It’s Official: Samsung Has a 10.1 Inch Galaxy Note

It seems quite likely that Samsung is going to use "Tab" for it's low end tablets and "Note" for its high end tablets.

As for Beam, it's a niche product, and has a place. A very few people will buy it and be happy that it exists, and the rest of us can safely ignore it. Large companies can successfully address both volume and niche markets simultaneously without shortchanging the niche or diluting the volume markets, although this is a very difficult task and most companies who try, fail.

So the pen is actually adding significantly to the cost of the Note, which is probably why they're shifting the pen-less Tab to the low-end of the market.

Jobs called a pen an 'automatic failure', but he's not Korean, Chinese or Japanese. A pen is a much better input mechanism for Chinese and Korean characters than a keyboard, virtual or no. In North America, the target audience for the Note probably overlaps fairly well with the type of people who buy Wacom tablets for their computer -- a very small minority, but those who do love them.