S II.

 

Has it been confirmed it is indeed does have the IR capability.. I mean the 7 plus has it, so hopefully the 7.7 does as well..

Otherwise I should just get the 7 Plus, since I can justify it to myself easily enough based on the IR feature.

 

Welectronics.com has them (with IR) for $669:


The Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 is the first tablet to feature a 7.7-inch Super AMOLED display. Under the hood, there is a 1.4GHz processor, making the TouchWiz skinned Android Honeycomb 3.2 tick. The tablet sports a 3-megapixel camera on the back and a 2

 

My co-worker has ordered from them several times before.

 

Given that many of the currently released models are coming out of Austrailia, and the site is out of Chicago, I wouldn't worry.