Saturday, November 26, 2011

Review Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1


Review Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 - Having had experienced some form of trimming weight revisions, including a redesign to cut thick body, the Galaxy Tab 10.1 was present in Indonesia. Selection of a wider screen on the basis of the latest android Honeycomb makes this tablet staying digadang as the nearest competitor iPad 2.
Dimensions & Design
Size 256.7 x 175.3 x 8.6 mm, weight 565 grams,
When held one hand, feels Galaxy Tab 10.1 is quite mild. Perhaps because the body wrap plastic material joined to reduce weight. Compared with iPad 2, Tab 0.2 mm thinner and 36 grams lighter. However, the selection of this material is not without blemish. Plastics, especially in the rear casing feels slippery when held and easily scratched. When juxtaposed with iPad 2, it appears that aluminum iPad 2 appears more elegant and sturdy.
Comparison between Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 with iPad II
Display
10.1-inch widescreen display, 1280 x 800 WXGA TFT LCD, 149 ppi, 4-way rotation., Ambient light sensor
Display 16:0 display crisp and clear, both outside and indoors. There is an automatic display setting, adjusting to the light available. Super PLS technology (plane line switching) to make the display remains clearly visible in wide angle and the lighting is excessive. Better than the technology IPS panel that carried the iPad.
Hardware
NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor dual core 1 MHz, RAM 1 Gb, 16 Gb of internal memory, a gyroscope sensor, compass, accelerometer,
No USB ports on the tab, as in the tablet Transformer and Motorola Xoom. Similarly, there is no HDMI port and a micro SD slot. There are only a single 30 pin port on the bottom to connect the data cable and built-hole 3.5 mm audio jack.
Samsung provides the headphones with integrated microphone. There is a pause button / skip the headphones that serves as a pause button when playing music or play. Speaker holes placed on the left and right to deliver good sound quality, while at the top there is the power button, volume and SIM card slot.
Software
Honeycomb Operating System 2.1, Google Mobile Service (Google Talk, Gmail, Calendar, YouTube, Google Maps, Google Latitude, Google Places, the Android Market), the Polaris office (edit and create: PDF, Word, Excel), Samsung Hub, Samsung Apps , Kies via Wifi, Pulse newsreaders
Application keys are placed in the upper right. There are shortcut buttons at the bottom left beside the home button to see what applications we are open. When pressed, the widget will appear that contains the screenshot these applications.
Display similar to the iTunes music application built iPad. In addition to providing the Android market, Samsung has built its own online applications store the Samsung Apps. If you as a user of Samsung used to connect to a PC using software Kies, there are more settings to connect tab with a PC through Wifi connection.
Social Hub integrates social networking accounts you in one widget. If installed on the homescreen, you can see updates at any time A little less ergonomic as possible, that with 10.1-inch diagonal screen and the ratio of 16:9, the virtual keyboard Galaxy Tab becomes longer. It is quite difficult for you when using two thumbs to type, because of the letters that are the center will be difficult to reach by hand sizes Asia
Browser
Multitab Android browser and Flash support. You can use the functions of motion in your browser. When you wish to zoom in or out website, place your two thumbs on the left and right of the screen, then move down to zoom in or to zoom out. Watching Youtube? Can be directly from the browser even if the application is also available.
A somewhat disturbing is when we want to access sites that have a dual version of (web and mobile) such as yahoo, then by default the browser is legible in its mobile version. Waste not, for the 10.1-inch screen size?
Camera
2 MP front camera, rear camera 3.2 MP with LED Flash.
Features camera application fairly perfect, although the size of 3 megapixels considered outdated. You can easily adjust the exposure, resolution, white balance and shooting modes. Back of the camera response is rather slow, sometimes takes a few seconds to snap the object to be a photograph.
Switch from the camera back to the front of the camera or vice versa quite easily by using the switch. The results of the video is quite ideal, even when capturing moving objects sometimes lose focus, but still within reasonable limits
Wireless and Synchronization
+21 HSPA 850/900/1900/2100, EDGE / GPRS 850/900/1800/1900, WiFi 802.11 a / b / g / n dual-band support (2.4 and 5 GHz), Bluetooth 3.1
Internet connection via Wifi running smoothly without any interruption. Tab 10.1 will be read as a € ~ € ™ removable media devices when plugged into the computer  operation system Windows. When you log in using a gmail account, you can backup and restore a variety of data such as contacts, application settings, calendar, email and so forth. Remember, there is still a feature-rich software Kies. You can transfer variety of multimedia files, either via a USB cable or WiFi.
Battery
Battery 7000mAh (buit in)
Galaxy claimed to have a battery life of up to 9 hours for normal use. When PULSE test, number 9 hours has never been achieved. The possibility of geographical factors and also the use of a variety of Internet functions also cut the battery life
Performance
Quadrant Benchmark: 2303 points
When hardware performance measurements were taken using Quadrant Benchmark software, very good performance Galaxy, far above the competitors as well as other Android smartphones
Conclusion
Galaxy Tab 10.1 is a tablet with a combination of weights, dimensions, technology and current best design. Which carried its own display technology by Samsung, as well as hard work to bring additional applications such as social hubs commendable. Problem cameras are fairly old school or browser compatibility is rather disturbing. It shall also bring TouchWiz Samsung, the proud is interface completely, because it will be a differentiators between the Galaxy Tab 10.1 with other Honeycomb tablets. Nvidia Tegra-powered performance of 1 GHz is visible both in speed and performance application system.

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