Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 review By The Verge

Well, hey guys, it's me Arthur verge I'm here with the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1, Samsung stylus stable version of the Galaxy Tab. As you can see, it's a pretty handsome looking tablet. It has Samsung's new design with speakers in the front and kind of this chrome Ridge. On the back. It's pretty plastic. It's a little lighter than you might expect.

There's a camera with a flash and IR port, a micros slot and headphone jack. The screen is pretty nice. It's a 10.1 inch LCD. It has pretty good viewing angles all the way around. Furthermore, it's not nearly as good as the iPad display.

Furthermore, it's only 1280 by 800, but I think the most important part is obviously the stylist or Samsung calls it the S, Pen or as I call it the spend it's actually based on Wacom technology, and it has a thousand 24 points of sensitivity. So, as I draw kind of lightly on the screen, you can see it's barely showing up, but if I push harder, it gets a lot darker and if I move the pen around different ways, it changes. What the ink looks like on screen when you pull the stylus out of the integrated slot, it actually opens up quick action menu to show you some of the apps that Samsung loads on it. What's weird is that you can't change this, so I guess cram physics is gonna, be there forever, but this is actually just one piece of Android that Samsung has changed for dramatically with Touch ID, it's Android, 4.0 480, so insights from sandwich, but Touch ID on top of here is really intense, and it feels like it's slowing the entire system down. You can see it's a little jerky some of these giant widgets, don't do much of anything every single menu option you pick on the Galaxy Note is accompanied by a blooping sound and that level of intrusiveness by Touch ID seems to permeate everything on the tablet.

There's also a lot of built-in apps, the main big app that I've added in is S. Note s ?, there's pretty decent handwriting recognition, so you can just write on it, and he'll figure out what you're trying to say usually. But you have to write directly across if you're like me, and you're right at an angle. It won't know what you're trying to say at all. Heller is exactly what I wanted to say there.

Obviously, and if you write at any other weird angles, or you don't have perfect handwriting or if you write in block print it'll, think you're, always writing capital letters I'm like an iPad stylus, which, basically just fakes being your finger. The S Pen is perfect at acting like a real pen. The problem is that it's sometimes a little slow and there's not a lot of places to use it around the system. Only S Pen enabled understand that it's different from a finger, and they'll get confused. If you try to use both your pen and a finger in an app that doesn't support the s-pen Samsung's also replaced androids built-in calendar app with it its own app called s planner, which doesn't seem to have any purpose for existing other than to look like a copy of the iOS calendar application.

With this terrible foe weather at the top it's functional, it works fine. It's just not clear why Samsung felt the need to replace the stock calendar application. Another way the Samsung is building the note as a Productivity device is the ability to run two apps at once, which I was initially very excited about. Sadly, that's not meant to be only Samsung's special apps can run in multiscreen mode, so I can open s, note, hit multiscreen and then open the browser, and now that I've got two windows open here. I'm, switching back and forth between them is actually really laggy.

So I can over here, but it's not showing up, and now that I've got s note. Active switching back to the browser is completely unresponsive, so I can scroll the browser I'm trying to switch back to s. Note it's not doing anything. This is even worse if you open another app like email. These applications are not running simultaneously they're running kind of one at a time, and they're, very noticeably.

Switching back and forth, which one is active. The bigger problem, of course, is that that's not Chrome and that's not Gmail there in fact weird Samsung versions of each application that I don't want to use in many ways. This is a dream that has been turned into a terrible unresponsive nightmare. It's particularly perplexing because the Galaxy Note actually benchmarks faster than any Android device, I've ever used, but it's really sluggish. It should be able to handle this kind of workload without breaking a sweat, but Samsung does let you use all that power in interesting ways.

You can text and watch a video. At the same time, you do actually use the pop-up player feature on the note things slowed down even more you'll notice that none of this is particularly responsive as I move it around, but the video does keep playing because it's being offloaded to the GPU one thing, that's really strange is that, although the Galaxy Note phone lets you do handwriting recognition in the keyboard, the Galaxy Note 10.1 doesn't seem to have any handwriting recognition. The keyboard at all. In fact, there's just this button that shows you the last things you've put in the clipboard and not anything useful at all. Ultimately, the biggest problem with the Galaxy Note is it's really two products in one? It's a pretty mediocre, regular Android tablet.

That's plagued by performance issues not nearly as fast as something with jellybean like the Nexus 7, and it's a space tablet that doesn't really have any compelling stylus apps. Yet the app support just isn't there and the apps that do support the stylists kind of don't take full advantage of it. The way that you want it to for $4.99, you're, probably better off, buying an iPad or if you definitely want to Android tablet, you should buy the Nexus 7, which is excellent, but I'm willing to say the Galaxy Note 10.1 is kind of a first generation product, and I'm really hoping future stylus based devices are much, much better.

Source : The Verge