Samsung Australia's mobile chief says that far from killing its Galaxy Tab 10.1, Apple's court case was almost a blessing in disguise that made the product a "household name".

Samsung's tablet will arrive in stores this week after a Sydney court on Friday denied Apple's request to appeal to the High Court an earlier ruling that reversed the ban on sales of the Galaxy Tab. Some carriers such as Vodafone have already been accepting pre-orders.

In stores today ... Samsung's Galaxy Nexus

This is a particularly busy week for Samsung as today its new flagship smartphone, the Galaxy Nexus, hits stores via all carriers.

The phone is the first to use the Ice Cream Sandwich version of Android, which has a more polished interface and offers new features such as the ability to use facial recognition to unlock the phone and a tool called Beam, which uses the built-in near-field communication (NFC) chip to allow people to instantly exchange apps, web pages and other content by tapping their Galaxy Nexus phones together.