Introduced earlier this year to the South East Asian region at the Samsung Forum 2011, the latest Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 is not just an evolution from the Galaxy Tab tablet that was introduced last year, but it brings a whole shebang of improvements with it apart from the increased screen real estate. First off, the device is a super-sleek tablet designed to look somewhat like its competitors although with its plastic back and thinner size.
Its slimness hides the fact that this tablet packs NVIDIA Tegra 2 processing capability, along with 1GB of RAM and 16GB of storage space. While it is as thin as the current tablet benchmark, the Apple iPad 2, it comes with a battery with slightly higher capacity at 7000mAH along with a weight reduction despite its hardware. It feels solid in the hand despite having a huge amount of plastic covering its back. Although the device is thin, it does not seem to flex and our fears of it breaking in half are pretty unfounded unless it is dropped on one of its corner.
With the review unit updated to Android 3.1 (instead of the 3.0 stock ROM), the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 did not come with Samsung’s usual TouchWiz interface instead employs tweaks such as the Live Panel on the home screen called TouchWiz UX. Samsung also included their recognizable widgets called Mini Apps which look somewhat similar to the applications you get in their smartphone range. Despite its Tegra 2 chipset, the tablet did feel laggy, especially in stock homescreen condition, no thanks to five rotatable homescreen pages that were chock-filled with widgets. This might be attributed to the OS update itself as previous version of this tablet scored higher on synthetic tests.
The screen is gorgeous, sporting a 1280 x 800 IPS panel while also having eye-popping colors at the same time. The same can be said whether we were viewing text, watching a HD video or flipping through our image library. This is due to its high pixel density which rivals the iPhone 4’s Retina display in terms of sharpness. It comes with Wi-Fi and HSDPA/HSPA+ wireless radios although a SIM with a data plan is needed for connecting to mobile networks.
Combining a set of stereo speakers, it is sufficient to say that playing back high-res movies on the tab 10.1 is highly amusing prospect. The only problem lies when you’re transferring large files over to its internal memory – the USB cable is, as always a proprietary version despite looking similar to a rival’s 30-pin connector. Although the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 has niggles such as lag and a slightly different way in which it is executed, it is the closest Android tablet so far which made us wish that there were more apps for the OS to better show-off its capabilities. For now, that is the main reason we’re not too keen on Android tablets although if history repeat itself, they will be smashing new sales record pretty soon.
Processor : 1GHz dual-cre NVIDIA Tegra 2
OS: Android 3.1 Honeycomb
Display : 10.1 touch sensitive TFT screen with 1280 x 800 and multi-touch
Connectivity : Bluetooth 3.0 and A2DP and EDR, Compass, A-GPS Quadband GSM, headphones jack, WLAN 802.11b/g/
Memory : 1GB RAM, 16GB/32/64GB models
Dimensions : 256.7 x 175.3 x 8.6mm
Weight : 565g w/battery
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 is available at all Utara Hati outlet by pre-order. For internet usage, we can help you to choose one is perfect for you.
Review courtesy of HardwareTechReview
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