Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 Information
The Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 is one of the best tablets yet released. Drawing lessons from the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and adding a few features beyond what the Apple iPad 2 offers, this thin tablet, lighter and more durable is the best option around if you're more interested in portability play games and watch movies on a 10 inch screen. The slightly smaller size is also a better fit for reading books, surfing the web and checking email.
The Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 is somewhere between "too small for movies '7-inch tabs and the largest" too big for everyday mobility' 10-inch models. What is the size of 8.9 in chest?
The Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 is remarkably similar to Samsung 10.1 version. Both of these run Android 3.2 Honeycomb - a modern operating system designed specifically for tablets. Some 7-inch tablets use Android 2, which is designed for smart phones. TheSamsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 also uses the same Nvidia Tegra 2 processor clocked at 1 GHz as the model 10.1, 1GB of RAM and has 16GB of internal memory. Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 is a 2 megapixel front camera for video chat in low resolution and a 3MP rear camera to take pictures. There are Bluetooth, HSPA internet and Wi-Fi connections on board.
The Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9, at 447g, weighs more than 100 grams lighter than the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. You can feel the weight difference immediately. 230.9 x 157.8 measurement x 8.6 mm, there is an additional degree of portability, but you have to sacrifice some screen size for movies and games.
Samsung uses a 6100mAh battery, which is about 10 hours. In our tests, the battery lasted about eight hours. The battery is a bit smaller and not as durable as the bigger 7000mAh battery found in the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1.
The Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 uses the same aesthetic as the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. There are only three hardware buttons - one for power and other two buttons for adjusting the volume. This is a clear break with Android tablets that provide several more buttons, USB ports, SD card slots and HDMI ports. Samsung has equipped the Galaxy Tab 8.9 with some interesting changes beyond the original 10.1 tab. There is now an application screen that you can use for playing animations when the tablet is idle. In the box Samsung includes a charger and USB cable and earphones, but no case or stand.
Benefits of Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9
Samsung absolutely nailed the design of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 is slightly smaller but very easy to use, highly portable and runs fast. The 100g you lose weight - 118g or, to be exact - 10.1 means more grab-and-go tablet.
There is a feeling that you can quickly take the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 to check a website with little effort. Strangely, lightweight design also means the tablet is an eBook reader as well.
There are very few ports. On the bottom, there's a proprietary connector that you use with the supplied cable and a charger or connect to your Mac or PC. This is the same port that you use with the Samsung dock, available separately, which is mainly used for bracing the camera and recharge. Samsung is also an adapter you can plug into this port for connection to an HDTV, and one for USB.
The speakers are located on the bottom, and the sound quality is just average. There was not enough bass for playing movies, and audio files sounded washed out. There are no ports or buttons on the left or right.
On the top there is a power button and volume up and down buttons. The power button is easy to find, even in a dark room - just follow the upper left edge of the first button. However, it is sometimes difficult to know if you pressed enough, because the button is so close to the top edge.
The Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 battery was not as high as expected - about eight hours in normal use. It is worth mentioning here that, in our Knowledge, we left a Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 running a movie for several hours to test battery life. When we tried to return the device and then tried recharging, the tablet does not load. We had to request a replacement tab, and Samsung is still looking into the problem. This is convenient because it means that you can easily share files between your Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 and the computer without having to connect the wireless connection depending only on the range of your router.
Market and applications facility
The Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 comes with some choice of third party applications already installed and there are two app stores - the Android Market and Samsung Apps store - to play with. The Samsung app store is unnecessary because there is no sales remarkable applications or applications listed that are not already available on the Android Market. However, Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 provides another way to navigate popular applications.
The applications are pretty impressive. There All Share application for sharing multimedia wirelessly with a desktop computer or your smart phone. Samsung also includes the Polaris Office suite of documents to view and edit Word, Excel and PowerPoint on the tablet. An important note here: Polaris application is designed for Microsoft Office 2007, not the 2010 version. The suite includes a PDF reader too.
Social Hub application is not as powerful as Hoot Suite or Sprout Social, in that there are no tools to increase followers account or see reports on who is clicking on the links you post, but you can read Twitter direct messages and Face book messages.
Screen Display Quality
the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 is having beautiful screen, bright and clear is one of the main reasons why the line of Samsung Galaxy Tab has attracted a loyal following. One look and you realize that the screen is much higher than other tablets - even the Apple iPad 2. The Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 has a rich and brilliant quality that makes games, browsing and any app more enjoyable to use - as the upgrade from a standard to a LCD HDTV that uses modern technology LED.
We tested a handful of movies and TV shows on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 - several episodes of Fringe, the opener last season of The Walking Dead and the film Captain America. Fringe in particular looked bright and clear during most scenes, and rich blacks did not look washed out like they do on many tablets.
Camera and Video Quality
No pills work as well as even a digital camera input range to take pictures or make videos, and Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 is no exception to this mold. If anything, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 is just a little better at taking photos and shooting video to Galaxy Tab 10.1, only because it is a little smaller, so that you can get a better control on the device, it is easier to move and press a button to take pictures.
Worse yet, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 is not offering a range of low-quality effects (including a negative tone or sepia) without options almost as much as the Apple iPad 2 for applications such as Integral photography. The camera is a weak point for the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8, 9 and 10.1, and for many Android tablets. It simply is not a compelling reason to use the tablet to take photos or videos if you have no other options.
As for taking still photos, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 is low video recording. HD video we shot looked pretty clear, but there is a problem that slight frame rate HD video is less than smooth, especially when you play on an HDTV. We used the photo and video editing applications on the device, and offer basic functionality for paint effects on photos and cutting a film. However, these applications are not as useful as those available for the iPad.
The Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 is somewhere between "too small for movies '7-inch tabs and the largest" too big for everyday mobility' 10-inch models. What is the size of 8.9 in chest?
The Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 is remarkably similar to Samsung 10.1 version. Both of these run Android 3.2 Honeycomb - a modern operating system designed specifically for tablets. Some 7-inch tablets use Android 2, which is designed for smart phones. TheSamsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 also uses the same Nvidia Tegra 2 processor clocked at 1 GHz as the model 10.1, 1GB of RAM and has 16GB of internal memory. Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 is a 2 megapixel front camera for video chat in low resolution and a 3MP rear camera to take pictures. There are Bluetooth, HSPA internet and Wi-Fi connections on board.
The Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9, at 447g, weighs more than 100 grams lighter than the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. You can feel the weight difference immediately. 230.9 x 157.8 measurement x 8.6 mm, there is an additional degree of portability, but you have to sacrifice some screen size for movies and games.
Samsung uses a 6100mAh battery, which is about 10 hours. In our tests, the battery lasted about eight hours. The battery is a bit smaller and not as durable as the bigger 7000mAh battery found in the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1.
The Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 uses the same aesthetic as the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. There are only three hardware buttons - one for power and other two buttons for adjusting the volume. This is a clear break with Android tablets that provide several more buttons, USB ports, SD card slots and HDMI ports. Samsung has equipped the Galaxy Tab 8.9 with some interesting changes beyond the original 10.1 tab. There is now an application screen that you can use for playing animations when the tablet is idle. In the box Samsung includes a charger and USB cable and earphones, but no case or stand.
Benefits of Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9
Samsung absolutely nailed the design of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 is slightly smaller but very easy to use, highly portable and runs fast. The 100g you lose weight - 118g or, to be exact - 10.1 means more grab-and-go tablet.
There is a feeling that you can quickly take the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 to check a website with little effort. Strangely, lightweight design also means the tablet is an eBook reader as well.
There are very few ports. On the bottom, there's a proprietary connector that you use with the supplied cable and a charger or connect to your Mac or PC. This is the same port that you use with the Samsung dock, available separately, which is mainly used for bracing the camera and recharge. Samsung is also an adapter you can plug into this port for connection to an HDTV, and one for USB.
The speakers are located on the bottom, and the sound quality is just average. There was not enough bass for playing movies, and audio files sounded washed out. There are no ports or buttons on the left or right.
On the top there is a power button and volume up and down buttons. The power button is easy to find, even in a dark room - just follow the upper left edge of the first button. However, it is sometimes difficult to know if you pressed enough, because the button is so close to the top edge.
The Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 battery was not as high as expected - about eight hours in normal use. It is worth mentioning here that, in our Knowledge, we left a Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 running a movie for several hours to test battery life. When we tried to return the device and then tried recharging, the tablet does not load. We had to request a replacement tab, and Samsung is still looking into the problem. This is convenient because it means that you can easily share files between your Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 and the computer without having to connect the wireless connection depending only on the range of your router.
Market and applications facility
The Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 comes with some choice of third party applications already installed and there are two app stores - the Android Market and Samsung Apps store - to play with. The Samsung app store is unnecessary because there is no sales remarkable applications or applications listed that are not already available on the Android Market. However, Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 provides another way to navigate popular applications.
The applications are pretty impressive. There All Share application for sharing multimedia wirelessly with a desktop computer or your smart phone. Samsung also includes the Polaris Office suite of documents to view and edit Word, Excel and PowerPoint on the tablet. An important note here: Polaris application is designed for Microsoft Office 2007, not the 2010 version. The suite includes a PDF reader too.
Social Hub application is not as powerful as Hoot Suite or Sprout Social, in that there are no tools to increase followers account or see reports on who is clicking on the links you post, but you can read Twitter direct messages and Face book messages.
Screen Display Quality
the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 is having beautiful screen, bright and clear is one of the main reasons why the line of Samsung Galaxy Tab has attracted a loyal following. One look and you realize that the screen is much higher than other tablets - even the Apple iPad 2. The Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 has a rich and brilliant quality that makes games, browsing and any app more enjoyable to use - as the upgrade from a standard to a LCD HDTV that uses modern technology LED.
We tested a handful of movies and TV shows on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 - several episodes of Fringe, the opener last season of The Walking Dead and the film Captain America. Fringe in particular looked bright and clear during most scenes, and rich blacks did not look washed out like they do on many tablets.
Camera and Video Quality
No pills work as well as even a digital camera input range to take pictures or make videos, and Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 is no exception to this mold. If anything, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 is just a little better at taking photos and shooting video to Galaxy Tab 10.1, only because it is a little smaller, so that you can get a better control on the device, it is easier to move and press a button to take pictures.
Worse yet, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 is not offering a range of low-quality effects (including a negative tone or sepia) without options almost as much as the Apple iPad 2 for applications such as Integral photography. The camera is a weak point for the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8, 9 and 10.1, and for many Android tablets. It simply is not a compelling reason to use the tablet to take photos or videos if you have no other options.
As for taking still photos, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 is low video recording. HD video we shot looked pretty clear, but there is a problem that slight frame rate HD video is less than smooth, especially when you play on an HDTV. We used the photo and video editing applications on the device, and offer basic functionality for paint effects on photos and cutting a film. However, these applications are not as useful as those available for the iPad.
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