Gets poor comments at the bottom of the review for crappy specs, and far too expensive.
http://www.xda-developers.com/samsung-galaxy-tab-a-hits-usa-but-is-it-cheap-enough/
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Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow
That's a fair bit overpriced, you can still find the Nexus 7 2013 edition for cheaper. And those screens are terrible, I had a Tab 2 (1.2 TI-OMAP, 1 GB RAM and a terrible 1024x600 screen). Seems like not much progress has changed for Samsung to be selling at that low 200 price point, but the Nexus 7 2013 edition was consistently found UNDER 200 in the US.
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I have an Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5" and it`s amazing, but at £250-300 it`s worth every penny to me.
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The article suggests that this is a follow-up to the Tab S; I think it's clear it's a follow-up to the low-end Tab 4 instead. Similar price point, similar resolution.
It's a hard sell when the exact same $229 price gets you a Lenovo Yoga Tablet 2 8" with a 1920x1200 screen instead of an 8" 1024x768.
http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/tablet...ga-tablet-2-8/?menu-id=lenovo_yoga_tablet_2_8 -
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I have the Lenovo Yoga 8" the first version, and it was my tablet of choice before i bought my 10.5" Sam S, I loved the 18hr battery life, the built in stand, and the front facing stereo speakers.
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Samsung really has no place in tablets in my opinion unless they're Note tablets. They're always overpriced and under specced compared to their competition and Samsung has had a horrible track record with updates for them too.
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High gamut, infinite contrast, zero G2G lag and perfectly omnidirectional. It is a physically very, very good screen. Low power consumption for dark images is a huge plus too.
If you feel it's oversaturated blame the non-colour-managed content, and maybe change the screen calibration if necessary. The screen itself should not be blamed in anyway for that.
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I did not know that there was an Samsung Galaxy Note Edge, see battery specification in the link below, It looks like between 10-14 hours.
http://www.samsung.com/uk/consumer/mobile-devices/galaxy-note/smartphones/SM-N910FZKEBTU
The Galaxy Tab S has four screen modes, adaptive display that uses the rgb sensor, amoled cinema, amoled photo and basic, basic has even less saturation than amoled photo has.
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All of Samsung's high end tablets have beautiful screens, as does my Galaxy Note 10.1 with the 2560x1600 screen. -
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I am in two minds whether to install 5.0.2 on my Tab S 10.5" when it is available, I will be in no hurry to install it, I will wait and see what other people think and the problems they find.
negative - memory leak, battery apps need root to get battery data, all the white in the settings menu is bad for the amoled battery life, I think i heard battery problems but i am not certain.
positive - write to microsd for third party apps.
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The write to MicroSD issue can be solved easily by patches or mounting a specific app's media_rw/sdcard0 path to a sdcard1 path.
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Yeah, I think the Galaxy Tab S tablets are superb options for the "price is no object" market (I feel the same way about iPads), but I'm the sort of buyer who would much rather spend 50% as much to get something "pretty good" than pay 100% that much to get "the best that year has to offer."
And regardless of how nice the Tab S is for the price-is-no-object market, in the 50%-of-the-price-for-"pretty-good" market, these Galaxy Tab A devices really seem underwhelming for 2015. For criminy sakes, you can get a refurbished Galaxy Tab S for just $30 more than the 1024x768 Galaxy Tab A.
http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-8-4-I...5232&sr=8-1&keywords=galaxy+tab+s+refurbishedEthrem likes this. -
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The Note was a fair bit of coin for me. I got it for 350 dollars, which honestly isn't the WORST amount of money. I wanted a stylus and an overall larger tablet. Most entry level 10" tablets start at 300-400 dollars, and the price only goes up. Of course I bought this on eBay but it was new in package. Amazon still sells it closer to 500 dollars and that was a bit much. Thus I jumped on the 350 price pretty quickly. I think for a flagship device (even though it is getting to 2 years old) overall I love the purchase. I'm still awaiting 5.0 for it, but hopefully it gets 5.0.2 without the memory leaks. -
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[Android] Samsung Galaxy Tab A Hits USA, but Is It Cheap Enough?
Discussion in 'Smartphones and Tablets' started by Tinderbox (UK), May 1, 2015.