The market tablets already somewhat saturated, but it does not prevent individual producers in increasing their offer and presenting further models. To our editorial some time ago put the tablet Samsung Galaxy Tab 9.7 LTE A. The name itself reveals some elements of the specification. Price suggests, however, that we are dealing with a product with a slightly higher standard than many of its competitors lesser known brands. Unfortunately, it turns out that it’s only appearances.
Robust housing with niedoróbkami
The device was rounded at the corners, in addition they are surrounded by ornate silver frame protects the screen from scratches. The impression is very good, especially since the whole is slim and lightweight. Dimensions are 242.5 × 166.8 × 7.5 mm, while the weight is 456 grams. This front glass panel hides the screen, front camera, sensors, and three buttons below the display: two tactile responsible for running list of recent applications and rewind, as well as the physical home button. I do not advocate this solution, in my opinion it’s a waste of space and obstruction of operating in a situation where we use the tablet in a horizontal position. A better solution is to display the buttons within the interface of Android and rotate them together with the screen.
The top and left side were empty, buttons and connections are on the right. Both the switch and volume down buttons are solid, I have no reservations about them. See below for the plugs on the microSD card and microSIM. Unfortunately tested by us, copy the latter did not give up until the end to close, which did not look too good. At the bottom is a headphone jack, microUSB port, and two speakers. Although the manufacturer’s intentions were good, while watching a video or playing easily cover any of them and as a result the sound is unpleasantly muffled. Overall, the sound quality is average, if not come at too high a volume. When we cross it, we will hear more wheezing than what we should.
At the rear addition to the manufacturer’s logo and main camera of 5 megapixels will not find anything interesting. The casing is matte, which means that we do not have to worry about traces on this side of the device. The sides are slightly curved back so that the device is in your hand very comfortably. The whole structure makes a good impression, although we do not find here materials such as aluminum. Nothing creaks and no housing is not subjected to a pressure point. The same can not be said about the screen that begins to spill and thereby raises concerns about durability. Similar comments can have a slightly extended rear camera – it’s asking for scratch glass.
The screen resolution is a bad joke
Samsung in this model decided not to apply AMOLED display type. If the momentum we bought the tablet, without checking the technical specifications, it is most likely severely to fail – the screen size of 9.7 “was made in the TFT LCD technology, and its resolution is wasted of 1024 × 768 pixels. With such a diagonal translates to a pixel density of only 132 ppi. When this size is unlikely we will use the device with a distance of more than 30-40 cm, making the image imperfections are visible to the naked eye. In this situation does not help even the best smoothing mechanisms, pixels are simply not enough. The tablet is not suitable for reading books, and even pictures if the application loading screens can look at it disgusting.
I do not know who in Samsung came up with the idea of placing in 2015 in such a tablet HD screen and then request for the equipment over a thousand, but it’s definitely very funny joke, which testifies to the frivolous approach of the company. The brand is already well known, but I’m afraid that even with the bitten apple logo such a mistake would not be forgiven. Given the fact that it is the screen it allows the consumption of a wide variety of content, this drawback is largely affected by the assessment unit. Indeed it is difficult to ignore.
The situation does not save good color reproduction, pure white, and the respective levels of brightness – a day at the maximum it allows for reading the contents of the screen, as long as the sun’s rays do not strike him directly. At night minimum level it is also correct, but nevertheless it is difficult to find for more specific applications. Also they perform well viewing angles, which after all is not always the case with the TFT. Fortunately, the producer did not pace on the glass, as a result of Mizia the screen with your fingers is extremely comfortable. Number of prints testifies to the fact that the manufacturer has not applied any coating that could be prevented, but fortunately with backlight, they are not visible.
Minimalist, useful for overlay
Table A working under Android 5.0 Lollipop control with Samsung’s proprietary overlay. The latter has been significantly slimmed down and modernized, the whole is doing well now, minimalist impression. However, additional options missing. The manufacturer offers support for Wi-Fi Direct, and the option to convert equipment to the mobile router. The tablet can recognize your face and keep the screen turned on until you use it. The software also offers two simple gestures: one for performing screenshots (drag hand side of the screen), the second to mute notifications and alarms (placing a hand on the screen).
personalization options are somewhat limited, because we can manage only a list of desktops, arrangement of icons, as well as the system list of installed applications. The left panel is called. “Briefing” – a collection of news based on Flipboard. Unfortunately, this element is not available in Polish. What’s important, however, it is likely to Samsung managed to solve the problems of the pure Android manifested by large leaks RAM. At this tablet nothing like I was able to observe, even with longer duration of action and opening of multiple application equipment does not require rebooting.
The pre-installed by Samsung programs are not only pretty, but also useful. Gallery allows basic editing and enhancing images, and file manager integrates with Google and drive can not only browse through directories, but also, for example. Compress data and add shortcuts to the home screen. We can also find here a simple notebook made in accordance with the recommendations of Material Design (unfortunately without synchronization options), SideSync to perform backup stored on other devices, and of course Galaxy Apps store created by Samsung. Safety is Smart Manager, which will check the battery status, cleanse RAM and a mass of unnecessary data, and also run KNOX module to separate personal from business data.
Under an agreement signed with Microsoft, Tablet hit Some of the applications of the company. We will find here all mobile Office suite: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote notebook to this, Skype client and the cloud onedrive. Without paying can use basic editing options office suite to unlock all need to subscribe to Office 365 also receive 100 GB of free cloud-based Microsoft for a period of two years, which is a nice nod to the users. Reasons not to complain to users of Google programs: Gmail, Search, Google+, Photos, Hangouts, Music Play are just some of the preinstalled programs.
Snapdragon 410 games is not suitable
The heart of the tablet Snapdragon system is 410. It’s economical, 64-bit unit equipped with four Cortex-A53 cores clocked at 1.2 GHz and Adreno 306 graphics processor we conducted tests give a rather poor picture of the situation: despite the low resolution of high efficiency, we can definitely forget. The device can handle simple office applications, use applications such as for example the Facebook social network client, but definitely not suitable for people who prefer mobile entertainment and games. Angry Birds or even Carmageddon him not terrible, but more complex structures this slideshow. This is also confirmed synthetic poor test results: over 22,000 points in the AnTuTu and results in Vellamo similar to an elderly Samsung Galaxy Nexus already.
After all, you do not have to worry about free work, eg. The interface. Despite overlay system used by Samsung responds without delay and positively surprising high comfort. Most likely, many in the merit of 2 GB of RAM, and built-in high-speed memory. Although working under lollipop and runtime environment ART, even going in the background installing other applications does not slow down the device. Note that the built-in 16 GB available to the user is about 9 GB, which can of course be increased through the use of microSD cards with a maximum capacity of up to 128 GB.
The positive stands out communication with the world. We tested was equipped with a copy of the LTE modem CAT4, which in theory offers speeds up to up to 150 Mbps. In our tests, the values were slightly lower: the device home workers received about 42 Mbps when downloading and less than 8 Mbps when sending data. Given the possibility of a test location, this result can be considered as the most rewarding. Importantly, the tablet can also be used as a phone, but definitely difficult to speak in this case about comfort. There is also 802 Wi-Fi b / g / n, Bluetooth 4.1 and ANT +. It is responsible for defining the location of the GPS, GLONASS and Beidou (unless you choose to China). They ran out while the NFC module.
Poor camera and great battery
The manufacturer has equipped the tablet with two cameras, but they are not in any way revolutionary. At the rear 5 megapixels with an option to record video in HD, while the front 2 megapixels, which barely sufficient for voice calls. This is not selfie equipment, although it is difficult to suspect that someone actually wanted to perform this type of pictures tablet. The image quality does not knock, and if possible, the cameras should only use as a last resort. The application is responsible for taking pictures and recording enables application of several effects (negative, sepia, grayscale), add location information, as well as using the self-timer. Available modes are automaton, create a panoramic picture, the automatic facial beautification and to capture images in motion.
Since the CPU is not too fast, and even the screen is equipped with a ridiculously low resolution, it looks like a power issue? Samsung has equipped its tablet battery with a capacity of 6000 mAh and declares up to 14 hours of video playback or 15 hours of surfing the Internet. These times can be a bit overstated, but the hardware and so falls in this regard sensational. Although using the card and the Wi-Fi + LTE, it was very difficult to get it to discharge. At the Taba And they did not experience or the game, nor install and test applications, or even synthetic benchmarks. All this with auto brightness set to about 85% and energy saving mode is turned off. At the vigil and continuous synchronization tablet after more than a week we had more than 60% of the power and value will not suddenly dropped the load. Great result, we do not have mobility so here complain.
Price is a complete whim
It is difficult to determine what it wanted to achieve with the launch of the Samsung Tablet Galaxy Tab 9.7 LTE A. The device is equipped with a processor that does not allow the use of it graphically advanced games. Screen with very low resolution precludes him while with applications such as reading books or intensive web browsing. Because of this resolution is also difficult to work with documents, though admittedly without hitting, tablets with Android much better suited for content consumption rather than its creation.
All of this would be to swallow if the manufacturer attractively priced his device – bad quality, lightweight system, LTE connectivity and a long life for many people the benefits can not be underestimated. Unfortunately, the equipment costs about 1200 zł, what can only be called robbery in broad daylight. The price is completely inadequate to its possibilities of use and enjoyment ruined by HD. I would recommend only to those who are not aware that the market competition that would be less offers much more. Interestingly, if we decide to somewhat make, we will be able to buy the Galaxy Tab S with a screen of 10.1 “AMOLED type with a resolution qHD, 3 GB of RAM and efficient, ośmiordzeniowym Exynos processor. For who is so directed Table A is not known.
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