Samsung Galaxy 8.9 Hands On: Is 8.9 Inches of Tablet the Sweet Spot?

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Samsung Galaxy 8.9 Hands On: Is 8.9 Inches of Tablet the Sweet Spot?

Remember the Galaxy Tab 10.1? We alleged it the best Android Tablet yet, and it still is. This is basically that, but 1.2 inches smaller.


Samsung Galaxy 8.9 Hands On: Is 8.9 Inches of Tablet the Sweet Spot?
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On the software side, the 10.1 and the 8.9 are indistinguishable. They're both active Android Honeycomb 3.1 with Samsung's super-special tablet-version of their TouchWiz UI. Handling this puppy, it is light. It's just 447 grams to the Galaxy 10.1's 595 (which was already lighter than the iPad 2). It's added metal and Gorilla Glass (though the aback is still plastic), so it feels absolutely sturdy—which is like, absorbing for a Samsung device. Feels like it could yield a tumble and accumulate on going. Maybe.


Samsung Galaxy 8.9 Hands On: Is 8.9 Inches of Tablet the Sweet Spot?
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Samsung Galaxy 8.9 Hands On: Is 8.9 Inches of Tablet the Sweet Spot?

Using it, well, it's the aforementioned as the Galaxy Tab 10.1, which is acceptable and bad. It's acceptable in that if you blaze it up it's actual fast and responsive, but it's bad in that it shares all of Honeycomb's faults, like if you've opened a agglomeration of apps, it starts dragging, even admitting Android should be demography affliction of that automatically. Not acutely slow, but it's noticeable.

It's a little harder to see what Samsung's bend is here. It's so agnate to the Galaxy 10.1 that it begs the question: why do this at all? Were there a ton of humans that anticipation the 10.1 was like an inch and a division too big and that's all that kept them from affairs it? It's harder to brainstorm that the 10.1's 595 grams was too abundant for anyone, but maaaaybe about out there bare to barber about a division off that weight? Oh, and it's crazy thin. 8.6mm (roughly a third of an inch). Absolutely the thinnest book we've apparent yet.


Samsung Galaxy 8.9 Hands On: Is 8.9 Inches of Tablet the Sweet Spot?

If I were a action man, I'd say you can apparently just apprehend our Galaxy Book 10.1 analysis and save yourself some time, but we'll absolutely accept a analysis in the advancing weeks. There are two versions, both of which are Wi-Fi only. They will be accessible nation-wide on October 2nd at $469 for the 16GB adaptation and $569 for the 32GB version, which is, you know, way too expensive.

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