Overall, it is a good product but considering the price, is it value for money, you decide yourself: My rating depicts my view
Pros:
Gorgeous screen but too oversaturated that strains eyes significantly over a long a period of time.
Solid and very pretty design
Calling tablet hence all mobile app (whatsapps, mobile banking,shopping etc.) are installable. No discrimination by APPS
Controlled heating but that controls performance as well.
Cons:
- Insufficient RAM or poor RAM management, out of 2.7 GB (real RAM) only 1.6 GB was available on first boot and after installing 20 odd apps, free RAM almost never crosses 1.4 GB mark. If you are power consumer i.e. twitter, facebook, email, whatsapp then dont expect to have more than 1.1 GB RAM free.
- Lots of bloatware like normal GOOGLE APPS plus samsung's own apps plus plus microsoft app like skype, ms office etc. Come on samsung I paid for the 32 GB storage,, allow me to decide what I want in that storage.
- Average or below average battery backup. 5970 MAH battery for 9.7 inch screen is a JOKE. If you want more battery then use all black themes like wallpaper, browser background,, twitter theme, facebook theme etc. But if I have to use BLACK for battery purposes what the the is need for GORGEOUSNESS of AMOLED screen. Come on sammy increase the thickness by .5 mm but give me at least 7000 MAH buddy.
- Charging from 0 to 100% is a nightmare (anything between 3.5 to 4.5 hours).. Dont kid me sammy. Why not fast charging in a tablet of 40k.
- Somewhat average gaming performance. I could face quite lot of lag while playing NOVA, NEED FOR SPEED etc.
- Average camera performance. Front camera is useless if you are looking for a high definition SKYPE or VIDEO CALL. Rear camera is good for day lighting. Under room lighting it is not even worth using. Why not a SINGLE LED flash sammy like on NEXUS9.
- Slows down significantly over a period of time. I did try to optimise by disabling almost all bloatwares, disabling screen effects and screen animations yet after 3 months or so, its performance lagged quite significantly. May be due to their POOR exynos chipset...
- Finger print scanner is not an active but passive one which means, you have to press the front home button to wake up and then only you can use the FINGER PRINT to unlock the device unlike many phones which unlock the device straightaway.
- No BLUE LIGHT filter. Display mode does have READING MODE but that reading mode is not actually a reading mode. Reading mode enhances the color reproduction quite significantly which strains the eyes, further, though the screen colors do get little warm by this reading mode but BLUE LIGHT is still very significant so as to disturb your sleep.
Think before spending almost 40k.
- Ritesh Gupta4 Mar, 2017
