ENORMOUS 17" Android Tablet! Samsung Galaxy View2 Unboxing and Hands On By Jordan Keyes

Hello and welcome back to the channel, if you're, looking at the title down below, probably a bit of a confusing one, take it back a couple of years back in 2015, Samsung released a device called the galaxy view, 18-inch plus tablet very expensive tablet and at the time I do remember. I was in London for an event and I heard about it. My immediate response was who would ever want a device that large? You can't carry something like that around with you, and yet here we are today. Four years later, Samsung has released the galaxy view 2, and so today we're gonna. Take a look at it. Just a side note I did pay for this out of my own pocket.

They didn't send anything to me. Samsung I think doesn't know that I exist, so any product that I have that Samsung I've paid for. So what is this? What makes it special? What makes it unique? This is an as you can probably see up here.17.3 inch. Android tablet has 64 gigs of built-in storage and available LTE on. If you couldn't tell on AT&T and the rest of the box is basically just a black husk, so I'm going to go ahead and start taking this off, not sure what that's for alright.

So inside this box, you start the very top with the Samsung adaptive fast charging, brick, although this is a little different from anyone. I've used before it's 12 volts at 2.1 amps at the max. It also has the other nine volts at 1.67 amps, as well as 5 volts at 2 amps. So this one is significantly more powerful than what you get with phones, you get a USB-C to full size, USB, cable, so I'm getting started documentation and a sim ejector tool on the back here and then under all this foam is the tablet itself. That was a lot of additional space and packing material.

So here it is, and its packaging go ahead and get this unveiled holy crap. Why? Yes, there is a small part of me, that's looking at this and saying how and when am I ever going to use something like this I'll find a way I'll find a time. So this is the tablet it has liked I said before: a 17.3 inch display 4k display no, no full HD display 1920 by 1080 panel and just going to go ahead and pull up the specs here. So I've got them on hand. It has an TO nose, 78-84 processor in it.

So it's not a high-end flagship device before I go too much further. I should also mention this is available through AT&T on a payment plan, but you can buy it outright like I did Samsung for seven hundred and forty dollars, and I'm going to say it again. I was curious about the original Galaxy view when it was released four years ago. So when this one came out, and I had the means to purchase it, I did it is a five pound device and I can definitely feel that from having just hefted it. It does have a camera on the front of it.

If you can see it there, it's a five megapixel camera that can do Full, HD 1080p video at 30 frames a second. If that's your thing, it has three gigs of built-in RAM, a micro, SD and SIM card slot somewhere that I'm going to have to find here in a minute a 12,000 William hour battery a stand that is permanently attached. That kind of kicks out to the back. If we can demonstrate yeah. So this is the angle you get, it's either completely closed, and you have this sort of interesting book shape, or it's open.

That's your option. It does not flip all the surrounding way will break off. So that seems a little wasteful. In my opinion, it would make so much more sense for this to flip all the way around and have full coverage on the back so that you can actually protect the screen. I guess that does come full circle back to the other thing that came in the package and I, don't know if this is included just in Samsung orders or if you get it from AT&T also, but they did include this carrying case and very loud plastic.

So there's the carrying case, who that has a strong smell to it, got some foam inside it and some silica gel and everything. But it says it's a sleeve for the galaxy 2 it fit is the brand so obviously not Samsung branded or anything there. You go foam removed everything out and ready to go. This is a very floppy case. I am curious if this is going to fit in there and how it's going to work.

So we open the case up. Okay, I'm, just going to go ahead and say it that isn't gonna work, it fit I! Think it doesn't. You can kind of clearly see you've got like an inch and a half on this end where it doesn't cover it. So I guess I will not be carrying this device around with me other than just like holding it by the back or maybe this is really not a portable device in any shape or form I guess continuing to look around the device. It looks like these are microphones here on the top there's, a volume rocker and a power button on this side.

There's a bunch of nothing. Maybe some rear firing. Speakers here on the other side, if you can even see this with the lighting a three-and-a-half millimeter, headphone jack, a USB, C port, and this little indention would appear to be where the SIM card and micros card will go. This will take up to a 400, gigabyte micro SD card to go along with that 64 gigs of built-in storage Wow touched it once or twice, and it's already completely covered in fingerprints while we're here, let's go ahead and just power. The song Samsung Galaxy view 2 secured by Knox powered by Android.

Now this does have four feet on the limits very loudspeakers, and we're starting app Android going through the setup process. These are my hands for scale. The start button connects to my Wi-Fi Oh typing on this. This is going to be huge that was kind of big and awkward, but we connected checking for updates it's hiding in with Google two-factor authentication, and we don't have any backups found. So not going to restore anything.

We can protect the tablet with a pattern pin password or not now and strangely enough, it switched to the other rotation for the assistant. Let's skip over all the rest of this, and now it's its got an 18 T logo that says set up and transfer your content set up accounts and services. I have no 18 t mobile app and nothing from AT&T that I want to transfer, so I'm going to skip that. So that is one of the downsides of it being sort of an 18 T branded device. Is it's going to have a lot of ATT stuff built into it, but we're done ok got it.

My AT&T is pre-installed sign in to my Samsung account and skipping past. All that Samsung sign and stuff. It says: TV mode gets you watching quickly, launch DirecTV now or your favorite video app with one swipe from the home screen. This is an AT&T DirecTV merger type thing I, don't have either one of them, so I'm not gonna, be able to use that, although it said favorite, video app, so I'm going to assume that it will work with at least Netflix, maybe YouTube. Those are the things I tend to use most on my devices.

It is syncing apps for me apparently, but there you go. This is the tablet, and it's just it's: making lots of notification noise, just something! I wouldn't really expect on a device like this turn notifications down. So here's what came on it by default, it might be trying to install additional apps. At the same time, it says it's installing 0 out of 6 apps I'm going to swipe up from the bottom, so we can take a look ATT. We got a bunch of apps.

There can I remove any of them. I cannot I, cannot even disable it AT&T all-access I can disable that I can apparently disable several of these, but I can't actually uninstall it. So we'll have to see if there's maybe a route available or just see if they get in the way at all, because if they're not going to get in the way, I don't care much. There's a lot of stuff that came pre-installed on this pocket Morty's or is that installing, as a result of something else, I haven't had pocket Morty's on a phone in a while? So I, don't know where that came from? Of course, you do get a smattering of Google Apps as well, and a few Samsung Apps as you would expect, and just a ridiculously large display, oh, and I swiped to the right, and it went into TV mode, double press the power button to launch TV mode, swipe right to launch TV mode, swipe the TV mode, icon, I'm gonna, say it I'm, not a ancient man I'm getting older, but I'm, not that old yet, but they do seem like they're making this really geared toward the people that aren't that familiar with a device and just want like something they can watch TV on in their hand. I don't have DirecTV now, so I can't do that.

So within the settings here, I did figure out if I go to advanced features, TV mode, it says it's on, but when I click on it, I have the option to pick DirecTV now: DirecTV 18t, watch, TV or other downloaded apps. So, let's see if I can get YouTube on there is the default there we go. YouTube is now the default. The option for that I'm also going to replace these buttons, that's better. That makes more sense to me.

So now, if we swipe over TV mode comes up, and it goes to YouTube, that's exactly what I was looking for. I do have to update now. I know you guys are probably curious about the version of Android that comes on this, so we'll click on about tablet to a software version. It says: Android version is 8.1 point 0, the Samsung experience is 9.5, so this is not using the new Samsung one UI. It is possible that would get it in a software update, but I'm going to say it probably will not.

Furthermore, it's kind of sad, though this is a brand new, like just released it's coming out in two or three days and for some reason, I got mine early, and yet it doesn't come with Android Pi on it, but it does say the software is up-to-date, so that is the newest latest and greatest that's available, for it, I mean in terms of just the performance of the device. I am already noticing, like every time, I go into this drawer. You can probably see there's a little of latency to it a little of lag. Obviously, part of that's because it's doing a lot of stuff at the moment, it's downloading apps, it's updating, apps, it's completing setup and everything, but still yeah. It's still a little sluggish.

But it's not it's not that bad. This is a device that is intended for building up your muscles. No, it's intended for media consumption primarily, so you can't really expect it to be a gaming, although I could probably see putting it up on its stand on a table or something and playing the occasional lower powered game casual games. It's going to be great for older people and for young, kids and I hate to say it, but my youngest is probably going to end up using this a lot more than I will, and it's still installing things that I did not ask it to so. I've gotten like Final, Fantasy and eBay and solitaire yeah I didn't ask for it to install anything yet, so it's going to take some time to get used to this.

Am I gonna, be able to recommend this probably not I am curious? What the YouTube and what the video and audio are going to be like on a device. This big so go ahead and get signed in to my account head on over, so I can watch one of my own videos. Now I did go into full-screen mode. It says you're using this, so the back button, the home, everything's hidden, that's fine in terms of the quality I can go up to 1080p on here, so unfortunately can't get to 4k, but it's not a 4k screen. So that's not really an issue.

It's only 1080p. This gets decently loud, but the viewing angle leaves a little to be desired. It has one position it can be in. So if you have it on a table in front of you at a regular height like this table is for me, you're not gonna, be able to see it very well, so that kind of stinks, in my opinion, but still very early impressions if you're looking for a just an absolutely massive ginormous device to use primarily for media consumption, maybe some very, very light gaming, because again three gigs of ram Enos, 78-84 processor, it's not like a high-end, snapdragon, processor or anything, I'm going to say this is gonna. Get the job done just be willing to accept the fact that Samsung is probably never going to update it.

It's going to get slower over time, but still it's got halfway. Decent speakers, a nice looking bright display, that's very clear, albeit lower resolution, because it's a giant display, that's low resolution.1080P is not low, but it's lower than newer phones are mixed bag on that one for 750 bucks. It's its definitely a hard sell, but I will put a link to where you can find it down below I. Think right now you can only get it direct from 80 or direct from Samsung. So there's not gonna, be any affiliate mumbo-jumbo there if I can find it on Amazon or B and H or something I'll put those links and if you use any of my links to Amazon or B and H or Best Buy, or anything like that, I do get a little of a kickback.

So I appreciate that, but I would not expect anyone to buy one of these I'm buying that, so you don't have to because in large part I don't see any other videos on YouTube that actually have someone with the galaxy view.2 in hand so I'm doing this, so I think that's where I'll wrap it up for today, I've already been filming for almost 30 minutes. Let me know what you think about this thing. Is this just complete waste of money, I'm going to say that most people are gonna, say that so sorry about that, but sometimes you just have to take that leap of faith to have a ridiculously expensive media consumption device. That's not terribly powerful. Sometimes you just got to do it for the giggles.

Thank you guys, as always for watching hit the thumbs up. If you happen to like this video subscribe to the channel, if you want to get notified when new stuff comes out, sorry I had to push the ginormous tablet out of the way, I could actually see using this as like an off-screen monitor for my camera. If my camera supported using an Android tablet as a monitor, it does not have HDMI in it does not support anything like that. That would make too much sense. If you want to see more follow-ups on this or anything else like gaming, demonstrations or video create I.

Don't know, let me know down in the comment section below, but that's going to wrap it up for today. So thanks again for the seventy-fifth time, I'll see you very soon, bye, guys.

Source : Jordan Keyes