Anyone have a Samsung Galaxy Tab S Tablet?

[airborne]

Intersting tablet.

I was looking for an upgrade on my Sony Z tablet which was pretty revolutionary when it was released, ultra thin etc, then I came upon the fact that the Samsung 10.5 Tab S range has the Amoled screen with 3 colour sub pixel display(ie every pixel has r g b subpixels at each pixel site) and the screen is apparently incredible. It's also amazing thin and well specced.

The replacement S2 Tablet has been released but the screen aspect ratio was changed to 4x3 from 16x10 and the battery has been almost halved with very little other upgrade, the S is still the one to get.

Has anyone owned or played with the S range of tablets before, opinions, tips etc?

 

[surfs-up]

Intersting tablet.

I was looking for an upgrade on my Sony Z tablet which was pretty revolutionary when it was released, ultra thin etc, then I came upon the fact that the Samsung 10.5 Tab S range has the Amoled screen with 3 colour sub pixel display(ie every pixel has r g b subpixels at each pixel site) and the screen is apparently incredible. It's also amazing thin and well specced.

The replacement S2 Tablet has been released but the screen aspect ratio was changed to 4x3 from 16x10 and the battery has been almost halved with very little other upgrade, the S is still the one to get.

Has anyone owned or played with the S range of tablets before, opinions, tips etc?

Yes, I have both...or rather three of them.
1) Samsung Tab S 10.5,
2) also the Samsung TAB S 8.4,
3) and also the new Samsung TAB S2 8.0

Of all three of them I like the Samsung TAB S2 8.0 the most....by far. It is not available in this country - I bought it from the airport in Dubai.

The one you are interested in....yes it is a nice TAB, perfect for movies, but where it falls short is for reading magazines or books and browsing the internet. The shape is too narrow and long. While perfect for movies, it means reading a magazine you end up with 1 1/4 pages on the display....it doesn't fill the screen nicely with a complete page like my newer TAB S2 does. Also, with the TAB S 10.5, holding in portrait mode, I keep bumping the home key or the other two next to it, because these keys are on the left edge in portrait mode.
Battery is very good for the TAB S 10.5, considering it's size and vibrant screen. My TAB S 10.5 got an Android update and is now on 6.01.

Probably my biggest gripe with the TAB S 10.5 is the size of it's ROM - they only came out with 16 GB in this country - WTF were Samsung thinking ?? For such a big device with excellent screen, users would want to store tons of movies, books, magazines, music etc on it. But after Android has used up 4.42 GB, you don't have much space left. Yes, it has an external SD card slot, but that never seems to work as well as having a large internal memory.....some apps don't like residing on the SD card.

 

[airborne]

The 16GB internal memory on a premuim device is stupid, should have 32GB minimum.
I like the 10.5 S screen aspect and size, I don't like 4:3 though I can see its advantages for certain things, 16:10 for me is the perfect ratio.
The 8" must be amazing but if I'd have to choose one tablet I'd go bigger rather than smaller.
For a relatively old device the S is remarkably snappy, things happen instantly.
The screen is also incredible, the S has the best screen of the lot, slightly better PPI than even the S2.

 

[michellej]

Had the 10.5 the screen is absolutely beautiful.
Found speaker placement awkward seeing my hands hold tablet there

Otherwise a beautiful device