Feb 11
According to a collection of documents shared this afternoon relatively anonymously, the Samsung tablet division is readying three new Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 devices for Mobile World Congress 2014. These … Continue reading
Jan 30
It seems that the folks over at Samsung are not in any danger at all of running out of ideas when it comes to the Samsung Galaxy Tab range. In fact, Samsung has recently announced a new Galaxy Tab which was exclusively designed for education purposes. This particular tablet was introduced at FETC, where it will play nice with Google Play for Education. This new Galaxy Tab has been exclusively developed for education, where it will be made available for K-12 school deployments for the 2014-2015 academic year. It will be introduced as part of the Google Play for Education program, where this classroom-ready, 10.1” tablet will be able to offer simple set up as well as device management, in addition to access to curated educational content, and other features which will support dynamic, digital teaching and learning.
This particular education-specific Galaxy Tab tablet has been specially designed for integration with Google Play for Education, alongside Google’s content store for K-12 schools. With Google Play for Education, educators will be able to enjoy access to a wide selection of teacher-approved apps, books, and videos, so that they are able to deliver a more engaging and personalized learning experience to individual students. Teachers too, are able to perform a search for content by grade, subject and standard (including Common Core), make purchases using a pre-loaded school PO instead of a credit card, and deliver content to students’ tablets in a matter of seconds.
This particular Galaxy Tab for Education would offer students a 10.1” WXGA display, where one would be able to enjoy an exceptional viewing experience with a 16:10 aspect ratio that makes it perfect for viewing educational content. This particular tablet will also run on the most recent version of Android 4.4 KitKat, sports WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n connectivity, front and back cameras, the inclusion of Near Field Communications (NFC) technology, making it a jiffy to set up a classroom of devices with a few taps.
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Jan 15
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Dec 20
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Aug 05
This afternoon the folks at the IDC released quarterly worldwide shipment numbers for tablets, suggesting as they did so that a slump in the market this quarter may be due to Apple’s lack of a new iPad. And we got to thinking: it’s easy to relate the growth of the tablet industry over the past […]
Jul 22
Though the full Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 line has only just arrived, Samsung is pushing the Galaxy Tab 2 Student Edition, complete with keyboard and dock accessories to boot. This combo works with Samsung’s aim for this season’s collection of students from sea to sea, pushing this “Student Edition” to the United States through brick-and-mortar stores like Office Max and Best Buy.
This machine is being delivered with several firsts here in the USA – starting with a white casing. Though we’ve seen this color on the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 in the USA before, here we’re seeing it on the Galaxy Tab 10.1 as only seen internationally in the past.
You’ll find this Student Edition working with the Samsung Desktop Dock and Bluetooth Keyboard both, both of them included in a package that’s ringing in at $349.99 USD. That’s a rather hearty bit of value when you consider the price of the tablet on its own – anywhere between $349.99 and $399.99 depending on where you shop. The dock and the keyboard then come essentially free where together they’d cost more than $60 USD – again, depending on where you shop.
Have a peek at our reviews of both the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 as well as the newer Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 to see the differences between the two. Spoiler: they’re very, very similar, and if you don’t plan on connecting one Samsung tablet to another, the Galaxy Tab 2′s speakers (front-facing as they are) trump the newer system. Displays notwithstanding, of course.
Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 Student Edition arrives on heels of Tab 3 is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Jul 16
Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 Review
Posted in: Today's ChiliEach new release of the Samsung Galaxy Tab proves the company’s willingness to stick with the brand name – and power. Samsung has the power to release a new wave of tablets each year without specific specification boosts bit-by-bit. Keep that in mind when you have a peek at this machine’s top-to-bottom, especially when it comes to the final product.
Hardware
The Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 works with a 10.1-inch TFT LCD display with 800 x 1280 pixel resolution. That’s 149.45 PPI and certainly not the sharpest display on the market, well under the current-gen iPad‘s 263.92 PPI and especially the Google Nexus 10 with its 300.24 PPI, but it’s up at the point at which you’re no longer going to be seeing a whole lot of difference.
This machine’s display is the same resolution as the previous generation Samsung Galaxy Tab but here works with IPS TFT LCD technology instead of PLS TFT. In short this means the Galaxy Tab 3 line matches the Samsung Galaxy S 4 for brightness – not sharpness, of course, as the GS4 works with a much, much sharper panel, but for brightness without a doubt.
Samsung has also done a good job of matching the Samsung Galaxy Tab line to the Galaxy Note line from this generation – you’re seeing the Galaxy Note 8.0 – and we’re expecting the Galaxy Note III to look as vivid later this year as well.
With the Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 you’re not going to find a tablet aimed at being a one-stop-shop for excellence in all things media capturing as well as display. Instead, this device acts as one of several control ports for the whole Samsung device environment. You’ll find out more about the app connections this tablet has with the rest of the Samsung devices of this Galaxy S 4 era – here in hardware, this means you’re not going to be competing with standalone devices like the ASUS Transformer Pad Infinity for raw output and power – not by a long shot.
Inside the Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 you’ll find a Z2560 Intel Atom 1.6GHz dual-core processor – Clover Trail+, that is – with the built-in ability to use 4G LTE (in future iterations of this hardware with a microSIM card slot, of course). This hardware will not work with said connectivity as it’s got no SIM card slot to speak of, but we’ll almost certainly be seeing this tablet working with AT&T and Verizon – and maybe even T-Mobile – inside the next half-year with 4G LTE connectivity.
While it may seem like a bold move for Samsung to move from well-known processors like their own Exynos line and NVIDIA’s Tegra SoCs in past Tab lines to Intel here in 2013, it’s worth noting that they don’t do so with their flag flying high. As mentioned in the Intel Scores column from Chris Davies earlier this year, both the Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 and the ASUS MeMo Pad FHD 10 work with Clover Trail+, but neither of them have “leapt to Atom wholeheartedly.”
As it was with the release of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 lineup, here again the company is making very little of the creators of the processors under their device lineup’s hoods. With the Galaxy Tab 2 line it was Texas Instruments OMAP line, here it’s Intel’s Atom, and the results make for a well-balanced tablet collection in either case, but not a set of machines made for breaking any barriers.
Have a peek at a set of benchmark tests here to see how the Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 fares and keep heart – the end result is solid for everyday media display, web browsing, and basic gaming needs.
Software
The software suite included with this machine matches that of the Samsung Galaxy S 4 era of devices. The smartphone acts as Samsung’s hero for the rest of their smart mobile devices, and with each new era the collection becomes – at once – more diverse and more aesthetically similar. The Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 looks like the Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 looks like the Samsung Galaxy S 4 – looks like the Samsung Galaxy Note III, eventually.
And inside they all look essentially the same.
You’ll find Google’s family of apps to be resting inside this machine – Chrome for web browsing, Gmail, Google+, Google Play, and Google search. You’ll get Google Now as well with a long press on this device’s physical home button and a tap of the G on the screen.
From Samsung you’ve got S-Voice and voice-controlled commands the likes of which are more precise than any previous version of Samsung’s own voice commander. More important than this is the common appearance of the apps ChatON – for Samsung-centric media-friendly chat, Group Play – for Samsung-centric media sharing and entertainment inside a Wi-Fi network, and Samsung Apps.
Samsung Apps connects the user with a Samsung account that’ll allow the user access to apps and (and with Samsung Hub, also downloadable) media from whatever Samsung device the user is using. Oddly we’re not getting Samsung Link right out of the box, this an experience rather similar to Group Play in its aim at connecting your Samsung devices together, here sharing to the cloud and pulling from tablets, smartphones, notebooks, and Samsung TVs.
Even beyond benchmarks, this machine isn’t exactly aiming to destroy its key competitors. Instead you’ll find a well-balanced tablet aiming to be an everyday driver, not exactly the one you’ll be picking up in hopes of being gaming machine of the year. It’s not longer about being number one in the ranks for each individual device for Samsung, it’s about creating a device ecosystem.
Camera / Battery
The camera on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 delivers media that leaves a bit to be desired. While we’ve seen top-notch results from the company’s hero smartphone line in the Samsung Galaxy S 4 for photos and video, and machines like the Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom bringing on a best-in-class bit of performance in the photo and video phones realms, here the Galaxy Tab line once again brings a “good enough” experience to the table.
It’s almost as if Samsung is suggesting we stop obsessing over taking photos with every single machine which could potentially work with a camera and just leave the media collection to the cameras and the smartphones.
That said, you’ll still want to check the results of this device’s abilities with its 3-megapixel back-facing camera. You’ve got a 1.3-megapixel camera on the front of this machine as well, but you’ll not be wanting to use it for anything other than basic video chat on the regular.
The battery on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 sits at a cool 6800 mAh, meaning you’ll be kicking out more uptime than essentially any other smart device you own unless you’re doing nothing but non-stop video streaming and high-powered gaming at the same time. We’ve found standby time to be excellent as well, hitting at a rather low drain while most systems are deactivated.
Once the battery is actually out all the way, we’ll let you know. For now we’re running on several days’ steam without an issue – most of that is, indeed, time spent with the display off, and we’re expecting far larger dents in the device’s up time once this device sees a 4G LTE iteration.
Wrap-up
This device is ready to be a lovely addition to your Samsung Galaxy S 4 family of smart devices. If you’ve got a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1, there’s little reason to upgrade – and you might just want to skip this generation if you really enjoy your front-facing speakers which do not appear here in 2013 – unless you’ve got the Galaxy Note 10.1, of course. The Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 instead is the topmost hero tablet for the Samsung universe at the moment, running a quad-core Samsung Exynos processor and rolling with an S-Pen to boot.
While the Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 also brings some heat to the party, it’s with the Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 8.0 that this smaller form-factor does battle with. It’s also missing the front-facing speakers, while we’re on the subject. Where did they go, and why did they disappear?
Above: Samsung Galaxy S 4, Galaxy Note 8.0, Galaxy Tab 3 10.1, and Galaxy Tab 3 8.0 (from top to bottom).
The Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 brings on the full aesthetic and software abilities of the Samsung Galaxy S 4 to the market. If you’ve already got a Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 or Galaxy Tab 3 10.1, make with the skipping of this generation. If you want to connect to your Samsung Galaxy S 4-era family of devices with a variety of entertaining and powerful apps and features and have no recent-generation 10.1-inch tablet to speak of, feel free to select the $399 USD Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 – it’s slick.
Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 Review is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Jun 24
Following the company’s big “Premiere” event last week where they announced a slew of new products, but today they’re focusing on a new tablet series that Samsung outed a couple weeks ago, dubbed the Galaxy Tab 3. The company has given us availability and pricing details for all three tablets as far as the US
Jan 30
Samsung is certainly casting a really, really wide net when it comes to the amount of smartphones and tablets which they will be introducing to the market later this year. First of all, we have confirmation that the Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 (which will obviously be the successor to the Galaxy Tab 2) will be coming our way, as it has been confirmed by Samsung’s very own UAPROF (User Agent Profile) files.
Apart from that, we have new information that the UAPROF files of the Samsung GT-P3200, GT-P5200 and GT-P8200 are made available. Needless to say, some juicy details can be garnered from these UAPROF files, and using our powers of deduction, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 7.0”/8.0” will rely on a screen resolution of 1024 × 600 pixels (bah, no High Definition here!) while the Galaxy Tab 3 10.1” will have a more respectable pixel count of 1280 × 800. As for the cream of the crop, the Galaxy Tab 3 Plus, that will have a monster screen resolution of 2560 × 1600 that is the equivalent as that of the Nexus 10. Image courtesy of PhoneArena.
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Jan 28
This isn’t the first time we’re hearing about Samsung’s rumored Galaxy Tab 3. Not too long ago, we were treated with another leak that revealed two different screen sizes that the company will shell out. Today, though, we’re seeing actual photos of the device that give us a better idea of what we’re in for before its possible reveal at MWC next month.
From the size and proportions of the tablet seen in the photos, we’re guessing it’s the 7-inch variant of the Galaxy Tab 3 (with the other being a 10-inch model), but nothing in the images point to one or the other. We’re guessing that both sizes of the tablet will be identical in design for the most part.
Both of the photos include the actual device and the box that it comes in, along with a model number and everything. However, the full model number isn’t completely legible, but it starts with “GT-P,” which is what most Samsung tablets usually start out with. The photos also don’t show the device on or running, so we can’t get a closer look at the UI just yet.
So far, no specs have been revealed, other than the 7-inch and 10-inch size variants. Until we see more leaks of photos or even video, it looks like we may have to wait until Mobile World Congress in Barcelona before we get a real glimpse at the thing. Of course, we’ll be there live covering the event, so be sure to stick around for MWC coverage.
[via Phone Arena]
Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 images leak before MWC reveal is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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