Excellent processing, super fast, very comfortable.  A particularly high-quality tablet with incredible possibilities!

Excellent processing, super fast, very comfortable. A particularly high-quality tablet with incredible possibilities!

Samsung Galaxy Tab S 21.34 cm (8.4 inches) WiFi Tablet PC (quad-core, 1.9GHz, 3GB of RAM, 16GB of internal memory, Android) white (Personal Computers)

Customer Review

I had always only Tablets from the lower price ranges, and was able to buy this tablet for incredible 199 for me and my partner, thanks to Samsung cashback and an offer for a German online shop in the spring of 2015.
The screen is a class of its own, it is currently in the consumer sector, the höchaufgelösteste display the world! It is so sharp and in high resolution that I had difficulty finding test videos. The YouTube app from Google has a maximum video with "2K" resolution on offer, the display of the Galaxy Tabs would support twice about it! This display has to be seen, it is very bright and enjoys a blaze of color. Via the settings you configure the color saturation, if it is too colorful, too. The brightness is dynamically adapted to the ambient light.
One can see the pixels are not with the naked eye at each letter. I think a higher resolution you will never need (except for data glasses as "Google Glass", there you look but through a magnifying lens on the display).

The much decried Samsung "bloatware" that was installed (pre-installed Apps) proved in practice to be quite useful, there are very few apps that I have uninstalled sporadically. This has apparently get to grips Samsung. However, I do believe that the tablet without the many pre-installed apps that are constantly active in the background, again would be a lot faster (there are really constantly 20-30 apps running in the background, almost like on a Windows PC).

A particularly useful feature is the read mode, the one example of the "Kindle for Samsung" - may enable app (this app get Galaxy Tab S - owners of Samsung paid, like many other apps as well). This special mode Ebooks are shown still legible.
I recommend the mode with white letters on a black background, as this contrast is particularly high (this is the darkest black that there are currently in tablets).

Something special about the Super AMOLED display of the Galaxy Tab S is that black pixels are actually turned off (they do not light up). Thus, the contrast of the device is theoretically infinitely high. This is no comparison to any other display that I have ever seen.
Thus, the display consumes less power accordingly. In a special power-saving mode, you can operate the tablet so that as many areas are / displayed in black gray (and only the most important apps are active), in this way the battery have a monthly maintains long! That's good, is when you go camping or hiking, for example, and for a long time has no way to charge the tablet.

In continuous operation on the first day (surfing, install apps, install updates, games to try and so on), the battery lasted from the original 65% (charge status directly after I got there) displayed until such time as a warning was because only the battery yet was charged under 15%, virtually all day long.

WiFi and Bluetooth function superbly.
The camera and the rear camera function well. Video Chat with Skype has worked passable terms of quality, and with the camera, I like one hand of lightning, but also that you can change the focus by pressing a key on the subject even during video recording. There is in the preinstalled Kamerapp an opportunity to establish panoramas directly live that has already works flawlessly on my first try, what really impressed me!

The tested games and Apps all ran perfectly smoothly and quickly. Through the multi-window mode you can even open multiple windows at the same time, work in it, and copy data back and forth and move.

Also connect to Chromecast Google worked brilliantly, and I could use the tablet as a 3D game controller on the big screen in the living room for flight simulators like Fractal Combat X.
The Chromecast connection works very well (without delay) if I eg with my Stylus something write or draw.

The built-in GPS and compass, I can try with the app "Sky Map", with which one can constellations, stars, galaxies, etc. See. This has an "Augmented Reality" - mode in which you hold the tablet in the sky, and gets shown live, which stars and planets at the respective position are.
That's impressive!

The speech recognition and handwriting recognition with the pre-installed Samsung ("S") Apps work very quickly and astonishingly accurate.

The Remote Desktop Connection via Microsoft Remote Desktop or TeamViewer have no other of my devices to date ever worked so well over Wi-Fi, as with the Tab S.
You can even play 3D games so remote, everything is very fluid.

The pre-installed Widgets turn out in practice to be very practical, you can customize with most the size and position. I think it's very well done, and got used to it quickly. I want to not miss now, I can see, for example, my emails and appointments at a glance, or the weather and the news. That's great!

A 5 Android update will be released in February or March 2015, according to official Samsung details.

Unfortunately, you can Prime Instant Video Amazon only indirectly use (Flash 11.1 for Android KitKat an .apk from the install www manually, and the Dolphin browser on the desktop view using), which is the Android version owed.

I think the tablet is rightly described as the "best tablet in the world".
I would buy it again at any time.
It is very high quality, ultra-thin, is not too warm, and recharged in no time (a few hours).
And outrageously chic the Tab S is also, through the golden edge!

As an accessory I bought still following:
-The Original Samsung Slim Case Cover Book, which is awesome thin. It has cutouts for the camera and the flash, and the tablet will automatically detect a brightness sensor, when you open the cover and then turn on or off. There can be special clip fasteners on the back of the Galaxy Tab S fix (this is nowhere on, and the tablet is wonderfully thin), and holds bombproof. The cover supports four different installation angle (for video-watch, write about, and so on).
The Samsung Book Cover costs under 30th

-the "Just Mobile Aluminium Stylus Digital", which has a thin tip, and can be used with all capacitive displays is (unfortunately it is quite expensive with 45). This stylus works great, and it feels good, and it does not require special app for that. It is very suitable both for drawing and writing. It is probably the only functioning stylus with a fine tip for currently normal capacitive screens. The variants with thicker tip I do not personally like, that produce too much friction.

-a CCNOW Micro USB Adapter MHL to HDMI to the tablet via micro-USB port to connect (with MHL support) to a monitor (for that you need an additional power supply for the adapter via microUSB, that works with the original charging cable is included with the tablet). This is an original Samsung umgelabelter adapter, and costs around 10 degrees.

-A Alienwork 0,26mm screen protection glass, which with more than 15 is quite expensive, but provides perfect protection, and this is very thin for a protection glass.

-A UHS-I 16GB with MicroSD card Intenso for under 9 so as not to let the many apps in the internal memory (in the current version of the operating system can Apps under Android 4 move to the external memory card in the previous versions was not yet possible). This is very fast in combination with the tablet, but it takes about 20 seconds after switching on until it is completely read.

Therefore -A German Bluetooth keyboard of EC Technology for around 15. Unfortunately, I have not figured out how I Keyboard Layout on Tablet umstelle in German, and has the "z" and "y" key always swap when writing.

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