The Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4 sticks to the design established with 2013 Galaxy phones and tablets like the Galaxy Note 3. Its back is matt textured plastic, rather than the glossy black plastic that was for years a Samsung Galaxy staple.It has a fake leather effect-complete with fake stitching-and isn't our idea of class, especially compared with the iPad mini's smooth metal rear. However, asus t100ta power supply it does offer extra grip and a less tacky finish than glossy plastic.The sides of the tablet are plastic too, but made up to look like brushed metal. They don't look too bad, but lack the cool feel of the aluminium sides of the LG G Pad 8.3 and iPad mini. We can't fault the Tab Pro 8.4's construction, though. It feels dense, strong-and while we don't love the design, it is consistent.Thanks to its mid-size screen, the Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4 is highly portable. dell venue 11 pro 5130 charger It weighs just 331g and its 7.2mm thickness makes it easy to slip into a bag. It's not a device you'd want to operate in one hand, but is light enough to use while standing up on the train on the way to work-from the Tab Pro range, this is the one to pick for that sort of task.The Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4's portability isn't quite as good as an iPad mini, though. This is a taller, thinner tablet than Apple's one, and the difference in weight distribution makes it slightly less sure to hold-especially in one hand.It's all down to the screen aspect: the Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4 has a 16:10 screen, the iPad mini a 4:3 one. However, it's a minor point, and something that affects almost all Android tablets.
Features
Some of Samsung's recent tablets have used a micro USB 3.0 port (see Galaxy Note 3, Note Pro 12.2) rather than a normal one, but the Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4 has a standard micro USB socket. It's no great loss, though, and the port sensibly sits lenovo ideapad miix 10 tablet power cord at the centre of the bottom edge of the tablet.On the right edge is a little black plastic blip that covers the IR blaster. This lets you control your TV and other home entertainment devices using the Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4, and is something missing from most lower-end Android tablets. However, as the cheaper LG G Pad 8.3 also has one of these, it doesn't afford the tablet serious bragging rights.In common with almost all Galaxy-series devices, there's a microSD card slot on the left edge, covered by a flap. This makes adding to the 16GB or 32GB of internal memory both easy and cheap. However, unlike the Samsung Galaxy S5, none of the tablet's sony tablet s charger ports are sealed-the Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4 is not waterproof or dustproof.Missing extras like this tell you the Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4 is a mid-range device in the Galaxy range. However, it is relatively high-end in the 8-inch tablet space. Smaller Android tablets generally try to keep their prices fairly low.
Screen
The Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4 has one of the more conventional screens in the Tab Pro series, but its specs are impressive. It's an 8.4-inch LCD-type screen with a resolution of 2,560 x 1,600. That's very high for a tablet this size, and the same resolution as the 12.2-inch version.Sharpness is far better than the larger Tab Pro versions-it is excellent. This is helped by the use of a standard, pa5013u 1brs uniform RGB subpixel array. Several Samsung Galaxy devices use non-RGB PenTile-based screens, whose pixel structure reduces the impression of sharpness.The one downside of having such a high resolution on a relatively small Android tablet is that it can make some interface elements in apps look pretty small as most developers assume a tablet using this resolution would be larger. The panel's response time is not perfect, either. High-contrast interface elements leave short ¡®trails' when you flick quickly through the interface, but the effect is both minor and fairly common.The one issue that does stick is that Samsung has overcompensated for the idea that an LCD screen like the Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4's can't reproduce the same wide colour gamut as an OLED screen like the Galaxy S5's. apple cinema display power supply Colours are oversaturated, leading to them looking unnatural.Perfectly normal faces tend to gain the ruddy complexion of an alcoholic on the sauce and grass can look like it is radioactive. The interface really pops, but the screen tone is a bit off movie-watching. It's disappointing when the screen is otherwise impressive.In some other Galaxy phones and tablets, oversaturation can be tamed with the ¡®Movie display mode, but the Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4 lacks any custom screen modes like this.However, size-wise it's great. 8.4 inches is definitely a tablet screen size rather than a phone, and it's easily large enough to watch films on comfortably. It comes across as being a similar size to the 7.9-inch iPad mini display-a 4:3 display seems a bit larger than a widescreen one yoga 3 pro power adapter in most tasks (aside from watching widescreen movies). And while we've criticised the display, we should also note that the iPad mini display isn't perfect either, with noticeably worse colour reproduction than an iPad Air.
Software features
Samsung's latest version of TouchWiz offers many of the same options as before, but the new Magazine UX adds a fresh Flipboard functionality. Instead of putting widgets on the same screen as normal app icons (which you can still do), the Magazine UX pages are completely composed of tile-like widgets. You can choose between news, social, and app widgets and the customization options are simple, but a bit time-consuming to set up. I found some of the news widget categories to be less interesting than others, with as few as one update per day, asus laptop q400a battery and the social widgets were too small and showed limited information, making it a constrained way to consume your social media.Though the integration with Flipboard is nice, you're often just led into the app itself from the Magazine UX page. It's like a glorified shortcut made beautiful, only to take advantage of the pixel-dense screen. But I digress, because I eventually came around to liking it, since the Magazine UX added more photography, as well as colorful imagery, to the day-to-day tablet experience. However, it was a little buggy at times--I was frequently asked to make my "first magazine" after trying to save articles, even though I already had many magazines set up, and swiping between pages sometimes lagged.I like the new Windows 8-reminiscent experience of the Magazine UX pages, but also appreciate the regular ol' TouchWiz features just as much (I'm talking to you, WatchOn remote). If you're not a fan of the Magazine UX, you can minimize its presence on your tablet, but Samsung Samsung NP350V5C battery offers no way to opt out of it. For a different perspective on Samsung's Magazine UX, check out Eric Franklin's review of the Samsung Galaxy Note Tab Pro 12.2.
Hardware features
The Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4 houses a Snapdragon 800 chipset, with a 2.3GHz quad-core Krait 400 CPU and Adreno 330 GPU. There's also 2GB of RAM and 16GB or 32GB of internal storage, with a microSD card slot.The 8.4-inch slate also packs an infrared port, stereo Bluetooth 4.0, an accelerometer, and a gyroscope sensor. With their respective adapters, the Galaxy Tab Pro can support Ethernet, acer aspire switch 10 power supply HDMI TV-out, and a USB host. The tablet features Wi-Fi 802.11 ac/a/b/g/n, and will be available in 3G and LTE versions.
Performance
The 2,560x1,600-pixel-resolution screen makes the Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4 one of the most pixel-dense screens to date. The super-sharp screen has great wide viewing angles and it more than satisfies in clarity and color when it comes to watching HD video or gaming.For a tablet, the Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4's cameras aren't too shabby. The rear camera takes sharp photos with lifelike lenovo yoga 3 power adapter color, and the flash option works surprisingly well at night--for both photo and video--as long as what you're capturing is in the flash's range, of course. Dark photos without the flash come out grainy and even when you use the Smart Stabilization mode, which helps brighten the image, it tends to oversaturate colors and over-contrast the image.The front 2-megapixel camera is pretty decent; photos are both a little grainy and fuzzy, and there's a slight reddish tint to the photos. Video taken with the camera was surprisingly stable, even when taken while the camera was moving around. The quality is still a bit fuzzy, but I was impressed by the image stabilization.Gaming performance is smooth and fast. Mobile games like Flappy Bird, Angry Birds, and Candy Crush ran without a hitch. Large games sometimes crashed if there were too many apps open, but they otherwise loaded quickly and performance was consistently smooth.The two bottom speakers acer iconia one 7 charger go surprisingly loud. Some genres of music sound flat, but vocals, no matter what genre, tend to sound crisp and clear. Horns and cymbals are tinny and harsh if too loud, not an uncommon problem, but otherwise, for tablet speakers, the Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4's are pretty, pretty, pretty good.Just like a few Samsung Galaxy tablets before it, the Tab Pro 8.4 has multiwindow capabilities. By simply swiping left from the right edge, you can make a variety of multiwindow apps appear, for your productivity--or procrastination--pleasure. All of the apps launched fast and once I got the hang of resizing the windows, it was a great way to quickly look things up without having to exit the app I was using. Unfortunately, the Netflix app doesn't allow streaming while a window is open, so you can't simultaneously watch "House of Cards" and browse dog breeds on Chrome. Even though I enjoyed being able to use the multiwindow function at my whim, it often caused performance to slow down and lag, discouraging me from using it often.
Apps and Games
Such power means the Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4 can handle high-end games with relative ease. We tried out Real Racing 3, Asphalt 8 and Dead Trigger 2 and general performance in all is good, with just the occasional frame rate drop that is to be expected of the imperfect optimisation of virtually every Android game.After playing for a while, the Tab Pro 8.4 gets a little warm, and heat is centralised in one key spot by the left edge of the tablet. Unfortunately, you're likely be holding this part if you're using the Tab Pro 8.4 in portrait aspect. But it does only get warm rather than dangerously hot, and it only becomes noticeable when playing processor-intensive games rather than more easy-going apps.s a ¡®pro' series device, the Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4 comes with a bunch of business-leaning apps pre-installed. Here's a quick list of what you get, and what they do: WebEx---an app that lets you have virtual meetings using the WebEx standard. Remote PC---lets you remotely access your computer using the tablet. This is Samsung software, so you won't find it in many other tablets. e-Meeting---Another Samsung joint---it's a shared virtual whiteboard you can use for virtual meetings. You can also share files using the app. It's handy, but the other attendees need to have the app too. Hancom Viewer---Lets you read your Office files.Like just about every Samsung phone, you get S Planner, Samsung's own calendar app too. And 50GB of Dropbox storage for two years. Samsung has also fiddled with the operating system to offer some extra features. Perhaps the most notable is Multi Window. This lets you run two apps at once, splitting the screen and letting you choose how much space each one gets.The Magazine screen samsung np900x3a battery is also present in the Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4. It's another set of homescreens that offers a view of your calendar, emails and aggregated online news sources. It is effectively a skinned and tweaked version of popular app Flipboard---check it out if you want to know what Magazine is roughly like.Extras like Multi Window and Magazine are what help separate Samsung's tablets from the competition. But they also make the Tab Pro 8.4 a little less easy to get on with at first, and likely contribute to its performance issues.
Case
We have had both larger models of the Galaxy Tab/Note Pro in our hands, and presented our verdict about them. The tablet looks like an over-sized smartphone - even more so than its bigger brothers - but our review sample does not have the phone module. Subjectively, nothing has changed about the choice of materials or build quality of the 8.4-inch version. Measuring 219 x 128.5 x 7.2 mm (8.6 x 5.1 x 0.3 inches), it is of course much smaller, slimmer, and even twice as light as the 12.2-inch Galaxy Note Pro. The iPad Mini Retina is shorter (200 mm; 7.9 inches), but also wider and higher (134.7 x 7.5 mm; 5.3 x 0.3 inches) than our review sample. Compared with the older Galaxy Tab 3 8.0, it has gained 17 grams (0.6 ounces). Samsung has not managed to lessen the width or length, though the display is 0.4 inches bigger. The 8-inch members of the lenovo y50 70 battery Windows division are considerably heavier, weighing 388 grams (13.7 ounces), and thicker (9 mm; 0.4 inches). The difference in length and width is extremely slight (216 x 130 mm; 8.5 x 5.1 inches).
Conclusion
The Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4 makes a good case for spending more to get more. Its top-of-the-line specs and zippy performance come in a package that will appease the aesthetically inclined and the business professional alike. Its $400 starting price is an expensive far cry from what you'd pay for some small slates, like the Nexus 7 and the Amazon Kindle Fire HDX 8.9, but, in the face of this budget-tablet flood, the Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4 offers more than those models--a lot more. The Apple iPad Mini with Retina Display costs the same amount, Asus G75VW battery but if you're more interested in a high-end slate with Android appeal, the Samsung Galaxy Pro Tab 8.4 ranks high in the niche of premium small tablets.