Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Verizon 4g Lte 16gb
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Verizon 4g Lte 16gb
Our Verdict
Samsung'due south Galaxy Notation x.ane comes to Verizon Wireless with 4G LTE, a host of software updates and stellar stylus integration.
For
- Excellent Southward Pen integration
- All-mean solar day battery life on Wi-Fi
- Included apps are superlative-notch
- Solid multitasking experience
Confronting
- Lower-resolution display than competitors
- Relatively short battery life over 4G LTE
- Plastic chassis
Laptop Mag Verdict
Samsung's Galaxy Annotation 10.1 comes to Verizon Wireless with 4G LTE, a host of software updates and stellar stylus integration.
Pros
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Splendid Due south Pen integration
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All-twenty-four hours bombardment life on Wi-Fi
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Included apps are top-notch
- +
Solid multitasking experience
Cons
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Lower-resolution brandish than competitors
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Relatively short battery life over 4G LTE
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Plastic chassis
To 4G LTE or not to 4G LTE, that is the question when it comes to Samsung's Galaxy Note ten.ane for Verizon. Initially available every bit a Wi-Fi-only tablet, the 10-inch slate is at present being offered on Verizon's 4G LTE network. This version offers quite a few software enhancements compared to the original Note x.1 we reviewed, including Samsung'due south Premium Suite and preloaded Android Jelly Bean. Notice out if this 4G-powered slate is worth $599.
Editor'southward note: Portions of this review were taken from our review of the Wi-Fi-only version of the Milky way Annotation 10.1.
Design
Click to EnlargeAt start glance the Galaxy Notation 10.ane looks a lot like the Milky way Tab 2 10.one. The forepart is dominated by the 10-inch impact screen and black glossy bezel, rimmed in silver plastic. Every bit with the Tab 2 10.1, we like that the Note 10.i's speakers are on the forepart of the tablet and are positioned high enough upwards and then that you won't comprehend them with your thumbs. A small slot on the lower correct holds the stylus, which Samsung calls an S Pen.
The stylus itself docks deeply in the tablet, and feels comfortable to hold. For those looking for something thicker, Samsung sells an zipper that the S Pen slides into. (Of course, you won't exist able to dock it in the tablet.)
Click to EnlargeAlong the superlative edge of the tablet are the power button, volume rocker, microSD card slot, IR transmitter, iii.5mm headphone jack and a SIM card slot. Nosotros would take preferred to find the volume controls on the left or right side, inside easier accomplish of an index finger.
Unlike the ASUS Transformer Pad Infinity, the Notation 10.1'due south back panel is made of plastic that picks up fingerprints quickly. In instance you weren't sure that you lot purchased Verizon'due south version of the Notation 10.1, the carrier has slapped an enormous gray logo on the back of the tablet.
At ten.three x 7.1 10 0.4 inches and 1.4 pounds, the Galaxy Note x.1 for Verizon is a hair thicker and barely heavier than the Wi-Fi-just Galaxy Note 10.i (10.3 x 7.i x 0.35 inches and ane.iii pounds). The Note x.one for Verizon is also longer, merely narrower, than the fourth-generation iPad, which measures ix.5 ten seven.31 x 0.37 inches and one.iv pounds. The Asus Transformer Infinity TF700 measures 10.35 ten vii.11 x 0.33 inches and weighs i.3 pounds. Microsoft's Surface RT, meanwhile, measures x.81 x 6.7 ten 0.37 inches and weighs 1.v pounds.
Display
Click to EnlargeThe 10.1-inch display on the Note 10.i is enough brilliant. We measured a brightness of 455 lux, which outshines the Asus Infinity (433 lux), the Surface RT (373 lux) and the 4th-generation iPad (346 lux), as well as the category boilerplate (367 lux).
Unfortunately, the 1280 x 800-pixel panel on this slate has a lower resolution than similarly priced tablets. The ASUS Transformer Pad Infinity has a resolution of 1920 ten 1200, not to mention the iPad'southward Retina resolution of 2048 ten 1536 pixels. During a trailer for "Iron Homo iii," explosions looked colorful and vibrant, but fine details were difficult to make out. The tablet's viewing angles were off-white, but reflections got in the way when viewing the panel off axis.
Smart Stay, introduced on the Milky way S III, keeps the screen turned on equally long equally the tablet detects that yous're looking at it. If this feature is active, a small middle appears in the dock, adjacent to the bombardment life meter.
Audio
Nosotros greatly appreciate that the Note 10.1's speakers flank the screen. Whether watching movies or listening to music, we liked that the sound was coming direct at the states. While bass was a little underwhelming, both the highs and the lows on Kool and the Gang's "Summer Madness" came through without whatever distortion, fifty-fifty with the book cranked. In the showtime-person shooter "Northward.O.V.A. 2 Hd," the sound of our character'southward motorcar gun ricocheted around the room.
Interface
Click to EnlargeLike the W-Fi version, Verizon'due south Galaxy Note 10.1 comes loaded with Android Jelly Bean out of the box. That ways you get Jelly Edible bean features such as Google Now and offline voice typing.
Samsung has besides left its mark, starting with the lock screen, which offers five shortcut icons: South Note, E-mail, Google Now, Browser and the Photographic camera app. If you tire of those options, you lot can bandy them out for shortcuts to any other app.
Keyboard
If y'all pinch on the Note x.1's keyboard, it launches iii unlike layout options for you: a QWERTY keyboard, a floating keyboard and a dissever keyboard. We establish the latter to be easiest to apply when holding the tablet in landscape way. Nosotros also appreciated the slight haptic feedback, supplying gentle buzz when we pressed a letter. Some other plus: There'due south a dedicated number row in a higher place the letters.
Due south Pen
Click to EnlargeVerizon's Milky way Annotation ten.1 comes preloaded with the tablet's Premium Suite upgrade. Users of the Wi-Fi-but version of the Notation ten.i can also get access to the Premium Suite via a quick over-the-air update. As office of the Premium Suite pack, users get access to a host of new South Pen features, including Quick Command, Easy Clip and the Newspaper Artist app. Air View lets yous use the stylus to hover over certain items, such every bit the electronic mail widget, to give users a quick view of either an unabridged e-mail message, the sender or subject area.
Click to EnlargeYou can also hover over the border of the Note ten.ane to scroll down a Web page or hover over a photo album in the Gallery app to get a look at a few of the photos in the album. The Quick Control features let you lot activate apps and services using pen gestures. For example, if you want to search the Web for bats, you can open Quick Command by swiping upward from the lesser of the screen using the S Pen and writing "? bats." Quick Command will then read your input and launch a Web search for bats. It's an interesting feature, but information technology seems similar more trouble than it's worth when yous can just every bit hands open the Web browser app and type "bats" to perform a Web search.
The Premium Suite update also brings with it the new Piece of cake Clip function, which lets you outline anything on the Milky way Note 10.1's screen and save it as clip fine art. The feature worked well during our testing, and information technology could come in handy for sharing everything from directions in the maps app to sketches.
Newspaper Artist is a children's app that lets kids depict and colour their own pictures or colour and alter photos shot using the Note 10.1'south camera. When finished, your kid can then salvage their artwork and share it via Bluetooth, Gmail, Google+, Group Cast or email. In that location's no option for sharing with Facebook or Twitter, though.
S Annotation
Click to OverstateConsidering the S Pen's prominence, the South Annotation app is potentially the most valuable piece of software on the Galaxy Note. Even so, we found the app somewhat cumbersome to utilise. It begins with the less-than-intuitive interface. For example, an icon in the upper left lets you switch betwixt edit and view modes, but it's not immediately clear which way you're in. Equally a result, we establish ourselves accidentally drawing on pages we idea we were reviewing.
The app has two not bad features: Handwriting to Text and Formula Match. Equally their names suggest, they catechumen your scribblings to text or mathematical formulas. Individually, all worked well. Our craven scratch was quickly and correctly turned into text and Formula Match not only wrote out formulas simply let us expect them up in Wolfram Alpha. Noticeably absent from the updated version of Southward Note is the Shape Match characteristic, which allowed users to draw a shape that the app would and then read and re-create using exact forms. The new Thought Sketch feature, which will likewise be available on the Samsung Galaxy Annotation eight.0, takes a word a user writes in a dialogue box, such as "ball," and automatically provides you with a list of related clip art that can and so be added to your note.
However, S Notation isn't smart enough to know on its own whether you're writing text or a formula; you have to first select the characteristic from another, somewhat inscrutable icon. And you can't retroactively take the app catechumen your handwriting to text. Finally, only the handwriting-to-text part works with the Pop Up Note app, which appears when you lot remove the S Pen from its slot on the tablet. Polaris Role also has a handwriting-to-text characteristic, which is automatically activated when the Southward Pen is removed from its port.
Multitasking
Click to EnlargeIt'south not just S Pen and S Note that reap the benefits of Samsung's Premium Suite. Multitasking functionality also gets a nice upgrade. Borer the carat at the lesser of whatsoever screen brings up the multitasking menu, which includes a list of multitasking-compatible apps every bit well as two viewing modes, Dual View and Cascade View.
With the original Note ten.one, the simply apps capable of being used in a multitasking capacity were the Alert, Calculator, E-mail widget, Music Player, Southward Note, S Planner, Task Manager and World Clock. The Premium Suite includes those apps and adds the Calendar, Contacts, Browser, My Files, Polaris Function and Video Player apps.
Samsung also added the ability to apace switch between Cascade View and Dual View. The erstwhile allows for two equally sized apps to exist displayed on screen at once, while the later lets you lot open up up 13 apps simultaneously. With that many apps open, the Galaxy Note ten.ane exhibited a bit of lag, simply it was never enough to ruin the overall user feel.
Performance
Click to EnlargeThe 1.4-GHz quad core Exynos processor and 2GB of RAM in the Annotation ten.1 put upward some impressive numbers on our benchmark tests. On the Quadrant benchmark, the Note scored half-dozen,010, nearly twice the average (iii,074) and much higher than the ASUS TF700 (four,897), which uses Nvidia's quad-core Tegra 3 processor.
On the graphics-focused An3DBench test, the Note ten.1 scored seven,289, lower than the category average of vii,362. The ASUS Transformer Pad Infinity TF700 scored a much ameliorate 7,937.
The Notation 10.1's existent-world performance was impressive. With several apps running simultaneously, we were still able to navigate the Note's dwelling house screens and apps menus with ease. Games similar "Jetpack Joyride" also ran smoothly.
Our Note x.1 came with 16GB of onboard storage and a microSD bill of fare slot that accepts cards of up to 64GB.
Apps
Click to Overstate1 app that takes real advantage of the S Pen is Photoshop Touch, which is included on the Note ten.1 (unremarkably $9.99 in the Google Play store). There's a learning curve with this app, but it provides some pretty powerful editing tools, including layers, gradients, a number of motorcar adjustments and filters. Unfortunately, having all these tools at our disposal made the lack of a higher-resolution display all the more noticeable.
South Suggest is a portal of S Pen optimized apps; selecting ane brings you to either Google Play or the Samsung App store. There are about 25 S Pen apps, ranging from Evernote to the Galaxy Note Coach'south Playbook ($1.99).
Similar previous Samsung tablets, the Notation x.one has the Peel Smart Remote app, which, in conjunction with the tablet's IR transmitter, can be used to control your amusement center. We were able to set up the app in a matter of minutes and were channel surfing in no time.
Samsung includes several apps to allow you share content on the Note 10.1 with other devices on the same Wi-Fi network. AllShare Play uses DLNA engineering science to let y'all beam content to a connected Tv, for instance. AllShare Grouping Cast lets y'all share the same presentation (such as PowerPoint or a PDF) with other Note owners. Even cooler, whatsoever annotations fabricated by you (or them) show upward on all of the devices in real time.
In a similar fashion, Share Shot lets you share photos taken on the Note 10.1 with other Share Shot-enabled devices, such equally the Milky way S 3. Other preinstalled apps include Kno for downloading textbooks, Barnes & Noble Nook, Netflix, ChatOn and Dropbox, which comes with 50GB of costless storage for two years. Samsung apps include Music Hub, Music Player and Game Hub.
Verizon has added a few apps to the Note 10.ane, including My Verizon, which lets you lot track your data usage, pay your bill and manage your Verizon contour. Other Verizon apps include Verizon Mobile Hotspot and VZ Navigator.
Web Browsing and 4G LTE
Click to EnlargeVerizon has the largest 4G LTE footprint in the nation with 480 markets covered, so y'all'll be able to get online with the Galaxy Note 10.i in most places. In New York Urban center, the Note 10.1 averaged mediocre download speeds of 4.3 Mbps and upload speeds of 3.ane Mbps. When we tested the tablet in New Jersey, however, downloads jumped to 39.1 Mbps and uploads to 17.i Mbps.
The Notation 10.1 loaded websites quickly, too, pulling up mobile sites for NYTimes.com and ESPN.com in iv.nine seconds and seven.0 seconds, respectively. Image-heavy sites like Laptopmag.com loaded but a bit slower, taking 8.ane seconds to cease.
Camera
Click to EnlargePhotos taken both indoors and outdoors with the Notation x.i's 5-MP rear-facing camera came out fairly well. Nosotros would have preferred a chip more than saturation -- reds had a pink hue -- simply in general they were precipitous and didn't exhibit much graininess. Video, on the other hand, suffered from a whitish haze that bleached everything save for bright xanthous taxicabs. The 720p recording also lacked item.
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Click to EnlargeImages shot using the Note 10.1's i.9-megapixel front-facing camera were uncommonly precipitous. Nosotros were able to make out fine details on our confront, including private strands of pilus and the reflection in our spectacles.
Battery Life
The Milky way Note x.1 for Verizon lasted only 5 hours and 17 minutes on the LAPTOP Battery Examination (continuous Spider web surfing over 4G LTE). When we switched off LTE and ran the test over the Note 10.ane'due south Wi-Fi connection, battery life increased to 8 hours and 57 minutes. Past comparison, the fourth-generation iPad ran for nearly 12 hours on Wi-Fi, a good 3 hours longer than this Samsung. We would expect the 4G version of the iPad to run at least viii hours on LTE.
Configurations
Our configuration of the Note 10.1 offered Verizon's 4G LTE connectivity and 16GB of onboard storage for $599. A Wi-Fi-simply Annotation 10.i with 32GB of onboard storage can too be had for $499.
Value
Click to EnlargeVerizon offers the Galaxy Note 10.i for $599 whether you buy the tablet with a month-to-month data plan or not. A 4GB shared plan price $xxx a calendar month with a $10 monthly access fee. If y'all stay continued for a yr, you'll finish up paying $480 for your connectivity. Add to that the $599 toll of the tablet itself, and you're looking at a total cost of $1,079 for one year of use.
If 4GB isn't plenty information for you, you tin can always opt for one of Verizon's other plans, which range from 6GB of data for $40 per month all the way up to 50GB for $335 per month.
Owners of the Galaxy Notation 10.ane with Verizon service can use the tablet every bit a Wi-Fi hotspot for up to 10 devices. This option is free, but you lot'll want to utilise the My Verizon Mobile app to monitor information usage.
Verdict
Click to EnlargeThe Milky way Annotation 10.1 for Verizon features a host of new updates, including improved S Pen functionality and greater multitasking capabilities. However, you lot tin can get all of these goodies on the Wi-Fi-only version. If you lot want 4G LTE built in instead of using your phone as a hotspot or dedicated hotspot device, the Note 10.1 has the speed you lot need. This tablet can likewise exercise a lot more the iPad out of the box, thank you to the S Pen.
Ultimately, we adopt the latest iPad for Verizon over the Note 10.one because Apple'due south tablet has a sharper display, longer battery life and wider app choice. Plus, the iPad has a more premium pattern. But if yous like the idea of taking notes on your slate and running multiple apps on the screen at once, the Milky way Note 10.1 is an able multitasker.
Samsung Galaxy Note 10.one (Verizon) Specs
| Brand | Samsung |
| CPU | i.4-GHz quad-core Exynos 4412 processor |
| Photographic camera Resolution | 5MP |
| Card Reader Size | 64GB |
| Card Readers | SIM, microSD |
| Company Website | http://www.samsung.com |
| Display Resolution | 1280 x 800 |
| Display Size | ten.i |
| Forepart-Facing Camera Resolution | ane.9MP |
| Has Bluetooth | Aye |
| OS | Android four.1 |
| Ports | Headphone, Proprietary |
| RAM Included | 2GB |
| RAM Upgradeable | 2GB |
| Size | 10.3 x seven.1 x 0.4 inches |
| Storage Drive Size | 16GB |
| Storage Drive Type | Flash Retention |
| Weight | one.4 pounds |
| Wi-Fi | 802.11a/b/chiliad/n |
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