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Samsung has been making premium tablets left and right it seems with a tab pro and no pro series but with a 10-4 Samsung is targeting the more budget-conscious buyers matter-of-fact research firm Gartner determined more budget-friendly tablets are selling and eroding Apple's sales because of quote market demand was driven by the improved quality of smaller low-cost tablets from branded vendors and quotes hey everyone this is Jimmy from Jim's review room and welcome to another review so today we'll be looking at the Samsung Galaxy Tab for the follow-up to last year's 10 3 and this review will cover all the temp fours as most of the internal specifications are identical the only differences are its physical size screen size which comes in 7 8 and 10 inches and it's better in life will vary the model I have here is an 8 inch 16 gigabyte Wi-Fi only version and pricing is on your screen and if need be be sure to pause the video to look it over so we'll see if this Tab 4 is worth the purchase if you're in the market this is the 8-inch tab for measuring in at four point eight eight inches wide eight point two seven inches tall in point three one inches thin and that's seven point eight millimeters to be exact the unit is also less than a pound weighing in at only eleven ounces the backing is clearly different from the pro models as it doesn't have that premium look of the leather and faux stitching the back in my opinion was a bit more slippery when compared to some of the other brands on the market but nonetheless it's still within reason now this tablet is thinner than most tablets available at the time making it very easy to hold all around and although this is a budget tablet the construction in general is still very solid from my tests with no flexing a durable backing and tactile feedback buttons now the layout on the tablet reviews all buttons are plastic though which works perfectly fine with no issues you have your power button volume rocker buttons next and last on the right side here is an SD card slot the memory card slot alone makes this tablet and worthwhile purchase as instead of buying a tablet with more memory an alternative is buying a micro SD card which is much cheaper and you can expand memory and it 7 inch models by 32 gigs while the 8 and 10 inch models you can expand your memory by another 64 gigs now the very bottom has your micro USB port for charging the left side doesn't have anything at all and back to the very top here is a three-and-a-half millimeter headphone port the front facing part of the tablet here has your standard recent apps button home button and back button respectively while at the very top holds a 1.3 megapixel camera and on the back houses a 3 megapixel camera with no LED light as seen in the pro models now photos on your screen are actual photos taken right from the tablet itself in various lighting conditions there's no editing or changes to the pictures themselves to get a true view of the camera's performance in general the camera didn't take the best photos but consider this is a budget tablet it did ok though it could not select and focus on your subject there's no macro settings and you couldn't set up close-up shots as well and low-light performance and saturation were slightly grainy and washed out again please view the sample and you can make judgment for yourself in the last physical feature I wanted to discuss was the speaker considering that most of the world is right-handed and you do hold your tablet with your left hand at first I thought Samsung place the speaker in the most horrific location and I'm pretty sure some other reviewers would say the same thing but after using this and testing this for several hours I found that the left hand cups the speaker and also the tablet and in turn along sound to be redirected at the holder naturally this is designed by Samsung or coincidental but it does work and your hand does not muffle the sound per se the speaker itself is good overall as there's barely any distortion but because it's a single small speaker it's really only good for personal listening but that's okay though as most tablet speakers are not the best anyways now as stated earlier all the tab form models have some similar specifications and that's accurate with its resolution of 1280 by 800 across the board and I'll be honest that's somewhat low considering other phenomenal tablets like the Nexus 7 or Kindle Fire HDX which are comparable priced offers some of the highest resolutions in its segments now I've been testing a lot of tablets with high resolution recently and jumping back to this lower resolution did make text and faces and movies just slightly less detailed and sharp but from my experience playing around with this tablet for several hours I noticed it's not too much of a noticeable difference on day two of testing and picking this tablet up I didn't think or make note in my mind that the screen was bad it's not bad at all it's actually fine I've been using it for a while and I believe if you don't have a higher resolution screen next to this one you won't be able to tell a noticeable difference unless you start really staring at this thing and coming from a budget tablet the colors look decent the colors are not as vibrant as the pro models in some of the other tablets but still you have an enjoyable experience now regarding performance last year's model had only a dual-core processor running at 1.7 gigahertz while this year the tab for bumps it up to a quad-core clocked at 1.2 gigahertz now surprisingly enough Samsung decided to go with only a gig and a half of RAM to help for multitasking capabilities the standard going into 2014 should be at least 2 gigs in my opinion for the budget-friendly models while the higher-end units received 3 or 4 gigs as being standard now nonetheless and it seems to be the trend so far with his tablet specs or one thing and performance is another now if you're planning on using this for the basics email web surfing to movies on Netflix HBO GO it runs with no problems at all and loads in an appropriate time I even tried this feature called multi window which is proprietary to Samsung where you can have two applications run at the same time on your screen and I didn't encounter any issues while using this feature and although having only one and half gigs of RAM opening many windows and having many apps open I didn't find any issues surprisingly even running most games went without hitch and I've tested more graphically intense games rather than candy crush and again no issues I paid and downloaded Need for Speed Most Wanted which is a gorgeous game that's graphically demanding and again shockingly no slowdown in the end I'm really impressed by what this can do for the average consumer lastly with my testing on battery life and use the tablet throughout the day downloading apps and other miscellaneous test items play through some random games for about 10 minutes at a time and surf the web and have Pandora playing in the background I watched a movie which was almost two hours long and the tablet died from a full charge after 10 hours of use so after testing what I believe the average consumer would encounter the temp 4 Series is great in performance surprisingly again considering the low ram count the biggest downfall see here is the screen resolution being so low and compared to similar price competitors you do lose a little bit of sharpness especially in lettering in text now if you step up to the pro models I do admit myself they are a bit pricey but you do receive the best of the best now if you're really wanting an entry-level Samsung tablet and its features this is a good tablet overall that will perform everything that you'll need so hope this review helped you in some way please take your time to subscribe and visit my Facebook or Google+ pages this is Jimmy from Jim's review room thanks for watching bye you