Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 - Tablet test - TELEPOLIS.PL

view of the ongoing boom in the tablet manufacturers regularly bringing to the market more and more new devices in virtually every possible size, trying to find a niche for their products. Samsung Series Note well accepted among users, and its trademark – the stylus – permanently attached to each other a lot of users. Between a model and 10.1 Note phablet Galaxy Note II (and 3) the Korean manufacturer has chosen to locate somewhere in the middle, 8-inch N5100. Is the market flooded with a lot less expensive and more expensive tablets to Samsung manages to find arguments to convince customers to another product? Or “indirect” Note has to offer something new on their buyers? I invite you to review.

The Box

According to this year’s trend of Samsung Note can human packed in a cardboard box in the “recycled” style. In addition to a fairly original colors like no surprise box and its contents is sad mediocrity-charger and USB cable in white and a handful of leaflets. Given that the Note Series is the most expensive line of Samsung models, it’s a little pity that lacked even the most basic headset. I wish all the more that the GT-N5100 is not well suited to conduct direct talks, although this possibility has. But more about that later.

Specifications

Galaxy Note 8.0 to the device from the so-called. “High-end”. Although there are now better equipped tablets, but it’s specifications are not uncontroversial. The heart of Samsung’s quad-core Cortex A9 cores clocked at 1.6 GHz Exynos chipset sown in 4412 with the well-known GPU Mali-400MP. Tablet has 16GB built-in memory (32GB version is also available), expandable with microSD cards and 2 GB of main memory. Device has a diagonal screen 8 inches and a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels (about 190ppi). Note comes with a GSM modem works in virtually all popular frequencies at HSDPA speeds to 21 Mb / s and HSUPA 5.76 Mbit / s There was also a Bluetooth module (4.0) and WiFi (a / b / g / n WiFi-enabled-direct, DLNA and function of the hot-spot). The tablet will find a microUSB connector (supports USB host and MHL standard), 3.5 mm audio output, stereo speakers and two cameras (main 5 megapixel with the possibility of shooting HD video and 1.3 megapixel front). Note can human housing has dimensions of 210.8 x 135.9 x 8 mm and a battery with a capacity of 4600 mAh weighs 338gramów.

As you can see the specification does a pretty good impression. You can of course attach the screen resolution has already differs slightly from the most recent standards, but still most competitive devices presents similar characteristics. But it does not change the fact that Note 8.0 is one of the better-equipped tablets on the market.

The quality of the housing, screen, buttons

In 2012 years Samsung has introduced a whole new style of their devices. Starting from the model of the Galaxy S III Korean manufacturer all devices are very similar in shape and materials, each repeated is also the layout of the buttons below the screen. Apart from the issues of aesthetic uniformity line all smartphones can understand, but pushing the same solution in the tablet is in my opinion misguided idea.
I’ll start subjectively: the first tablet is simply ugly. Although the taste is not discussed, it is probably not the person in front of you with an iPad Mini, the new Nexus 7 and the devices in the Galaxy and to identify the most attractive of Samsung. The device looks just like a stretched in every direction, the above mentioned Galaxy S III, the whole is made of glossy white plastic and silver frame around the casing does not even try to imitate aluminum. Picking up the N5100 is hard to imagine that we are dealing with a product of the highest quality, and effectively masks the outward appearance of a good specification. You can not have every right to fold the claims of individual housing components and its implementation, but the way to finish completely spoils the end result.

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