Bigger is not always better. Samsung Galaxy 8.9 is widely Galaxy Tab 10.1 ($ 499, 3.5 stars), minus 1.2 inches. It is a shrunken down version of the tablet's flagship Samsung at a price slightly narrowed it down: $ 469 instead of $ 499. We consider it a slightly better agreement all around and one of the best tablets Android, although Apple iPad 2 ($ 499, 4.5 stars) is still our choice top shelf.
Physical design and networking
Samsung is doing the best Android tablets of the company, although the tablets are very similar for the convenience of iPhone lawyers. Galaxy Tab 8.9 is no exception, is a slab of black and silver, no physical button on the front, at 1280 by 800 pixels bright mirror-like screen, the same resolution as most of the large sign on the tab Galaxy 10.1. Since 8.9 is a small screen, the pixels are more dense, which is more pleasing to the eye.
Physical design and networking
Samsung is doing the best Android tablets of the company, although the tablets are very similar for the convenience of iPhone lawyers. Galaxy Tab 8.9 is no exception, is a slab of black and silver, no physical button on the front, at 1280 by 800 pixels bright mirror-like screen, the same resolution as most of the large sign on the tab Galaxy 10.1. Since 8.9 is a small screen, the pixels are more dense, which is more pleasing to the eye.
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| Galaxy Tab 8.9 (Wi-Fi) |
Table 8.9 is very thin and relatively light 15.7 ounces and 9.1 by 6.2 inches 0.33. There are power and volume buttons on top, as well as a 3.2 megapixel camera on the back and a 2 megapixel camera on the front. The back is smooth, gray plastic, you can not open the tablet to change the battery. On the bottom, as well as stereo speakers, a single port, a docking port facilities.
Shelf Wi-Fi is not only the opportunity tab 3G/4G 8.9. You get Bluetooth, which supports both mono and stereo and GPS. In my essay, powered by 6100 mAh compressed to a very early 8 minutes 15 hours of video playback.
Performance, operating system and applications
Like the Galaxy Tab of 10.1 and a number of other tablets Android currently has 8.9 to 3.1 of honeycomb Nvidia Tegra processor 2. Compare the performance is identical to 10.1, and many others based Tegra 2 tablets. No defects were found, problems or delays in my test. But there is no timetable for an update of Android 3.2, according to Samsung, so you should treat this as a device Android 3.1. The company has dressed the TouchWiz interface, a set of interface widgets and extensions of the platform seems a bit slow, but some of the most convenient.
Samsung launches a series of widgets by default on top of seven screens at home, which I like because it makes the film seem to be more of a tabula rasa. Most embedded applications have been a subtle aesthetic redesigns. Applications mini-tray is very welcome: E 'consists of six frequently used applications / widgets that can appear at the bottom of the screen. For more TouchWiz, check your Galaxy 10.1.
Until now, Google's Android Market honeycomb is not a winner in the applications of tablets, which displays the applications that run very badly on the shelves. Despite the standard tricks of Google, Samsung has equipped this tablet centered in shops: its own music store 7digital power, both Samsung and the Google video store, and even Samsung's own application store. Nvidia Tegra in tablet 2, the Galaxy card also works with Nvidia Tegra store play area.
Unfortunately, none of these solve the problem of stores honeycomb ", the most critical: not enough applications .. Samsung Samsung App Store, for example, has only one to five applications for each of their categories insists thousands of phone applications work well on the shelf, but thousands of others are not, and there is a guide to distinguish them. Makes all honeycomb tablets far less than the IPAD with 90 000 + good applications adapted and compressed.
Seven-inch tablet runs honeycomb 3.2, as a tab Iconia Acer A100 ($ 329, 4 stars), mobile applications around this slightly better than those with larger screens. But the larger tablets without honeycomb 3.2: The optical zoom provides interfaces ugly when you try to run many applications designed for Android phones.
Galaxy Loss synchronize contacts and calendars with Samsung Kies software on PCs, and lets you drag and drop files in Windows Explorer on the shelf. But Mac users should beware: There is no Mac compatible USB here.
Multimedia
There are choices of many media to fill in the form of '13 0.1 8.9 GB of free storage. (You get no memory card slot.) Samsung offers music store 7digital fuel over songs that on average a dollar each, and a video store where the most promising TV shows cost $ 1.99 but you can get a lot of children and television reality of a cent. I downloaded an episode of "Avatar" (children's show, not the movie) and looked strong.
All sample files to play on the tab, music and video, and exceptionally good sound stereo speakers with the unit. The tab also includes a pair of headphones, but not so much a standard 3.5 mm headphone jack and Bluetooth, so you can use any headphones you have on hand.
There is a false note here, but: There is no video output so you can not play your movies on the big screen. Samsung announced a dock with HDMI, but it is not included with the tablets, the only port here is the docking port and the only one you get cable in the box ends in a male USB connector.
Video streaming options are varied. The application is available TV.com, but Hulu and Netflix, among others, are not.
Card two cameras are very good quality. 3.2 megapixel camera takes sharp on the back, if not very fast picture 1.1 seconds lag time. 2 megapixel camera, while the front is sharp. Both cameras record 720p HD video.
Conclusions
The Galaxy Tab 8.9 is actually a pinch from the current 10.1-inch Tab, but the rotation is a little more attractive. It's a bit more portable and cheaper without losing a pixel screen resolution, one hertz of CPU speed, or one byte of storage.
That said, we have the same problem with this tablet, as we do with most high-end tablet of this size Android: It grows directly from the iPad, which has applications much stronger and ecosystem . Seven inches Android 3.2 tablets at least have the advantage of being more mobile phone applications and look decent in the zoom mode. But it is difficult to explain why the masses, when presented with this unit, and should take an iPad Tab 8.9. If you're not a fan of Apple, however, and you want the thinnest you can get Android tablet tab 8.9 is a solid choice.
Shelf Wi-Fi is not only the opportunity tab 3G/4G 8.9. You get Bluetooth, which supports both mono and stereo and GPS. In my essay, powered by 6100 mAh compressed to a very early 8 minutes 15 hours of video playback.
Performance, operating system and applications
Like the Galaxy Tab of 10.1 and a number of other tablets Android currently has 8.9 to 3.1 of honeycomb Nvidia Tegra processor 2. Compare the performance is identical to 10.1, and many others based Tegra 2 tablets. No defects were found, problems or delays in my test. But there is no timetable for an update of Android 3.2, according to Samsung, so you should treat this as a device Android 3.1. The company has dressed the TouchWiz interface, a set of interface widgets and extensions of the platform seems a bit slow, but some of the most convenient.
Samsung launches a series of widgets by default on top of seven screens at home, which I like because it makes the film seem to be more of a tabula rasa. Most embedded applications have been a subtle aesthetic redesigns. Applications mini-tray is very welcome: E 'consists of six frequently used applications / widgets that can appear at the bottom of the screen. For more TouchWiz, check your Galaxy 10.1.
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| Galaxy Tab 8.9 (Wi-Fi) |
Until now, Google's Android Market honeycomb is not a winner in the applications of tablets, which displays the applications that run very badly on the shelves. Despite the standard tricks of Google, Samsung has equipped this tablet centered in shops: its own music store 7digital power, both Samsung and the Google video store, and even Samsung's own application store. Nvidia Tegra in tablet 2, the Galaxy card also works with Nvidia Tegra store play area.
Unfortunately, none of these solve the problem of stores honeycomb ", the most critical: not enough applications .. Samsung Samsung App Store, for example, has only one to five applications for each of their categories insists thousands of phone applications work well on the shelf, but thousands of others are not, and there is a guide to distinguish them. Makes all honeycomb tablets far less than the IPAD with 90 000 + good applications adapted and compressed.
Seven-inch tablet runs honeycomb 3.2, as a tab Iconia Acer A100 ($ 329, 4 stars), mobile applications around this slightly better than those with larger screens. But the larger tablets without honeycomb 3.2: The optical zoom provides interfaces ugly when you try to run many applications designed for Android phones.
Galaxy Loss synchronize contacts and calendars with Samsung Kies software on PCs, and lets you drag and drop files in Windows Explorer on the shelf. But Mac users should beware: There is no Mac compatible USB here.
Multimedia
There are choices of many media to fill in the form of '13 0.1 8.9 GB of free storage. (You get no memory card slot.) Samsung offers music store 7digital fuel over songs that on average a dollar each, and a video store where the most promising TV shows cost $ 1.99 but you can get a lot of children and television reality of a cent. I downloaded an episode of "Avatar" (children's show, not the movie) and looked strong.
All sample files to play on the tab, music and video, and exceptionally good sound stereo speakers with the unit. The tab also includes a pair of headphones, but not so much a standard 3.5 mm headphone jack and Bluetooth, so you can use any headphones you have on hand.
There is a false note here, but: There is no video output so you can not play your movies on the big screen. Samsung announced a dock with HDMI, but it is not included with the tablets, the only port here is the docking port and the only one you get cable in the box ends in a male USB connector.
Video streaming options are varied. The application is available TV.com, but Hulu and Netflix, among others, are not.
Card two cameras are very good quality. 3.2 megapixel camera takes sharp on the back, if not very fast picture 1.1 seconds lag time. 2 megapixel camera, while the front is sharp. Both cameras record 720p HD video.
Conclusions
The Galaxy Tab 8.9 is actually a pinch from the current 10.1-inch Tab, but the rotation is a little more attractive. It's a bit more portable and cheaper without losing a pixel screen resolution, one hertz of CPU speed, or one byte of storage.
That said, we have the same problem with this tablet, as we do with most high-end tablet of this size Android: It grows directly from the iPad, which has applications much stronger and ecosystem . Seven inches Android 3.2 tablets at least have the advantage of being more mobile phone applications and look decent in the zoom mode. But it is difficult to explain why the masses, when presented with this unit, and should take an iPad Tab 8.9. If you're not a fan of Apple, however, and you want the thinnest you can get Android tablet tab 8.9 is a solid choice.
