SAMSUNG GALAXY TAB S 8.4 REVIEW (WIFI+CELLULAR)


Samsung launched its premium android tablet in india namely Galaxy Tab S 8.4 which is priced in india @ 44,499/-. It is available is Bronze & White shades.

DESIGN, BUILD QUALITY & DISPLAY
The design of this phone is quite good. It has corning glass 3 on front and a dimpled finish plastic back and feels quite good in hands. It is slim at 6.6mm and weighs 298gms. It has 10.5 inch Quad HD Super AMOLED display of resolution 2560 X 1600 with 359 ppi. The viewing angles and sunlight legibility of the display is Excellent. It runs on Touch Wiz User Interface. The display supports 10 multi-touch points and the brightness of the screen is Great.

STORAGE, MULTIMEDIA & CONNECTIVITYS
It has 16GB/32GB of internal storage which is further expandable upto 128GB. The device features dedicated multimedia apps like music for songs, a gallery to store all images and videos and a movie player for playing movies respectively which are quite good. FM radio comes pre-installed. Conductivities like 2G, 3G speeds upto 42.2mbps download & upto 5.76mbps upload, 4G speeds upto 150mbps download & upto 50mbps upload, Wifi a/b/g/n/ac, Wifi dual-band, Wifi direct, Wifi hotsopt as well as Bluetooth 4.0 & USB OTG. But also has IR blaster and lacks NFC.

CAMERA & VIDEO RECORDING CAPABILITIES
It has a 8MP rear camera with autofocus which features Simultaneous image and video recording, Geo-tagging, Touch focus, Image stabilization, HDR etc. The camera clarity is Very good overall. Daytime the images are Pretty good and has good amount of details respectively but in the night is where the noise starts to become bit visible visible and to get better details at night HDR mode images with bit of steady hands helps to produce slightly better images still image quality at night is descent due to lack of led flash. It does HD 1080p@30fps video recording with video stabilization and stereo sound but lacks HDR having bit-rate of 17mbps and stores in mp4 format. The video recording clarity is Very good overall. Daytime the video clarity is Pretty good and has good amount of details respectively but at night video clarity is average due to lack of led flash. It also has a 2.1MP front camera for selfe's with 1080p video recording and clarity is quite good.

SOFTWARE, HARDWARE, PERFORMANCE & BENCHMARKS
It runs Android (OS) 4.4.2 Kitkat out of the box. It has Samsung's Exynos 5 Octa (5420) processor running a quad core 1.9 GHZ (Cortex-A15) & a quad core 1.3 GHZ (Cortex-A7) and Mali T628 MP6 (Hexa core) GPU (Indian Version) & Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 (MSM8974AB) processor running a Quad core 2.3 GHZ (Cortex-A15) and Adreno 330 (550 MHZ Single core) GPU (International version) both versions with 3GB RAM. The performance is Excellent which provides number of graphic intensive games and multitasking very well and there is no lag at all cases.
QUADRANT : 25690 (Indian version)/25490(International version).
ANTUTU : 38976 (Indian Version)/38185(International version).
NENAMARK 2 : 59.1fps (Indian version)/59.9fps(International version).

BATTERY LIFE PERFORMANCE
It has a Non-removable Li-Ion 4900 mah battery. The battery life is Pretty good which is given below.
BROWSING : upto 9:30H.
VIDEO WATCHING: upto 9:30H.
TALKTIME : upto 13H(2G) / upto 12H(3G).
STANDBY TIME: upto 720H(2G) / upto 700H(3G).

PROS
*Very good build quality.
*Top class display & viewing angle.
*Excellent Performance.
*Very good camera and video recording clarity overall.
*USB OTG & IR blaster. 
*FingerPrint Scanner.
*Pretty good battery life
*Very good loudspeaker.

CONS
*Non-Removable Battery.
*No NFC support.
*Exynos varient does not have LTE support. 
*pricy.

OVERALL PRODUCT RATING° : 9/10.
°overall product rating refers to all the aspects including the price, performance, overall quality, features, etc., based on individual product.

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