Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Review| Booredatwork
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The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 is available today on June 17th. This is Samsung's second entry into the Android tablet arena but the first running Android 3.1(honeycomb). Boy what an entrance, Samsung has brought in a sense of style and elegance to Android tablet devices. What a ultra thin and ultra light tablet that boast a long battery life with, 720P recording, all powered by a Tegra 2 dual core Processor. Ok Enough with the pleasantries lets take this baby for a spin in our video Review
Hardware
The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 is a very very sexy piece of hardware, with a well rounded sleek metal finish on the edges, the tab 10.1 is very light and is about 8.6mm thick. I mean this thing is thin, its got a proprietary port at the bottom of the device for USB charging and data transfer. On the top of the tab is the power button, volume toggles & a 3.5mm jack. The back of the device has a full white finish with the upper half having a metallic finish that houses the rear 3MP camera with LED flash. There is a 2MP front facing camera for video chat, all wrapped around a gorgeous 10" display with a resolution of 1280X800
Samsung Galaxy Tab 101. Wi-FiSpecs
10.09 x 6.81 x 0.34″ or 256.2 x 172.9 x 8.6mm thick
10.10″ 1280 x 800 display
Tegra 2 Dual Core processor
WIFI 802.11n, 11g, 11b, or 11a connectivity
3.0 MP rear camera with with LED flash
720p HD recording, 1080p Playback
2.0 MP front facing camera
16GB / 32GB / 64GB options
6800 mAh battery
Software
The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 surprisingly is running stock Android 3.1 and not a variation with Touch wiz UX, which we saw at CTIA 2011. The software ran much smoother than what we saw with Android 3.0 with the Motorola Xoom, didn't experience an slow downs, and the amount of apps open in the multitasking bar seems to have increased. As for app, there are about 100 tablet specific apps available right now in the market place, but you can still use any Android app; seems Google has resolved the constant app crashing with Android 3.1 update.
The Samsung galaxy Tab 10.1 isn't devoid of Samsung centric apps; Music HUB is an app by Samsung that gives you the ability to purchase song from the hub on to your device. You can search via category, genre, artist, and song. The is also Samsung app store, which is similar tot the Android app store but currently has 6 apps in total.
Conclusion
The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 is currently available in 16GB & 32GB Wi-Fi versions at $499 & 4599 respectively, which makes it a competitively priced tablet to its competitors in the market. Before you say this is an overall glowing review of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. The are some downsides to the device, for starters the is no memory expansion via microSD card slot, no HDMI-out port (have to buy a dongle for that) and can not charge via USB.
That being said the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 does make it up in style and aesthetics, it's a beautifully design Android 3.0 tablet that functions admirable, though hampered at times by the lack of tablet centric apps; which will no doubt grow. The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, is a mixture of style elegance and simple functionality that works and the price tags helps to set the mind at easy as a simply good purchase