Introduction
After the Galaxy's first tab moderately successful and accepted by society, now is the time Samsung released its successors, namely Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. Its superior features include:
- Dual Core processor 1GHz
- GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900, HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100
- a thinner body, only 8.6mm and weighs 595 grams
- Android 3.0 Honeycomb
- 1280x800 pixels resolution screen size 10.1 inches
- Wi-Fi 802.11 a / b / g / n with a dual antenna WiFi and aGPS
- behind the 3.2 MP camera with Autofocus and LED flash, front camera 2MP
- Lithium Polymer Battery 6800 mAh
Design and Body
Compared with the tablet classmate who sailed 10 inches, the Galaxy Tab 10.1 is considered the most thin and light. Just imagine, with a thickness of only 8.6 mm, even relatively thin when compared with the size of the smartphone though. Galaxy Tab we got behind a white colored casing as in the Galaxy Tab 7 inches. The front of the glossy, surrounded by silver list, well behind the milk-white casing. Casing behind this tablet can not be opened. For its size alone, with widescreen format, Galaxy Tab quite tasty held and does not feel greatness. What is unfortunate is the port for connecting to the computer and the charger is a special port for the Galaxy Tab, not a micro USB port or USB mini that has been common.
Galaxy Tab screen is high resolution, 1280x800 pixels, making the tablet display interface is quite smooth and nice views. Side vision is also quite good although not as good as AMOLED. The colors that came out quite lovely eyes. Tablet interface is still using the same interface with Acer Iconia and Motorola Xoom, a standard interface honeycomb. Homescreen consists of 5 pages, which you can insert widgets, shortcuts and application icons. High-resolution screen that makes the icons become smaller until each page can add a lot of icons. Which was fixed on the homescreen is the Google Search bar (with voice search) shortcut to Apps (main menu) at the top. At the bottom of the screen there is a kind of "taskbar" with Back button, Home and Recent Apps. Meanwhile, on the far right of the taskbar is no notification (email, SMS, notif up and notifications, etc.), clock and signal and battery indicators. Views like this is completely different compared with Android smartphone, and is more suited to large-sized tablet screen, but somewhat confusing, especially the notification, it does not use colors that stand out so it does not look any notification. Plus the lack of notification LED lights on this tablet. Part of this right can be clicked to view a complete description of the notification, clock and indicators.
Text Input
For text input method is only equipped with Android Keypad. With a large capacitive display, of course typing easier. But for people who might be a bit complicated small hands to type, raising his tablets despite being in Portrait mode. To perform Copy Text, please hold the screen in the desired text
Contact
With a large screen to see the contact is now easier, contacts list on the left and contact details shown on the right side. While the choice of category, a search bar, new contacts and settings on the top. Very characterize an interface that almost resembles a tablet or notebook computer.
Messaging
Galaxy Tab 10.1 Tablet we received is the WiFi version of 3G, but for some reason the option to call and send SMS does not exist. There is no "Phone" or "Messaging". Perhaps because the unit we received is a prototype unit.
For Gmail looks like Contact, The menus on the left side and the content of messages on the right side. But in general there was no significant difference with previous Gmail, the message was well and push fast. Similarly, Gtalk, only it looks much different, in essence remains the same.
Music Player
The music player with an attractive cover flow adorn this phone. The categories available include: News and Recent, Albums, Artists, Songs, Playlists and genres. Display in portrait and landscape mode are the same. With the stereo speakers sound came out pretty good although not too loud for the size of two speakers.
Connectivity
The tablet runs on quadband GSM and HSDPA network. In addition, the local connectivity is a-GPS, Bluetooth 2.1, WiFi with tethering. What is unfortunate is the data cable connectivity using different ports with most smartphones / Android tablet that uses a mini USB or micro USB.
The main advantage of the tablet than smartphone is a large screen so that surfing the internet easier and maximum. Maximum that can open tab has increased, from usually 8 to 16 tabs tab. As for the flash player would have supported, in our unit you must download the latest flash player on the Market. Loading and rendering web pages from desktop very quickly, but in doing scrolling lag sometimes occur, though very minimal and not too distracting. Display tab on the top similar to Google Chrome, with the website and can discroll Title, and the incognito mode feature. With a fast browser performance and ease of use, of course, surfing the internet becomes more and more fun.
Galaxy Battery latest Tab is quite big compared to other tablets with Lithium Polymer 6800 mAh battery, this tablet can last a day over the condition of continuously connected to a WiFi connection. The disadvantage is that charging takes quite long time, 2 hours just to grow from 7% to 45%.
Conclusion
Although the unit we received is a prototype, many things that can not be done, but the performance of the tablet is quite fast, besides that it comes with an attractive slim design and large capacity battery. Honeycomb drawback is the operating system that is still often problematic as well as physical aspects such as the absence of a mini USB port and micro USB.
Plus:
- A thin and lightweight design
- The screen quality and high resolution
- Good Performance
- stereo speakers
- no LED notification
- Notification is not so visible (only black and white so as not to attract attention)
- Not equipped with a micro USB port