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hey everyone this is Jimmy from Jim's review room welcome to another review today we've been looking at the brand new samsung galaxy tabpro the model I have here is the 10.1 inch 16 gigabyte Wi-Fi only version and a tapper products at the moment comes in at 8.4 10.1 inches which is what I have here today in 12.2 a samsung also has another series of tablets called the Galaxy Note pro which has almost identical specifications but has features that makes the news of a supplied stylus pen and those only come in 10.1 and 12.2 inches and you can click on it with any one of these videos playing to watch them or find them on my channel so the price is kind of on the expensive side but after reviewing so many tablets Samsung does strive to become a premium tablet maker and a tab pro series is no exception so without further ado we'll get started this tap Pro menu buttons are located on the bottom here indicating this tablet is designed to be used preferably in landscape mode because so it measures in at nine point five seven inches wide six point seven four inches tall then only 0.28 inches thin and that's seven point one millimeters to be exact making this tide to be the finished tablet on the market as of this review at least until the Sony Xperia z2 is released here in the States and regarding the weight it's a here over a pound at sixteen point five four ounces still making this a very lightweight tablet now going over its physical features my medium size hands we're still able to grab the 10.1 inch tab pro comfortably and especially after I reviewed the twelve inch model which is a nice size to keep on the desk the 10.1 inch model really became the right size for me you can say not too big and not too small and I'm still able to maneuver and walk around with this without fear of dropping it now if you're making that transition from a laptop to a tablet or intend on using this for productivity movies and even gaming this size is genuinely comfortable the 8.4 inch I personally liked very much as well it fits into one palm easily but again for me personally it just feels more suitable for and ego applications you can say now looking at the back real quick of the tempo and note Pro products at least we'll have the same backing which is imitation leather with this faux stitching and the layout is similar across most other Samsung tablets as well with the power button on top with vine rockers next an infrared blaster in the middle to control your TV once you set that up rotating to the right here offers a micro SD card slot which is highly beneficial instead of buying a 32 gigabyte tablet and paying that premium buying an SD card slot to expand its member is much cheaper and you can expand it up to 64 gigs in total now on the very bottom is your mini USB power port for charging and to the very left is a three-and-a-half millimeter input for your headphones on either side as your speakers which does provide stereo sound the placements aren't good as you don't block them with your hands when holding onto the tablet unlike the 8.4 inch models where sound was a bit muffled by your palm the sound quality is not bad but nothing stellar to speak about as there's really no depth or immersion they were perfectly fine though and does justice for casually watching movies and listening to music now with the front Samsung includes a touch-sensitive recent apps and back button with a physical home button right in the middle and then finishing up the physical features the front has a 2 megapixel camera while the rear has a 8 megapixel camera with a built-in LED flash which is the same across the other pro models as well including the note Pro line now Apple has been known for taking some good photos and I'm using an Apple iPad which is a premium tablet using it as a base to compare these samsung pro line cameras and as you can see samsung has more crisp images less noise and a bit better color saturation in my opinion so Samsung again really packed a lot into its physical aspect but what about the internals the display and any notable features that makes this a pro model so now we'll take a deeper look into the world of Samsung and as stated earlier this is the 10.1 inch model with the same resolution as the bigger pro models available at 2560 by 1600 giving a very crisp and sharp image pixel density for this 10.1 inch model comes in at 299 pixels per inch the more density of pixels per inch the more crisp images and lettering will be an ad or around 300 pixels per inch it's a very clear image that I cannot distinguish from other tablets that say it has 320 or 330 PPI is so that you'll be perfectly fine I can't tell the difference the image quality is still very well done though with contrasting colors and deep blacks and bright whites so with all that being said how's the performance especially considering this is labeled as a pro model or is it just a name that Samsung uses in its marketing the Galaxy Tab pro 10.1 uses Samsung's own developed Exynos 5 octa core processor as 4 cores that runs at 1.9 gigahertz and the other four runs at 1 point 3 gigahertz giving you a total 4 cores in total now this is also the same processor found in two 12.2 incheon now my third-party benchmarking and testing found this was similar to slightly slower performance by just a hair though in some areas when compared to the Snapdragon 800 processor which is also found in the 8.4 inch model I just reviewed a few weeks back also the model surprisingly came in with only two gigs of RAM considering more flexion models are or will come with three gigabytes as being the standard now nonetheless for everyday tasks like web browsing email music and movies all ran perfectly fine gaming also did not show any signs of slowing down and per the benchmark tests it's still a very powerful machine that's capable of doing anything that you'd need done today the only issue and this is notorious amongst Samsung tablets there's always a bit of lag in certain applications or actions needed to be performed despite a very powerful processor I'm certain it's with the optimization by Samsung that has certain actions stutter you don't see it too often but once in a while you do notice it it's definitely not a deal breaker but it's worth mentioning though now going through the interface here you have the latest TouchWiz that many are familiar with but what's new is magazine UX it's a tile based interface in which companies believe are becoming more popular and demanding think windows 8 live tiles or the app Flipboard at maximum each page can hold up to six titles and you can edit or change your newsfeed by holding down the icon then dragging your desired topic to your page layout now once loaded you can click on either tile and flip through just like a page in a magazine or an article now one issue I've found so far with magazine UX it looks quite limited as you can see these social realm of apps there's no Facebook no Instagram Tumblr Google Hangouts etc and apps I've downloaded so far through the Google Play Store or the Samsung store does not show up here and I would assume those apps have to be compatible with magazine UX for them to work it would have been real nice to see a live feed in real time of all my social networks email news etc all on one screen now with that being said I found myself using these standard TouchWiz interface more since all my information was on there and quickly showcasing Flipboard I preferred using this over magazine UX as it does update automatically instead of having to click refresh on magazine UX all the time and just maybe down the road hopefully in the near future magazine UX will grow to be something a little bit more this tablet like the other Galaxy products offers multitasking multi window is available when you swipe from the right to offer applications to drag and drop onto your screen this tablet is able to run two applications at the same time without any issues I found playing a movie on top while browsing the internet on the bottom is my favorite feature while relaxing and you can see on the right side of the screen are some of the apps that you can do this with and there's more apps that can be added down the road and because this is a pro model there is a suite of business-focused type apps pre-installed such as having control over your computer off-site with remote PC II meeting lets you host and attend meetings where people are on the same network and having the e meeting software as well and then there's the hand comm viewer it's similar to your PC office suite like Microsoft Word Excel etc however none of these in particular really interested me as Google products provides similar or same product offerings which are free as well but more widely adapted across all operating platforms so you just not limited the Samsung products and with my testing simulating casual and average news I was able to achieve seven hours and 15 minutes with setting up the tablet downloading all my programs leaving auto-brightness on and casual news including one movie all while Samsung claims up to ten hours of news on their website so after testing what I believe the average consumer would encounter the Tab pro series is great in performance despite the minor lagger stutters that would occur like the other samsung tablet pro models whether it be a tab pro or a note pro model you do receive features that are normally not found on other tablets like the amazing multitasking capabilities the ultra sharp screen that is very good performing camera and an amazingly thin and lightweight tablet so I 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 take everyone by