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it's an Adreno thority here my name is Darla cuvee we're taking a first look at the Galaxy Note 10.1 now this is a device that generated a lot of excitement when it was launched at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last February it was delayed for reasons we won't detail now let's just say it has something to do with Apple either way what we're looking at today before us is one of the most powerful if not the most powerful Android tablet on the market it features a 10.1 inch display with a resolution of 1280 by 800 now Samsung received a little bit of criticism in fact a lot from the hardcore evangelist and us included for not including a high-res display like the one they made for Apple with the iPad 3 they're more than capable of doing it and it appears to be a cost-cutting attempt on their part internally though what we're looking at is a 1.4 gigahertz quad core Exynos processor which is incredibly powerful and the same one that's featured in the samsung galaxy s3 and the galaxy note 2 otherwise we have 30 DQ gigabytes of memory inside 2 megapixel camera on the front with a 5 megapixel camera on the rear up top we have an infrared sensor with a microSD slot obviously a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack we have some headphone buttons and a power Samsung made an intelligent move in terms of the design by putting the speaker grilles on the front how many tablets have come across our desks that has speakers on the rear that were muffled when people hold them in the way that they have to hold tablets so it's nice to see they finally improved in that area otherwise we're looking at s notes right here and that's notes it's kind of cool because we have the ability for multi-pane utility so we can watch a movie we can check out Polaris Office a gallery or we can use the Internet particularly for those that are maybe webmasters or otherwise graphic designers or dealing with large amounts of data and who need to make access and notes to spreadsheets and whatnot it does appear that this would be great with the Esper antennas functionality in s note itself we're able to export notes to PDF and also out to JPEG all right how do we want to export it out so quite convenient that's nice to have you know and typically if I was to use something like this I would have to send it as an email attachment then I have to use Photoshop on my computer so for creative types and for others who are dealing with a lot of visual and textual and quantitative data this would be a device that could benefit them greatly Samsung included a whole bunch of other stuff which we're not going to get into typically we're not really fans of manufacturer overlays they slow down the device they try and all they try and augment Android but typically they actually slow down and if you think the performance of this device is fast if you actually remove some of the widgets and that Samsung has included you will know that it actually gets a lot faster either way it is still one of the most powerful devices on the market I mean 3d gaming it really really has great smooth operation otherwise it has embedded GPS and Wi-Fi and Bluetooth the GPS is very very accurate we were able to get a signal of more than 20 feet within our approximate distance which is great it does also work without Wi-Fi the S Pen is obviously created in partnership with welcome one of the leaders in the digital stylus space that Samsung has been collaborating with for over two years it does claim that there is over 1,000 levels of pressure sensitivity although it does seem like there's more like five so let's try to make a new note here is to show you a few things okay so we can incorporate a lot of different stuff it is quite responsive actually we're here with Android Authority obviously something that I'm not really into I'd be more about changing and copying over images and if I find something that cool little thumbnail something I would be interested in including that so for me the S Pen doesn't really bring the greatest amount of Attraction otherwise we have a pls eye pls LCD which is known for its incredible brightness and low cost to manufacture for Samsung other than that the device itself the build quality is questionable it does creaking grown under bending the back does have quite a bit of flex to it in terms of the aesthetic it is very similar on to the horizontal edging featured on the galaxy s3 and galaxy No - that is the flex makes me question it we have a proprietary port on the rear on a microphone slot and this is where our S Pen slides into if I can get it in there properly otherwise the Wi-Fi is very very good to connect the speakers are very very loud it is very routing friendly as we know Samsung devices are very very easy to route the cameras I did a Skype HD with a family member it was alright the rear camera is questionable but no one really likes to take pictures with their tablet anyway yeah other than that our first impressions have been very positive a nice fluid operation from this device a demanding app which is over screen it's very very fluid and you'll see that it loads quite quickly as well basically this is an independent third-party app that offers you the ability to do a lot of different stuff we can have multiple windows open at the same time so if I want to have YouTube going and then perhaps my email if I can even there we are quite fluid also - we should know that Samsung did opt to include three keyboards in this one this is the floating keyboard which doesn't really float but that's why they call it do we have our standard QWERTY keyboard so it's good to see that Samsung really is trying otherwise yeah we were generally quite pleased with it it would be better if Samsung could lower the price but overall the performance and despite the resolution display this it's still quite excellent so let us know what you think of the Galaxy Note 10.1 if you think it's a tablet worth $4.99 for a 16 gigabyte and what you'd like to see from Samsung in their next high-end tablet my name is Darcy Locke cuvee we're here from Android authority thank you for checking out our review and let us know what you think of our channel on our videos