Samsung Galaxy Tab Apps

Samsung Galaxy Applications

Navigation and Flash

For most of the search experience on the rock solid tab - pages load more quickly zoom in and scroll WiFi / most of the pages have been powerful. When you put a couple of places - like this site a great technology - we noticed that the scrolling to be a little nervous and not as slippery as the iPad. But we like that you can change the brightness of your browser. But, of course, the loss is different from other tablet with full flash. So, that's all what you expected? Thank you to a 1 GHz processor, the experience is not as slow as we have seen on other sub-units Android 2.2, but we can not really say that we took advantage of the function as - in fact we have decided to turn it off at the end for faster browsing.

Climb to the top of the smartphone applications and compatibility with Flash alone does not create a compressed flexible start - it takes a native application to be truly competitive in tab.

While it is nice to be able to download the videos within the site and not have to contend with the blue block lego, we were repeatedly given to us "This video is not optimized for mobile devices" error message when we hit play. All video games, but Flash will certainly slow the passage of others. What other flash heavy sites? Well, as you can see above, Hulu is a dead end - we got the same error message even if we are registered in our account Hulu Plus in your browser. (Hulu, please release the Plus Android application soon!) Similarly, we had no problems loading a flash game site, as Canabalt, but since it was built in keyboard and mouse settings are not able to understand how to jump and avoid the death of bricks. What does this mean? Feature Flash card is a good fallback, but if you're thinking about it murderess compressed application you should think again.

Room - Double Tab camera is a big step down in the iPad, and we must say that both were quite comfortable in those days. We warn, people look at you strange looks when you pull out the viewfinder and take pictures of a giant! 3-megapixel cam with LED flash back are not going to change the point and shoot, but it takes a few more decent shot. There are a few examples in the gallery below: The flash is handy when nabbing some of the photos in the dark, lit streets and external images are quite sharp. The camera's user interface consists of standard controls, and Android on your way, it's automatic focus and white balance. Strangely, there is no macro mode, but had a beautiful view of a wide-angle shots - just stick to very smooth to avoid blur. Even a continuous mode, which takes a series of nine shots - It took some time to realize that you've got to hold the camera, press to snap it. We should note that the overview and continuous mode are restricted to take 800 x 600 resolution.

Galaxy Tab shots shows the user interface of the camera and the camera

This is just a break that there is no recording of HD video - Tab shoots 720x480 - but the motion capture is fairly flat, and nothing we have seen stuttering issues such as mobile Galaxy S. We should mention here that the Galaxy card requires you have a Micro SD card with the camera, so it's a good thing, Sprint launches 16 GB card. Strangely, we could not save anything 2GB of internal memory, or use it when you install on your Mac or PC. (If you are interested in the European version of our UK Review Unit has 16 GB of internal memory, which is available at installation.)

The front facing 1.3 megapixel camera, obviously not as crisp and detailed, but is perfectly fine for video chat, awkwardly posing with a friend, or check the teeth of the remains of lettuce. As you can see in the picture above, we have been able to receive a video call using Qik in WiFi, although there were many delays and in some cases a serious amount of pixelation. We try to use Fring, but the request has not been optimized for the tablet again, and we could work both ways video calls. Fring Audio was better, though.

Performance and range

Perhaps the best part is that Tab does not have to worry about slow performance we've seen other tablets Android and Windows. The whole experience is snappy, and kept up with us even though we had four or five applications open. Of course, there have been times when it is frozen - especially when we had the game Angry and running, and we tried to test the 720p video - but it is likely that they will not be taxed 1GHz ARM Cortex A8 processor and 512 MB of RAM as much. As mentioned above, the Flash video within the browser, it took a few seconds to appear and did slow down overall performance, but when we were able to hit the play button it went well. As mentioned, to completely disable the flash to speed things up considerably. General tab, video playback was very smooth - high-quality YouTube videos in 720p and local content of its beautiful full screen.

Similarly, heavy graphics games like Raging Thunder 2 had no problem running and use the accelerometer. If you are looking for ways to reference tariffs Android Tab, who scored more than 14 MFLOPS Linpack constantly.

While the battery life? It's pretty good. After regularly surf the Web and read the tab for about a day and a half with just 3G, the battery is about 20 percent. On our test video tax summary, including a loop of standard definition video to 65 percent off 3G and brightness but on WiFi, 4000mAh battery lasted the tab for 6 hours and 9 minutes. It is about the same as some of the other tablet Android, we tested, but not so long IPAD 9 hours and 33 minutes.

Update: Well, this is a bit 'insane. It 'been brought to our attention that the card can not be downloaded via a laptop or desktop. And it is indeed the case - when connected to USB port adapter will continue to recover, but can not be downloaded.

3G speeds, and prices

We tested the Sprint version of the board of New York and have experienced a fairly standard upload and download speeds: Download the steps are on average about 1043 kbps in uplink and about 521kbps. Of course, we are dreaming of the day, that Samsung and Sprint have a 4G card speaks storm, but now you're stuck in the 3G version.

Sprint offers two plans for the 3G card: 2 GB for $ 29.99 per month and an optional 5 GB for $ 59.99 a month, but worth fixing a 3G plan for this device? Certainly, it makes sense to have broadband mobile kitchen on the tab, and Sprint Hotspot function, which adds an additional $ 29.99 per month, could be useful for connecting other devices in the interwebs. However, we have always had a hard time recommending netbooks that require a two-year contract, and the pills are a beast, which is why the $ 600 version without contact is more logical in our minds. Despite more money to be paid in advance that the contractual agreement (the material is only $ 400 when two years of his life to Sprint), we believe it is a better choice than agree to pay at least $ 720 in the data from more than two years. Compared to offer $ 600 Apple price is actually $ 29 less than 16 GB / IPAD 3G.

Those who do not need a 3G connection at any time it is better to wait for the WiFi card, which will soon be felt.