Sick of those trips across the border to smuggle a banned Galaxy Tab 10.1 into Germany? Samsung has come to the rescue, modifying its familiar Honeycomb tablet to work around the injunction issued in August and upheld in September as part of Apple’s patent litigation in Düsseldorf. It’s not entirely clear what’s different with the relaunched tablet, which appears to have a black bezel that extends slightly further towards the metal rim, but the Galaxy Tab 10.1N, as it is now being called, has appeared on a German e-tailer’s website with a shipping window of two to four days, along with the text “Galaxy Tab is back!” at the bottom of the listing. Samsung isn’t entirely in the clear just yet, but unless its new “N” model is also found to be infringing on Apple’s patents, gadget-hungry Germans shouldn’t have to worry about the iPad-alternative disappearing again anytime soon.

Samsung modifies tablet to satisfy German ruling, begins selling Galaxy Tab 10.1N originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 16 Nov 2011 13:42:00 EST.