Photographic camera, Music, Battery, Decision


Camera

While the Samsung Milky way Tab 10.ane is awkward in utilise as a photographic camera due to its size, information technology takes really prissy iii megapixel still photos and shoots very respectable 720p Hard disk drive video with its principal camera, which features autofocus and an LED flash. I was especially impressed by the quality of the audio recorded with the videos.

The user interface on the camera is dissimilar than the i found on the Motorola XOOM, and I prefer it. It is piece of cake to quickly modify settings like white balance or flash mode as needed. Information technology's also like shooting fish in a barrel to switch to the frontwards facing 2 megapixel camera at whatever time for photos or video, but the forward facing camera requires a lot more light to snap a usable epitome. It works fine for video chatting, though, which is its primary purpose.

Watching 720p Hd videos on the Milky way Tab x.1 is a practiced feel since they run at full resolution on the Tab's touchscreen display. Naturally you can sentry tertiary party video content on the Tab as well, and it plays quite smoothly thanks to the Galaxy Tab 10.1's dual-core NVIDIA Tegra two processor and stereo speakers.


Music

Android 3.1 Honeycomb offers users an all-new music application. Navigation can be a picayune non-obvious at showtime, as is the case with many new tablet apps, simply one time you mess around with information technology for a short while, you sympathize what is going on. The app offers a very cool looking 3D rendered scrolling flow of album covers in the New and Recent section of the device, which I dearest, only offers zilch similarly interesting for the album, creative person, playlist and other views that it offers. I don't run into why the cool interface should exist restricted to that one department, especially one that I actually have no utilise for.

At least the audio quality that the app and the Milky way Tab x.ane put out is practiced. The congenital-in speakers won't replace a expert stereo organisation for output, but they perform better than the rear-facing speakers on Motorola's XOOM at least. I also want to mention that it is pretty easy to build playlists directly on the Galaxy Tab ten.1, and tracks tin exist rearranged with a simple drag of the finger.


Battery

Samsung has equipped the Galaxy Tab 10.1 with a 7000mAh battery. While I've not been pounding the Tab as much every bit the XOOM when I first got information technology (when Honeycomb still had that new car smell), I've been using it a off-white bit for photos and videos and during the video tour I shot of it. Overall I am pretty pleased with the results, and tin easily see the tablet lasting a few days on a single charge with pretty solid utilize - simply like Motorola's XOOM. I should point out that the Tab takes quite a time to charge, though, and information technology is not capable of charging from a uncomplicated USB port on a desktop or laptop computer.


Final Thoughts

I really admire that Samsung was able to react so swiftly to changes in the marketplace between the time it initially announced the original, thicker Galaxy Tab 10.1 and time that it was to come up to market place. The company's ability to chip the old design and push out something that outdid Apple's iPad 2 in mere months is inspiring.

The new Tab x.1'southward hardware really is lust worthy, too. It is so thin and comfortable to hold, the widescreen display looks fantastic, and information technology all weighs side by side to nil. The Android three.1 operating system that powers the tablet, though, however leaves me somewhat underwhelmed. I had loftier hopes for the TouchWiz flourishes that Samsung showed on Honeycomb at CTIA this year, just unfortunately they did not make it to the production device.

In whatever case, the Tab 10.1 is a device worth considering for existing Android smartphone users as well as the full general population. It just needs more applications, and that's something that Google has to work on.

Pros:
  • Solid hardware build
  • Thin wide-screen form gene
  • Good quality cameras and HD video recording
  • Light weight
 Cons:
  • Few tablet apps
  • Some user interface quirks
  • No USB mass storage support

Michael Oryl is the Philadelphia-based owner and editor-in-chief of MobileBurn.com.MobileBurn focuses on jail cell phones, smartphones, tablets, and related hardware. Republished with permission.