Samsung Galaxy Tablet Review

Samsung Galaxy Tablet Review

Another competitor to the Tablet Market is Samsungs Galaxy Tablet. This tablet is built extremely well featuring a 10.1 inch display that radiates in colour and clarity.

This Samsung Galaxy tablet runs on an Android Operating system and has some truly impressive features.

The physical specifications of the unit are as follows:

Thickness: 8.6mm (which is slightly thinner then Apples IPad 2)

Weight: 565 grams (Also lighter than the IPad 2)

Screen Display: 10.1 inch touch screen with excellent viewing angles.- unfortunately it doesn’t overcome the common problem with tablets which is the fingerprint marks and the display is affected when exposed to direct sunlight.

Operating System: Runs Google's Android mobile platform. It uses version 3.1 — Honeycomb — of the operating system, which has been designed for use with tablets.

Processor: 1GHz dual-core processor and has 1GB of RAM.

Pros:

Looking closer at the operating system the tablet includes Samsung's TouchWiz UX user interface overlay which adds several additional features to the Android operating system. TouchWiz UX adds a number of features to Android, There is a 'quick panel' that offers access to a handy set of toggles in the notifications pop-up. There are toggles for Wi-Fi, notifications, GPS, sound vibration, auto rotation, Bluetooth and flight mode, making it very easy to access these options.

Unlike Apples IPad 2 Samsung has created one button to easily perform a ‘screen capture’. Simply tapping this button will capture anything on the screen at that point and this is saved as an image within your photo library.

To make the device more user friendly there is also a button at the bottom of the screen which brings up a ‘tray of mini apps’. These apps include things such as “a task manager, calendar, world clock, pen memo, calculator and music player.” These apps appear at the top of the screen and the beauty of this is that it enables you to keep working on any other open applications. These apps can also be dragged to any part of the screen.