Saturn Tablet Samsung Tab 3
Laptop Mag Verdict
A superbly rich display, clever software and long battery life make the Milky way Tab South a compelling big-screen Android tablet.
Pros
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Fantabulous Super AMOLED brandish
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Slimmer and lighter than iPad Air
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SideSync 3.0 lets you control your Galaxy telephone
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Very proficient battery life
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Useful Kids Mode
Cons
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Performance lags at times
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Covers are awkward to use
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Photographic camera washes out some images
Thank you in part to Samsung's own success with big-screen phones, tablets have begun to lose their luster. The Milky way Tab S 10.5 literally brings information technology back with a brandish so vibrant and colorful that it promises to make the iPad look slow. Available for $499, the Tab S is also thinner than the iPad Air and lets you lot command your Galaxy Telephone from its eye-popping canvas. The Tab Southward borrows some features from the Galaxy S5, too, including its fingerprint scanner. Although its performance and app selection could both exist stronger, overall the Tab Due south is an excellent Android tablet.
Design
Befitting its Galaxy Due south branding, the Tab S 10.5 is designed to look like an enlarged Galaxy S5. Yous'll find a like dotted pattern on the soft-touch on back of the device, too as the familiar domicile button up front flanked past the Contempo Apps and Back buttons. We tested the Dazzling White version of the tablet, which sports an elegant gold border; the device is available in a more than business concern-similar Titanium Bronze. Despite the lack of metal, the Tab S feels solid given its sheer portability.
One of the benefits of opting for a Super AMOLED screen over a traditional LCD is that it doesn't require a backlight. Every bit a result, the Tab S 10.5 is fifty-fifty thinner than the iPad Air. Samsung'south slate measures just 0.26 inches thin, compared with 0.29 inches for Apple's. The 10.5-inch Tab S weighs 1.02 pounds to the iPad Air'southward ane.03 pounds. On the other hand, Sony's water-resistant Xperia Z2 is thinner (0.25 inches) and lighter (15.49 ounces) even so, though it has a slightly smaller 10-inch screen.
We found the Tab S very comfortable to concord for long stretches, such as when reading a mag. However, in portrait mode, the home push button is to the left of the screen, which felt awkward.
The Tab South 10.v houses its microSD Card slot (supporting up to 128GB cards) and microUSB port on the correct side along with one of two speakers. The other speaker is on the left along with the headphone jack. An IR blaster sits on the top border of the tablet for decision-making your Television via the included WatchOn app.
Display
One look at the Tab S' Super AMOLED Display was enough for 2 family members to say they wanted this tablet. And it's like shooting fish in a barrel to run across why.
A pre-loaded "Wonders of Nature" prune on this 2560 ten 1600-pixel panel looked admittedly breathtaking, delivering rich and detailed vistas with bold (if oversaturated) color. A canyon wing-over looked particularly captivating, with the orange and browns in the rock contrasting beautifully confronting the nearly neon blueish horizon.
To compare the Tab S 10.5 to the iPad Air's 2048 x 1536-pixel brandish, we get-go loaded the "X-Men: Days of Futurity Past" trailer. In one outdoors scene, nosotros could make out more veins and wrinkles on Wolverine'south face up on the Galaxy Tab Southward. However, we lost some detail in darker areas of the frame that the iPad Air rendered more accurately, such as his bristles and feathered pilus. In some other scene, the grass looked much greener on the Samsung'due south panel. Overall, the Tab S' colors are more saturated but likewise more attractive.
Next, we fired up "The Lego Flick." Every bit the protagonist speeds away on a motorcycle with flames shooting out the back, the colors looked bolder and brighter on the Galaxy Tab S. We likewise noticed that the moving-picture show remained truer from broad viewing angles. The iPad Air'due south image suffered from minor wash-out.
Click to EnlargeIn our lab tests, the Tab S x.5 delivered mostly expert results. The tablet notched 502 using our calorie-free meter, versus 411 for the iPad Air. The average is almost 350 lux.
Samsung'due south slate outshone its competitors in the amount of colors it could show. The Tab S is capable of displaying 154 percent of the sRGB color gamut, compared with the iPad Air's 99 pct and the Sony Xperia Z2'south 124.7 percent.
However, the Tab S delivered poorer color accuracy than its closest competitors, notching a Delta E rating of iii.4 (0 is best). The iPad Air scored ane.4 and the Sony Z2 registered 2.6.
Sound
The Galaxy Tab S x.5's dual speaker pumps out fairly impressive sound given the tablet'southward slim profile. The slate registered 79 dB on the Laptop Mag Sound Examination, which measures the volume of a tone played from 13 inches away.
Calvin Harris' "Summer" filled our function with loud audio, and the audio didn't misconstrue at max volume. Similarly, "X-Men: Days of Future Past" trailer had plenty of ominous depression-finish thump.
Interface
Running Samsung's TouchWiz software on top of Android 4.4 KitKat, the Galaxy Tab South's interface looks and feels more dynamic than the iPad's just also more disjointed.
Click to EnlargeWe like that the lock screen shows you lot birthday reminders, upcoming appointments and latest emails. The main home screen and app screens look adequately standard for Samsung devices, but swiping to the right reveals a more modern-looking, console-based interface that reminds us of Flipboard.
The first of these screens shows a Quick Briefing widget (Web bookmarks, events, stocks, etc.), a shortcut to Paper Garden (a magazine reader and shop) and widgets for Hither & At present (local news, sports and offers) and WatchOn (Television receiver remote). Swiping again to the left shows your calendar and inbox, as well as Hancom Part contempo documents. You lot can create additional pages or move widgets from one page to another.
One of the best improvements to the Milky way Tab South's interface compared to the Galaxy S5 is the add-on of an South Finder push to the quick settings menu. This tool makes it easy to notice apps or files on the device, and can also be used to search the spider web. You'll also find a Quick Connect button for sending files to other nearby devices.
Click to OverstateWe continue to appreciate Multi Window, which lets you run ii apps on the screen at the same time. Just swipe from the right side of the screen, drag the app you want to run off the toolbar, and then repeat.
Overall, TouchWiz on the Tab S feels more powerful and versatile than iOS, but we wish it had a more unified wait and feel.
SideSync 3.0
Click to EnlargeYour tablet is never going to replace your smartphone, simply nosotros give Samsung credit for finding ways for making them work improve together. Using the SideSync 3.0 app, previously bachelor only on Windows PCs, you can mirror any is on your Galaxy phone on the Tab S 10.five's larger display. By default, you'll run into a little mockup of the phone itself and what's on the screen, but you can blow up the view to well-nigh full screen.
There are a couple of swell uses for this technology. Offset, you tin make and receive calls from the tablet even if your telephone is in the next room. This fashion you tin go on your telephone charging if you similar and utilize the Tab Due south' built-in speaker and microphone. During a couple of test calls the other caller came through clearly on our end, but he said he could hear a flake of an echo.
Click to OverstateSecond, you can drag and driblet files from your telephone to the slate. Nosotros tested this by pressing and holding an image thumbnail in the Galaxy S5's Gallery app in its SideSync window, then dragging it over to the Tab South' desktop. At that point, the tablet asked where we wanted to place the file, presenting the binder menu.
The SideSync app let the states play "Minion Rush" from the phone on the tablet--sort of. Our swipes registered (with a tiny delay), only the tilt controls didn't translate.
Overall, SideSync is a clever feature, but we'd like to meet what value Samsung adds over time versus what you can accomplish via the cloud. Nosotros as well wish the SideSync app didn't need to be open up on the telephone for the tablet to connect to the handset.
Fingerprint Scanner
Click to OverstateThe Galaxy Tab S 10.5 borrows one of the Galaxy S5's most talked-about features in its fingerprint scanner. Like the smartphone, the reader is integrated into the domicile button, and you need to swipe down on it to unlock your device or make purchases via PayPal. Because the home button is wider on this tablet so on the S5, we encountered fewer simulated negative errors when signing in, but information technology was still less consequent than Apple'southward Touch ID sensor on the iPhone 5s.
Performance
The Galaxy Tab S 10.five comes ready to battle all tablet comers with an octa-core Exynos processor. All this horsepower, plus 3GB of RAM, added upwardly to swift performance in diverse benchmarks, though lag crept in at times during everyday use.
For example, until we turned off the Southward Voice shortcut for the home push, the Tab S was sluggish exiting apps to the habitation screen. Fifty-fifty later on we did that the Samsung was a half step backside the iPad Air. The Air was also quicker to change screen orientations in the browser.
On the plus side, Samsung'due south tablet took just 4 minutes and 17 seconds to transcode a 203MB 1080p video to 480p. That blows away the Xperia Z2's five:49 (2.3-GHz Snapdragon 801, 3GB RAM) and is on a par with the Note Pro 12.2'southward time of 4:12 (octa-core Exynos with 3G of RAM).
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On Geekbench 3, which measures multicore performance, the Tab South 10.v's score of 2,776 outclassed the iPad Air (2,694), the Annotation Pro 12.2 (two,595) and Xperia Z2 (2,685).
The Tab Southward didn't fare likewise in the graphics department, hitting just thirteen,481 on 3D Mark Water ice Storm Unlimited. The iPad Air scored xiv,850 on the same test, while the Xperia Z2 was an even higher 18,935. The Milky way Note Pro 12.2 turned in a similarly low 13,732.
Camera
The 8-MP camera on the Milky way Tab S 10.5 delivered mixed results. With light backside us outdoors, this tablet snapped a colorful and precipitous shot of petunias. All the same, with bright low-cal in front of us, an image of a tree took on an annoying haze.
Turning on HDR mode didn't help matters in these instances, but we did encounter an improvement shooting on the street in New York Urban center.
With the exception of Real-Time HDR and Selective Focus, the Tab S includes a similar settings and fashion menus to the Galaxy S5. Yous'll find 5 shooting modes in add-on to Auto, including Beauty Face, Shot & More and Dual Camera. You tin download more modes from Samsung.
A 1080p video shot on Fifth Artery in New York delivered plenty of detail, assuasive us to easily read the lettering on a passing van. The clip stayed steady as we panned around, but we did notice some wind racket creeping in.
The Tab Southward' two-MP front camera fared well indoors, equally a selfie we took was just slightly grainy. Our checkered shirt looked fairly accurate in terms of colour. The Dazzler Face manner kicks in by default, which smoothes wrinkles but looks almost too perfect.
Apps and Content
Ane of the biggest knocks against Android tablets continues to be a dearth of tablet-optimized apps versus the iPad, and then Samsung bundles the Tab S 10.5 with as many gap-filling options as possible. Third-party apps include Flipboard, Evernote, Hancom Office Viewer, Netflix, NYTimes.
Click to EnlargeWe like that Hancom Role syncs with Dropbox, so you tin hands sync your work with the cloud. You lot tin can also edit Office documents later on performing an upgrade.
Samsung'south ain apps include Remote PC, which lets you remotely control your Windows PC. Milk Music is another standout, which lets yous browse music using a retro-chic dial.
Some tertiary-party apps are painful reminders that developers just don't give Android the tablet honey it deserves. In Facebook, for case, the chief News Feed view looks like a stretched-out telephone app with tiny text, while the iPad version shows your online friends to the right and bigger text for each of the entries.
Spotify is another instance where Android falls short. On the iPad, yous'll come across the left navigation bar as you browse music, but on the Tab S you demand to striking the menu button beginning to run across available options. It's an attractive app, simply it's not tailored for the tablet experience.
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Other bundled experiences are designed for tablets. Paper Garden lets you browse magazines from such major brands equally GQ, Vogue and Vanity Fair. There will be 23 titles at launch, with more to follow. The Google Play Store does list a modest amount of tablet apps in its Tablet 101 and Tablet Spotlight sections. Highlights include Expedia, Trulia, Mint, Pinterest and Pulse.
Kids Way
Click to EnlargeCheers to the Kids Mode feature on the Milky way Tab Southward 10.5, parents will feel comfortable passing this tablet off to their children. The family-friendly environment presents a cartoonlike interface that makes information technology like shooting fish in a barrel for junior to play with apps yous approve. Samsung bundles apps to go kids started, including a camera app with its own fun effects (think hearts for optics, mustaches, etc.). There's also a defended Kids Store for downloading more apps, such as Artistic Corner for coloring.
Kids Mode goes fifty-fifty farther, letting mom and dad set playtime limits in the Parental Control section. Here you tin too add together media that'due south safe for your kids to come across. We just wish Samsung also linked to kid-friendly video content.
Bombardment Life
Packing a 7,900 mAH battery, Samsung claims that the Galaxy Tab S 10.five can last up to 9 hours on a charge. On the Laptop Mag bombardment test, which consists of continuous Spider web surfing on 150 nits of brightness, the tablet lasted 8 hours and 57 minutes. That's well above the viii:09 tablet category average but backside the iPad Air and Xperia Z2 (both 9:thirty).
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Accessories
Click to OverstateWhile we appreciate Samsung attempting to better round out its ecosystem with custom-fit accessories, the execution could have been better. Available in multiple colors, the $39 Simple Cover (which doesn't cover the unabridged back of the tablet) and $69 Book Comprehend (which does) both adhere to the rear of the slate via ii pocket-sized indentations.
At that place's a handy guiding line for guiding the tablet onto the covers, but snapping everything together takes more force than we'd like. Removing the covers also takes a fair amount of effort. And information technology'southward loud. Folding the covers into the three different bachelor heights proved a claiming, too; nosotros had to ask a co-worker who likes origami to help--not a good sign.
Samsung will also brand its own Bluetooth keyboard available, which nosotros were unable to test for this review. The accessory covers the Tab Due south like a clamshell, making it feel like a small laptop.
Bottom Line
Click to EnlargeWhether you like to watch a lot of video on your tablet or you bask looking through everyone's Facebook photos, the Galaxy Tab S ten.5 gives you a pretty awesome sail in a very slim and light pattern. The Super AMOLED screen boasts richer colors, a higher resolution and better viewing angles than the iPad Air. Not everyone will love the oversaturated hues, only there's no denying that this is a gorgeous panel.
The Tab Southward also stands out because of its innovative SideSync software (handy for taking calls on your tablet), handy Kids Way feature and strong bombardment life. We're definitely not fans of the awkward cases, and the camera washes out some images. More important, Samsung (and every Android slate maker) nonetheless trails Apple when it comes to tablet apps.
Among Samsung tablets, the Galaxy Note 10.1 (about $459) is a better productivity companion considering of its included S Pen, though you'll sacrifice screen quality. Merely if you're looking for an iPad alternative that'south focused more on content consumption, the Tab S x.5 is a elevation choice.
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Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5 Specs
| Brand | Samsung |
| CPU | Exynos 5 Octa (1.9Ghz Quadcore + 1.3 Ghz Quadcore) |
| Camera Resolution | 8MP |
| Card Reader Size | 128GB |
| Card Readers | microSDXC |
| Company Website | www.samsung.com |
| Display Resolution | 2560 10 1600 |
| Display Size | 10.5 |
| Forepart-Facing Camera Resolution | 2.1MP |
| Has Bluetooth | Yes |
| OS | Android iv.four.2 |
| Ports | Headphone |
| RAM Included | 3GB |
| RAM Upgradeable | 3 |
| Size | 9.73 x 6.98 x 0.26 inches |
| Storage Drive Size | 16GB |
| Storage Drive Type | Flash Memory |
| Weight | 1.4 pounds |
| Wi-Fi | 802.11a/b/g/n/ac |
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