Sunday, June 16, 2013

Review: Samsung Galaxy Note N5100 8.0, the S-Pen Tablet



After the emergence of the iPad Mini, Samsung immediately move quickly prepare 8.0 Note that carries a similar sized screen. Combining design excellence S3 and S-Pen digital pen belonging Note, Note 8.0 offers a medium-sized tablet with full amenities. Curious? Consider the following PULSE review:

Design: 

Dimensions: (WxDxH): 210.8 x 135.9 x 8 mm and Weight: 338 grams.
Note 8.0 has a similar design to the Galaxy S3's just that he has a bigger body. Still the same as Samsung's other tablets, 8.0 Note use of materials that are mostly made of plastic.

Samsung logo placed on the side of the screen to indicate that the default position of this tablet is a portrait. Note the back of a 8.0 glossy plastic material that is easy to leave finger patches. Samsung put 2 pieces of speaker holes at the bottom.

Samsung put the power button on the right side is placed side by side with the volume button and the infrared port. On the left side there is a micro SIM card slot and MicroSD. While at the bottom, kind of fitur Samsung micro USB port instead of the previous Samsung particular port often used on previous Samsung tablet.

Screen and OS

8 "PLS TFT capacitive touchscreen of 1280 x 800 pixels ~ 189 ppi 16 Million Colour; Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean, Touchwiz UX: Multiwindows.
Armed with Android Jelly Bean, Note 8.0 interface that resembles S3 carries. With a resolution similar to Note 10.1, Note 8. 0 can deliver a pretty good picture despite not using such type of Super AMOLED used by Samsung in the smartphone series of made.


On Samsung interface provides 3 modes selection screen respectively Dynamic, Standard and Movie. All three present the colors and the composition is adapted to display usage. You can also use the reading mode to get a more optimal reading experience.


Armed with Android OS 4.1.2 Jelly Bean, Note 8.0 which comes with TouchWiz interface presents the same effect lockscreen with S3. In a position lockscreen, users are free to add shortcuts, clock, ticker, weather widgets and so on.

Unlike the other Android tablets, you can choose one of the two existing modes homescreen. For the first time using a tablet, PULSE advise you to choose the easy mode. Meanwhile, if you want to experiment, you can select the basic mode.

Hardware

1.6 GHz quad-core Cortex-A9 CPU, Mali-400MP GPU, Exynos 4412 Quad chipset, 2GB of RAM, 16GB of Storage
Note the same as the previous series, Note 8.0 is equipped with a quad-core Exynos processor with a clock speed of 1.6 GHz. Using a 2GB RAM, internal storage capacity of Note 8.0 is still the same as the previous series of 16GB. With about 10GB of free memory, you can still add 8.0 Note memory with a microSD card up to 64GB.


But unfortunately even include higher processor, Note 8.0 was only carrying-capacity 4600mAh battery. Though the battery capacity in Note 10.1 series already uses 7000 mAh battery. Therefore, it is advisable to bring a portable charger when it wants to take this tablet on the way.


Quadrant Standard Benchmark results by placing Note 8.0 to the top spot with a score of 6870. While with Antutu, scored 17 162 8.0 Note that make its performance better than the S3 and only slightly adrift of Note-II.

To be continue....

Source: tabloidpulsa


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