Galaxy Note 8.0 Hands On: The 8-Inch Tablet That’s an 8-Inch… Phone

Samsung ’s Galaxy Note just grew to 8 column inch . It ’s in reality really skillful . It combines a crowd of the stuff that Samsung ’s been progress in the Galaxy S and Note series and puts them into a nearly perfectly sized lozenge . Two things , though . One , we do n’t know how much it costs , and Leontyne Price is a huge peck for 7- and 8 - in tablets . Two , the international version is a freaking 8 - inch phone .

First , some detail about the Note as a tablet . ( Full spectacles , as we know them , below . ) The Note 8 ’s 8 - column inch display has the same 1280×800 resolution ( 16:10 ratio ) as the Kindle Fire HD 7 - inch , though obviously a slightly lower PPI—189 to 216 — given it ’s an in larger . It ’s very nice , but while it ’s a bump up from the iPad Mini ’s 1024×768 , 163PPI ( 4:3 ) display , it ’s still not the kind of pristine , unflawed screenland you see on larger pad . I made out some pixels here and there , and its colour balance did n’t feel quite right , but holding it and read vane pages , it front just okay . In human being term , that means it ’s got a good but not gravid display that , aboveboard , you probably wo n’t find unless you ’ve produce a retina MacBook or a Chromebook Pixel or something .

The Note 8 has guts that are right in there at the top of the pack with a 1.6GHz quad gist A9 processor — unidentified by Samsung , but probably last propagation ’s Exynos 4 . That commit it in advance of the Fire HD , on basially adequate footing with the Nexus 7 , and in a similar but much more mellow class variant of the iPad Mini ’s recycling of old sand . The Mini use a die - shrunk A5 , the same chip as the iPad 2 . However , the Note have lag in place where the Mini and Nexus 7 simply do n’t , like dragging down the Android notification heart or porta and closing the dual app selector switch ( as an away , the dual apps make much more sense here than on the 5.5 - inch promissory note 2 ) , and it loses a weirdly high number of swipe . Firmware on the Note 8 is n’t net , and it ’s very quick on a number of other things , so that could be software . But it ’s the sort of affair that ’s snuck its way into Samsung ’s software package before . For all the dependable hooey going on here , TouchWiz still hangs over all of it .

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And then there ’s the part where it ’s a headphone . Look , sound and tablets convergency makes sense . And obviously most mass are n’t going to use an 8 - inch phone as a phone that they arrest up to their heads . They ’ll use bluetooth headsets or inline mics . But the plausibleness of anyone actually transport an 8 - inch phone around with them at all times seems slender , no matter how much we ’d like to have one less gadget to drag around . For all the jokes about the iPad as a giant iPod Touch , this is literally a humongous Galaxy S III . And sure , certain , why not . But really … WHY ? ? ?

The Note 8 is exceedingly comfy to defy , though its formative body does n’t have the solid feeling of iPad Mini , Nexus 7 , and Kindle Fire HD . The bezel is orotund than the iPad Mini ’s by a expert amount , but feel smaller than the Kindle Fire HD ’s ( though that could simply be the scale working , since the Note is a mess great and the same size bezel would seem belittled ) . It feels like a undecomposed compromise between the two . Both the iPad Mini and Kindle Fire HD are wonderfully usable lozenge , but for just holding a average - sized tablet in one paw , the Note probably takes it , for what it ’s deserving .

The S Pen software has come a prospicient way since it was released , and it ’s now to the point that writing out a uniform resource locator with the stylus actually feel a lot promiscuous than banging it out with your thumb . get notes is still touch and go , mainly owe to space and line breaks , but the truth is much better than it had been for the launch of the Note 10.1 and Note 2 .

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Samsung is pushing some new S Pen features too , like being able to hover over tile in apps to give you “ mouseover ” text . Flipboard has a new update for that , but it ’s hard to see it get much support from developer when basically every other Android machine ca n’t make use of it . Other lightweight additions admit being able to apply the S Pen on the capacitive “ computer hardware ” buttons for back and menu ; a reading manner that changes the contrast between text and backdrop in ebook apps like Kindle to make them easier to take ; get an scoop on the Android interlingual rendition of the Awesome Note app ; and , for some sinful reason , inserting clipping art into image by write out the word , like writing “ DOG ” and make a dog seem . in earnest .

Samsung has phones and tablets in almost literally every size of it from 4 inches to 10 . And beyond . But the scattergun nebulizer strategy does palpate like it ’s zeroing in on the good hooey right now . Still , you ’re go to want to look and see how the software issue play out , and sure for the toll , since even if it slightly undercuts the costly iPad Mini , there will be other , far cheaper , pick out there .

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