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Samsung's extensive family of gadgets gets a little bigger with two new galaxy tab s slates and those looking for a great movie watching tablet with plenty of other virtues are going to find the pair of worthy high-end investment I'm xiomara Blanco for cnet and this is a first look at the samsung galaxy tab s the super thin and lightweight designs have a light goldish brown trim and come in white or dark grey both tablets are currently the lightest and thinnest in their category and the sparsely dimpled plastic back is comfortable to hold in landscape orientation the 8.4 inter suffers from a button filled bottom bezel with capacitive buttons that are easy to accidentally trigger and in order to avoid blocking the speakers your thumb has to have hazard we hang out by the back button the 10.4 inch models slim side bezels don't provide a lot of thumb space either and for these reasons i found the cases to be an essential accessory to fully enjoying long movies the native video app is the best way to watch video since it gives you the full menu of options to optimize your viewing experience like the AMOLED cinema mode when turned on the saturated colors sharpness and deep black levels make HD content appear vibrant and lifelike for some videos I really enjoyed the extra punch but I wasn't always a fan of how it changed the color balance sometimes it makes natural-looking scenes or skin tones into oversaturated ones that often look to green or red the AMOLED cinema setting does a great job of enhancing videos but it's up to personal preference if you like the more saturated and contrasted result speaker quality isn't incredibly impressive or loud but audio holds up at max volume with little distortion and there are a few useful audio optimization options when using the native video app the samsung galaxy tab s runs on Samsung's own Exynos 5 octa cpu 3 gigabytes of ram 16 or 32 gigabytes of internal storage and a microSD card slot that's expandable up to 128 gigabytes other Hardware on the tab s includes a fingerprint scanner which is easy to set up and works well consistently and an 8 megapixel rear and 2-megapixel front-facing camera the cameras offer the usual modes but you can also download more if you'd like and though there isn't a huge variety to choose from it's a cool and rare perk to download more camera modes for a tablet the photo quality is pretty decent images look fine at full resolution but there's still visible grain and noise the image stabilization makes a difference when taking the light photos but a steady hand goes a long way the Galaxy Tab eps are to the best movie watching tablets available and though they're a high-end purchase with the price to match they pack a robust user interface and plenty of software features to justify it I've only begun to scratch the surface of what the galaxy tab s has to offer so for a more in-depth look check out my full review on cnet again I'm xiomara Blanco and this has been a first look at the samsung galaxy tab s