Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4 – PCLab.pl

Construction		Home
size	219 x 128.5 x 7.2 mm	Range (MHz)	no
Weight	331 g	GPS / Glonass	Yes / Yes
Screen	8.4-inch, 2560 x 1600 pixels, 359 PPI	Bluetooth	Yes, 4.0
Processor (SoC + GPU)	Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 2.3 GHz, Adreno 330	HDMI	No
RAM	2 GB	USB Host	Yes
Memory Built	16 GB	Camera	back: 8 MP, autofocus, LED, image stabilization, video 1080p / 30 frames. The front 2 MP, 1080p video
Battery	Li-Ion 4800 mAh	Other	Wi-Fi, Digital compass

Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.4 Pro – construction and quality of workmanship

Galaxy Tab 8.4 Pro looks much better than the previous tablets of this family. It has a much more modern design and resembles a large smartphone, which makes it look very elegant. Tablet dimensions are 219 x 128.5 x 7.2 mm and the weight is 331 grams, so it is very slim and lightweight, making it great in the hand. It also emphasizes the elegance of the ultra thin bezel surrounding the screen.

The housing is made of plastic, although the rear panel where the main camera lens provided with a flash designed to resemble the skin. Care was even imitation seam. Unfortunately this is not the skin, which on closer inspection is somewhat spoiled the overall picture of the device. The skin is not skin, so silver frame surrounding the edge of the device is also not aluminum, but made of plastic, but pretty good imitation of metal.

The edge of the device is normally occupied by the input and slots, so the left side of the slot is microSD card face-down flap. On the right edge of the manufacturer placed the infrared port, the switch device and the volume button. At the bottom there is a place for speakers and a micro USB port, while the top edge is the headphone jack.

The front of the Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4 will find the screen surrounded by a very narrow bezel, so we feel that it occupies the entire front of the tablet . Above it is a mesh video cameras, speaker and proximity sensor and light. Under the display the Home button and touch navigation keys.

Housing looks very nice, typical for Samsung rounded corners do not throw that much in his eyes, and folding of materials is at a decent level.

Display

One of the strongest points of the Galaxy Tab 8.4 Pro is without a doubt the screen of performance slightly better than the iPad Mini with Retina and Nexus 7 manufacturer decided to 8.4-inch panel with wielodotykiem supports up to 10 points of contact, so they can use it at the same time two people. The matrix is ​​a technology Super Clear LC and provides us with a superior resolution of 2560 x 1600 pixels with a density of 359 PPI. It gives an excellent picture, very clear and dense color.

Brightness of the screen is also excellent and is 400 cd / m 2, and the contrast to 860: 1. These parameters give us a guarantee that even on a clear day there will be problems with using the tablet. Unfortunately, the overall effect is somewhat spoiled by shiny glass protects the screen from scratches. So we have to be careful that the light does not shine directly on the screen, because then there will be little to be seen.

Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4 right out of the box already has Android 4.4 Kitkat, which, like other Samsung tablet, equipped with a range of applications supplied by the manufacturer, as well as proprietary overlay UX Magazine. It’s quite useful element to conveniently grouped most commonly used applications, as well as display notifications, calendar, and messages from the network, on specific topics.

Installed applications are primarily focused on the business use of the equipment. So we have a program of e-Meeting, which allows you to share documents with other users such as his. During official meetings. There is also a Remote PC allows you to remotely control our personal computer. There were also Hancom Viewer document viewer, and one of the most interesting options is KNOX, which allows us to isolate the device password protected private area where you can keep contacts, photos and other personal files.

The rest of the program is standard, and thus include YouTube, Chrome, the Google Play, Gmail, as well as a lot of the services offered by Google. There were also a media player that supports audio-video all major formats.

Tablet also has a GPS module spisującym is pretty good when it comes to laying out the route, which also gives us the current speed. For while Bluetooth connectivity is responsible as well as Wi-Fi 802.11 n / ac. There is also a model of LTE, which will give us a much more convenient connectivity to the Internet network.

The quality of the sounds emitted by the speakers is decent. Of course you should not expect it to be perfect, but given their size and power, it is not so bad.

For some time now tablets fitted with cameras, so Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4 could not be worse than its rivals and also it exists. The main camera has 8 megapixel matrix and has, among others, autofocus, flash, face and smile detection and geo-taging. He also recorded the video in 1080p at 30 frames. Movies in the same resolution registers we also equipped with a front camera 2 megapixel matrix.

Performance

Earlier Models tablet Galaxy Tab family were not the strongest. This time is different, because Samsung has installed made in 28 nm process technology Qualcomm Snapdragon system 800 This quad-core processor clocked at 2.3 GHz is the clock Krait cores 400 and it supports Adreno 330 GPU running at 450 MHz. Memory installed 2 GB RAM while.

Performance Galaxy Tab 8.4 Pro are really decent and are at a level slightly more expensive iPad Mini with Retina, and is an excellent recommendation for hardware Samsung.

Memory use is, however, 16 GB or 32 GB, thanks to the micro SD card connector, it can be extended by a further 64 GB. We gain so really a lot of space for movies, music, apps and games.

Battery

So powerful tablet like the Galaxy Tab 8.4 Pro should have a large battery, which would ensure him a long time . And how is it in practice? Installed the tablet battery has a fairly large capacity 4800 mAh, which according to the manufacturer allows for 11 hours of typical use of equipment, while not shying from multimedia, and more than 120 hours of music. It’s more or less agrees with the true result obtained during the tests, but at minimum load, WLAN off, and reduced screen brightness, we can get even more than 20 hours.

Price and cost

Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4 we get on the Polish market for about 1000 zł. That’s the price more or less second-generation Nexus 7, but if Samsung get equipment with much better performance. Equipped with a great screen, powerful processor, the new Android and a large range of multimedia applications, the Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4 is the hardware, which is ideal not only for work but for fun, and who by the way can snatch us a large hole in your wallet.