Wednesday 24 August 2011

Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Review

It’s Time to TAB!

The 10.1 Tab on paper!

Size
Dimensions
256.7 x 175.3 x 8.6 mm --- astronomically thin! Thinner than it’s closest competitors Winking smile

Weight
565 g – What I would call a “one hander” i.e you wont be getting cramp if you hold it in front of you with one hand for an extended amount of time.

Display
Type
PLS TFT capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors – Absolutely stunning, see the video above!

Size
800 x 1280 pixels, 10.1 inches – A nice size with a good aspect ratio! Perfect for watching those HD movies!

- Gorilla Glass display – for those that are less careful with gadgets Smile
- TouchWiz UX UI
- Multi-touch input method
- Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate
- Three-axis gyro sensor
- Touch-sensitive controls

Loudspeaker
Yes, with stereo speakers – Good bass for their size, once again see video above! :)

3.5mm jack
Yes – for all the music lovers out there!

Memory
Phonebook
Practically unlimited entries and fields – perfect for all you socialites out there!

Internal
16/32/64 GB storage, 1GB RAM – Theres a good range of models with different size memory options! I personally have the 16GB and thats enough for me!

Data
GPRS
Yes

EDGE
Yes

3G
HSDPA, 21 Mbps; HSUPA

WLAN
Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct, dual-band, Wi-Fi hotspot – Can also make the tab into a portable hotspot! Perfect for when you want to access wifi on a laptop via the Tab!

Bluetooth
Yes, v3.0 with A2DP

USB
Yes, v2.0

Camera
Primary
3.15 MP, 2048x1536 pixels, autofocus, LED flash – Takes stunning shots!

Video
Yes, 720p – For all you budding movie directors out there! I find that the quality is great and then you can use All share to play your movies back on a TV! How amazing is that!!!!

Secondary
Yes, 2 MP – If you like taking pictures of yourself this is ace! Also great for video calling via skype and such!

OS
Android OS, v3.1 (Honeycomb) – A Version of android that is optimised for tablets.

CPU
Dual-core 1GHz ARM Cortex-A9 proccessor, ULP GeForce GPU, Tegra 2 T20 chipset – The Tegra 2 is blistering fast and allows the user to play specific games that are optimised for it. I haven’t experienced any lag yet!

Messaging
Email, Push Mail, IM, RSS – Standard features, but infinately useful!

Browser
HTML – With FLASH! so yes you can watch as many flash videos and play as many flash games as you like!

GPS
Yes, with A-GPS support

Other Features

- SNS integration – With the social hub, tend to all your messages, wall posts, notifications in one place!
- TV-out
- MP4/DivX/Xvid/H.264/H.263 player
- MP3/WAV/eAAC+/OGG player
- Organizer
- Image/video editor
- Quickoffice HD editor/viewer
- Google Search, Maps, Gmail,
YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk, Picasa integration
- Adobe Flash 10.2 support
- Voice memo
- Predictive text input (Swype)

Battery
Standard battery, Li-Po 7000 mAh – Here are a couple of pictures showing the amount of use i’ve been getting out the battery!

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