Samsungs new affordable Galaxy Tab A7 Is Pretty Good! By ETA PRIME

Hey, what's going on guys this eta prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at the all new Samsung Galaxy tab, a7 2020 edition this was recently released by Samsung, and it's one of their cheaper offerings. When you compare it to their higher end tablets like the tab, s6 or the tab s7, they offer a few different storage variants and colors. I happen to choose the gold 32 gigabyte model, which is their lowest in, and this came in at 230 dollars and on paper. This looks like a decent tablet in this price range because, as we all know, these tablets can get pretty expensive like the new Samsung Galaxy tab. S7 plus can get up there to around eleven hundred dollars, depending on the storage variant. So seeing a tablet like this with quad speakers, Dolby Atmos and a 10.4-inch screen might be a better option for people who aren't looking for the most expensive tablet on the market. So yeah we have a metal back here, there's a little of plastic section here, which probably houses the antennas.

We also have this 10.4 inch IPS display. It's not super AMOLED like the high-end tablet, but overall this will definitely get you by, and it looks great for a tablet in this price range so other than the tablet itself. You're not going to get much else in this box. Here we have our charger and our USB type c cable. This is not a fast charger, but it does support up to 18 watt fast charging if you already have a decent charger at the house.

So like I mentioned this does have a quad speaker setup, and it does support Dolby Atmos. We also have dual microphones USB type c 2.0, so we can't do video out. I was really hoping this would do video out or HDMI out, but unfortunately it doesn't, but they have left us with the headphone jack. So I've actually had a couple of days to spend with this unit. I'm actually really impressed with it.

This one is the 32 gigabyte model, but they also offer a 64 gigabyte model, but both of them will support a micro SD card up to one terabyte. I just happen to have a 128 lying around, and I think that's plenty for a tablet like this they've done a great job with the construction of this tablet. We do have a full metal back, but up at the top we have a little plastic sliver and, like I said, I think, that's where the antennas are going to be located, and we also have an 8 megapixel camera around back. I'm going to tell you right now: I'm not a big fan of cameras on tablets, and they've, never really impressed me at all, and this one definitely isn't going to impress anybody the front or the rear. So as specs go, it's not bad for a tablet.

In this price range for the CPU we have the snapdragon 662, the GPUs, the Arduino 610, three gigs of ram. You can buy this in two different storage variants, 32 or 64, but both do support a micro SD card up to one terabyte. The screen is a 10.4 inch IPS at 1200 by 2000, and it looks great. I know it's not a super AMOLED, but it still looks perfect for an IPS display.802.11 ABG in an ac Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 5.0 built in a GPS, 7040 William hour battery, and they're claiming 10 hours of video playback, and I think that's dead on I've done some testing here and with the screen set at about 60, I can get nine and a half hours of video playback out of YouTube and Netflix with this tablet, and this tablet is running android 10 with Samsung one UI 2.5. So overall, with that snapdragon CPU, the user interface is really snappy.

Now I know we only have three gigs of ram. I really wish they would have bumped it up to four, but I think three can definitely get you by this. Does gaming emulation and video playback really? Well, you can access millions of apps from the Google Play Store. We also have the Samsung Galaxy store, I'm not a big fan of it. I mean there are a few apps that I download from there, but for the most part I use Google play so for a lot of people who use android tablets.

Nowadays, it's really just for media consumption, video, playback, music playback. So, let's go ahead and check out YouTube video, playback, real, quick, then we'll move over to Netflix, we'll test Plex, and then we'll get into some gaming with this quad speaker setup. It sounds absolutely amazing, and we do have Dolby Atmos. I can disable it and if you do end up picking one of these up, I highly suggest downloading one of Dolby's demos from their website. Atmos with these quad speakers is crazy, awesome.

So from the YouTube app we can access 1080p playback, and it works great loads up fast as long as you have a decent internet connection. After all, we do have that ac, Wi-Fi built-in. So if you do want to do some video viewing on this from your favorite streaming app Hulu, HBO, Netflix, Amazon, prime, it's gonna work out just fine, and you can do the picture-in-picture mode with YouTube or Netflix and speaking of Netflix, let's go ahead and launch it real, quick because after all, a lot of people are gonna, be using this for media consumption. So one of my favorite things to watch here are ancient aliens. It's going to load right up, we're already playing human beings into a craft skin.

There was an obsession of ancient human beings, so the tablet's great for video playback. But what about native android gaming? I'm going to test a few games here. First up, obviously we have Minecraft, and it's running great, I'm at 12 chunks. I still have fancy graphics on, and we're running at about 60, but when I hit that dynamite up, we do drop to 30. Overall, it's really playable on this tablet and I expected it would be with that snapdragon CPU rebel racing.

I usually test asphalt, 9 or real racing, but this is another one that I found on the play store. It's got pretty decent graphics here, and it runs great on the Galaxy Tab, a7 and finally, for android gaming. We have Call of Duty mobile, it's running great. Here I did go into the settings. I turned the graphics to medium before I even tested it out.

I mean I still think it looks great here, and I've turned the frame rate to maximum. It's running absolutely amazing, but I've never really been a big fan of using a giant touch screen with this game and that's where a nice controller would come in like an Xbox One controller it'll connect right up to this tablet. It does have Bluetooth 5.0 built in, but I've always just kind of hated setting the tablet down and using a controller like that. So I like these telescopic controllers, and personally I've been using the idea 9167 with these bigger tablets. It does fit right in here.

The controller itself is around 30 bucks, I'm sure you could find it cheaper somewhere else, but on Amazon I think they're around 32, and it works great with the tablet like this. It also fits the Galaxy Tab s6 and by the way, this controller will work with game streaming, apps or cloud gaming apps like project cloud. I think it's just known as Xbox game streaming now Stadia GeForce, now vortex and tons of others. It actually connects to the tablet using x input, just like an Xbox controller would so since we do have ac Wi-Fi built in these game streaming or cloud streaming. Apps do work pretty well when the servers are working correctly.

In the last couple of weeks, I've had a couple issues with audio using the Xbox game streaming app on, basically all of my devices, and it's been a bit annoying. But if I swapped over to Stadia or something like that, it's gonna work just fine. Next up, I wanted to test a little of emulation. Now, with this one, I'm using an Xbox One controller. We have some n64, and it's running amazingly well, I'm upscaled to 1280 by 960, using new, pin 64 FM from the Google Play Store.

We got beetle adventure racing running at full speed. Here's golden eye 007 this one's a bit harder to emulate, but it's handling it just fine, even upscaled PSP is another one. That's working pretty good! On this now I haven't gone through and tested some harder to emulate games. I'm sure they're going to struggle at a higher resolution, but with a majority of the PSV games that are compatible with PPS SPP, you will be able to upscale to 2 and 3x resolution, even taken 6 here at 3x, which is a mid-range game to run. And finally, at least for this video, we have some dream cast using red ream upscale 1280 960 sonic adventure.2. I've had perfect performance with dream cast on this tablet and to tell you the truth, I probably could have taken it up a little more with the resolution.

This was the first setting I tried and everything that I tested ran great, even dead or alive to get ready. So before I wrap this video up, I just wanted to show you some benchmarks here now. On the left-hand side we have the tab a7, which we're taking a look at in this video. The 32 gigabyte model is 230 up to 280 for the 64 gigabyte model. On the right hand, side we have the new tab, s7 plus, and I've kind of just lumped this in with the new s7, because they do have the same specs and these range anywhere from 650 to 1030 dollars.

So in the end, I've had a great experience with the tab a7, it's definitely not as powerful as the s6 or the s7, but we're working with a much cheaper device here, and I think it's a great choice if you've been looking for an affordable, decent, android tablet. If you want to go super cheap with it, I would go with something like the Amazon, had or the hd7, but this has been a better performer than both of those tablets, and I've done reviews on all of them. So overall the tablet's build quality is great. We got that 10.4 inch, IPS display. I really wish they would have gone with something else, but viewing angles are fine, and the screen looks great for a tablet at this price point.

But one of my favorite things, but one of my favorite things about this is the sound, and I've always loved Samsung quad, speaker setups, especially with Dolby Atmos. I mean this thing at this price point sounds absolutely amazing. So that's pretty much it for this. Video really appreciate you watching. If there's anything else, you want to see running on the new Galaxy Tab a7.

Just let me know in the comments below and if you're interested in picking one of these up or learning more, I will leave some links in the description, but like always thanks for watching.

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